| HAJI
DR. FAZLUN M. KHALID
Director,
Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences |
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Fazlun
Khalid has established for himself a world wide reputation
as an indefatigable advocate of environmental protection
rooted in religion and traditional beliefs. As
an example of his work he chaired a major gathering
in Japan in 1995 and produced the Ohito Declaration
for Religion, Land and Conservation which pledged all
the major faiths to work together in addressing environmental
problems. |
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as Director of Training for the Alliance of Religions
and Conservation he indefatigably promoted this declaration
world-wide from 1995 to 2000. Since the mid 1980s he
has devoted his energies to promoting Islamic environmentalism
in both its theological and practical manifestations.
His writing output has been described by an influential
academic as being "among the most important, insightful,
relevant and reliable" is now widely quoted by academics,
students and activists in this area of concern. His
work in the field in turning theory into practise is
of even greater significance. He also founded the Islamic
Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences which
he now directs. His endeavours displays a sustained
effort to unite people of all persuasions in dealing
with a common threat and also a deep commitment to the
cause of environmental justice for the poor in developing
countries. |
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RAUNA
KUOKKANEN
PhD
Candidate, University of British Columbia |
Rauna
Kuokkanen is currently a PhD candidate at the University
of British Columbia, Canada. Rauna is fluent in Sami
and has written and published extensively on the Sami
people, particularly in Finland.
She
has also participated and presented in numerous international
meetings and activities related to the subject of
Indigenous People. In September 2003, Rauna lectured
at the Sami College in Norway on "Sami and Indigenous
Research Methodologies"
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PROF,
DR. YOSHINORI YASUDA
International
Research Center for Japanese Studies
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He
is one of the leading scholars in the filed of Environmental
Archaeology. He has been a Professor at the prestigious
International Research Center for Japanese Studies in
Kyoto, since 1994. In 1996, he was a recipient of the
Chunichi Cultural Prize, and he was a Invited Professor
of Humboldt University in Berlin at 1996 and 2002. In
1997, he was appointed, in addition to his position,
as a Professor at Kyoto University. |
| He
has been the leader of the ambitious Yangtze River Civilization
Project from 1997 to 2001.He was nominated as a candidate
of Crafoords Prize at 2001 and had a invited lecture
at the Royal Swedish Academy of Science. He has been
invited to the several international symposium as a
key note speaker, recently he was also invited to the
international symposium entitled World System History
& Global Environmental Change which was held at
September in Lund Sweden.
He
has been conducting research in many countries and writing
English books including Forest and Civilizations
, Origins of Pottery and Agriculture
and Monsoon and Civilization which were published
by Lustre Press and Roli Books. |
| PROF.
MARY
CONSTANCY BARRAMEDA
University of the Philippines |
Mary
Constancy Barrameda is Professor of Anthropology at
the University of the Philippines. She has handled
Ecological Anthropology on the graduate and undergraduate
levels for almost a decade now. She also has organized
and coordinated a research cum development program
on community-based Biuodiversity Conservation in Mindanao
for 5 years.
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| Two
years ago she started the Urban Diodiversity Conservation
among the urban poor communities in Caloocan City. This
is a three-pronged program aimed at closing the loop
in the urban setting to reduce the presssure in the
already dwindling rural resources. This consists of
Biointensive Gardening Food Always in the Home (BIG
Faith), Zero Waste Management and Multipurpose Cooperative
(producares, consumers and credit) the latter to take
care of the cash needs of the families.
As
an anthropologist, Mary believes in building first and
foremeost sustainable communities who will responsibly
bring about the conservation process.
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| DR.
WILLY WEYNS
viWTA |
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Doctor
in natural sciences and hydrogeology (Bordeaux, France)
International
environmental consultant on behalf of UNDP and various
NGO's, at the European Parliament, in the environmental
movement and with the consultancy bureau CIEPAC ENVIRONMENTAL
CONSULTANTS.
He
has widely published on multi-cultural approacheds to
global environmental challenges. |
| He
has a long curriculum as visiting professor at the universities
of Louvain, Brussels (Belgium), and Toulouse (France),
and at numerous international symposia on Culture and
Nature (UNESCO). The same point
of interest is also the red thread through his pictoral
art work he has been developing in the last decade.
He is a member of the Federal Council of Sustainable
Development and of the Federal Agency of Nuclear Safety
(Belgium). Currently he is working as a senior researcher
at the regional parliamentary Technology Assessment
Institute (viWTA: Flanders, Belgium), mainly organising
public participation conferences. Born 1944, married,
three sons. |
MONIKA
KLUM
Managing
Director, KLUM Photography
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| Monika
Klum is managing director, and photographer at KLUM
photography. In 1995, Monika and her husband, Mattias
Klum, and their team entered the steamy rain forests
of Borneo. The world's foremost illustrated magazine,
National Geographic, wanted their personal impressions
of one of the richest natural environments in the world.
After fourteen months of living in tents and blinds,
they came back with thousands of photographs and miles
of motion film sequences. |
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One of the stills, the illusive silvered leaf monkey,
was chosen for the cover of National Geographic. Forty-four
million readers met the monkey's gaze, and met, face
to face, a being from the depths of the rain forest.
That is how Monika and Mattias work with their photographs,
films and stories. They want to affect us. In the long
term, to change us. If people have been emotionally
moved by something, they want to know more about it;
there is something to keep and cherish. Environmental
thinking is not only about ideas, but also about feelings
and action.
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PROF.
DIMITRI OIKONOMOU
Professor,
Consultant, Author |
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Prof.
Dimitri is a Trustee of the Alliance of Religions
and Conservation (ARC) which was established
in 1995 by His Royal Highness Prince Philip (Former
President of the World Wide Fund for Nature). The Alliance
sponsors ecological endeavours initiated by the major
faiths world wide.
He
is also a member of the Enabling Team of the European
Churches Environmental Network (ECEN) which
has been operating since 1998. |
This organisation seeks to mobilise the Christian
Churches of Europe into active involvement in ecological
issues. In addition, every year for the past ten years
he has personally led teams of young men from all
parts of the world to the Holy Mountain of Athos (Greece)
for ecological work (planting trees, forest restoration,
environmental programmes for the monasteries and hermitages,
etc).
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| MR
WITOON CHAROEN
Director, Project for Ecological
Recovery
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Mr
Charoen is the son of a Kanchanaburi rice farmer and
spent the whole of my childhood years in Thung Smor
village, a typical central Thai rural community. He
completed primary school in his village, secondary studies
at the district high school, and it was not until he
was 17 that he moved to Bangkok to study law at Ramkhamhaeng
University. |
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In
the first part of the 1980s, environmental problems
were becoming evident, but there was no NGO that was
concentrating specifically on these issues. Therefore,
in 1985, Mr Charoen initiated a `dialogue' (called
niwes saywanna , or Eco-forum) by bringing
together people from several walks of life interested
in the environment - civil servants, students, academics,
artists, journalists - once a month for one year.
Project for Ecological Recovery, which started up
in 1986, is a product of this dialogue."
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| MR.
HIJJAS KASTURI
Architect,
Planner & Principal |
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Architect,
planner and principal of Hijjas Kasturi Associates,
Hijjas Kasturi is the recipient of numerous awards in
the field of architecture and design, including the
Award in Urban Redevelopment, conservation and restoration
in 2001. He is the sole sponsor of the Rimbun Dahan
Residency programme for Malaysian and Australian artists.
Rimbun Dahan, the home of Hijjas Kasturi and his wife
Angela is set on fourteen acres outside Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia. |
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The
compound of Rimbun Dahan is a centre for developing
traditional and contemporary art forms. It features
buildings designed by Hijjas Kasturi, as well as a 19th
Century traditional Malay house, in an indigenous garden
environment. |
| MAY
RUKKA
Alliansi
Masyarakat Adat Nusantara (Indigenous Peoples Aliance
of the Archipelago) |
Rukka Sombolinggi,
an indigenous person from The Toraja People in Central
Part of Sulawesi island, was born on October 15th
1973 in Toraja, graduated from Hasanuddin University
- Makassar. Has been working for AMAN since 1999,
recent position is Campaign Coordinator .
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Dr.
Heike Loeschmann
Director,
Heinrich Boell Foundation (Thailand & Southeast
Asia Regional Office) |
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Since
the end of 1999 Heike Loeschmann is the Director
of Heinrich Boell Foundation (HBF), Thailand and Southeast
Asia Regional Office (Chiang Mai, Thailand - www.hbfasia.org
). The Foundation is affiliated with the German
Alliance 90/The Greens Party.
From
1996-1999 she worked as the Head of Asia Desk, HBF Berlin,
after having returned from Cambodia where she worked
three years as Project Director and Advisor to the Buddhist
Institute in Phnom Penh |
| . Before her
work with the Heinrich Boell Foundation she was Executive
Director of the Society for the Study of Khmer Culture
(Berlin, Germany ) and lectured at the Universities of
Hamburg, Berlin and Passau (Germany). She received
her PhD from Humboldt University to Berlin in the
field of Southeast Asian Studies, (Buddhism and state
in Cambodia after 1979 with a comparative perspective
of political Buddhism in other Mainland SEA Theravada
countries). |
| FACILITATOR
DR.
DAVID STANNERS
Dept.
Head, European Environment Agency |
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David
Stanners is currently Department Head at the European
Environment Agency, Copenhagen, responsible for strategic
development and international cooperation. Amongst his
extensive experience in environment monitoring, research
and project development he has a list of publications
to his record. |
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His current responsibilities include the identification,
framing and communication of emerging environment and
sustainability issues to improve understanding and response
in the EU policy process.
David
Stanners will be the facilitator for this meeting on
'Cultual Tools as a means of forging the Human Relationship
with Nature.'
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| From
the ASIA EUROPE FOUNDATION ......
Mr.
BERTRAND FORT
Director,
Intellectual Exchange |
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Director for
Intellectual Exchange at the Asia-Europe Foundation
(ASEF), and previously Counsellor to the French
Foreign Affairs Minister (from 1998-2002), in charge
of relations with the French and European Parliaments,
think-tanks, foundations and South-East Asian affairs.
During this time Bertrand was also
a postgraduate lecturer on international affairs at
the Institut d' É tudes
Politiques (Sciences-Po) in Paris and Lille.
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Before then, from 1991 to 1997, he was a Researcher
on Asian topics and Defence Affairs at the Institut
des Relations Internationales et Strat é
giques (IRIS) and concurrently Communications
Chief for a political group in the French Parliament,
as well as journalist for several French speaking
newspapers and magazines on Asian issues.
From
1989 to 1990 he was the Deputy-Counsellor for Press
Relations for the French Defence Minister. |
SOHNI
KAUR
Project
Assistant, Intellectual Exchange
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Sohni
Kaur is a graduate of McGill University where she
read Polticial Science and Economics, with a special
focus on international organisations and the developing
world.
She
has worked with the Singapore Institute of International
Affairs, and now works with Intellectual Exchange
in the Asia Europe Foundation, where she works on
the Cultures & Civilisations Dialogue Programme.
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This
programme was recently established by Intellectual Exchange
with the realisation that many cultural and civilisational
issues need to be addressed to promote understanding
between the two regions of Asia and Europe, and also
facilitate leaders of civil society meeting, interacting
and engaging with one another and with audiences in
the opposite regions. |
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