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 Sunday, July 11, 2004 LUNCH BREAK 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
artistic ways. The first section of it,"Developing Enlightenment Tourism", will be conducted by Dr. I Gede Pitana. Bapak I Wayan Patera will present “Pura Samuan Tiga: Ritual of Conciliation in the Year 1011 and the Present", which will be followed by "Offerings to Barong Pa-Hayu Buwana/World Peace Barone", a mystical dance that helps to support peace and goodness.
William is Instructor in Accounting and Finance at San Jose State University. His 35-year career has also ranged from public accounting to VP of Finance and CFO. He is a trustee of the Foundation for Global Community, where he also serves on its "Walk Through Time" project.
Bapak I Wayan Patera, M.Hum, oversees a complex societal system related to the rituals practiced within the Samuan Tiga Temple. As Faculty of the Archeology Department of Universitas UdayanaDenpasar, Bapak Patera's research includes extensive translation of ancient and current texts related to the architectural, functional and ritual history of the Pura Samuan Tiga.
Debbie Mytels, os Outreach Director for the Foundation for Global Community, is responsible for public relations, program development, and volunteer coordination. Before FGC, she served in various capacities at several community and environmental public benefit corporations and was educated at UC Berkeley and Stanford.
Dr. Pitana has a Ph.D. in Anthropology of Tourism, and is an internationally respected speaker on the preservation of traditional culture within tourism development. He was Director of the Bali Tourism Authority from 2001-2004, and is currently a Senior Researcher at the Research Centre for Culture and Tourism at Universitas Udayana.
A biologist, educator and community organizer, Karen Harwell helps people see themselves as participants within the magnificent 13.7-billion-year story of the universe. She challenges her own perspectives through a graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Susan Stansbury is Director of "Valley of Heart's Delight", a project of the Foundation for Global Community that promotes sustainable, organic gardening and agriculture in the Silicon Valley urban area. She has been an environmental and peace activist since the mid 1980s.
Yayasan Dharma Tiga is a nonprofit public foundation in Bedulu, Bali, Indonesia, that aspires to maintain and support the conciliation spirit aroused in the interfaith meeting in the Samuan Tiga Temple in the year 1011 and that it may be useful through sharing in Arts and Religiosity among cultures in Indonesia and throughout the world. Individual biographical information of its members con be found in the Performance Section of the Program Book.
The UNESCO civil society: religions and the culture of peace Albert Marti Carreras Paul Ortega Silvio Matos Rajan Tripathi Nestor Da Costa Velazquez Room 113 Spanish/English/Catalan Panel Discussion
ENGAGEMENT 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Voyage of Discovery: From Stardust to Us - Action William DeVincenzi Debbie Mytels Karen Harwell Susan Stansbury
This panel, with UNESCO movement representatives from all over the world, will discuss interreligious dialogue and peace,
Room 111, Spanish/English/Catalan
Albert Marti Carreras is President of the Catalan Federation of UNESCO Associations and Clubs; he has a long experience within the UNESCO movement, NGOs, and solidarity.
Paul Ortega is Director of the UNESCO Center of the Basque Country and ex-president of the World Federation of Associations and UNESCO Clubs.
The objective of Session C, the third in this series, is for participants to learn how they can take actions to address some of the critical issues facing humankind today-issues of resource depletion, environmental pollution and degradation, and conflicts among humans and between humans and nature. Remarkably, there are valuable lessons for us from the experience of bacteria, who faced similar survival challenges in their three thousand million years of living on Earth. These lessons include living on solar income, treating waste as food, and respecting diversity. Through video and PowerPoint slide show presentations and dialogue, participants will learn from each other and from exemplars from around the world how to engage with and apply the lessons of nature in their daily lives at home, work, and play.
Silvio Motos is President of the UNESCO Club of the city of Porto and Vice-President of the European Federation of Associations and UNESCO Clubs.
Rajan Tripathi is President of the Federation of Associations and UNESCO Clubs of Nepal.
Nestor Da Costa Velazquez is a sociologist, professor of the Catholic University of Uruguay, Secretary of the UNESCO Center of Montevideo and Advisor of the Interamerican Bank of Development (BID) and of the UNDP.
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