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 ENGAGEMENT SESSION 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
existing interfaith youth movement will be given as well. This program is a part of the Parliament Academy series of youth centered programs.
Miss Olly Donnelly works for the World Bank's Development Dialogue Division as a Junior Professional Associate. She graduated from Oxford University with a first class honors in her Bachelors Degree, and a distinction in her Masters in International Development
April Kunze is the Assistant Director of the Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core (www.ifyc.org). She currently coordinates the national programming of the Interfaith Youth Core. April's professional background is in community organizing, youth development and organizational development.
On Becoming A Converted Outsider Mazher Ahmed Rabbi Herbert Bronstein Scott Alexander
Welcoming the Arabic and Muslim Immigration with the Bayt Al-Thaqafa Foundation Teresa Losada
Room 124, English
Room 122 Lecture
This conference wants to analyse the effects of the migratory movements with a creative approach of the mutual binding actions in a multicultural society.
One of the cardinal rules of interfaith is that it should not be used for the purpose of converting others to one's own faith tradition. This doesn't mean, however, that interfaith dialogue shouldn't aim at converting the minds and hearts of those who are skeptical to it as a way of life. This session will provide participants with an opportunity to explore the dynamics of becoming a "converted outsider" vis a vis a tradition other than one's own. What does it mean to be a "converted outsider" and what role can such a person play in the intrafaith challenge in building up the interfaith movement?
Teresa Losoda has a Ph.D. in Semitic Philology and is the founder president of the Bayt-Al-Thaqafa Foundation.
Mazher Ahmed is a native of Mumbai, India, and a passionate advocate of interfaith understanding and dialogue. She serves as the Vice-chair of the Board of Trustees of the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions, the Executive Coordinator of the Islamic Research Foundation and serves as vice-president of the Islamic Center in Batavia, Illinois,
How to Organize and Operate after Barcelona - Session 3 - Partnering with Guiding Institutions J. Kirk Boyd Richard Weingarten Olly Donnelly
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, The Passover Haggadah of Reform Judaism. In 2000, he was honored by the University of Cincinnati as their Distinguished Alumnus.
Room 123, English Training Session
This is the third of five related sessions seeking to encourage the organization of local support groups for the Parliament, and to strengthen existing support groups and Partner Cities. The five sessions will provide "real world" guidance and tools designed to help you build and manage a support group or Partner City. "Partnering with Guiding Institutions" will focus on how to identify and approach religious institutions, universities, businesses, not-for-profits, governments, and other organizations in your area that you might work with as long-term partners and supporters. Case studies and interactive sessions will be integrated in this session.
Scott Alexander is director of the Catholic-Muslim Studies Program at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Dr. Alexander has studied Islam in the context of his brooder training as an historian of religions. He is interested in medieval Muslim sectarianism, and the mystical traditions of Muslim spirituality, Quranic studies, and the history and future of Muslim-Christian relations and interfaith dialogue.
Dr. J. Kirk Boyd, Esq. has three law degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. He also teaches International Human Rights and Constitutional Law, and has led numerous panel discussions on the recognition and entorcement of International Human Rights.
Responding in Solidarity to Acts of Communal Violence Lyudmyla Filipovych Saleh Habimana Paul Eppinger Aida Shibli Mohinder Singh
Richard Weingarten is an investment banker and financial advisor. He has done considerable organizational development and strategic planning work in the private and not-for-profit sectors with planning, management, and fundraising issues, and has traveled and worked extensively around the world.
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