Deutsche - Global Balance

Partners: The CONGO Committee on International Decade for the World's Indigenous
People, the Wittenberg Center for Alternatives Resources, Earthkeepers Working Group
Guest Speakers: Grace Smith Yellow Hammer, Dineh Elder; Ethelyn Secakuku, Hopi
Elder; Lorena Banyacya, Hopi Elder; Yoland Trevino, Indigenous Maya (and chair of URI
Global Council); and Sara James, Qwichen Elder (by phone)
Thursday, May 28 th Reconciliation: Healing the Wounds with Naomi Tutu
UNICEF – Danny Kaye Visitors Center, 2:00-4:00pm
Organizer: Monica Willard, URI UN Representative
Partners: The Values Caucus and the NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global
Concerns, NY
Guest Speakers: Mr. Stephen Hanmer, Partnerships Manager for Civil Society
Partnerships Outreach at UNICEF, and Ms. Naomi Tutu, Peace Jam International
Tuesday, October 27 th Reconciliation with Our Earth: Wisdom from Faith Traditions
UN Week of Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns Event
Church Center for the United Nations, 2 nd Floor, 1:00-4:00pm
Organizer: Michelle Kim, Franciscans International
Partners: CSVGC-NY Eco-Spirituality Working Group, CSVGC-NY Spiritual History of the
United Nations Working Group, CSVGC-NY Women Rising Working Group
Guest Speakers: Giovanna Czander (Italy), Ph.D., Dominican College, Swami
Parameshananda (India), Bharat Sevashram Sangha, Sunera Rahman, Upper
Westchester Muslim Society, Rabbi Roger Ross, The New Seminary, Chung Hyun
Kyung, Ph.D. (Korea), Union Theological Seminary, Rev. Tim Miner, OUnI, of the Council
of Interfaith Congregations of the U.S.
URI-UN Council: Bernice B. Cousins, Martha Gallahue, Anele Heiges, Audrey Kitagawa,
Swamini Sri Lalitambika Devi, Deborah Moldow, Roger Ross, Betsy Stang, Monica Willard,
Carol Zinn
May Peace Prevail on Earth
Journey to Peace: Nonviolence • Reconciliation • Human Rights
URI-UN United Nations Launch of
The 2009 UN International Year of Reconciliation, The Gandhi-King Season for
Nonviolence and The 2009 UN International Year of Human Rights Learning
29 January 2009
The United Religions Initiative at the United Nations (URI-UN), a Cooperation Circle of the
United Religions Initiative, has chosen the International Year of Reconciliation as the
overarching theme for its 2009 events. We will host side events during the various UN
Commissions meeting this spring on Social Development, the Status of Women, and
Sustainable Development, as well as the Indigenous Forum this summer, the International Day
of Peace in September, and the Week of Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns around UN
Day in October.
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