1. According to the Tibetan system, at birth a person is one year old
2. Professor George Gerbner’s (1919–2005) theory showing how violence on screen contributes to violence in the real world, as well as feelings of anxiety and insecurity
3. For example, the African Union, ASEAN (Asia), ALENA, MERCOSUR, AEA, CARICOM. Complete list: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_d%27organisations _internationales
4. Mind & Life XXIII conference, September 2011. The debates that took place during the conference emphasised the intersection between Buddhism and science in order to enhance our understanding of the nature of reality, www.mindandlife.org
5. The Juliana vs. US climate lawsuit filed in September 2015 at Oregon District Court, with the support of climate scientist James Hansen, www.ourchildrentrust.org
6. See a discussion of this point in Daniel Goleman, A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama’s Vision for Our World, ‘Women as Leaders’, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015
7. According to figures supplied by the Global Footprint Network in 2017
8. www.atlastofemotions.org
9. Notably at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University, http://ccare.stanford.edu; the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative, https://tibet.emory.edu; and at MIT’s The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values, http://thecenter.mit.edu
10. Cognitive-Based Compassion Training (CBCT) was initiated in 1998 by the Dalai Lama at the Center for Multidisciplinary and Contemplative Studies at Emory University, in partnership with Geshe Lobsang Negi, PhD, senior lecturer in Emory University’s Department of Religion, and the Drepung Loseling Monastery in South India
11. https://www.childrenincrossfire.org/
12. Adèle Castillon, Seb la Frite, Valentin Reverdi and Sofyan Boudouni, accompanied by the film director Anaïs Deban. See the video Séjour en Inde by Seb la Frite, www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmT0h3e6Am0
13. Published in the book The New Reality: The Age of Universal Responsibility, Les Arènes, 2016
14. The Universal Responsibility, Law and Environment conference was attended by special guest Robert Badinter, along with Frédéric Sicard, president of the Paris Bar, Dominique Attias, vice-president of the Paris Bar, lawyers Patricia Savin, Corinne Lepage, Yann Aguila, Yvon Martinet, and founding president of Peace and Universal Responsibility Europe (PURE) Khoa Nguyen, www.universal-responsibility.org
15. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 21) held in December 2015
16. ‘Senghe Tsangpo’ in Tibetan
17. Valérie Cabanes, Homo Natura, Buchet-Chastel, 2017
18. For a definition of ecocide, cf. website www.endecocide.org
19. The Global Environment Pact was drafted by approximately 100 international experts under the guidance of French lawyer Yann Aguila, a former judge and member of the Council of State, president of the Environment 21 Commission of the Club des Juristes and secretary general of the Committee of Experts for the Pact, www.pactenvironment.org
20. Claude Lévi-Strauss, Le Monde, 21 January 1979
21. The Charter for Environmental Refugees by the lawyer Yvon Martinet (www.lawandconsciousness.org) and the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Humanity by the lawyer Corinne Lepage (www.droitshumanite.fr)
22. President of Orée and director of the Sustainable Development Commission of the Paris Bar, speaking at the Climate and Conscience conference, 31 August 2017, www.lawandconsciousness.org
23. Matthieu Ricard, Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World, Atlantic Books, 2015; Matthieu Ricard and Wolf Singer, Beyond the Self: Conversations between Buddhism and Neurosciences, The MIT Press, 2017
24. Through the charity Karuna-Shechen, www.karuna-shechen.org
25. Matthieu Ricard, A Plea for the Animals, Shambhala, 2017
26. Author of Plaidoyer Pour la Fraternité, Albin Michel, 2015; Les Tisserands, Les Liens Qui Libèrent, 2016; Quelles Valeurs Partager et Transmettre Aujourd’hui?, Albin Michel, 2016. Founder of the movement Fraternité Générale, www.fraternite-generale.fr
27. Rewarded for her commitment in 1993 by the Right Livelihood Award, the alternative Nobel Prize, www.navdanya.org
28. Bénédicte Manier, Un Million de Révolutions Tranquilles, Les Liens Qui Libèrent, 2016
29. Echoing the words of the poet Paul Éluard: ‘Another world exists. It is hidden within this one.’
30. At the request of the Dalai Lama and in the spirit of his teachings, the Charter of Universal Responsibility has been written by Sofia Stril-Rever, in collaboration with the venerable Samdhong Rinpoche, Professor Robert Thurman of Columbia University, New York, and Professor Eric Itzkin, Deputy Director of Immovable Heritage, Johannesburg. The text was finalized with the Dalai Lama in Oxford, in September 2015. Full text, Nouvelle réalité, Les Arènes, 2016.