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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10:00 AM-11:30 AM IN PODIUM HALL A Moral Imperative: Pathways to Global Security and Ending the Threat of Nuclear Annihilation Mr. Jonathan Granoff (Ahmad Muhaiyaddeen); Jacob Selebi; Dr. Wally N'Dow; Sr. Joan Kirby
Over 5,000 nuclear warheads remain on high alert threatening all life on earth. It is a moral imperative to end this threat and pursue security through other more spiritually and ethically coherent means. This presentation has three world recognized experts in the fields of diplomacy, law, disarmament and human development. Ambassador Selebi will explain how we can move to a nuclear weapon free world. Mr. Granoff will present a statement for endorsement by the world's religious leaders. Dr. N'Dow will address human security issues.
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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.
Ambassador Jacob Selebi is an internationally recognized diplomat and a leader in disarmament. He is presently serving as the Director General of the Department of Foreign Affairs of South Africa and is the President Elect of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 2000 Review Conference. He has served in the following capacities: Member of Parliament of South Africa, Chairman of United Nations Human Rights Commission, Executive Committee and Leader of African National Congress Youth League, South African Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva. He has been a leading negotiator in both the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the Anti Personnel Landmines Convention.
Dr. Wally N'Dow is a leader in the global effort to help make human settlements liveable and sustainable, with adequate and safe shelter for all. He has served as a Presidential Advisor in his own country and has been actively engaged in numerous international development programs in positions such as Secretary General of Habitat II Conference on Human Settlements and Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and Head of United Nations Center for Human Settlements (Habitat). He is Special Advisor to the Administrator of UNDP in New York.
Sr. Joan Kirby, a member of the Sacred Heart, has been Executive Director of the Temple of Understanding since 1994. She has developed educational interfaith programs for people of different faith traditions. At present she is collaborating with Auburn Theological Seminary and the Psychotherapy and Spirituality Institute on a program of immersion in Seven Different Religious Traditions. She is a member of the Assembly of the Parliament of the World's Religions. Before coming to the Temple she worked with homeless families and mentally ill homeless.
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10:00 AM-11:00 AM IN SCIENCE 2.71 Empowerment of Women in Hinduism Dr. M Lakshmi Kumari
Owing to various historical and social compulsions, a number of negative forces have worked against Hindu women. These destructive forces are the very antithesis of Hinduism. This lecture will explore how Hinduism has an abundance of measures that could empower and emancipate women.
Dr. M. Lakshmi Kumari holds a Ph.D. in Botany from Madras University. She also completed a two-year post-doctoral Fellowship at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in the erstwhile USSR. She has been associated with the Vivekananda Kendra in India for the past three decades and has served as its President. She is an eminent religious and social worker in India.
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10:00 AM-10:45 AM IN ST. MARKS Liberation Theology in Action at the Beginning of a New Century
Bishop Don Samuel Ruiz Garcia
In this presentation, Bishop Don Samuel Ruiz Garcia of Chiapas, Mexico, will explore the role and of Liberation Theology in the
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coming century. Bishop Garcia will focus on how Liberation Theology can provide a basis for social justice action in Latin America, and throughout the world.
Bishop Don Samuel Ruiz Garcia is the Bishop of the Diocese of San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico. He has been the principal negotiator for several years in peace talks between the government of Mexico and the Mayan Zapatistas.
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Religions for Social Justice
Swami Agnivesh
This lecture will introduce Religions for Social Justice, a multireligious spiritual movement. Religions for Social Justice was born out of the conviction that commitment to justice is the spiritual core of all religions. It aims at the regeneration of religion and society alike. It also seeks to harness the prodigious energies of social spirituality to the enterprise of nation building and social regeneration.
Swami Agnivesh is the founder of Religions for Social Justice. He is an activist against child labor, supporter of women's rights issues, and conducts extensive tours throughout India to promote self confidence among the most vulnerable sections of society. He is also the recipient of the Anti-Slavery International Award (London 1990) and the Freedom and Human Rights Award (Berne, Switzerland, 1994).
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Seeking the Common Core that Binds Us as One
Prof. Thomas D. Lynch; Dr. Ewert Cousins; Dr. Leonard Swidler; Ashok Gangadean
This panel explores how to seek the common core that binds us as one. There will be three presenters who will speak 10-15 minutes each. The panel will open itself to an open discussion with the audience and the panel on the topic.
Thomas D. Lynch is a Professor of Public Administrations at Louisiana State University.
Dr. Ewert Cousins is Professor of Theology at Fordham University. Dr. Cousins has been Visiting Professor at Columbia University and New York University as well as Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the editor of the important twenty-five volume series World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest. He is author of World Spirituality: The Meeting of Mystical Paths and Christ of the 21st Century. Dr. Cousins is a leader in spiritual dialogue and he is Honorary Chair of
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Dr. Leonard Swidler. Professor of Catholic Thought and Interreligious Dialogue at Temple University since 1966, is recognized internationally as a leader in ecumenical and interreligious dialogue and the articulation of global ethics. He is an author of about sixty books and CoFounder/Director of Global Dialogue Institute (GDI). He and his wife Arlene founded in 1963, and he continues to edit the "Journal of Ecumenical Studies", a scholarly quarterly widely regarded as the most important ecumenical, interreligious and interideological publication in
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Dr. Ashok Gangadean is Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College where he has taught for the past thirty one years. He was the first Director of the Gest Center for Cross-Cultural Study of Religion and has focused throughout his career on clarifying the dynamics of dialogue and discourse between diverse worldviews and polarized perspectives. He has sought to bring out the foundations of rationality between worlds in his books Meditative Reason: Towards Universal Grammar and Between Worlds: The Energence of Global Reason. He is also CoFounder/Director of GDI..
10:00 AM-11:00 AM IN THEATER 5 Youth Priorities for the New Millennium
Mr. David R. Woollcombe
The Millennium Young People's Congress will bring together 1,000 people from every country on earth to discuss youth priorities for the new millennium. In particular, delegates will focus on what issues are vital to the sustainability of life on this planet. Prior to this Congress, thousands of young people had taken part in National Prepcoms in over 100 countries. The results that will presented by 3 young delegates from the