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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Saturday, December 5, 2009
2:30-4:00pm ENGAGEMENT SESSION
ENGAGEMENT 2:30-4:00pm
consider to be enemies' or oppressors. We will explore different notions of community, the divergent histories and social narratives that separate peoples, and creative methods for promoting transformational dialogue and building trust between historically antagonistic groups. This workshop will emphasize the central tenet of active nonviolence, as well as the recognition of the danger of globalization and new opportunities for promoting global justice that transcends divisions based on race, ethnicity. and religion. Ibrahim Abdil-Mu'id Ramey is a member of the Board of Directors of the Temple of Understanding and the Director of the Human and Civil Rights Division of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation. He is actively involved in numerous media, interfaith, and social justice projects at the national and international level.
LUNCHTIME PROGRAMMING 1:00-2:30pm
Rivers of the Heart: Indigenous Knowledge and Literature Linda Hogan, USA: Chickasaw Room 102 Literary Reading & Seminar in recognising the humanity of the other, we enlarge our community to the world around us. Ceremony and dance gatherings serve this purpose, but words also have the power to create change. Linda Hogan, an award-winning Indigenous poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories, will perform a reading from her work and lead a conversation and Q&A, making connections among science, astronomy and ceremonial literatures. Hogan works for the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma as Writer in Residence, reading and speaking internationally at environmental and literary gatherings and conferences. She focuses on Indigenous knowledge systems, ceremonial literatures, and how these contain knowledge of ecosystems in their regions. Linda Hogan, Chickasaw, is the author of four novels. 'Mean Spirit' (Pulitzer finalist), 'Solar Storms' and 'Power' (both International Impact Finalists and award winners), and "People of the Whale', read internationally. She has participated for fifteen years in Native Science Dialogues
Indigenous Knowledge systems and environment). She is Professor Emerita of the University of Colorado and has done documentaries on Native Religion. She has studied ceremonial literature, and her main interest is in the connection between the natural world and spirituality
Global Ethics and Religion Forum - The Role of Religion in Post War Treaties, Constitutions and International Law Hans Corell Philip Towle Masaki Ina Temario River Helen James Frank G Madsen Gerhard Beestermuler Gregor Noll Room 110 Symposium This is Panel #2 in the 'War and the Role of Religion in a Just and Sustainable World' Symposium. Hans Corel is the former Under Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the United Nations, as well as the Chairman of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund University, Sweden Philip Towle is a Lecturer in International Studies, Cambridge University. England. Masaki Ina is Director at the Center for Rotary Peace Fellows, International Christian University, Japan Temario River is Associate Director at the Center for Rotary Peace Fellows, Japan, Helen James is Adjunct Associate Professor at the Social Research Institute, Australian National University, Australia Frank Madsen is the former Head of Criminal Investigation, Interpol, a Queens College Fellow, and a member of the Program in Religion and Ethics in War and Peace-Making at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge University, England. Gerhard Beestermuler is Associate Director at the Institute for Theology and Peace, Germany. Gregor Noll is Chair in International Law and Refugees at the University of Lund, Sweden.
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