Concert for UNDP / OPS – Moments of Peace 1991 Jul 10

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About 50 staff members from the Office of Programme Services of the United Nations Development Programme took a lunchtime break on 10 July 1991 to attend a concert of meditative music by the Peace Meditation choir. Ms. Savita Shivaji, the OPS staff member who organised the event, meets together with a number of her colleagues for several minutes of silence for peace before each lunch hour.

Mr. Daan Everts, Assistant Administrator and Director of OPS: My predecessor referred to the singing last year as angelic, and I can say that it was the same this year.

You are bringing a message that is really important to heed. I believe that we have far too few such “moments of peace,” as you call them. We are so preoccupied with our
meetings and memos and telephones that we do not take time for this kind of reflection, but it is absolutely essential.

Here when I walk around the 14th and 15th floors, it is not always peaceful. It reminds me of a battleground, with the workload. But it is good to have these reminders. You
turned OPS into the Office of Peace Songs. Maybe we can have more in the future. I am very grateful.

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Appears in Meditation at the United Nations – 1992 Jan – Mar, Periodic Bulletin

for more on current UNOPS see : https://www.unops.org/

Link to regular Meditation at the UN with some of Dhurjati Muller and Savita Shivaji Colleagues:  Meditation at UN with UNOPS Colleagues Jun 1991

UN-OPS colleagues?