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Dr Elworthy remains on the board of Peace Direct, and is a Councillor on the World Future Council, an independent international organisation, launched in 2004 and focussing on the key challenges facing global society today, promoting successful policies for a sustainable future. Dr Elworthy specialises on the work of the Future Justice Commission, in particular the initiative for Ombudspersons for Future Generations - .
Her work for the World Peace Festival in 2011 included building seven achievable goals for the Global Peace Building Strategy, adopted by the World Peace Partnership. Dr Elworthy designed the programme for an international two-day conference on peacebuilding, the first day entitled “Peace is your business!” followed by a conference on the “Global Peace Building Strategy” including a morning of workshops entitled “Self Knowledge and Global Responsibility” featuring Dr Deepak Chopra. She and colleagues produced a booklet for the Festival entitled ‘Tools for Peace’, with an accompanying video produced by TalkWorks in association with Different Films Ltd. presenting a seven step process anyone can use to resolve conflict in the family, workplace or community.
In autumn 2007 Elworthy joined the EastWest Institute's International Task Force on Preventive Diplomacy; in 2009 was featured in the project Soldiers of Peace - Stories from 14 countries around the world - a documentary film narrated by Michael Douglas.
Since the autumn of 2011 Elworthy has been working on a course in consciousness and conflict transformation for mid career professionals, in association with Thomas Hübl in Berlin. She is patron of The GREAT Inititiative Gender Rights and Equality Action Trust ; Voice of a Woman, ; Oxford Research Group; adviser to MasterPeace - a new international bottom-up peace initiative - and a member of the steering Committee of PAX, a service to help prevent wars and genocides.
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