Syrian children behind a barbed wire fence at the Ceylanpinar refugee camp in the Sanliurfa province of  Turkey . (Photo by Reuters) At the heart of Creative Thinkers International’s operational philosophy has always been a core belief in the ability of positive creativity to help inspire nonviolent conflict resolution. This is not a romantic notion; it is a crucial alternative. The blood-and-bone-splattering spectacles of war have come to command most news headlines in the modern world. The maniacal brutality that was 9/11 engraved in the world’s collective consciousness themes and realities intensified by perpetual chaos, terror, and death. It is a chilling prospect, and yet an observable phenomenon, that humanity at this point in history too often defines itself by how efficiently it destroys itself. Love, it seems, is valued most when violence or disease threaten to annihilate the life that would serve as a channel for it. Men and women discover the deeper nat...

Visitors to Creative Thinkers International in many ways are as much a part of the community as our members because they help validate the value of our purpose for being here. We have not kept track over the past five years of where all of them are but our friends at Google Analytics have provided a simple snapshot of the 70 neighborhoods where last month’s visitors were when they dropped in.   For the full list and blog please click the link : Love and Gratitude from Creative Thinkers International - Welcome to Creative Thinkers International

Award-winning author and poet Aberjhani blogs about his newest poem presented in honor of the 100 Thousand Poets for Change initiative. To read please click the link: How Poets and Words Burn Truth into Love | Aberjhani | Blog Post | Red Room

Original cover art by Luther E. Vann With excerpts and snippets from the book Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World having been posted around the Internet for several years, award-winning U.S. author and poet Aberjhani announced the novel’s publication November 12, 2007 , Veteran’s Day. The author, whose previous books include Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, cautioned that despite the use of the word “Christmas” in the title, readers should not expect a typical Christmas story novel. “This is actually the very novel I’ve always said I was writing but it wasn’t until we were preparing to go to publication that I realized how big a role the holiday, especially Christmas Eve, plays in it,” said Aberjhani. “That made the new title very appropriate and even more accurate in some ways.” Early on the book stirred controversy because of a plot scenario that links mass suicides to music by a fictional character. The author has declined to state whe...

October 2007 saw the quiet but steady growth of Creative Thinkers International, a thriving online community of authors, musicians, painters, poets, educators, environmentalists, and other progressive personalities from all over the world. Created by the U.S. author Aberjhani, a former editor for the U.S. Air Force and co-author of “Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance,” the community is hosted by the Ning collective at http://www.creativethinkersintl.ning.com/ “A year ago I would have fainted at the thought of embarking on such a venture,” said Aberjhani, “but on the one hand technological advances in 2007 made it more feasible. And on the other it seemed a good way at this point in my career to make a contribution to helping the world get its act together as opposed to just complaining about everything that’s wrong with it. It's also very much in the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance, a creative movement that spanned the globe in a major way.” True to its name, Creative Thinkers...