# My wish: The Charter for Compassion

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2008
- Speaker: Karen Armstrong
- Year: 2008
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Religion
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/karen_armstrong_my_wish_the_charter_for_compassion)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

People want to be religious, says scholar Karen Armstrong; we should help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help build a Charter for Compassion -- to restore the Golden Rule as the central global religious doctrine.

## Lectures

1. [My wish: The Charter for Compassion](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/karen_armstrong_my_wish_the_charter_for_compassion/8b8889d398ee), 22 min (TED's player)