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

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dynamics in a broader context, thereby addressing them more effectively. Through presentations and discussion, participants will gain valuable insights into how different groups use both global and local contexts to address critical issues.
Mojca Leban, a UN Planning Officer for Human Rights Development on the local level, is active in reconciliation through interreligious and multicultural dialogue in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Balkan Region.
Andre Porto works for Viva Rio and is Coordinator of the Interfaith Initiative in Rio de Janeiro. He produced a remarkable video about the 1993 Parliament, and has been a URI representative since 1997.
Dr. Susana Salvador-Anayatin is active in peace advocacy in Mindanao, and is a guest lecturer at the Graduate School of the Mindanao State University.
Dr. Jerry Chang is the Founder and President of Humanity United Globally, and was the Founder of Habitat for Humanity in Hawaii. He is a former UN Representative to Paraguay and V.P. at Large for World Vision International.
Mohammed Kagee is a Founding Member of the Cape Town Interfaith Initiative and the Muslim Students Association of South Africa. He also serves as a Trustee of the Claremont Main Road Mosque, which was instrumental in the anti-apartheid struggle.
Peace Over the Korean Peninsula: The Reconciling Role of Faith Communities in the History of Confrontational North and South Korea
Sangkeun Kim
Room 134, English Academic Paper
The division of South and North Korea has been a historical byproduct of the Cold War Era. Since then, the confrontational relationship between the two Koreas has drawn international media attention. Recent nuclear friction between North Korea and the Bush Administration illustrate that peace and geopolitical stability over the Korean Peninsula is not an isolated geographical "hot potato". The paper aims to investigate the way in which various faith communities in South and North Korea have been engaging reconciling roles to pave pathways to peace over the Korean Peninsular.
Dr. Sangkeun Kim is an assistant professor at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, and the author of Strange Names of God (New York, Peter Lang Publishing, 2004) and From the Fall of Jerusalem to the Rise of Southern Christianity (Seoul, Pyung Dan, 2004).
The Earth Charter: Shared Values for Building a Peaceful, Just and Sustainable Future Rabbi Avraham Soetendorp Kamla Chowdhry
Program Descriptions Friday, July 9, 2004
ENGAGEMENT SESSION 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Peter Blaze Corcoran
Mary Evelyn Tucker Josiane Trolliet
Michael Slaby
Ibrahim Ozdemir
Auditorium (3155), Spanish/English/Catalan Panel Discussion
The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental principles for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society in the 21st century. It seeks to inspire in all peoples a new sense of global interdependence and shared respopnsibility for the well-being of the human family and the larger living world. It is an expression of hope and a call to help create a global partnership at a critical juncture in history. The main goal of the panel will be to give a vivid example of this new framework for thinking about and addressing such issues as environmental protection, human rights, equitable human development, and peace, which are each interdependent and indivisible.
Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp, was born in Amsterdam in 1943. As an infant he was saved by non-Jews during WWII. He helped reestablish Jewish communities in the Netherlands and is now the co-chair on of the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders and founding member of Green Cross International. Soetendorp is also founder and co-chair of the Hope for Children Everywhere Foundation.
Dr. Chowdhry is a Chairman/Board member of several international humanitarian and conservation institutions, many of which she helped establish. She is currently a Member of the World Commission on Forestry and Sustainable Development, The Earth Charter Commission and a board member of the World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD).
Corocan is a Senior Fellow in the Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future and a Professor of Environmental Studies and Environmental Education at Florida Gulf Coast University. He serves as a member of the Earth Charter Education Advisory Committee, as well as being active in several NGOs and international professional organizations.
A professor of religion at Bucknell University, Dr. Tucker is also Coordinator of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University specializing in Confucianism in Japan. She co-coordinated a ten conference series on World Religions and Ecology at Harvard University's Center for the Study of World Religions.
Specializing in communication and teaching, Joaisne Trolliet received her degree in Education Sciences. Following her mission to guide human behavior toward sustainable, ethical living, Ms. Trolliet founded the Actions Education Environment in 1999, to promote the aspirations outlined by the Earth Charter.
Slaby, student of religion, international law and politics at Heidelberg University volunteers as Coordinator of the Earth Charter Youth Initiative, a global network of youth organizations that have endorsed the Earth Charter. He has more than seven years of volunteer work in youth-led initiatives focusing on sustainable development, human rights and refugee aid.
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