Global Poetry was founded as a project in the year 2000 to bring together poets from common people around the world with a view to exhibiting poetry that can inspire grassroots change at individual level, and to also bring together poetry that would become a force for social change. The project was initiated by Sumeet Grover, a poet from the Indian Sub-continent. Grover wrote about the project to then Director General of UNESCO and received an appreciative response.
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Development
Global Poetry as a project therefore intended to develop this strong network of individuals to promote creativity and voices of resistance in a globalised world where in spite of highly accelerated benefits from globalisation, national, regional or ethnic identities still conflict with each other; being ignorant of a shared identity.
Soon after its founding, Global Poetry went on to become a part of the Transcend: Art and Peace Network, the artistic branch of Johan Galtung's TRANSCEND, founded by Olivier Urbain and George Kent.
Mission
The mission of Global Poetry is: