Book Title: 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 O Friday, December 4, 2009 2:30-4:00pm ENGAGEMENT SESSION Parsuram Sharma-Luital is Project Officer at AMES Learner Driver Program. Parsuram has over fifteen years of experience in the Agriculture and Horticulture sectors in Bhutan and Australia. He joined AMES to manage a market garden and then a Social Enterprise pioneering growing Shitake Mushrooms in logs in Victoria. Through the Social Enterprise, Parsuram helped his community and many others to train in Horticulture. Parsuram then went on to become a Project Officer for the Learner Driver program, working with different refugee communities across Victoria to help clients gain drivers licenses. Margot Hennessy has coordinated the AMES Youth Program for over 5 years. She has overseen the development of innovative and transitional youth programs in the South East and West, addressing the issues facing newly arrived refugee young people with interrupted schooling Margot has worked in education within the culturally and linguistically diverse sector for over 30 years. Her roles have included Centre Manager. coordination of Individual Learning Centres Site Coordinator, counsellor and classroom teacher. Margot is currently completing her Master of Education at RMIT which informs her thinking and practice Mother Nature Doesn't Do Bailouts - Daily Youth Workshop Amy Kean Stuart Hall Room 210 Interactive Workshop The environment is in crisis. And no other generation will be more affected by this crisis in the future than today's younger generation. So what can you do at home, in the workplace and in your own faith communities to minimise the impact of this global environmental reality? This interactive workshop will look further at the nature of the environmental problem; using climate change as an example it will explore the need for a global solution. Amy Kean is the General Manager at Pinpoint Earth. She has extensive experience in international clean energy policy and carbon markets and has worked in business, government and nonprofit entities. She estabLished the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership in South East Asia and Pacific and was the International General Manager at the Clean Energy Council. She has also participated in UN climate change negotiations in Bali and Kenya. Stuart Hall is the lead architect of the Tasmanian Bahá i Centre of Learning. opened in the spring of 2009. The design of the building has won accolades for the attention paid to environmental sustainability through the innovative use of materials, the conservation of water and low energy consumption. of Christians and Jews: A Time for Recommitment: the Twelve Points of Berlin-A Call to Christian and Jewish Communities Worldwide. Each workshop participant will receive a copy of the document as a basis for discussion during the session. In addition, a speaker with long experience in Jewish-Christian relations will provide an Australian perspective, including an account of the history of Jewish-Christian dialogue in Australia and an overview of the current issues. Father John T Pawlikowski is Professor of Social Ethics and Director of Catholic-Jewish Studies at the Catholic Theological Union, University of Chicago. A priest of the Servite order, he is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Challenge of the Holocaust for Christian Theology. Christ in the Light of the Christian Jewish Dialogue Jesus and the Theology of Israel', and 'Reinterpreting Revelation and Tradition: Jews and Christians in Conversation Rabbi Ehud Bandel is Vice-President of the International Council of Christians and Jews and the former president of the Masorti Conservativel Movement in Israel. Active on human rights and interfaith issues, Rabbi Bandel served as executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights. Father Michael Trainor, a Catholic priest, teaches Biblical Studies at Adelaide School of Divinity, part of Flinders University in Adelaide. He is the former President of the Catholic Biblical Association of Australia and he has been chair of the Adelaide section of the Australian Council of Christians and Jews. Rabbi John Levi is a former Deputy President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (2005) and is a Patron of the Council of Christians and Jews Australia). He was the first Australian to be ordained as a rabbi. Rabbi David Rosen is Director of the American Jewish Committee's Department for Interreligious Affairs and the Heilbrunn Institute for International Interreligious Understanding. He serves on several international interreligious organisations, Formerly Chief Rabbi of Ireland, he is the immediate past Chair of the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations, a broad-based coalition of Jewish organisations representing world Jewry to other religions. Recent Developments in Jewish Christian Dialogue Fr John Pawlikowski Rabbi Ehud Bandel Fr Michael Trainor Rabbi John Levi Rabbi David Rosen Room 212 Interactive Workshop This workshop, led by some of the world's foremost authorities on the subject, will discuss recent developments in Jewish-Christian relations. It will focus on the document published recently by the International Council New Directions in Asian Religions and Ecology on the Ground (Southeast Asia) Donald Swearer Padmasiri de Silva Sulak Sivaraska Dr Chandra Muzaffar Fachrudin Mangunjaya Room 213 Panel Discussion The countries of Asia are some of the most dynamic and rapidly developing regions on the planet. With a vibrant mixture of ancient religious traditions and modern industrialisation these countries are already helping to shape the future of the Earth community. Because of the size of this region in terms of both geography and population, some people are looking to Asia for new leadership in sustainability. How will present generations maintain a viable lifestyle that will not destroy the prospects for future generations? How will the resources of water, air, and soil be distributed equitably for sustainable agriculture and fisheries? How will newly emerging democracies contribute to qlobal governance? And most especially what role will religions play in answering such questions? Beyond 166 PWR - Parliament of the World's Religions Jain Education Interational For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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