Yesterday, the culmination of more than a year's work was be unveiled as the Charter for Compassion was officially introduced in Washington, D.C. The Charter is the direct result of Karen Armstrong's 2008 TED Prize wish to establish a document that would define anew the ancient principles...

This Sunday, as part of the three-day World Peace Through Personal Peace Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, His Holiness the Dalai Lama will join TED Prize winner Karen Armstrong for the official launch of the Charter for Compassion website, www.charterforcompassion.org.

Using the website as a starting...

By now, the variety and scope of the TED Prize wishes we are helping bring to reality is well-known. But Jill Tarter's 2009 wish -- "to empower Earthlings everywhere to become active participants in the ultimate search for cosmic company" -- expands that scope out into the vastness of...

When Karen Armstrong won one of the three 2008 TED Prizes, we knew her wish -- to create a worldwide Charter for Compassion -- was a powerful one with the potential to develop into an innovative and international movement. As the final document is being crafted, we are starting to...

I've recently returned from Oxford, England, from a remarkable four days at the first annual TEDGlobal conference, "The Substance of Things Not Seen," once again inspired by TED's extraordinary speakers and the impressive range of their ideas and experiences.

As TED Prize director, I'm gratified by the...

For the majority of the world's children, the opportunity to learn about music -- with all the intellectual and emotional benefits music brings -- is just not a part of their world. Unless they happen to live in Venezuela. There, for the last 34 years, the visionary musician, economist, and...

James Nachtwey won the TED Prize in 2007 because of his amazing work as a war photographer -- he's gone to Northern Ireland, the Sudan, South Africa, Afghanistan, all over the world to shoot wars and human rights crises. He captures human suffering in order to expose the world to...