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Details of the Speakers & Facilitators
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May East
is a Brazilian
social activist who has worked with music, indigenous people, women,
antinuclear and environmental movements in her home country for over 25 years.
Since 1992 she lives in the Findhorn Ecovillage where currently she is the
Ecovillage Education Coordinator, the Director for International Relations
between the Findhorn Foundation, the Global Ecovillage Network and the
United Nations and a trustee. May is a teacher of the InternationalHolisticUniversity and works with intergovernmental and UN
agencies in educating and developing policy guidance for sustainable
development and for delivery of village-scale sustainability programmes.
www.findhorn.org
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Ashok
Gangadean
is Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College (Haverford,
PA), where he has taught for the past thirty five years. He was the first
Director of the Margaret Gest Center for Cross-Cultural Study of Religion at
Haverford. With his Global Dialogue Institute he seeks to embody the dialogical
power of global reason in all aspects of cultural life. He has also developed a
powerful “Whole Child Education“ Pilot Project, supported by UNICEF and the
Ministry of Education in Indonesia.
Professor Gangadean demonstrates in
his numerous books (eg. The Awakening of the Gobals Mind), conferences and
TV-Shows that there is a fundamental Logos or Universal Grammar underlying all
cultures, religions, philosophies and ideologies.
He is Co-Convenor of
the recently formed World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality
which brings eminent world leaders together in sustained deep dialogue to
cultivate global visions and wisdom for the new millennium.
www.global-dialogue.com
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Jane
Goodall
In 1957, Jane Goodall first met the famed
anthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey, who later played a pivotal role in her life.
With the idea of gaining insight into humans' evolutionary past, Dr. Leakey
proposed a pioneering long-term field study on wild chimpanzees. Even though
Jane had no formal training, her patience and persistent desire to understand
animals led him to choose her for the study.
Although it was unheard of for a woman to venture into
the wilds of Africa, going there meant the fulfillment of her
childhood dream. In the summer of 1960 she arrived in Tanzania on Lake Tanganyika's eastern shore.
This marked the beginning of the longest continuous field study of animals in
their natural habitat. Five years later, she earned a Ph.D. in Ethnology at CambridgeUniversity and returned to Tanzania to establish the
Gombe Stream Research Centre.
http://www.janegoodall.org
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Peter Hesse
was
born in New York in 1937. He attended schools in Germany and the US and
obtained a degree in economics at the University of Munich. He is founder of
the "Commitee for Management-Education in Europe" and co-founder of
the "German Management Association". He also is a partner in the
family-run company "H Schmincke & Co, manufacturers of artists'
colours", where he served as its president from 1971 to 1998. Since 1981
he is involved in relief work for children - mainly in Haiti. In 1983 he
established the "Peter-Hesse-Foundation SOLIDARITY IN PARTNERSHIP for ONE
world in diversity". He is the honorary consul of Iceland and author of
the book: "From vision to reality" (in German) and other
publications in the field of management and marketing
www.solidarity.org
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Van Jones
is the founder and National Executive Director of the Ella Baker
Center for Human Rights (EBC). Headquartered in Oakland, CA, EBC is a national
organization that challenges human rights abuses in the U.S. criminal justice
system. Born in rural west Tennessee in 1968, Van is a 1990 graduate of the
University of Tennessee at Martin and a 1993 graduate of the Yale Law School.
Van is a steadfast opponent of policies that result in the over-imprisonment
and unlawful abuse of marginalized peoples in the United States. He is helping
to lead a national fight for alternatives to the U.S. incarceration industry.
Van has been a pioneer in challenging police abuse, as well as
the over-incarceration of young people. He helped to found the Ella Baker
Center to anchor multiple efforts to challenge the criminalization,
incarceration and abuse of low-income people and people of color.
Van brings an innovative spirit and entrepreneurial drive to his
social change work. He has also recognized that breaking the incarceration
industry's stranglehold on public debate and policy requires greater
partnership between human rights activists and the progressive business
community.
His efforts have won him widespread local, national and international
recognition. His awards and honors include:
Global Leader for Tomorrow, 2002
Ashoka Fellowship, 2000-03
Reebok International Human Rights
Award, 1998
Rockefeller Foundation ‘Next
Generation Leadership’ Fellowship, 1997-99
Do Something BRICK Award for Community
Leadership, 1996
http://www.ellabakercenter.org
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Audrey E. Kitagawa
Born and raised in Honolulu,
Hawaii, Audrey is a cum laude graduate of the University of Southern California,
and a graduate of Boston College Law School. She practiced law in Honolulu for
twenty years.
Audrey Kitagawa dedicates her life to worldpeace and
practical spirituality. Her commitment has led her to work – among various other
commitments for worldpeace, global consciousness and spirituality to be an
advisor to the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for
Children and Armed Conflict at the United Nations. She is Founder and Director
of Vision for Humanity and Co-Facilitator of the United Religions Initiative
Cooperation Circle at the United Nations.
Audrey Kitagawa’s articles on
Practical Spirituality, Peace and Globas Consciousness are published worldwide.
www.srkspiritualfamily.org
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Michael Laitman
Dr. Laitman received his
Ph.D. in philosophy and Kabbalah from the Moscow Academy of Sciences, and his
MSc from St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University in the faculty of
Biological Medical Cybernetics. Dr. Laitman has earned himself the reputation
of an authority in Kabbalah through the twenty-two books on Kabbalah that he
has published over his twenty-five years of Kabbalah teaching in the method
that was handed down to him from Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, author of the
authoritative Sulam Commentary on the Zohar.
In addition, Dr. Laitman
founded Bnei Baruch, a worldwide organization for researching and teaching this
age-old lore, providing daily Kabbalah lessons broadcasted live on www.kab.tv,
and an abundance of authentic kabbalistic texts in twenty-two languages. All
broadcasts and texts are provided gratis.
www.kabbalah.info
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| Ervin Laslzo
has a PhD from the Sorbonne and is the recipient of four
honorary PhDs and other prizes and awards. He is considered the
foremost exponent of systems philosophy, general evolution theory, and
the integration and interpretation of the new sciences. Prof. Dr. Dr.
Ervin Laszlo is likewise noted for his work in the futures and
management fields. He is the founder of the Club of Budapest and author
of many international acclaimed books.
www.clubofbudapest.org
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Nina Meyerhof
Nina Meyerhof’s intent and focus
is, and has been for several years, to acknowledge diversity and at the same
time help bring the human family into holistic communication and mutual
understanding. It is through educational processes that we may all learn to live
a more ethically responsive and harmonious life. Towards this end, she has been
active on the very local community level, the local-global level and the
international world level.
As President of Children of the Earth, and
founder of the Vermont Peace Academy Nina Meyerhof is a spokesperson around the
world on Peace and Spirituality. She is dedicated to the elimination of poverty
and establishment of equity for all. She has been honoured with several awards,
among others the Mother Theresa Children Right’s Award (1995) and the
International Association of Educators for World Peace Award (1999).
www.children-of-the-earth.org
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Ekaterina Moshaewa aka. Antoschka
Antoschka
was born in a small
siberian town. Here birth name was Ekaterina Moshaewa an she grew up as
a normal child.She early discovered a passion for the ballet
and her greatest dream was, to dance once as a prime ballerina in the
famous
Bolschoi-Theater of Moscow.An illness
made this dream to nothing.In this
time, a friend of the little Ekaterina went to become a Circus artist
and she asked Ekaterina to accompany her.In this colorful world,
Ekaterina learned
soon that it meant hard work, to be very good and Ekaterina want’s to
be the
best one.The idea to become a clown was
born and she work hard to learn the varios facets of artistry and
dressage with
animals. Addititionallyshe studied
stage direction. The figure Antoschka occurred Ekaterina one day in
winter after
a walk through Moscow , when she saw her mirror image with scrubby
hairs and
red nose. The name Antoschka arise very spontaneously, what means
"little
Anton".
www.antoschka.de
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Christoph Quarch
philosopher and
theologian, since 2000 tutor of the German Protestant churches day, before for
five years editor of the monthly periodical „Protestant commentaries“.Side-line activity as a journalist and course
leader in the areas philosophy and Spiritualität).Dr. Christoph Quarch lives with his family in Fulda, Germany.
Scientific working
fields:
Philosophy of
religion and interreligious dialogue, antique philosophy, aesthetics and art
philosophy, political philosophy. Further Ambassador of the World Wisdom
Council. Initiator of the "Spirituelle Sommerakademie Hombroich/Neuss".
www.lumen-naturale.de
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Franz Josef Radermacher
mathematician
and economist, member of numerous commissions and boards in industry and
politics, director of the Ulmer Research Institute for Applied Knowledgemanage-
ment. Since many years he is commited to the analysis of
global development.
Together with members of the Club of Rome and Club of Budapest Professor Dr. Dr.
Radermacher has developped a "Global Marshallplan", to combat hunger around the
world. Their focus: Until 2030 no child shall ever suffer from hunger on our
planet again.
Franz Josef Radermacher will introduce us to this plan at the
WSF World Spirit Forum 2005.
www.globalmarshallplan.org
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Elizabeth Sahtouris
is an American/Greek
evolution biologist, futurist, business consultant, event organizer and UN
consultant on indigenous peoples. She is a popular lecturer, television and
radio personality, author of EarthDance,
Biology Revisioned co-authored with Willis Harman and A Walk Through
Time: From Stardust To Us (with prologue by Brian Swimme and epilog by
Sidney Liebes).
Dr.
Sahtouris has taught at the Univ. of Massachusetts, M.I.T. and was a science
writer for the NOVA/ HORIZON TV series. She has lived extensively in Greece and
the Peruvian Andes. Her vision is the sustainable health and well-being of
humanity within the larger living systems of Earth and Cosmos.
www.ratical.org
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Hiroo
Saionji
is the president of the
Goi Peace Foundation and the World Peace Prayer Society. Together with Masami Saionji he also
traveled around the world leading World Peace Prayer Ceremonies in many
countries and at the United Nations and other international organizations.
Mr. Masahisa Goi, who
initiated this movement, believed that progressively making human thoughts more
cheerful and peaceful is the key to building world peace, and that if the
number of peace-loving cheerful people who pray for peace increases throughout
the world, it will pave the way to world peace. The prayer May Peace Prevail
on Earth expresses the greatest wish of humanity, and it fosters harmony
between humanity and everything around it. This prayer is therefore the
brightest and most positive thought and energy that a human being can radiate.
What is more, this prayer can be practiced at any time, anywhere, and by
anyone, irrespective of religion or ideology.
www.goipeace.or.jp
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Masami Saionji
is the Chairperson of the Goi Peace Foundation and the World Peace
Prayer Society. Descended from the Royal Ryukyu Family of Okinawa,
she succeeds the work of her adoptive father, Masahisa Goi, who advocated the
universal prayer “May Peace Prevail on Earth” in Japan
after the Second World War.
She is a respected lecturer at international
conferences, and has also traveled around the world leading World Peace Prayer
Ceremonies in many countries and at the Untied Nations and other international
organizations. She is the author of many books including “The Golden Key
to Happiness,” “Infinite Happiness,” and “You Are the Universe” which have been
published in several languages. www.goipeace.or.jp
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Schatz
holds a university degree in biotechnology from the University
of Agriculture in Vienna and worked for the Austrian Ministry for Environment.
She joined one of Austria’s most renowned Patent Law firms and whilst working
for Vienna Science and Technology Park she was co-organizing a conference on the
future of information technology.
Gundula Schatz started her political
career as national representative of a European project for young women and is
still active in a non-profit women’s network. Since 2001 she is Vice-Governor of
Vienna’s 1st district. Gundula Schatz is Co-founder of “Waldzell - Institute For
Science And Wisdom”.
www.schatz.co.at
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Marina Villa
During four years Marina
Villa has influenced EXPO 02, the Swiss ..., in her function as deputyhead of
communications. Originally trained as a teacher, she has been working as a
journalist for swiss television SF DRS (10 vor 10, Rundschau) and radio 24.
Marina Villa is today’s FOCUS presenter, a discussion platform on Radio
DRS3, as well as communications expert and project coach for various events.
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| Diane Williams
has worked in various capacities over the past 20 years to bring the
spiritual and values dimension into global public policy as well as
promoting interfaith dialogue, compassionate action and peace in the
U.S. and abroad. She is currently the Chairperson and Co-Founder of the
NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns as well as
Co-Chair of it’s special project, the Spiritual Council for Global
Challenges at United Nations Headquarters in NY. She is a recipient of
the PEMAC Peace Award given “to individuals who have made major
contributions in the areas of nonviolence and peace.”
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