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Globalizing Compassion
Advancing the Work of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi
Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
Kailash Satyarthi — Oslo (2014)
“Friends! We live in an age of rapid globalisation. We are connected through high-speed Internet. We exchange our goods and services in one single global market, thousands of flights connect us from one corner to another corner of the globe. But there is one serious disconnect, and that is a lack of compassion.
Let us inculcate and transform this individuals’ compassion into a global compassion. Let us globalise compassion.
Mahatma Gandhi said, “If we are to teach real peace in this world . . . we shall have to begin with the children.” I humbly add, let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
I ask: Whose children are they who stitch footballs, yet have never played with one?
Whose children are they who harvest cocoa, yet have never tasted chocolate? Whose children are they who are kidnapped and held hostage? They are all our children.
I remember an eight-year-old girl we rescued from intergenerational forced labour from stone quarries. And she was sitting in my car right after her rescue she asked: “Why didn’t you come earlier?”
Her angry question still shakes me—and has the power to shake the whole world. Her question is for all of us. What are we doing? What are we waiting for? How many girls will we allow to go without rescue?
Children are questioning our inaction and watching our actions. We need collective actions with a sense of urgency. Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.
Therefore, I challenge the passivity and pessimism surrounding our children.
I challenge this culture of silence, this culture of neutrality. I call upon all the governments, intergovernmental agencies, businesses, faith leaders, workers, teachers and NGOs, and each one of us, to put an end to all forms of violence against children. Slavery, trafficking, child marriages, child labour, sexual abuse, and illiteracy: these things have no place in any civilised society.
Friends, we can do this.”
Program
The 2016 Forum will concentrate on the work of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi (2014), who has dedicated his life to ending child slavery and child trafficking. It will also look at the peace and security implications of, and connections between, human trafficking, migration, refugees and climate change.
Mr. Satyarthi won the Nobel Peace Prize for his “struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. Children must go to school and not be financially exploited. In the poor countries of the world, 60% of the present population is under 25 years of age. It is a prerequisite for peaceful global development that the rights of children and young people be respected. In conflict-ridden areas in particular, the violation of children leads to the continuation of violence from generation to generation.”
According to current global estimates, based on data from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the World Bank, “168 million children aged 5 to 17 are engaged in child labour”. Some 120 million among them are below the age of 14, while a further 30 million children in this age group — mostly girls — perform unpaid household chores within their own families. In addition, millions of children suffer in the other worst forms of child labour, including slavery and slavery-like practices such as forced and bonded labour and child soldiering, sexual exploitation, or are used by adults in illicit activities, including drug trafficking.
Child labour spans various sectors, including agriculture, manufacturing, quarrying and mining, and domestic service. Often, it is hidden from the public eye. For example, the estimated 15.5 million child domestic workers worldwide — mostly girls — are often hardly visible and face many hazards. Child labour is the combined product of many factors, such as poverty, social norms condoning it, lack of decent work opportunities for adults and adolescents, migration, and emergencies.
Climate disruption degrades both natural and institutional life support systems, undermining the human condition. It destabilizes communities, economies, and nation states, subjecting all people to degraded conditions — regardless of class, wealth or ethnic background. As we see in many situations across the world today, these pressures can lead to conflict, migration and a resulting tragic expansion of human trafficking and slavery.
Venue & Hotel
The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize Forum will be held at the Radisson Blu Bloomington Hotel. A limited number of discounted delegate rooms are available using the following link: Click here to reserve your room.
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Day 1: Monday, June 6th
Every Minute Matters:
Up Close & Personal Conversations with Kailash Satyarthi
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi will kick off the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize Forum by engaging in a live-streamed global conversation with Forum delegates and youth coming in live from United Nations Children’s Fund offices around the world. Mr. Satyarthi will then join leaders and experts on issues related to child slavery in conflict and commercial sexual exploitation.
Smaller delegate dialogue sessions will led by members of Satyarthi’s organization Bachpan Bachao Andolan, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Asset India Foundation, Arctic explorer and photographer David Thoreson, and more.
8:00 am: Registration
Delegate Registration, Coffee, Tea, and Light Pastries.
9:00 am: Welcome to the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize Forum
Plenary Hall: Lakes Ballroom
Welcome and introductory remarks by the Executive Director of the Nobel Peace Prize Forum Gina Torry and the Research Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute Asle Toje, followed by a film made by Nobel Peace Prize Forum partner DearWorld.
Session runs from 9:00 am to 9:30 am.
9:30 am: Live! Global Plenary Session with Kailash Satyarthi
Plenary Hall: Lakes Ballroom
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Address and Interactive Global Q&A
Keynote Address by 2016 Nobel Peace Prize Forum honored Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, followed by a global Question-and-Answer, moderated by Mr. Asle Toje, Research Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute. Mr. Satyarthi will engage in direct conversation with delegates present at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum in Minneapolis and with youth live-streamed in from around the world, including youth leaders from the Citizens’ Climate Lobby and UNICEF country offices.
Session runs from 9:30 am to 11:00 am.
11:00 am: Coffee Break
30-minute coffee break before 11:30 am dialogue sessions begin.
11:30 am: Dialogue Sessions
90-minute dialogue sessions, from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm.
1. Child-Friendly Villages: The BBA Team
Dialogue Room: Lakes Salon C
In 2001, Kailash Satyarthi created the concept of Child-Friendly Villages to combat the problem of child labor in India’s villages, where compared to urban areas, children are disproportionately engaged in economic activities and denied schooling. This session will be led by David Hircock who has been the liaison between Estee Lauder and Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Movement) in a partnership to fund and expand Child-Friendly Villages in areas of India where children are often exploited in mica mines (an ingredient in many cosmetics). There are now over 300 Child-Friendly Villages in regions of India with some of the highest prevalence rates of child labor. As a result, thousands of children who were once child laborers are now enrolled in school. The model has also successfully changed attitudes on gender roles, and in most Child-Friendly Villages where forced child marriages were commonplace, they are now nearly non-existent.
2. The Global Reach of Sex Trafficking
Dialogue Room: Lakes Salon D
Moderated discussion with Ray Umashankar, CEO ASSET India Foundation and Sarah Symons, Founder and CEO, Made by Survivors, Academy and Emmy award-winner, Jeffrey D. Brown, Director of the film SOLD and Jane Charles Producer of the film SOLD.
Moderated by Stephen Smith, Executive Editor and Host of American RadioWorks, the national documentary series from American Public Media.
3. The Accidental Explorer — Bearing Witness to a Rapidly Changing Arctic
Dialogue Room: Minnetonka B
Dialogue session led by Arctic explorer and photographer David Thoreson. In 2007, David and the crew of Cloud Nine became the first American sailors in history to transit the Northwest Passage from the east to the west. A selection of Thoreson’s photographs and books will be on display at the 2016 Forum, and delegates will have an opportunity to hear this Arctic explorer’s account of bearing witness to a rapidly-changing Arctic and ocean environment.
Moderated by Kerri Miller, host of MPR News.
4. Political Deals and Stabilization: What Do We Know? What Do We Need to Know?
Dialogue Room: Harriet Room B
This session will introduce a peace research project which explores key interventions by external and internal actors which have contributed to a peace deal. It will stimulate a discussion among practitioners and policy makers on effective, creative innovative approaches to peace building.
Dialogue Leader: Anne-Kristin Treiber, Deputy Head Middle East & Asia Team, UK Government’s Stabilization Unit.
5. Breaking the Cycle: A More Humane Approach to Criminal Justice
Dialogue Room: Minnetonka C
What can criminal justice systems learn from Norway’s Halden Prison – an institution that has been referred to as “the world’s most humane maximum security prison”?
Dialogue Session leaders: Dr. Sami Abdel-Salam, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, West Chester University and Mr. Jan Strømnes, Deputy Warden of Norway’s Halden Prison. Moderated by Becky Norvang, American College of Norway Peace Committee Coordinator.
6. Food Insecurity: Local & Global Considerations
Dialogue Room: Nokomis A (3rd Floor)
A dialogue session led by Tracy E. Ore. Tracy E. Ore is a professor of Sociology and Interim Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at St. Cloud State University focused on key issues related to local and global food insecurity will be presented. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss barriers and opportunities for working toward peaceful and sustainable solutions.
7. You Never Know Where You May Find Domestic Slavery — Slavery in Minnesota & the Northwest before the Civil War
Dialogue Room: Minnetonka A
A dialogue session led by Lea VanderVelde, Josephine R. Witte Chair, Professor of Law, University of Iowa Law School, Guggenheim Award winner, and Author of Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery’s Frontier. Professor VanderVelde is a leading expert on the Dred Scott case. Americans may not be aware that the most famous slave in the United States in the decade before the Civil War was a man, who together with his wife lived at Ft. Snelling in what is now St. Paul, Minnesota. His lawsuit, Dred Scott v. Sandford, brought national attention to slavery with the notoriously harmful decision that the U.S. Constitution prevented Congress from banning slavery, ever. Dred Scott was not alone in living as an enslaved domestic servant in land that was supposed to be free. Many of the same facets that characterize domestic slavery in Minnesota made it invisible from view, much as child slavery continues to be invisible in many parts of the world today.
8. Supporting Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi’s Vision with the ‘Matrix of Peace’
Dialogue Room: Harriet Room A
A dialogue session led by Peace through Commerce. Hear American Idol contestant Rocky Peter in person telling his story about his experience as a trafficked and child laborer in Nigeria. Find out about the work of RockAgainstTrafficking.org. Participate in a live simulation of “Matrix of Peace” Systems Modeling. Our goal for you when you leave this session is to ask new questions related to peace building, imagine new answers, and discover the key to designing multi-sector solutions to issues such as human trafficking using the Matrix of Peace.
The Matrix of Peace Systems Model embraces the voice that says “Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.” — Khalil Gibran
Reading materials:
- Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business by John Mackey and Rajendra Sisodia.
- Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems by Michael Strong and John Mackey
- Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose (2nd Edition) by Rajendra Sisodia, Jagdish N. Sheth, and David Wolfe
9. Community-Led Rural Development and Empowerment
Dialogue Room: Nokomis B (3rd Floor)
Dialogue session led by Ben Sehgal, Trustee of the Sehgal Foundation. Water security, food security, and social justice are relevant to every country in the world. The foundation’s flagship programs—water management, agricultural development, and rural governance—work together to alleviate rural poverty and address social justice, most particularly the critical issue of gender equality. For each initiative taken we must determine: Does the program have an impact? Is it sustainable? Sehgal Foundation develops pilot programs on the ground level and works from the bottom up to empower people to become responsible for their own development.
1:00 pm: Lunch
Nobel Peace Prize Forum resumes at 2:15 pm.
2:00 pm: Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Child Slavery
Plenary Hall: Lakes Ballroom
Conversation with Cindy McCain and experts, moderated by PBS NewsHour Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro.
Session runs from 2:00 pm to 3:15 pm.
3:15 pm: Coffee Break
30-minute coffee break before 3:45 pm plenary session.
3:45 pm: Children and Armed Conflict
Plenary Hall: Lakes Ballroom
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict Leila Zerrougui, in a moderated discussion with Mia Bloom and Sanam Anderlini. Mia Bloom is Professor of Communication at Georgia State University and, under the auspices of the Minerva Research Initiative (MRI) of the Department of Defense, is currently conducting research on how children become involved in terrorist organizations. Sanam Anderlini is the Founder and Executive Director of the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) and an expert on gender, peace, and security issues.
Moderated by Madeleine Baran, reporter for American Public Media Reports, an APM investigative reporting and radio documentaries project.
Session runs from 3:45 pm to 4:55 pm.
4:55 pm: Day 1 Closing Remarks
Plenary Hall: Lakes Ballroom
Day 1 closing remarks delivered by Augsburg College President Paul Pribbenow.
5:00 pm: Delegates Cocktail Hour
Firelake Grill
Open cash bar cocktail hour for all delegates in the Radisson Blu Firelake Grill House and Cocktail Bar from 5:00 pm to 6:45 pm.
7:30 pm: Screening of the Film SOLD
Theatres at Mall of America
SOLD is a narrative, feature film adaptation of the globally acclaimed novel by Patricia McCormick. Based on true stories, SOLD, is the story of Lakshmi who journeys from a pastoral, rural village in Nepal to a gritty brothel/prison called Happiness House in Kolkata, India. Through one extraordinary girl’s story, SOLD illustrates the brutality of child trafficking, which affects millions of children around the globe every year. Globally the average age of a trafficked girl is thirteen, the same age as the girl in the film. SOLD is a call to action, and a testament to the power and resilience of the human spirit.
SOLD is directed by Academy and Emmy award-winner, Jeffrey D. Brown, Executive Produced by two time Academy Award winner, Emma Thompson, Produced by Jane Charles, Co-Produced by Katie Mustard and Written by Joseph Kwong and Jeffrey D. Brown
View the Trailer: http://SoldTheMovie.com
Full screening of the film will be followed by a moderated discussion with the film’s producers and with experts working in the field.
Session runs from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm.
Day 2: Tuesday, June 7th
Globalizing Compassion:
Conversations with Kailash Satyarthi & International Business & Policy Leaders
Kailash Satyarthi will engage with global business leaders on what corporations can be doing to build peace as well as to stop and prevent child slavery in different sectors such as Transportation (hotels; airlines), Mining (Mica, conflict minerals), Agriculture, and Clothing/Textiles.
The latter part of the day will focus on how the climate system translates our everyday actions into powerful impacts on the lives of people around the world. Climate disruption degrades both natural and institutional life support systems, undermining the human condition — leading to conflict, migration and a resulting tragic expansion of human trafficking and slavery.
Smaller delegate dialogue sessions will led by members of Kailash Satyarthi’s organization Bachpan Bachao Andolan, the Kailash Satyarthi Foundation, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Citizens’ Climate Lobby, young leaders involved in sustainability and environmental efforts, the fashion industry, and more.
8:00 am: Registration
Delegate Registration, Coffee, Tea, and Light Pastries.
9:00 am: Welcome and Scenes from Bal Ashram
Plenary Hall: Lakes Ballroom
Welcome and session with DearWorld’s Robert Fogarty who will screen scenes and a film from Kailash Satyarthi’s/Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Movement) rehabilitation center for rescued child bonded labourers.
9:30 am: Freedom from Fear, Freedom from Want — Let’s do Business with Compassion
Plenary Hall: Lakes Ballroom
The roles business can play in promoting and building stronger, more sustainable economies, communities, fundamental human freedoms, and peace. An introduction from United States Congressman Erik Paulsen. A conversation with Kailash Satyarthi and international business leaders and experts, including Judy Gearhart, Executive Director of the International Labor Rights Forum; Amy O’Neill Richard, Senior Advisor to the Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (J/TIP), U.S. Department of State; Marilyn Carlson Nelson, former chairman and CEO of Carlson, a global hospitality company; Louis D’Amore is the Founder and President of the International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT); Don Larson, Founder of Sunshine Nut Cashews (Mozambique), and former Director of Cocoa Operations for The Hershey Company and one of the world’s largest buyers of cocoa.
Moderated by PBS NewsHour Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro.
The session runs from 9:30 am to 11:00 am.
11:00 am: Coffee Break
30-minute coffee break before 11:30 am dialogue sessions begin.
11:30 am: Dialogue Sessions
90-minute dialogue sessions, from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm.
1. Raid and Rescue: The BBA Team
Dialogue Room: Lakes Salon C
Session led by Kailash Saytarthi’s team Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Movement) based in New Delhi on Raid and Rescue Operations. Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) symbolizes India’s largest grassroots movement for the protection of children, ensuring their quality education. As of October 2014, BBA has rescued more than 83,500 victims of trafficking, slavery and child labour and has helped them re-establish trust in society and find promising futures for themselves.
2. Tobacco’s Children: Child Labor in Tobacco Farming in the United States and Beyond
Dialogue Room: Lakes Salon D
Dialogue session led by Margaret Wurth, of Human Rights Watch. In many countries around the world, children work on tobacco farms, exposed to nicotine, toxic pesticides, extreme heat, and other dangers. The tobacco grown on farms where they work enters the supply chains of the largest tobacco companies in the world, but none of the companies do enough to protect children from the hazards of tobacco farming.
The 72-page Human Rights Watch report Teens of the Tobacco Fields: Child Labor in United States Tobacco Farming [PDF] documents the harm caused to 16- and 17-year-olds who work long hours as hired laborers on US tobacco farms, exposed to nicotine, toxic pesticides, and extreme heat. Nearly all of the teenagers interviewed suffered symptoms consistent with acute nicotine poisoning—nausea, vomiting, headaches, or dizziness. Human Rights Watch will discuss findings and recommendations from recent research on hazardous child labor in tobacco farming in three of the world’s top tobacco producers: the United States, Brazil, and Indonesia.
3. Climate Civics as Peacebuilding
Dialogue Room: Minnetonka B
An interactive dialogue exploring how civic engagement on climate policy creates new opportunities for reducing the threat of conflict emerging from food and water insecurity and other threats to human safety and security.
Dialogue Leader: Joseph Robertson, Global Strategy Director, Citizens’ Climate Lobby.
Moderated by Paul Huttner MPR Chief Meteorologist.
4. Islam and Environmental Sustainability: The Study Quran and Commentary on Nature, Ecology and Stewardship
Dialogue Room: Nokomis B (3rd Floor)
Nature has a privileged status in the Quran, which is filled with references to environmental stewardship and guidance on ‘green’ matters. The Study Quran captures reveals environmentally-minded insights through translated verses as well as through a wealth of commentary from across diverse schools of Islamic thought. In this panel, editors explore a variety of Quranic verse and commentary on environmental sustainability relevant for today.
Dialogue Leader: Maria Dakake, Editor The Study Quran, and Chair and Associate Professor of Religious Studies, George Mason University; in discussion with Whitney Terrill, Director of Sustainability Partnerships, Green Muslims.
5. Humanitarianism beyond the World Humanitarian Summit: Where to from Here?
Dialogue Room: Harriet Room B
The humanitarian landscape is drastically different today when compared to 20 years ago. The cost of humanitarian assistance has sky-rocketed, with funding requirements increased by 600% over the last ten years and the number of people targeted for assistance has doubled. In addition, the humanitarian system has to contend with challenges brought about by global risks: the effects of climate, urbanization, technology and intra-State disputes. Crises are lasting longer than ever — most of them driven by conflict. There is no one single international system any longer, local communities and NGOs are often the first to provide aid, and new actors are changing dynamics in the traditional donor-recipient relationships.
In May 2016, Governments, NGOs, international organizations and affected people will gather in Istanbul at the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit to move forward the Secretary-General’s vision to deliver for humanity: people’s safety, dignity and the right to thrive, by committing and enacting 5 core responsibilities: 1) Political leadership to prevent and end conflict; 2) Uphold the norms that safeguard humanity; 3) Leave no one behind; 4) Changing people’s lives: from delivering aid to ending need; and 5) Invest in Humanity. In this dialogue session, speakers will examine the most pressing challenges in humanitarian action and will discuss the way forward, based on the outcomes of the World Humanitarian Summit and the Agenda for Humanity.
Dialogue session led by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Dialogue Leaders: Ms. Lilian Barajas is currently supporting the World Humanitarian Summit as one of the focal points for the High-Level Roundtable on “Political leadership to end and prevent conflict”. Lilian is also the managing editor of “World Humanitarian Data and Trends”, an annual flagship publication of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Ms. Kathryn Yarlett is currently supporting the World Humanitarian Summit and was one of the lead drafters for the Secretary-General’s report “One Humanity: shared responsibility”.
6. Jeff Hermanson: On the Work of the International Union League for Brand Responsibility
Dialogue Room: Minnetonka A
A dialogue session led by Jeff Hermanson: The International Union League for Brand Responsibility is a global organization of unions representing workers in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East that are organizing to hold global apparel and footwear brands accountable for the wages and working conditions of the workers that make their products.
The session will focus on the struggle of garment workers in Bangladesh and Cambodia, a majority of whom are young women, to organize and empower themselves to overcome low wages, long hours, and dangerous and unhealthy working conditions.
7. Food Security and Poverty Reduction in Islam: Insights for Community-Building from The Study Quran
Dialogue Room: Nokomis A (3rd Floor)
What does the Quran say about reducing poverty and food security? In this panel, an editor and faith-inspired community organizers discuss Quranic verses and commentaries across Islamic schools of thought on these key social justice themes, and how these inspire Muslim organizations and leaders today.
Moderator: Lynn Kunkle, El-Hibri Foundation; in discussion with Caner Dagli, Editor, Editor, The Study Quran, and Imam Makram El-Amin, Masjid an-Nur, Minneapolis, MN.
8. Supporting Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi’s Vision with the ‘Matrix of Peace’
Dialogue Room: Harriet Room A
A dialogue session led by Peace through Commerce. Hear American Idol contestant Rocky Peter in person telling his story about his experience as a trafficked and child laborer in Nigeria. Find out about the work of RockAgainstTrafficking.org. Participate in a live simulation of “Matrix of Peace” Systems Modeling. Our goal for you when you leave this session is to ask new questions related to peace building, imagine new answers, and discover the key to designing multi-sector solutions to issues such as human trafficking using the Matrix of Peace.
The Matrix of Peace Systems Model embraces the voice that says “Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.” — Khalil Gibran
Reading materials:
- Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business by John Mackey and Rajendra Sisodia.
- Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems by Michael Strong and John Mackey
- Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose (2nd Edition) by Rajendra Sisodia, Jagdish N. Sheth, and David Wolfe
9. Globalizing Genius
Dialogue Room: Minnetonka C
A dialogue session led by the WorldQuant Foundation. Driven by their passionate belief in freedom of education, the mission of WorldQuant Foundation is to encourage and support individuals in their pursuit of higher education (WorldQuant University). WorldQuant Foundation strongly believes that individuals from all cultural, economic and religious backgrounds deserve the education they need to fulfill their potential.
1:00 pm: Lunch
Nobel Peace Prize Forum resumes at 2:15 pm.
2:00 pm: Threat Multiplier — Climate Change and the Surge of Migrants and Refugees to Europe
Plenary Hall: Lakes Ballroom
Climate disruption affects the viability of the civil state, the dignity of the human condition, and heightens the potential for civil and interstate conflict. Conversation with Kailash Satyarthi; Colonel Mark “Puck” Mykleby (USMC, ret.), co-author of the National Strategic Narrative (a rethinking of Pentagon security strategy which identifies sustainability as the single guiding principle for national and global security in the 21st century); Kåre Aas, Norwegian Ambassador to the United States; Kartik Chandran, Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University and MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellow; Eric Schwartz, Dean of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota.
Moderated by MPR News Director Mike Edgerly.
Session runs from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm.
3:00 pm: Coffee Break
30-minute coffee break before 3:30 pm plenary session.
3:30 pm: Climate Ethics after Paris — Intergenerational Equity, Global Cooperation and Responsible Enterprise
Plenary Hall: Lakes Ballroom
The Paris Agreement brings 195 nations into a collaborative framework and cites intergenerational equity as a principle for legitimate climate action. This could mean a new baseline for international law: actions that project harm and degradation into the future must be avoided. Global Youth have a right to a sustainable future.
Moderated conversation with Olav Kjørven, Director of Public Partnerships at UNICEF, Marc Dullaert, Ombudsman for Children of the Netherlands, Founder and Chairman of the KidsRights Foundation, which awards the Children’s Peace Prize; and Youth Delegates to the Paris Agreement. Moderated by Joseph Robertson, Global Strategy Director for Citizens’ Climate Lobby.
Session runs from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm.
4:30 pm: Day 2 Closing Remarks
Plenary Hall: Lakes Ballroom
Day 2 closing remarks by Eric Schwartz, Dean of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota.
5:00 pm: Delegates Cocktail Hour
Firelake Grill
Open cash bar cocktail hour for all delegates in the Radisson Blu Firelake Grill House and Cocktail Bar from 5:00 pm to 6:45 pm.
7:30 pm: Screening of the Film Antarctica 3D: On the Edge
Theatres at Mall of America
Narrated by Tilda Swinton. New music by Natalie Merchant. Written and Directed by Jon Bowermaster. Executive Producer, Gary Smaby.
Followed by discussion with the Film’s Producers and Arctic Explorers
Antarctica can also be a fragile place, home to an incredible variety of life along its edges, an important part of shaping the planet’s weather systems and climate. Join National Geographic explorer Jon Bowermaster as he and his team travel along the continent’s frozen coastline in ‘Antarctica, On The Edge’ to expose just how important, and at risk, is the seventh continent.
To produce the first 3D film shot at the bottom of the world – ‘Antarctica, On the Edge’ – National Geographic writer and filmmaker Jon Bowermaster took his team by sailboat from the tip of South America to the 900-mile long Peninsula that juts out of the continent like a long finger. Its edges warmed on both sides by the sea, the Peninsula is changing faster than anywhere on the planet. These changes impact its rich wildlife – penguins, seals, whales, sea birds – in ways we rarely consider.
View the Trailer: https://vimeo.com/107620668
Session runs from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm.
Day 3: Wednesday, June 8th
Challenging Neutrality:
Conversations with Kailash Satyarthi & Global Leaders on Advocacy, Laws & Governance
Kailash Satyarthi and his team will engage with national and global leaders in discussing innovative ways governments are combatting trafficking and ways governments are dealing with child labor/trafficking issues in times of crisis. Religious leaders from different faiths will also join Kailash Satyarthi on stage to discuss the roles religious leaders can play in helping to end human and child slavery. A high-level guest leader will close the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize Forum.
Smaller delegate dialogue sessions will be led by members of Kailash Satyarthi’s organization Bachpan Bachao Andolan, the Kailash Satyarthi Foundation, the United Nations, Minnesota Global, the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Citizens’ Climate Lobby, young leaders involved in combatting human slavery and exploitation, and more.
8:00 am: Registration
Delegate Registration, Coffee, Tea, and Light Pastries.
9:00 am: The Way We Lead Matters
Plenary Hall: Lakes Ballroom
Opening by Honored Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, followed by a conversation with leaders discussing innovative ways of combatting child trafficking, labor, and hunger.
Discussants include Marcia Eugenio, Director, Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor & Human Trafficking, U.S. Department of Labor/Bureau of International Labor Affairs; Mark Ritchie, President World’s Fair Bid Committee Minnesota and a former Minnesota Secretary of State; Mariana Chilton, Director of the Center for Hunger-Free Communities and is Co-Principal investigator of Children’s HealthWatch; Stephen W. Portner, former CMO of JMJ Associates, and corporate investor in the Hunger Project; Kristen Abrams, Executive Director ATTEST/Humanity United.
Session runs from 9:00 am to 10:00 am.
10:00 am: Patron Saints of Education
Plenary Hall: Lakes Ballroom
A talk and moderated conversation with no-nonsense leader Rev. Edwin D. Leahy — or Father Ed, as he is known — one of the Benedictine monks of Newark Abbey and the Headmaster of St. Benedict’s Preparatory School.
As Featured on CBS 60 Minutes: “St. Benedict’s Prep was 100 years old when time ran out on Newark, New Jersey. It was 1967 and all hell broke loose around the very proper, very white Catholic boy’s school. Unemployment, racism, and police brutality had ignited the inner city. And even the monks who ran St. Benedict’s, lost faith. But the school’s namesake, the patron saint of students, must have seen the future. Because no generation needed the resurrection of St. Benedict’s more than the minority kids who now filled its neighborhoods. The students are required to run much of the school. Students are organized into groups that compete for the top grades so the boys press each other to study. The student groups coordinate events and set the schedules.”
The motto of St. Benedict’s Prep is: “Whatever hurts my brother, hurts me.”
Moderated by Tom Crann, host of All Things Considered on MPR.
Session runs from 10:00 am to 11:00 am.
11:00 am: Coffee Break
30-minute coffee break before 11:30 am dialogue sessions begin.
11:30 am: Dialogue Sessions
90-minute dialogue sessions, from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm.
1. Bal Ashram
Dialogue Room: Lakes Salon C
Dialogue session with Shrimati Sumedha Kailash, activist, social mobilizer and head of Kailash Saytarthi’s Bachpan Bachao Andolan Bal Ashram and team. Bal Ashram, established in 1998, is the rehabilitation and training center of Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Movement) catering for the special needs of victims of child labour. It provides rescued children with the compassion, education and vocational training they so desperately need. It helps them to become confident and skilled enough to overcome their past and lead dignified lives. Bal Ashram aims to transform children who have seen the worst, so that they become agents of change against exploitation and abuse.
2. Minnesota Safe Harbor Law: Federal Model for Combatting Sex Trafficking
Dialogue Room: Lakes Salon D
In 2011, Minnesota passed the “Safe Harbors for Sexually Exploited Youth” law, providing legal protection and state services for sexually exploited youth. Youth who engage in prostitution [in this context it is synonymous with human trafficking] no longer are considered criminals, but rather victims and survivors. Legislation also introduced a diversion program for victims, increased funding for shelters and training and increased penalties for traffickers and buyers of sex. In 2014 the law adopted the No Wrong Door framework, making available resources and services statewide for sexually exploited youth. Minnesota is the first state to adopt this model, making the state a national leader in providing effective, trauma-informed and victim-centered services to youth.
A conversation with leaders Robin Phillips, Executive Director, The Advocates for Human Rights, Rachel Paulose the first Indian American ever nominated by the President and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as a United States Attorney. Paulose was the youngest person, the first Asian American, and the first woman to lead the District of Minnesota senior counsel at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Moderated by Sasha Aslanian, Correspondent, American RadioWorks the national documentary unit of American Public Media.
3. Witnesses to Hunger in the US: Advancing a Participatory, Human Rights Movement through Photos, Testimony and Action
Dialogue Room: Minnetonka B
A conversation with Mariana Chilton, Director of the Center for Hunger-Free Communities and members of Witnesses to Hunger to explore Innovative ways in which to include the action and expertise of those who know hunger first-hand in the national dialogue on US poverty. In this session, our dialogue will address tactics that members of Witnesses to Hunger have utilized to provide formal testimony, photo exhibits, and panel discussion at the United States House of Representatives, the United Sates Senate, City Halls and State Houses. This will also include meaningful conversation about exposure to violence, trauma, homelessness, racism and classism that can make sustained national action both challenging and effective.
4. The Religious “Other” in the Quran: Sunni and Shia Commentary on Inclusion, Interfaith Relations and the Role of Difference in The Study Quran
Dialogue Room: Nokomis A (3rd Floor)
The HarperCollins Study Quran represents a landmark achievement in providing first-of-its-kind access to the rich tradition of interpretation and diversity of thought which has historically existed in the Islamic tradition. How the Quran approaches questions of inclusion, pluralism and interfaith coexistence play a seminal role in shaping Muslim attitudes and behaviors in interfaith relationships. In this panel, an editor of The Study Quran and explore Quranic perspectives and commentaries from across Islamic schools of thought throughout history on these key questions, and how this matters today.
Moderator: Imam Makram El-Amin, Masjid an-Nur, Minneapolis, MN; in discussion with Caner Dagli, Editor, The Study Quran and Associate Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross; and Maria Dakake, Editor, The Study Quran and Chair and Associate Professor of Religious Studies, George Mason University.
5. After the Expedition: Reflections on an Inter-Faith Exploration of Peace while Trekking and Canoeing along the St. Croix Riverway
Dialogue Room: Minnetonka A
This Outward Bound Peacebuilding led dialogue session will reflect on experiences of 12 student leaders who explored the meaning and value of peace across faith traditions during a five day canoeing and rock climbing expedition across the St. Croix Riverway, Minnesota just days prior to the Nobel Peace Prize Forum. This “Peace Matters Expedition” is offered by Outward Bound Peacebuilding in partnership the Nobel Peace Prize Forum and delivered with Voyageur Outward Bound.
6. Engaging Citizens on Foreign Policy Challenges – Shifting Alliances in the Middle East
Dialogue Room: Nokomis B (3rd Floor)
Global Minnesota brings foreign policy discussions into Minnesota living rooms, classrooms, boardrooms, libraries and community centers through its Great Decisions program. With essential background and impartial analysis provided by the Foreign Policy Association, Great Decisions gives average citizens a role in discovering, discussing and deciding how to meet some of the world’s greatest challenges, supported by a roster of expert speakers assembled by Global Minnesota.
Based on the Great Decisions discussion model, one of Global Minnesota’s foreign policy experts, Ross Wilson, former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and to Azerbaijan, will lead a discussion on the current state of alliances in the Mideast. From a proxy war in Yemen to an ongoing civil war in Syria, a number of conflicts have shaken the traditional alliances in the Middle East to their core, resulting in new and shifting relationships between state and non-state actors. In a region where conflicts are far from black-and-white, what can the U.S. do to secure its interests and address the human toll of war without causing further damage and disruption?
Introduced by Carol Engebretson Byrne, President of Global Minnesota. and moderated by Tim Odegard, Program Director.
7. Supporting Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi’s Vision with the ‘Matrix of Peace’
Dialogue Room: Harriet Room A
A dialogue session led by Rock Against Trafficking. Hear American Idol contestant Rocky Peter in person telling his story about his experience as a trafficked and child laborer in Nigeria. Find out about the work of RockAgainstTrafficking.org. Participate in a live simulation of “Matrix of Peace” Systems Modeling. Our goal for you when you leave this session is to ask new questions related to peace building, imagine new answers, and discover the key to designing multi-sector solutions to issues such as human trafficking using the Matrix of Peace.
The Matrix of Peace Systems Model embraces the voice that says “Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.” — Khalil Gibran
Reading materials:
- Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business by John Mackey and Rajendra Sisodia.
- Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems by Michael Strong and John Mackey
- Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose (2nd Edition) by Rajendra Sisodia, Jagdish N. Sheth, and David Wolfe
8. Be the Change
Dialogue Room: Nokomis C (3rd Floor)
This session led by highlights peace building practices grounded in Four Simple Rules of Engaged Leadership developed by Youthrive’s young leaders and their adult partners. Through this process, youth explore their leadership styles and utilize the Being the Change curriculum to learn about journeys of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. Laureates’ stories provide inspiration for addressing youth-identified community needs through service learning projects.
Presenters: Malika Musa, AmeriCorps Promise Fellow, Youthrive; Maddy Wegner, Director of Training and Innovation, Youthrive; Ruby McCormick: 2016-2017 Co-Chair Youthrive’s Youth Cabinet (HS Student); Elena Medeiros: 2016-2017 Co-Chair Youthrive’s Youth Cabinet (HS Student).
1:00 pm Lunch
Nobel Peace Prize Forum resumes at 2:00 pm.
2:00 pm: Beyond Inevitability — Law, Justice & Enforcement
Plenary Hall: Lakes Ballroom
Bhuwan Ribhu, National Secretary of Bachpan Bachao Andolan, and other leaders will engage in discussion on using law as a tool for social change and issues related to defining child labor, justice and enforcement. Moderated by Chris Worthington Managing Director of APM Reports, American Public Media’s investigative reporting and radio documentaries project.
Session runs from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
3:00 pm: Tackling Inequality, One Transaction at a Time
Plenary Hall: Lakes Ballroom
This panel will examine an innovative approach to lifting a billion children and their communities out of poverty in the United States and around the world through a tiny tax on financial transactions. Sometimes called The Wall Street Speculation Tax or The Robin Hood Tax, it could raise hundreds of billions of dollars every year to create jobs expand healthcare and social programs, build infrastructure, help end poverty at home, fund sustainable programs abroad and mitigate climate change.
Panelists: Len Morris—Filmmaker, The Same Heart, Executive Director of Media Voices for Children; Reid Maki—Director of Advocacy, The Child Labor Coalition; Mariana Chilton, Director of Hunger Free Communities.
3:30 pm: Coffee Break
30-minute coffee break before 4:00 pm plenary session.
4:00 pm: Rocky Peter and Special Closing Event
Plenary Hall: Lakes Ballroom
Rocky Peter Ajoku is an American singer-sonwriter from Nigeria. As a contestant on American Idol, Rocky revealed that as a young child, his father abandoned him and his brothers. He said they lived hungry without running water, shoes and clothes, but added that, nevertheless, “I did have hope.” Rocky came to the U.S. as a teenager. While a student at University of California Riverside, he spent many nights studying (and singing) at a local donut shop, Freshh Donuts. He befriended the baker, Mr. Lee, who was “so moved by Peter’s kindness and voice” that he went out and bought Peter’s very first guitar.
His original song “Write and Erase” speaks of how every person’s involvement in shaping his or her own experience means “we have the power to make the rules”. The song looks to a future in which no person has to accept corruption and degradation.
4:30 pm: Closing Remarks
Plenary Hall: Lakes Ballroom
5:00 pm: Delegates Cocktail Hour
Firelake Grill
Open cash bar cocktail hour for all delegates in the Radisson Blu Firelake Grill House and Cocktail Bar from 5:00 pm to 6:45 pm.
7:30 pm: Screening of the Film The Same Heart
Theatres at Mall of America
THE SAME HEART follows a growing number of global economists, joining their voices with moral leaders of the world. They agree that an extremely small financial transaction tax, “The Robin Hood Tax,” could for the first time, place the needs of children at the heart of the global financial system. Suggesting a sustainable approach, THE SAME HEART also follows a dynamic Kenyan community organizer who devotes his life to making programs work from the bottom up.
View the Trailer: http://thesameheart.com/about-the-film/
Full screening of the film will be followed by a moderated discussion with the film’s producers and with experts working in the field.
Session runs from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm.
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