Virtual Dialogues: Spiritual Perspectives for a New Normal
People of faith and spirituality are thinking about, and offering guidance on, what an earth-centered, new normal, might look like, and how we can practically contribute to it.
How do we emerge from our homes, from this time under lockdown, and be part of creating a new, earth-centered, normal, based on the values and ethics of our diverse faiths and spiritualities? What is IUCN’s role in building a new normal? And what will conservation look like post-2020?
Opening and closing remarks: Jessica Sweidan, IUCN Patron of Nature; Dr Grethel Aguilar, IUCN’s Acting Director General; Kristen Walker-Painemilla, Chair of IUCN CEESP, and Liza Zogib, Chair of the IUCN CEESP Specialist Group on Religions, Spirituality, Environmental Conservation and Climate Justice (ReSpECC)
Panelists:
- Dr Fazlun Khalid, Founder, Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Science
- Valériane Bernard and Sonja Ohlsson, Brahma Kumaris
- Reweaving our Ecological Mat in the Pacific (Rev. James Bhagwan)
- Dave Bookless, Director of Theology at A Rocha International, IUCN member
- Alexandra Masako Goossens-Ishii, Soka Gakkai International (Buddhist network)
- Lindsey Fielder Cook & Sara Jolena Sequoia Wolcott, Quaker UN office & Sequoia Samanvaya
- Iyad Abu Moghli, Director of Faith for Earth, UNEP
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