Parliament of Worlds Religion 2004 Barcelona

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

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Program Descriptions
Saturday, July 10, 2004 ENGAGEMENT SESSION 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Governmental Organizations. He is a founding member of the Aspen Global Change Institute and the International Council for Local Environment Issues. He has been a Visiting Professor at both U.S. and foreign universities, and has a number of publications to his credit, including editing a recent volume titled Ethics and Agenda 21: Moral Implications of a Global Consensus
Nusba Parveen Alan Race Theodore Rojahn Vijaya Samararwickrama Georgene Wilson, OSF K.L. Seshagiri Rao Marcus Braybrooke
Room 117, Spanish/English/Catalan
Ms. Monica Willard is Representative to the United Nations for the United Religions Initiative. Monica has served the UN NGO (NonGovernmental Organization) community in such varied roles as Chair of the annual DPI NGO Conference; Vice Chair of the NGO Executive Committee, member of the UN Steering Group for the International Day of Peace, and member of the council of the Values Caucus. The United Religions Initiative is a worldwide grassroots interfaith organization with members in 47 countries, representing more than 88 religions, spiritual expressions and indigenous traditions.
Respected religious and interreligious leaders, scholars, and activists will explore the possibility of a Dialogue between Islam and the West and offer participants the opportunity to become engaged in an exciting new project. During this session participants will review the reports of the working groups and finalize a summary statement and a list of recommended action projects to be taken in a series of Internet seminars and a physical conference in Kuala Lumpur in 2006. Attendees at today's program need not have participated in the previous day's sessions.
Dr. Prera, General Director of Fundacion Cultura de Paz, wos Vice President of the UNESCO Executive Board in 1990. She also served as Special Counselor for Latin America to Federico Mayor, the General Director of UNESCO, and is a distinguished author of various publications.
Fostering World Peace though Maintaining Traditions Dr. Hirokazu Ugachi
Jim Kenney is the Director of the Interreligious Engagement Project and of Common Ground. He is also Co-Editor of Interreligious Insight.
Room 116, Spanish/English/Catalan Interactive Workshop
Irfan Ahmad Khan is President of the World Council of Muslims for Interfaith Relations (WCMIR) and a Trustee of the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions,
Chief Editor of Journal of Muslim Minority Affiars, Saleha Abedin is co-chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women Religious & Spiritual leaders. She is also on the International Advisory Board for the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions.
For pathways to peace, we must all cooperate and take action to surmount differences of religious or spiritual conviction, especially if we wish to hand down gentleness and kindness to the next generation. In the case of Shinji-Shumeikai, we offer interactive activities towards this goal at our sites in Japan. In this program, we will offer some examples of these activities including lectures on art at Miho Museum and field work for natural agriculture, and discuss the spiritual effects.
Abdullah Ahsan is a Professor of History, International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Steering Group, Dialogue of Civilizations Project
Dr. Ugochi is a safety inspector of structural materials and has been involved in Shinji Shumeikai since 1985, for whom he heads some local programs for the holidays.
Muriel Adcock, Club of Budapest USA; Advisory Group, Dialogue of Civilizations Project Sultana Afroz, Department of History, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
Anis Ahmad is Vice-Chancellor of Riphah International University in "Islamabad, Pakistan, and Meritorious Professor of Islamics and Comparative Religion. He is also Editor-in-Chief of West and Islam, quarterly journal, Islamabod. Dr. Ahmad is Chairman of the Foundation of the Faithful. He carries a Ph.D. in Comparative Religion and Islamics from Temple University, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Dialogue of Civilizations: Islam and the West in Quest of a Just and Peaceful World - Symposium Wrap-Up Jim Kenney Dr. Irfan Khan Dr. Saleha Abedin Prof. Abdullah Ahsan Muriel Adcock Sultana Afroz Anis Ahmad Iqbal Ahmad Ansari Herbert Bronstein Concetta Kenney Rashied Omar
A veteran human rights activist, Dr. Iqbal Ansari is a Visiting Professor at Hamdard University in India. He is the author of Report on Communal Riots: Prevention & Control for the National Commission for Minorities.
Herbert Bronstein is Senior Scholar/Rabbi Emeritus of a leading Chicago congregation, where he served as Senior Rabbi for 25 years. He has lectured at the University of Rochester, Northwestern University, the University of Illinois - Chicago, Oxford, Common Ground and the Illinois Humanities Council and teaches the History of Religions at Lake Forest College. He is the author of numerous articles and is the editor of a modern classic of liturgy,
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