Parliament of Worlds Religion 2009 Melbourne Australia

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

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PROGRAM Friday, December 4, 2009
2:30-4:00pm ENGAGEMENT SESSION
of interreligious dialogue for the last three decades in India. He is also the founding member of the Parliament of Religions (Delhi 20071 and was awarded the National Communal Harmony award by the Government of India in 2009 Anna Halafoff is a researcher for the UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations - Asia Pacific, and the Global Terrorism Research Centre, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University. She is a practicing Buddhist in the Tibetan FPMT tradition,
differing cultural constructs. Cardinal George Pell, who is opposed to a Charter of Rights, will respond to Dr Szoke's statement, as will Jim Wallis and Judge C G Weeramantry. Dr Helen Szoke has extensive experience in regulation, management, policy and research in the health sector. She spent some time working in the area of consumer advocacy and working with community groups. including serving as a local city councillor. She is a former Chair of Women's Health Victoria, a member of the National Health and Medical Research Council Licensing Committee and a former member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Key Centre for Women's Health. Dr Szoke has post-graduate qualifications in public policy Cardinal Pell served as Archbishop of Melbourne before his appointment as Archbishop of Sydney. He attended the Asia-Pacific Interfaith Dialogue as part of the official Australian delegation Cardinal Pell's longstanding commitment to ecumenism was recognised in 1998 with the conterral of the Grand Cross of Merit of the Order of Saint Lazarus and in 2003 with his promotion to Ecclesiastic Grand Cross of St Lazarus, the Order's highest ecclesiastical rank. From 2001 to 2007, he served as the Order's National Chaplain. Dr Mark Durie is a human rights activist, theologian and pastor of an Anglican church. He has published many articles and books on the language and culture of the Acehnese, Christian-Muslim relations and religious freedom. A graduate of the Australian National University and the Australian College of Theology, he has held visiting appointments at the University of Leiden, MIT, UCLA and Stanford, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities Judge Weeramantry has been a lawyer, legal educator, international arbitrator and domestic and international judge. He has been Chairman of the Nauru Commission of Inquiry, Coordinator of the United Nations University Project on Technology and Human Rights, and President of the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms. He has written over twenty books and 200 articles on religious, legal and political topics
Interfaith Engagement: Issues, Reflections and Prospects Douglas Pratt Rev Dr Dominic Emmanuel SVD Anna Halafoff Room 208 Seminar Where is interfaith engagement taking us? Where has it come from? What issues and possibilities does it present? Professor Douglas Pratt, Dominic Emmanuel and Anna Halafoff, three scholars of interreligious dialogue and interfaith relations from the Asia-Pacific region, will present their recent research findings. Professor Pratt will reflect on interfaith engagement from a Christian perspective while Fr Emmanuel will present his theory of dialogue. Ms Halafoff will discuss multi-faith movements and the politics of understanding. These presentations will form the basis of a discussion with the audience to answer these questions. Associate Professor Douglas Pratt has teaching and research inter ests in Christian thought, Istam and Christian-Muslim relations, and interreligious dialogue more generally. He is an ordained Anglican Priest and Canon Theologian Emeritus of the Waikato Diocese in New Zealand, With local, national and international involvements in interfaith activities, in 2007 he was honoured by the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand with a Harmony Award for meritorious service to the Muslim community Reverend Dr Dominic Emmanuel SVD, an Indian Catholic Priest, holds a PhD in Communication As Dialogue. He has been engaged in the work
AMES: People, Programs and Pathways Catherine Scarth Susan Chou Allender Malou Pascual Anes Parsuram Sharma-Luital Margot Hennessy Room 209 Panel Discussion Adult Multicultural Education Services (AMES) is Australia's largest provider of settlement, education and employment services to refugees and newly arrived migrants and has operated in Victoria for over 50 years. This session focuses on the people working with refugees and the refugees themselves, looking at a range of unique programs that have been developed to facilitate the successful settlement and full participation of individuals, families and communities across Melbourne. These programs focus on life skills, settlement support, English language, work skills, work experience and community capacity building. The session will look at how these programs combine to provide individual pathways for clients building new lives in Australia. Catherine Scarth is General Manager AMES Community & Policy She has over twenty years experience in designing, implementing and evaluating a wide range of innovative community services and programs both in Australia and England. While with the Brotherhood of St Laurence, she developed a range of award-winning partnerships with Business and Government. With AMES, Cath continues to seek innovative ways to partner with employers to achieve positive employment and settlement outcomes for newly arrived migrants and refugees. She is also developing innovative solutions to intractable social issues, she is a founding board member of Social Traders, a new organisation aimed at fostering businesses that trade with a social purpose. Susan Chou Allender is General Manager at AMES Settlement and Community Guides Program. Susan has worked in the area of migrant and refugee settlement for over twenty years. She has extensive experience in strategic planning and policy development in AMES as well as research and program evaluation experience within the community and education sectors focusing on language acquisition, youth programs and cross cultural communication. More recently. Susan has focused on the re-settlement experiences of refugees and the factors impacting successful settlement outcomes during this process. This includes involvement in establishing several social enterprises and other bridging employment / social inclusion programs for new and recent arrivals to Victoria Malou Pascual Anes is Community Manager al AMES Community & Policy. Malou Pascual Anes has over fifteen years of experience in the Community sector. She currently works for AMES as Manager of the Community Unit. More recently, highlights of her work experience in the multicultural setting include managing a Migrant Resource Centre selllement service, setting up AMES Settlement service in the Western region, crisis counselling for victims of sexual assault and family violence, establishing community organisations, and developing a whole of council approach to cultural diversity
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