Parliament of Worlds Religion 1999 Capetown SA

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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Dr Victoria Radel is a Stress Management and Business Consultant who graduated from UCLA and has over 20 years experience developing successful strategies for a broad spectrum of International clients. As a "fuel efficiency engineer", Master Presenter, she offers interactive, lively and involving seminars. Dr. Radel's spirited and spiritual presentations enhance your group's vitality and productivity by demonstrating how to convert and combat modern-day computer-age stress from your enemy to your ally. A specialty includes how to overcome the failure odds of start up business by learning to thrive as an entrepreneur. Dr. Radel is in Cape Town to debut the FREE Internet 10 session course called: "My Own Business" to resuscitate communities that need new vitality and stronger economies. She will announce the website onstage during her presentation.
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3:00 PM-4:30 PM IN ENGINEERING 1.31 Voices into the Millennium: the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt
Cleve Jones; H. H. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
The display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt is a powerful, emotional, and spiritual reminder of the enormity of the AIDS pandemic. Cleve Jones and Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati will speak about the impact of AIDS in the world. The experience of the Quilt provides a creative means for remembrance and healing. Each participant at this event will feel the "call to remember and to serve" what the Quilt engenders. This presentation and display will coincide with World AIDS Day and AIDS Awareness Week, December 1-8, 1999. South Africa is among those nations hardest hit by the pandemic disease with over 14% of the total population of 32 million estimated to be infected with HIV. AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa has already orphaned over eight million children. The Quilt, like the Parliament, is a tapestry that both connects us to one another and transcends all boundaries. The AIDS Quilt exhibit is presented by the River Fund and sponsored by the Green Family Foundation.
Cleve Jones is a AIDS Activist and Founder of NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati is the founder of Kashi Ashram an interfaith spiritual community that embraces the sacred practices of many traditions. Ma's teachings are based upon a commitment to humanity through service. She founded the River Fund dedicated to serving people with AIDS and other life challenging illnesses and the River School which educates students in an environment that weaves spirituality and service into the curriculum. Ma is a Trustee of the Parliament of the World's Religions and works with other religious and spiritual leaders to promote interfaith dialogue and global cooperation for peace. In 1997, Ma established World Tibet Day to raise awareness of the plight of the Tibetan people and support for international freedom of religion for everyone.
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4:00 PM-5:00 PM IN ENGINEERING 3.56
All Our Relations: Faith Action in Human Rights Ms. Charmaine C. Crockett; Dr. Kristi Rudelius-Palmer Where do we go from here? What are the visions and strategies for faith communities to mitigate human rights abuses? What kind of community can we build that crosses gender, ethnicity and religion? In essence, what is our commitment? Materials on human rights will be distributed. Charmaine Crockett is a human rights activist, writer, and research analyst. She has been active in issues ranging from globalization to spirituality and human rights and has conducted workshops on the latter. She has also been active in United Nations NGO affairs. She is currently editing a human rights anthology with Dr. Charles Fishman and is working on A Daily Guide to the Revolution, a book to revitalize the spirit and spur all to action.
Kristi Rudelius-Palmer is the co-director of the Human Rights center at the University of Minnesota and the founder and director of the Human Rights USA Resource Center, a national clearinghouse for human rights education materials and training. In 1992, Kristi became the founding director for the Partners in Human Rights Education Program, which to date has trained more than 1,000 lawyers, teachers and community advocates to teach approximately 25. 000 youth about their human rights and responsibilities. She has presented at numerous national, regional, and local conferences and has designed and taught primary. secondary, university and community courses on human rights education.
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4:00 PM-5:30 PM GOOD HOPE ARENA The Earth Charter: A Gift of Service
Dr. Steven Rockefeller
In this presentation, Mr. Steven Rockefeller, Chair of the Earth Charter Commission, will present the Earth Charter as a gift of service to the world. He will be accompanied by Earth Charter Commissioners from around the world, including: Maurice Strong, Maximo Kalaw, Wangari Maathai, Kamla Chowdry, and Princess Basma.
Steven Rockefeller is a Professor of Religious Studies from Middlebury College, and Chair of the Drafting Committee for the Earth Charter.
4:00 PM-4:45 PM IN THEATER 5 The Family In Today's Society
Dennis E. Simmons
The presentation explores and outlines The Family: A Proclamation To The World, issued Sept. 23, 1995 by the First Presidency and The Quorum of The Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Elder Simmons looks at the state of the family in contemporary society.
Eider Simmons received a B.S. from Utah State University and a J.D. from George Washington University Law School. He was a Commissioned Officer in the United States Air Force; a Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Alan Bible: Bishop, Stake President, Mission President, General Authority, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Days Saints. He has had a private law Practice in Las Vegas, Nevada for the past 27 Years. He is married with 6 children and 10 grandchildren.
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The Forgotten Why
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Mr. Jonathan Granoff (Ahmad Muhaiyaddeen)
Public institutions derive their authority from fulfilling the human calling to becoming fully human. This is particularly true for religions. We live in a time in which methodology (how) has overshadowed purpose (why). The manifestation in philosophy is postmodernism and the manifestation in government is insensitive bureaucracy. Religion has a particular specialized function to remind us of our universal and higher calling. There is simply no social development possible without spiritual awakening. If we are to have a global civilization that treats the living biosystem as more important then we must affirm the underlying principles of grace, mystery, and beauty we know as sacred and which define the purpose of all human initiatives. The ethical and political implications required to attain this will be the focus of this inspirational presentation. Jonathan Granoff (Ahmad Muhaiyaddeen) is an attorney, author, awardwinning screenwriter, and a public advocate for the legal, ethical, and spiritual dimension of human development and peace. He has studied with the Sufi Master Bawa Muhaiyaddeen since his youth and is honored with his namesake. He is an executive of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship, the Temple of Understanding, and the Middle Powers Initiative as well as an advisor to the International Association of Sufism and Inner Directions. He is the UN Representative of Lawyer's Alliance for World Security and State of the World Forum, and Vice Pres. of the NGO Committee on Disarmament at the UN.
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4:00 PM-5:00 PM IN THEATER 1 In the Footsteps of the Magi
Dr. Eric D. Carlson
In the fall of the year 2000, a camel caravan will leave the onetime site of the Winter Palace of the Magi in the ancient Parthian Empire to reenact their famous journey to Bethlehem 2000 years ago. Beyond being an inspiring and dramatic gesture, this journey will spearhead a major philanthropic effort called "Remembering The Innocents" aimed at aiding children of all faiths and nationalities across the whole Middle East.