Track Two: An Institute for Citizen Diplomacy
Mill Valley, CA, United States
About
Founded in 1980, Track Two: An Institute for Citizen Diplomacy is a non-governmental organisation based in Mill Valley, United States working on peace & conflict, democracy & civil society, arts & culture +4 more.
Track Two is a nonprofit institute for citizen diplomacy. It convenes experts, participants and changemakers from different countries and disciplines in in-person and online gatherings to build cross-border networks and collaborative projects on shared threats, including nuclear risk, climate and ocean health, and interfaith and regional conflict. Its work focuses on the United States, Russia and former Soviet states, the Middle East and the North Pacific Rim. Founded as the Esalen Soviet-American Exchange Program in 1980 and renamed in 2004, it is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and holds much of its convening work at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, and in New York City.
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Spacebridges
Peace & Conflict · United States, Russia
Interactive televised videoconferences that connected American and Soviet citizens from 1982, co-hosted with Phil Donahue and Vladimir Pozner.
Association of Space Explorers
Science & Research
Professional international organisation of astronauts and cosmonauts, launched with Track Two support in 1985, which holds an annual Planetary Congress.
Viatcheslav Loutchkov Library of Psychological Literature
Education · Russia
Psychology library established at Moscow State University in 1996, described as Russia's largest English-language psychology library.
Esalen Pacifica Prize
Arts & Culture · United States, Russia
Arts prize launched in 2012 with Esalen CTR to strengthen cultural ties between Russia, former Soviet republics and the United States, with an artist residency at Esalen.
International Abrahamic Network
Religion & Faith · Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, United States, Canada
Network launched in 2007 of leaders from Judaism, Christianity and Islam working on interfaith understanding, peacebuilding and human rights.
Our History Project
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Oral-history project preserving the organisation's history through interviews with early participants.
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Esalen Institute, Moscow State University, World Health Organization, Global Business Network, California College of the Arts, Far Eastern Academy of the Arts, Foundation for Social Innovations
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