It grew out of a feasibility study conducted at the University of London, but is now working further afield, alongside colleagues at the Universities of London, Oxford, Cambridge inter alia, and many leading practitioners of peace education worldwide. It has also organised over 30 seminars in the House of Lords for peace and conflict resolution through cultural dialogue. The founders of the Green University believe that education is the primary tool we have to effect the transformation in global consciousness needed to reverse the current crisis in world affairs. Yet the conventional academic sector seems unable to help solve the problems affecting world society. Indeed it sometimes seems to have become part of the problem.
Funding is scare and often has political overtones, or industrial or business overtones attached.
The Balkan Peace Centre was established in 1993 in response to the changes within the Macedonian society. The disintegration of Former Yugoslavia and the outbreak of the war in Bosnia in the early 1990s led to the emergence of nationalism and chauvinism on the one hand, and a strong interest in peace and conflict resolution on the other. A unit of the University of Ss. The Order of Wandering Poets is a new initiative founded in August 1998 at the International Struga Poetry Festival, in the Republic of Macedonia, arising from work in poetics underway in many countries worldwide. We believe it is time for the voice of poets world wide to be heard, in order to create bridges of cultural understanding, beyond all political, economic and religious factions and ideological and ethnic and nationalist conflicts and selfish interests.