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World Goodwill Seminar (New York Schedule)
2 November, 2024
Geneva - London - New York
Today our world faces the convergence of multiple interconnected crises, and a worldwide recognition of the need for fundamental changes to institutions of national and global governance. The will and desire for a more just and moral world demands that the deficit of values and principles which govern our institutions must now be addressed.
New York
2.00 - 5.00 PM EDT
Online ZOOM event.
The seminar will include simultaneous translation into Spanish
Seminar Recordings
New York
Schedule & Programme
New York
2:00 pm EDT
Opening and Welcome
World Goodwill - Chris Morgan
2:15 pm EDT
Andrew Strauss is a frequent speaker and commentator on matters of international law and policy with articles appearing in such publications as The International Herald Tribune, The Nation, and The Financial Times.
Professor Strauss served as the tenth dean of the University of Dayton School of Law from 2015-2023. His areas of expertise include public international law, international economic law, international transactions and international organizations.
Professor Strauss also served as a Fulbright Scholar in Ecuador where he studied tribal politics in the Amazon. He has taught Singaporean constitutional law at the National University of Singapore, and he has been a lecturer at the European Peace University in Schlaining, Austria. He served as the Director of the Geneva/Lausanne International Law Institute and the Nairobi International Law Institute. In 2006 he delivered the Henry Usborne Memorial Lecture in the British Houses of Parliament.
He has conducted human rights missions to Asian countries and been a consultant to both Human Rights Watch and Human Rights First.
2:45 pm EDT
Liliane Nkunzimana is a Representative of the Baha'i International Community’s UN Office in New York. Her areas of work include gender equality and peace. Liliane has a background researching and writing issues related to diversity and inclusion. She currently serves as a Member at Large on the NGO Committee on the Status of Women and Co-Chair of the New York Peacebuilding Group. Previously, Liliane served as Secretary of the NGO Committee on Social Development and as Co-Chair of the Communications Task Force of the Global Coalition on Youth, Peace and Security. Liliane has also served as a community organizer engaging youth and their families in educational programs designed to build capacity to contribute to the well-being of society. She has worked on government-funded development projects as well as public affairs in the private sector. Liliane holds a Masters in Public and International Affairs and a Bachelor of Social Science specializing in African Studies with a minor in Political Science.
3:15 pm EDT
4:00 pm EDT
10 Minute Break
4:10 pm EDT
The Study of the Problems of Humanity as a Spiritual Practice
Panel, World Goodwill Coworkers
Today, men and women of goodwill throughout the world are responding to the spiritual call of service. Many are reorganizing their lives in the hopes that they may better contribute to the welfare of others and to humanity as a whole. In the midst of such marked crises and increased tension in the world, many are asking, what can be done to help?
In this panel, three World Goodwill coworkers discuss how an informed study of world problems supports a spiritual life of service.
4:40 pm EDT
Meditation on Goodwill
Meditation to strengthen and increase the goodwill that is in all people, invoking energies
of lighted goodwill and cooperation into world affairs. Read more >
Download the Meditation
5.00 pm EDT
Closing
