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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A CALL TO OUR GUIDING INSTITUTIONS
DECEMBER. 99
to make the best use of new media and new technologies to broaden intercultural access and exchange, while at the same time honoring local knowledge and traditional ways of knowing:
to ensure that broadened intercultural access and exchange have a positive impact in areas of vital concern, with particular emphasis on sanitation, health care, parenting, and enrichment of the lives of the neglected and dispossessed;
THE CALL TO EDUCATION
to integrate learning about different cultures, religions, and spiritual practices into the standard educational process;
to promote respect for other ways of life and teach nonviolence and peace-making at every stage of learning,
to promote ecological literacy and the study of sustainability as essential to education at all levels;
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to acknowledge that moral and spiritual questions are as critical to academic as to civil discourse and therefore to include considerations of values, personal responsibility, moral integrity, and community service throughout higher education.
1999 PARLIAMENT OF THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS