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- 5/28/2012: Special Encore Presentation: Our Spiritual Lives Awaken The Global Sleeping Giant Listen Now
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Mellen-Thomas Benedict
Artist, poet, and prodigious inventor, Mellen-Thomas Benedict, holds numerous patents on devices that are designed to maximize the quality of life. His devices, based on the principles of quantum biology, deliver photon light therapies that are designed to enhance longevity, health and wholesomeness. His delivery systems are non-invasive, re-generative energy transfers that provide healing and restoration to the body at the cellular level. A former atheist, with a previously dour attitude towards people and global challenges, he experienced a complete transformation through a life changing experience that revealed to him the beauty of the human soul that is directly connected to the Source and all other souls as one and the same Being. The recipient of a continuous flow of information that revealed to him the nature and properties of light, Mellen continues to develop and create these delivery systems to benefit the well being of others out of a profound joy, love and respect for life. View Guest page
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Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD
Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, a Jungian analyst and author of The Tao of Psychology, Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, Ring of Power, Crossing to Avalon, Close to the Bone, The Millionth Circle, Goddesses in Older Women, Crones Don't Whine, Urgent Message from Mother, and Like a Tree. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. She received the Institute for Health and Healing's Pioneers in Art, Science, and the Soul of Healing Award, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She was in the Academy Award winning anti-nuclear proliferation film Women For America, For the World, and the Canadian Film Board's Goddess Remembered. The Millionth Circle led to her involvement at the United Nations. She is a leading advocate for a UN 5th World Conference on Women, and is a Permanent Representative of Pathways To Peace. www.jeanshinodabolen.com View Guest page
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Anwarul K. Chowdhury
Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury served as the Under-Secretary General and High Representative at the United Nations for the Least Developed and Land Locked Countries (2002-2007). He served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN, President of the Security Council, President of UNICEF, and Vice-President and member of the Executive Board of the UN's Economic and Social Council. He pioneered the initiative of the UN General Assembly in 1999 for adoption of the landmark Declaration and Programme of Action On A Culture of Peace, and proclamation of the International Decade for Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World (2001-2010). He is the recipient of the U Thant Peace Award, UNESCO Gandhi Gold Medal for Culture of Peace, and the Spirit of the UN Award. He served as Adjunct Professor at, Seton Hall University School of Diplomacy, and taught courses on the culture of peace at Soka University and City University of New York. He is a Founding Trustee of the New York City Peace Museum. View Guest page
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John Dalla Costa
John Dalla Costa, Founder of the Centre for Ethical Orientation (CEO), a Toronto-based consultancy that works with businesses, the public sector and non-governmental groups, fosters ethical excellence in operations and outcomes. He is the author of four internationally published books, and addresses conferences around the world. His articles have appeared in the Financial Post Magazine, the Report on Business Magazine, Marketing Magazine (Canada and the U.K.), and The International Herald Tribune. He is the ethics and integrity instructor in the Conference Board of Canada’s Director’s College. He is a graduate of the Owner/President Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School. He has a Masters of Divinity Degree (Summa Cum Laude) at Regis College at the University of Toronto. He was inducted into Alpha Sigma Nu, the Jesuit Honor Society, and is currently working on a doctorate, exploring the interfaith resources for advancing sustainable development. View Guest page
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Joyce S. Dubensky, J.D., C.E.O.
Joyce S. Dubensky, J.D., C.E.O., is the passionate force behind the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding’s innovative approaches to combating religious prejudice. As Tanenbaum’s C.E.O., Ms. Dubensky pursues the work of her heart—creating a lived justice for all people. She has led Tanenbaum to new firsts—each a new contribution to the burgeoning field of interreligious understanding—including the first toolkit on religious diversity for workplace managers (now a major on-line resource for global Fortune 500 companies), the first comprehensive guide on the intersection of religion and health care, the first collection of compelling life stories of Tanenbaum’s Peacemakers in Action, and the establishment of a vibrant global Peacemakers’ Network. A sought after speaker and trainer, she conducts trainings, leads workshops and speaks internationally on all Tanenbaum programs. Ms. Dubensky earned her J.D. from New York University Law School and has a master’s degree in American history. Previously, Ms. Dubensky served as the first General Counsel and created the legal department for UJA-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, and the deputy executive director of the National Conference for Community and Justice. View Guest page
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Kul Chandra Gautam
Kul Chandra Gautam, born in a small village in Nepal, graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College and earned an MPA from Princeton University in USA. After graduation, he began working for UNICEF in Cambodia, and later served in Indonesia, Laos, Haiti, India, and as Regional Director for the Asia Pacific region. Fluent in Nepali, English, French and Spanish, he held many senior positions including Chief for Latin America and the Caribbean; Director of Planning and Coordination; Director of Programs; and Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations at UNICEF Headquarters in New York. He received the Audrey Hepburn Humanitarian Award, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Social Justice Award for Lifetime Achievement given by Dartmouth College. He retired from the UN in 2008, served as Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Nepal, and he is actively involved in many national and international, public and private foundations, boards and charities. View Guest page
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Jonathan Granoff
Jonathan Granoff, JD, is President of the Global Security Institute, Adjunct Professor of International Law at Widener University, and Senior Advisor of the American Bar Association's Committee on Arms Control and National Security. He serves on numerous boards, such as the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy and the Jane Goodall Institute,. He has represented the International Peace Bureau at Summits of the Nobel Peace Laureates. He studied the sufi path of love with Bawa Muhaiyaddeen since his youth. He is a prolific author, award-winning screenwriter and has given numerous presentations at the United Nations and the US Congress. He is the recipient of the Rutgers University School of Law Distinguished Alumni Award, and lectures worldwide emphasizing the legal, ethical and spiritual dimensions of human development and security. View Guest page
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Brad Heckman
Brad Heckman is Chief Executive Officer of the New York Peace Institute, one of the nation’s largest conflict response agencies, serving nearly 10,000 people yearly, and Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs, where he received the Excellence in Teaching Award. He is on the Board of Directors for the National Association for Community Mediation, and the New York State Dispute Resolution Association. Brad also served as Vice President of Safe Horizon, a leading victims services and violence prevention agency, and International Director of Partners for Democratic Change, where he developed community peace building centers throughout Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Baltics, South Caucasus, Latin America, and the former Soviet Union. He received a Master of Arts in International Relations and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Dickinson College. View Guest page
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J. J. HURTAK
DR. J. J. HURTAK, Ph.D., Ph.D. and Dr. DESIREE HURTAK, Ph.D., MS. Sc. are founders of The Academy For Future Science (www.futurescience.org), an international non-governmental organization that works to bring cooperation between science and consciousness. The Academy works in areas of consciousness development, social projects including serving to protect indigenous tribes and the activation of a culture of peace. Dr. JJ Hurtak is author of numerous books including, The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch® (www.keysofenoch.org), translated into fourteen languages and the End of Suffering that he co-authored with his colleague, physicist Russell Targ. Together the Hurtaks have written several books including their latest book entitled Overself Awakening. Drs. Hurtak have published numerous articles and won 14 international awards for their films on consciousness exploration. The Hurtaks together have traveled throughout the world to investigate ancient cultures and work closely with indigenous people, including the Zulu Shaman Credo Mutwa and the Xavante Indians (Brazil). View Guest page
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J.J. & Desiree Hurtak
DR. J. J. HURTAK, Ph.D., Ph.D. and Dr. DESIREE HURTAK, Ph.D., MS. Sc. are founders of The Academy For Future Science (www.futurescience.org), an international non-governmental organization that works to bring cooperation between science and consciousness. The Academy works in areas of consciousness development, social projects including serving to protect indigenous tribes and the activation of a culture of peace. Dr. JJ Hurtak is author of numerous books including, The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch® (www.keysofenoch.org), translated into fourteen languages and the End of Suffering that he co-authored with his colleague, physicist Russell Targ. Together the Hurtaks have written several books including their latest book entitled Overself Awakening. Drs. Hurtak have published numerous articles and won 14 international awards for their films on consciousness exploration. The Hurtaks together have traveled throughout the world to investigate ancient cultures and work closely with indigenous people, including the Zulu Shaman Credo Mutwa and the Xavante Indians (Brazil). View Guest page
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Jean-Louis Peta Ikambana
Jean-Louis Peta Ikambana is Director of the American Friends Service Committee-DC Peace and Economic Justice Program, recipient of the United Nations Association of Washington, DC Chapter, 2010 Community Human Rights Award, and runs the DC Human Rights City Program. He holds Masters Degrees in International Affairs, Political Science and Criminal Justice, as well as a Ph.D. in African American Studies from Temple University. He is also the author of Mobutu’s Totalitarian Political System. An Afrocentric Analysis, and co-author of Africa In the 21st Century. Fluent in Lingala, Kikongo, Swahili, French, Spanish and English, Mr. Ikambana is well known for his dedication to advancing human dignity in international, national and local organizations in Africa, Europe, North and South America. He led a coalition responsible for Washington, D.C. being declared as the first human rights city in the U.S. and he continues to expand human rights learning in D.C. public and private schools. View Guest page
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Bonifus Kabongo Ilunga
Bonifus Kabongo Ilunga is the head of Kamina Teacher’s College in the Katanga Region in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Past President of the Kamina Methodist University, the current assistant to Bishop Ntambo Nkulu Ntanda (the Bishop of the Katanga Region). He is Deputy Legal Representative of the North Katanga Region of the United Methodist Church, and is currently undertaking a Doctorate of Ministries degree at St Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri (with a specialization in Global Health and Wellness). He intends to pursue another doctorate degree in Leadership and Women’s Studies at Asbury University, in Kentucky. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in the Democratic Republic of Congo; and his Master’s Degree of Theology in Zimbabwe. In 2003, he risked his life to go into the heavily armed and guarded jungle region controlled by the Mai Mai rebel group to successfully convince its leader to attend peace talks with the Congolese government. View Guest page
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Ephraim Isaac
Ephraim Isaac, BD (Harvard Divinity School ’63), Ph.D. (Harvard University ’69), D.H.L. (CUNY) D.Litt. (AAU), Director of the Institute of Semitic Studies, a founder and the first professor of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, called the Father of Peace by Ethiopians, founded the Horn of Africa Peace & Development Center (PDC) and the Coalition of Ethiopian Elders (CEE). In that capacity inspired by the Biblical prophets and Ethio-Oromo peace tradition, he has succeeded brilliantly in peace building in modern Ethiopia, the second largest country in Africa. He is a recipient of the Tanenbaum 2003 Peacemakers Award, and several honorary degrees. Harvard University established the Ephraim Isaac Prize for Excellence in African Studies for Harvard College Seniors. Voted best teacher of the year every year of his tenure at Harvard, he speaks 17 languages, and is a visiting professor at Princeton University. View Guest page
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Lisa F. Jackson
Lisa F. Jackson, a documentary filmmaker for over 35 years, received two Emmy awards and a Sundance Jury Prize. Sex Crimes Unit, her most recent film, is an unprecedented verite portrait of prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Her documentary filmed in the war zones of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo, won a Special Jury Prize for Documentaries at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and earned 2 Emmy nominations. She produced and directed Meeting with a Killer: One Family’s Journey (2001 Emmy Award nominee) for Court TV; Life Afterlife, a 90-minute Special for HBO; The Secret Life of Barbie (1999 Emmy Award winner) for ABC News; Addicted and Why Am I Gay? for HBO’s America Undercover series; No Money, Mo’ Problems and Smart Sex for the MTV series True Life; The Other Epidemic for ABC News; and five episodes in the Hallmark Channel’s acclaimed Adoption series, including films shot in Siberia and Guatemala. View Guest page
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Azza Karam, Ph.D.
Azza Karam, Ph.D., as Senior Advisor on Social-Culture Development at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), manages global activities on social determinants of development, interfaith networking, and coordinates an Inter-Agency Task Force on Faith-Based Engagement. She was Senior Policy Advisor in the Bureau for Arab States at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP); President of the United Nations Committee of Religious NGOs; Senior Program Officer at the International Institute on Democracy and Electoral Assistance; and founded the first Global Women of Faith Network (Religions for Peace). She managed global developmental programs throughout the world, taught at many universities, and published widely on political economy, democratization, human rights, and religion. Her books include Religion and the United Nations; Transnational Political Islam; Islamisms, Women and State; Women in Parliament: Beyond Numbers; and, A Woman’s Place: Religious Women as Public Actors. View Guest page
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Dr. Solomon Katz
Dr. Solomon Katz, is the Director of the Krogman Center for Research in Child Growth and Development, a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, and CEO of the World Food Forum. His Encyclopedia of Food and Culture was awarded both the Dartmouth Medal and Emerald Award. He was editor of a 14 book series on the History and Anthropology of Food and Nutrition that included four books on famine and food security in sub-Sahara Africa. He chairs the American Anthropological Association Task Force on World Food Problems and is the former president of Institute On Religion In An Age of Science (IRAS). He is the founding President of the Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science, and a Trustee of the Council For A Parliament of the World’s Religions. He is chairing the Fifty-Ninth Annual IRAS Summer Conference at Silver Bay, New York, July 27 to August 3, 2013 entitled the Scientific, Spiritual, And Moral Challenges In Solving The World Food Crises. See: www.IRAS.org View Guest page
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Vikrom Kromadit
Through hard work, and a strong sense of responsibility for his family, Vikrom Kromadit, the eldest of 22 children, owned his first business at age 8, and became one of Thailand’s richest men. He founded the Amata Corporation, Thailand's leading developer and manager of industrial estates, and heads the Amata Group with 15 subsidiary companies. The company designs and builds planned communities with schools, hospitals, industrial parks, recreation areas, and housing, employs over 200,000 people, and does business in Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar. Amata provides Ready-Built Factories, power, water, waste water treatment, broadband internet, vehicle leasing, housing, shopping malls, health clinics, schools, restaurants and more. These industrial estates function as complete towns, where people can work and live well. The largest estate, Amata Nakorn, Chonburi, encompasses 3,020 hectares (7,549 acres), and enables 514 manufacturing projects to operate within its boundaries. View Guest page
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Rev. Jacklevyn Manuputty
Rev. Jacklevyn Manuputty sought to nourish peace in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia which were torn apart by religiously motivated violence. He strengthened communal bonds by co-founding the Maluku Interfaith Institution for Humanitarian Action, (LAIM). LAIM creates institutional capacity building programs, develops positive public discourse and builds a network of pluralistic conflict prevention observers. LAIM builds interfaith peace groups of women, journalists, religious leaders and students. It has a live in program for clergy to overnight in each other’s homes to build trust and work together to solve social problems. Rev. Jacky and his colleagues developed a peace curriculum, an interfaith peace sermon program and a trauma healing program. Rev. Jacky is one of 35 Christian delegates to sign the Malino II Peace Agreement in February 2002. He is the recipient of the Tanenbaum Peacemaker's In Action Award. View Guest page
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Jean Mbuyu
Jean Mbuyu is a lawyer and founder of the Center For Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. In 1997, he received the prestigious MacArthur Award for his work in international human rights. He assisted the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda which was established to prosecute persons responsible for genocide and other serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of Rwanda and neighboring territories between 1 January 1994 and 31 December 1994. The genocide claimed approximately 800,000 lives. He worked as a human rights activist in opposition to the Mobutu Sese Seko totalitarian regime, and his arrest for launching an inquiry into the massacre of civilians became a rallying point by the people against Mobutu. Mr. Mbuyu holds a BA degree in Latin and Philosophy, a Masters degree in International Human Rights Law, a Juris Doctorate Degree and a PhdD in Law. View Guest page
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Professor Kamran Mofid, PhD
Professor Kamran Mofid, PhD, is Founder of the Globalization for the Common Good Initiative, and Co- founder/Editor, of the Journal of Globalization for the Common Good. He is a member of the International Coordinating Committee of the World Public Forum, Dialogue of Civilizations, a Founding Member, World Dignity University, and Global Advisory Board, Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies. He has a Certificate in Education in Pastoral Studies from Plater College, Oxford. He taught at the Universities of Windsor, Birmingham, Bristol, Wolverhampton, and Coventry. His work is multi-disciplinary and entails Economics to Spirituality. His books include Development Planning in Iran: From Monarchy to Islamic Republic , The Economic Consequences of the Gulf war, Globalization for the Common Good, Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and Globalization for the Common Good , and co-authored Promoting the Common Good, and A non-Violent Path to Conflict Resolution and Peace Building. View Guest page
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Mary Morgan-Moss
Ambassador Mary Morgan-Moss has a storied career as a reknown diplomat, singer, TV producer and host in Panama. In 1981 she created the Mary Arias Foundation, a non profit organization that provides free services to children with Cerebral Palsy in Panama. It currently has four centers and two special classrooms. The inauguration of her Metropolitan Center in February, 2012, will act as a regional hub in Latin America for the education and treatment of children with Cerebral Palsy. Thousands of children with Cerebal Palsy have benefitted from the help of her Foundation, the only free service provider in Panama for such children. She has received numerous awards and recognitions for her charitable work. In 1994 she was appointed Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Panama to the United Nations, where she continues to serve. She raised three daughters, and has seven grandchildren. She is married to world champion bridge player Michael Moss, for over 20 years. View Guest page
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Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid
Born in Pakistan, Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid is a humanitarian, interfaith activist, film producer, and head of two major nonprofit organizations. He is the current Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Council for A Parliament of the World’s Religions, and President of Sound Vision. He authored Conversion To Islam: Untouchables Strategy For Protest In India, which won the Outstanding Academic Book of the Year Award in 1990. He served as the National Coordinator of the Bosnia Task Force USA, and a similar Kosovo Task Force. He successfully led efforts in collaboration with the National Organization of Women to declare rape as a war crime. He chaired the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, and served on the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention in 2008. He is the Executive Producer of Chicago's Radio Islam, a daily one hour talk program. He was recently selected as one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world. View Guest page
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Jacqueline Murekatete
Jacqueline Murekatete is a human rights activist who was born in Rwanda in 1984. She lost most of her family to the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis in Rwanda. She participates in human rights and genocide prevention forums around the world. She received a B.A. in Politics from New York University, and a J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. She received the Ina Kay Award (Anti-Defamation League); the Global Peace and Tolerance Award (Friends of the United Nations); the Moral Courage Award (American Jewish Committee), The Ellis Island Medal of Honor Award, the Do Something Award, the Imbuto Foundation's Celebrating Young Rwandan Achievers Award from the First Lady of Rwanda, and New York University’s Distinguished Young Alumna Award. In 2007, she founded Jacqueline's Human Rights Corner, a genocide prevention program under the umbrella of Miracle Corners of the World, a NY-based nonprofit organization, and has raised over $500,000 to build a community Center in Rwanda. View Guest page
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Dr. Mutombo Nkulu-N’Sengha
Dr. Mutombo Nkulu-N’Sengha is a poet, a human rights activist, and a teacher of global spirituality and interreligious dialogue, with 20 years of teaching experience in various American universities. An international scholar with a deep passion and compassion for the voiceless and the marginalized he met with Pope John Paul II, and has traveled to more than 15 countries gaining insights on the categorical imperative of “spirituality without borders.” An Associate Tenured Professor in the Department of Religious studies at California State University Northridge since 2003, he created the Bumuntu Peace Institute in order to foster the consciousness of peace and global solidarity in Central Africa. He is engaged in the protection of human rights and women’s empowerment and intends to bring quality education to poor children in the most desolate areas of the Congo (DRC), while fighting the roots causes of poverty. View Guest page
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Mutombo Nkulu-N’Sengha
Dr. Mutombo Nkulu-N’Sengha is a poet, a human rights activist, and a teacher of global spirituality and interreligious dialogue, with 20 years of teaching experience in various American universities. An international scholar with a deep passion and compassion for the voiceless and the marginalized he met with Pope John Paul II, and has traveled to more than 15 countries gaining insights on the categorical imperative of “spirituality without borders.” An Associate Tenured Professor in the Department of Religious studies at California State University Northridge since 2003, he created the Bumuntu Peace Institute in order to foster the consciousness of peace and global solidarity in Central Africa. He is engaged in the protection of human rights and women’s empowerment and intends to bring quality education to poor children in the most desolate areas of the Congo (DRC), while fighting the roots causes of poverty. View Guest page
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Tong Schraa-Liu
Tong Schraa-Liu, lecturer, author, advisor, consultant and entrepreneur, is a leading expert in the field of trans-cultural management, global leadership development, and organization and whole-system transformation. She holds degrees in Law and Customs Management, Business Economics, as well as a Masters Degree in Business Administration. She is the founder and CEO of Tong Schraa-Liu & Partners, an international consultancy and think-tank in the above disciplines. She and her team work in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and North America, and served the United Nations, European Union, International Criminal Court, various national governments, and Fortune 500 Multi-National Corporations. Tong is a co-author of the book, Responsible Global Leadership. Her multi-cultural approach integrates ancient Eastern wisdom with modern Western business practices. She works worldwide to facilitate the unleashing of creative potential of organizations, societies and cultures. View Guest page
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Dr PL de Silva
Dr PL de Silva (Adviser Thani Investments) has over 20 years experience of back-room diplomacy, mediation/negotiation. Previously he was Senior Advisor UN Global Compact under the leadership of Secretary-General Kofi Annan. In 2009 Dr de Silva gave a keynote address at US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Future Operational Environment Seminar. He has taught Politics/International Relations in several graduate/undergraduate programs at universities in New York, New Jersey, Long Island and Queen's University of Belfast in Northern Ireland. Dr de Silva's publications include Postmodern Insurgencies: Political Violence, Identity Formation and Peacemaking in Comparative Perspective. He is co-founder with Professor WD Lakshman (former Vice Chancellor University of Colombo) of the International War-related Trauma & Humanitarian Intervention Trust (IWTHI Trust) setting up psychosocial training programs for practitioners serving combatants/non-combatants during Sri Lanka’s civil war. View Guest page
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Bhai Sahib Mohinder Singh
Bhai Sahib Mohinder Singh is third in line of Sikh spiritual leaders of Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha. He holds two Honorary Doctorates for service to religious faith propagation, community service, education and research. Bhai Sahib is Chairman of the British Sikh Consultative Forum since 2002. He has conserved many historical places of worship in Kenya and India, including the Harimandir Sahib (Golden Temple). He is the first British Sikh to receive the title ‘Bhai Sahib’ from the Jathedars of the five Takhats (seats of authority) and President of the Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee (an apex organisation representing Sikhs worldwide). Bhai Sahib engages in interfaith collaboration and is a recognised ‘Interfaith Visionary’, holding the Juliet Hollister Award from the Temple of Understanding. Bhai Sahib is the first Sikh to receive a Papal Knighthood in recognition of his dedicated work and enthusiastic commitment to working for peace among people of all faiths. View Guest page
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Sakena Yacoobi
Dr. Sakena Yacoobi is Executive Director and founder of the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL), the Professor Sakena Yacoobi Private Hospital in Herat, and the Professor Sakena Yacoobi Private High Schools in Kabul and Herat, Afghanistan. Established in 1996 to provide education and health services, AIL has served more than 9 million Afghans by working at the grassroots level. AIL was the first organization to offer human rights and leadership training to Afghan women and first to open Women’s Learning Centers. Dr. Yacoobi has received multiple awards and honors including the Tanenbaum Peacemaker in Action Award. She has presented at Global Peace Initiative for Women events, on a panel with the Dalai Lama, and at the Parliament of World Religions. She is an Advisor to the Fetzer Institute and published a prayer in Rosalind Bradley’s book: A World of Prayer. In 4/12, Dr. Yacoobi held the first International Conference on Love, Spirituality and Forgiveness in Herat, Afghanistan. View Guest page
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Chintamani Yogi
Chintamani Yogi, MA, is the founding principal and coordinator of Hindu Vidyapeeth, comprised of three schools located in Kathmandhu, Balkumari and Lalitpur, Nepal, which provides quality, values based education to approximately 1,500 underprivileged and orphaned children on a non-profit basis. He also established Shanti Sewa Ashram, a peace service center whose objectives are to promote peace and spirituality at every level of society, help the poor and disadvantaged, and provide a platform for spiritually and peace based organizations to coordinate their efforts. He founded Youth Society for Peace, which supports youth in understanding the values of peace, tolerance, and selfless service. He leads community based programs at the Children's Study Center, Children's Peace Home and Women's Education/Training Program in Nepal. He has published 17 books, and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, and is a highly regarded educator, peace activist and humanitarian. View Guest page
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Bhola Nath Yogi, BA
Bhola Nath Yogi, BA, Diploma in Yoga Education, and MD in Yogic Therapy, was born and raised in Nepal. He is the Founding Principal of Hindu Vidyappeth Nepal, Ghorahi, Dang, Founder of the Children’s Peace Home in Parsa, Nepal, and Gorakshya Nath Sewa Sangh, a public service organization. He is Chairman of the Disabled People’s Organization, a committee member of Matribhoomi Sevak Sangh, and a member of Hindu Vidyapeeth Schools-UK, and the District Welfare Center. The Hindu Vidyapeeth School in Ghorahi, Dang, has approximately 430 students, who adheres to a rigorous academic curriculum, as well as a values, ethics based education. The Children's Peace Home in Parsa helps approximately 164 children receive their education, with 34 children actually in residence in a peaceful, rural setting. Volunteers from the Universities of Oxford, Durham, and Cambridge help teach the children. Mr. Yogi speaks Nepali, English, Sanskrit, Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Tharu and several local languages. View Guest page
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AWAKENING TO PEACE AND HAPPINESS AS A STATE OF MIND
May 14, 2012
Hosted by Audrey E. Kitagawa
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By understanding our interconnectedness we become part of a greater loving totality of life. The experience of Oneness is part of the positive, sustaining power that is the true guiding physics of the universe. Happiness is more than just an “experience” of joy or pleasure, but a state of mind where the person has understood how to feel good about life. We are in control of how we think and feel. This means then we can work towards an end to suffering and discover our limitless mind. Understanding our interconnectedness releases us from our limitations and makes us part of the greater loving totality which at the highest level is called unconditional Love. The positive, sustaining powers of "active love" can provide happiness at any and all times should we choose to accept it. We are surrounded with love-powered emanations. We need to recognize the great Joy of being part of an Infinite Creation and achieve Happiness now!
Our Sacred Journey
Monday at 3 PM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica 7th Wave Channel
Our Sacred Journey will inspire others to share their love, compassion and kindness as a powerful way of actualizing the reality of the Divine in our daily lives. Our fascinating guests are global citizens who live and manifest their values, principles and ideals. You’ll hear the broad spectrum of life experiences that moved these passionate, courageous people through the hallways of such global institutions as the United Nations, to the villages in developing countries.
We will discuss what it means to live as global citizens from the foundation of our inner spirituality, values and beliefs.
Our potential to create a harmonious, cooperative present and future arising out of our own creativity and commitment to make valuable contributions to humanity will weave a beautiful tapestry of our sacred journey together. Our Sacred Journey is broadcast live every Monday at 3 PM Pacific Time on the VoiceAmerica 7th Wave Channel.
Audrey E. Kitagawa
Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Audrey E. Kitagawa, 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. At the time of her retirement in 1996, Ms. Kitagawa had a Martindale-Hubbel AV rating, (i.e. highest rating for professional and ethical excellence in the legal profession).
She is President of the Light of Awareness International Spiritual Family, a nondenominational, ecumenical, spiritual community with broad global outreach. She is the former Advisor to the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict at the United Nations, and the former Vice President/Trustee of Council For A Parliament of The World’s Religions, one of the world’s largest conveners of communities of faith. She is currently a Founding Trustee of the New York City Peace Museum.
She has been enstooled into the royal family as the Nekoso Hemaa (i.e.Queen Mother of Development), of Ajiyamanti in Ghana, West Africa, and has a school named after her in her African name, the Nana Ode Anyankobea Junior Secondary School. She has published articles in World Affairs, The Journal of International Issues. She has authored chapters for three books, and has been listed in Who's Who of American Law, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, and Prominent People of Hawaii.
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