SENATE
                           Final Reading
                      April 20, 2012Second Regular Session
              Sixty-eighth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
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 LLS NO. R12-0946.01 Joel Moore x4497             SJR12-045
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Newell, Schwartz, Hudak
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Kerr A., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                  SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 12-045 
       Concerning recognition of fifteen years of the PeaceJam
            Foundation.
       
       
            WHEREAS, The PeaceJam Foundation, an international
       educational organization founded in 1996 in Denver, Colorado, brings
       together Nobel Peace Prize recipients to work personally with youth to
       encourage civic engagement, to foster global citizens, and to inspire a
       new generation of young leaders committed to making positive
       contributions to their communities and the world; and
       
            WHEREAS, PeaceJam is the only organization in the world that
       has Nobel Peace Laureates working directly with youth to provide
       year-long, ongoing educational curricula from kindergarten through
       college; and
       
            WHEREAS, In September 2006, to commemorate ten years of
       positive global change, ten Nobel Peace Laureates and more than 3,000
       students from 37 countries convened in Denver to launch PeaceJam's
       ten-year Global Call to Action campaign; and
       
            WHEREAS, The Global Call to Action was designed to initiate
       solutions to what PeaceJam saw as the ten greatest challenges to the
       survival and well-being of our planet: Equal access to water and other
       natural resources; ending racism and hate; halting the spread of global
       disease; eliminating extreme poverty; social justice and human rights for
       all; rights for women and children, and their role as leaders; restoring
       Earth's environment; controlling the proliferation of weapons; investing
       in human security; and breaking the cycle of violence; and
       
            WHEREAS, The following year, Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff,
       the founders of the PeaceJam Foundation, were nominated for the Nobel
       Peace Prize by six Nobel Peace Laureates; the organization was again
       nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010; and
       
            WHEREAS, Currently, twelve Nobel Peace Laureates - the 14th
       Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Rigoberta Mench£ Tum, Oscar
       Arias, Adolpho P‚rez Esquivel, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Betty
       Williams, Jos‚ Ramos-Horta, Aung San Suu Kyi, Sir Joseph Rotblat, Jody
       Williams, and Shirin Ebadi - serve as members of the PeaceJam
       Foundation; and
       
            WHEREAS, To date, more than 600,000 young people have
       participated in PeaceJam curricula and programs, leading to nearly
       1,000,000 new service projects in countries around the globe; now,
       therefore,
       
            Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-eighth General Assembly
       of the State of Colorado, the House of Representatives concurring herein:
            
            That we, the members of the General Assembly:
       
            (1) Applaud the PeaceJam Foundation for fifteen years of
       education and service to the global community, and for the inspiration
       and initiative it has sparked within young people everywhere;
       
            (2) Recognize PeaceJam founders, Dawn Engle and Ivan
       Suvanjieff, as well as the current staff of PeaceJam, for their energy,
       sacrifice, and perseverance in the face of uncertain times, for the call of
       a greater good; 
       
            (3) Express our support of PeaceJam's ten-point Global Call to
       Action, and call on all Coloradans to work to effect changes daily, in their
       homes, their classrooms, their neighborhoods, and beyond; and
       
            (4) Recognize April 20, 2012, as "PeaceJam Day" in Colorado, and
       wish the PeaceJam organization many more years of success and service
       in our community.
       
            Be It Further Resolved, That copies of this Joint Resolution be sent
       to the Honorable John Hickenlooper, Governor; the Honorable Michael
       Hancock, Mayor, City of Denver; Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff,
       founders of the PeaceJam Foundation; the PeaceJam Foundation; and to
       the members of Colorado's Congressional delegation.