global social consciousness

The Media, the Narrative, the People & their Leaders

Dear friends,

On behalf of the Baha’i International Community, please consider yourselves invited to a panel discussion on the role of the media in summoning the consensus and political will needed to turn the aspirations and policies of our societies into actions and results.

Four journalists – from Ghana, Malaysia and the United States – will discus this theme at our event titled “The Media, the Narrative, the People & their Leaders.”

The event will be live on Zoom on Tuesday, 10 August, at 11am EDT / 3pm GMT at this link: https://bic-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIucemvpzosG9bPRSGBnhPQmS74fK9WuVm9

Panelists:

Amanda Ripley, investigative reporter for The Atlantic, author of High Conflict
Janet Abena Quainoo, development journalist, founder of Save a Street Child Foundation
Nwandi Lawson, former political reporter, Chief Cultivation Officer for The Virtues Collective
Temily Tianmay, former television journalist, postdoctoral anthropology researcher

We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday.

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CoNGO Notes: For more information on the NGO Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, please visit facebook.com/NGOCoRIP. For more information on the NGO Committee on Education, Learning, and Literacy, please visit facebook.com/NGOCELLatUN. For more information on the NGO Committee on Social Development, please visit ngosocdev.org. For more information on the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations, please visit rngos.wordpress.com.

The Media, the Narrative, the People & their Leaders

Dear friends,

On behalf of the Baha’i International Community, please consider yourselves invited to a panel discussion on the role of the media in summoning the consensus and political will needed to turn the aspirations and policies of our societies into actions and results.

Four journalists – from Ghana, Malaysia and the United States – will discus this theme at our event titled “The Media, the Narrative, the People & their Leaders.”

The event will be live on Zoom on Tuesday, 10 August, at 11am EDT / 3pm GMT at this link: https://bic-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIucemvpzosG9bPRSGBnhPQmS74fK9WuVm9

Panelists:

Amanda Ripley, investigative reporter for The Atlantic, author of High Conflict
Janet Abena Quainoo, development journalist, founder of Save a Street Child Foundation
Nwandi Lawson, former political reporter, Chief Cultivation Officer for The Virtues Collective
Temily Tianmay, former television journalist, postdoctoral anthropology researcher

We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

CoNGO Notes: For more information on the NGO Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, please visit facebook.com/NGOCoRIP. For more information on the NGO Committee on Education, Learning, and Literacy, please visit facebook.com/NGOCELLatUN. For more information on the NGO Committee on Social Development, please visit ngosocdev.org. For more information on the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations, please visit rngos.wordpress.com.

e-Conference on Global Leadership in the 21st Century

UN Office at Geneva and World Academy of Art and Science lead e-Conference on Global Leadership in the 21st Century; partners include CoNGO

14 December 2020, New York City (CoNGO InfoNews) – An e-conference on Global Leadership in the 21^st Century will be held on 15 and 16 December, under the joint leadership of the United Nations Office at Geneva and the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS). The Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO) is one among 24 partner organizations from the UN System, academia, civil society, foundations and the private sector.

In an advance message, CoNGO President Liberato C. Bautista said: “Global leadership today must have a focus and a locus at once local and global. It will “require transborder and transnational organizing, and mobilizing for glocal consciousness and action.”

At this two-day conference, the results of a year-long project to develop catalytic strategies to address the challenges of global leadership facing the world will be presented in an online event, with sessions on peace and human security, economy and employment, health and food security, environment, finance, education, civil society, the media, youth networks, social movements, and integration of research and implementation.

Speakers include UN Office at Geneva Director General Tatiana Valovaya, Columbia University Center for Sustainable Development Director Jeffrey Sachs, actress and activist Jane Fonda and numerous political, WAAS President and CEO Garry Jacobs, and civil society and thought leaders from around the world. The President of CoNGO, Liberato C. Bautista, will address the conference at 11:00AM (Geneva) | 05:00AM (New York) at the panel “Mobilizing Civil Society: Building Global Social Consciousness”.

For further information and registration, please see http://bit.ly/3oGUtOO, the agenda and schedule at https://bit.ly/3gNcuYF and speaker bios here. Videos will be available online after the event, at the World Academy of Art and Science.

e-Conference on Global Leadership in the 21st Century

UN Office at Geneva and World Academy of Art and Science lead e-Conference on Global Leadership in the 21st Century; partners include CoNGO

14 December 2020, New York City (CoNGO InfoNews) – An e-conference on Global Leadership in the 21^st Century will be held on 15 and 16 December, under the joint leadership of the United Nations Office at Geneva and the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS). The Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO) is one among 24 partner organizations from the UN System, academia, civil society, foundations and the private sector.

In an advance message, CoNGO President Liberato C. Bautista said: “Global leadership today must have a focus and a locus at once local and global. It will “require transborder and transnational organizing, and mobilizing for glocal consciousness and action.”

At this two-day conference, the results of a year-long project to develop catalytic strategies to address the challenges of global leadership facing the world will be presented in an online event, with sessions on peace and human security, economy and employment, health and food security, environment, finance, education, civil society, the media, youth networks, social movements, and integration of research and implementation.

Speakers include UN Office at Geneva Director General Tatiana Valovaya, Columbia University Center for Sustainable Development Director Jeffrey Sachs, actress and activist Jane Fonda and numerous political, WAAS President and CEO Garry Jacobs, and civil society and thought leaders from around the world. The President of CoNGO, Liberato C. Bautista, will address the conference at 11:00AM (Geneva) | 05:00AM (New York) at the panel “Mobilizing Civil Society: Building Global Social Consciousness”.

For further information and registration, please see http://bit.ly/3oGUtOO, the agenda and schedule at https://bit.ly/3gNcuYF and speaker bios here. Videos will be available online after the event, at the World Academy of Art and Science.

global social consciousness

The Media, the Narrative, the People & their Leaders

The Media, the Narrative, the People & their Leaders

e-Conference on Global Leadership in the 21st Century

e-Conference on Global Leadership in the 21st Century

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