was the first woman in Canadian history Education of the appointed Prime Minister, Heart serving as the 19th Prime Minister of Canada from Fazle Hasan Abed is a Ban- June 25 to November 4, 1993. gladeshi social worker, and Before becoming Prime Min- the founder and chairman of ister, Campbell was the Min- BRAC (formerly, Bangladesh ister of Justice and Attorney Rural Advancement Com- General of Canada. During The Vancouver-based Dalai Lama Center for mittee). Born in 1936 in Ban- that time she amended the Peace and Education is an embodiment of gladesh, Abed was educated Criminal Code of Canada to make improvements in in Dhaka and Glasgow Uni- the areas of firearms control and sexual assault laws. His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama’s life-long versities. For his outstand- Upon her retirement from politics Kim Campbell commitment to compassion and inner well- ing contributions to social taught at Harvard University. For four years she served being. Founded in 2005 by the Dalai Lama improvement, he has received as Consul General of Canada in Los Angeles. She has and Victor Chan, the Center is envisioned as the Ramon Magsaysay Award, the UNDP Mahbub Ul played an active role in many international organiza- a world-class institution, firmly grounded in Haq Award. Abed is a member of the Commission on tions, including the International Women’s Forum Vancouver yet present and influential on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor, the first global initia- and the Club of Madrid. Campbell lectures frequently global stage. tive to focus specifically on the link between exclusion, about women and leadership, and is also an author, poverty and law. consultant and corporate director. The Center has no religious or political affiliations. It promotes peace through , a former Stephen Covey is recognized education, personal transformation, and Roman Catholic nun, is con- as one of Time magazine’s 25 dialogue. The Dalai Lama believes that vital, sidered a powerful voice for most influential Americans, sustainable communities depend upon many ecumenical understanding. Stephen R. Covey has is an small, individual acts of compassion and One of the most provocative, internationally respected helpfulness. By thinking less about ourselves original thinkers on the role leadership authority, family and more about the well-being of others, of religion in the modern expert, teacher, organization- we enhance our growth and happiness. By world, she has written more al consultant, and author. He helping others, we contribute to the greater than 20 books exploring the is the motivational author of good. Along the way, our lives and the lives of commonalities shared by The 7 Habits of Highly Effec- others are transformed. the religious faiths of Islam, Judaism and Christian- tive People and cofounder ity. As a speaker and writer, she asserts that all major of the New York Stock Exchange listed company religions embrace the core principle of compassion and FranklinCovey, which provides businesses with leader- “Educating the heart” is the Center’s tag the Golden Rule. She has also identified that many of ship training and productivity tools. His books focus line. The Center will provide a learning today’s religions bear similar strains of fundamental- on leadership, management, productivity in the work- environment that cultivates mindfulness: the ism which she argues is borne of frustration with con- place, and the values of family and a happy home life. integration of mind, body, and spirit. It will temporary life and current events. In 2008, she was encourage heightened awareness within of awarded the TED Prize in recognition and support of our inner potential through diverse practices her call for a council of Christian, Muslim and Jewish Susan Davis is a thought of art. And it will provide a venue for creative leaders to draw up a “Charter of Compassion,” which leader in international devel- interpretation of the world’s many wisdom would apply shared moral priorities to foster greater opment and civil society traditions. global understanding. innovation. She is founder and President & CEO of BRAC USA, a newly cre- By bringing peace into our own lives, the Ela Bhatt is the founder of ated organization to support Center will help to bring peace into the the Self-Employed Women’s BRAC’s global expansion to world. Association (SEWA) in India Africa and other countries in – a trade union benefiting the Asia. She is also a founding The Dalai Lama Center for Peace and poor, which now has more board member and former Education educates the heart and fosters than 1,000,000 members. Chair of the Grameen Foundation. Davis serves on compassion through: creative learning, Bhatt was a Member of the Ashoka’s international board committee that selects facilitating and applying research, and Indian Parliament from 1986 Ashoka Fellows and led Ashoka’s Global Academy for connecting people and ideas. to 1989, and subsequently a Social Entrepreneurship. She co-founded the Univer- Member of the Indian Plan- sity Network for Social Entrepreneurship and oversaw ning Commission. She has Ashoka’s expansion to the Middle East, North Africa The Center encourages values such received honorary doctorates from Harvard, Yale, the and Central Asia. She is a senior advisor to New York as compassion, forgiveness, tolerance, University of Natal, and other academic institutions. University’s Reynolds Program on Social Entrepre- contentment and self-discipline through She is a member of The Elders, a collection of world neurship. She serves on numerous other boards includ- engagement with the community. These are the leaders working to address difficult global challenges. ing Project Enterprise, Sirleaf Market Women’s Fund, values that contribute to peace and harmony Ela R. Bhatt is widely recognised as one of the world’s and African Women’s Development Fund USA. She locally, nationally and globally. We believe most remarkable pioneers and entrepreneurial forces is on ’s Advisory Council of Realizing that most people embrace and recognize the in grassroots development. Known as the “gentle revo- Rights and is a member of the Council on Foreign importance of these values, but often don’t lutionary” she has dedicated her life to improving the Relations. She was educated at Georgetown, Harvard know how to access the information and lives of India’s poorest and most oppressed women and Oxford universities. workers, with Gandhian thinking as her source of guidance they seek to bring them into their guidance. lives. We will help them do that.

. . SEPTEMBER 2009 participants 22 Abigail E. Disney is the Founder and the President of the Daphne Foundation, Mairead (Corrigan) Magu- & speakers ire is a Nobel Peace Laure- a progressive, social change foundation that makes grants ate (l976) Hon. President to grassroots, community- and Co-founder of the Peace based organizations working Clyde Hertzman complet- People, Northern Ireland. with low-income communi- ed training in Community Maguire was responsible ties in New York City. Since Medicine and epidemiology for co-founding the Peace 1991, the Daphne Founda- at McMaster University in People, together with Betty tion has made millions of Hamilton, Ontario and has Williams and Ciaran McK- dollars in grants in areas ranging from women’s rights been on faculty at the Uni- eown, in l976, after her Sister to AIDS advocacy, children’s health, labor conditions, versity of British Columbia Anne’s three children were religion, and environmentalism. Over the years Abi- in the Department of Health knocked down and killed by an I.R.A. (Irish republi- gail has played a critical role in a number of different Care and Epidemiology since can Army) get-away car when a British soldier killed its social and political organizations. She recently retired 1985. Nationally, he is a Fel- driver. Consequently, a number of marches were orga- as Chair of The New York Women’s Foundation, of low of the Canadian Institute nized in Northern Ireland demanding an end to the which she was a board member for over 14 years. Abi- for Advanced Research and holds a Canada Research violence in Northern Ireland. She has continued her gail received her Bachelors degree from Yale Univer- Chair in Population Health and Human Development. work with inter-Church and inter-faith Organizations, sity, her Masters degree from Stanford University, and Internationally, he has played a central role in develop- and is a member of the International Peace Council. her Doctorate from Columbia University. ing a conceptual framework for the “determinants of She is also a Patron of the Methodist Theological Col- health”, that places early childhood development at the lege and N.I. Council for Integrated Education, and a centre. He is currently directing ‘HELP’, the Human member of the Nobel Women’s Initiative. Maguire has Murray Gell-Mann is an Early Learning Partnership of British Columbia. received many honours and wards, including an honor- American physicist who HELP is an interdisciplinary network of researchers ary doctorate from Yale University, the ‘Pacem in Ter- received the 1969 Nobel Prize from BC’s universities who study early child develop- ris’ Peace and Freedom Award, the Nuclear Age Peace in physics for his work on the ment ‘from cell to society’. The World Health Organi- Foundation’s ‘Distinguished Peace Leadership Award’ theory of elementary particles. zation has designated HELP as the global Knowledge and the Nobel Peace Laureate Award. He is currently Distinguished Hub for Early Child Development under the auspices Fellow at the Santa Fe Insti- of its International Commission on the Social Deter- tute as well as the Robert minants of Health. Through the Commission, HELP Laurene Powell Jobs is Andrews Millikan Profes- is promotig the global importance of early social and Founder and President of sor Emeritus at the Califor- emotional development the Board of College Track, nia Institute of Technology, an after-school program that where he joined the faculty in 1955. He is the author of prepares at-risk high school The Quark and the Jaguar, published in 1994, in which Swanee Hunt’s mission is to students for higher educa- his ideas on simplicity and complexity are presented to achieve gender parity, espe- tion. Through its three cen- a general readership. In 1988 Professor Gell-Mann was cially as a means to end war ters in the San Francisco Bay listed on the United Nations Environmental Program’s and rebuild societies, as well Area, College Track provides Roll of Honor for Environmental Achievement (The as to alleviate poverty and a comprehensive program Global 500). He also shared the 1989 Ettore Majorana other human suffering. Dr. of academic support, leader- “Science for Peace” prize. He was on the U.S. President’s Hunt, Eleanor Roosevelt ship training, community service and extra-curricular Science Advisory Committee from 1969 to 1972 and Lecturer in Public Policy, involvement. In addition to her work in education the President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and was the Founding Director reform, Powell Jobs has a strong focus on non-profit Technology from 1994 to 2001. of the Women and Public entrepreneurship, with an emphasis on women’s Policy Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Gov- human and economic rights. Her board affiliations ernment, where she also teaches “Inclusive Security”, include Global Fund for Women, New Schools Ven- Matt Goldman cre- exploring why women are systematically excluded ture Fund and Stanford Schools Corporation. She also ated Blue Man Group from peace processes and the policy steps needed to serves on the Advisory Board of Stanford Graduate with longtime friends rectify the problem. She is currently core faculty at the School of Business. Laurene holds a B.A. and a B.S.E. Chris Wink and Phil Center for Public Leadership. An expert on domestic from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Stanton and opened policy and foreign affairs, Hunt is president of Hunt Stanford University. Off-Broadway at the Alternatives Fund, through which she has committed Astor Place The- more than $120 million in endowments and grants to atre in 1991, where provoking social change at local, national, and global it continues to play levels. The Fund operates out of Cambridge, Massa- Worry pretends to be necessary but serves chusetts and is focused on strengthening youth arts today. Blue Man Group now has productions running no useful purpose. - Eckhart Tolle in Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, Orlando, Berlin, Basel organizations, supporting leaders of social movements, and Tokyo, and has grown beyond a theatrical show bolstering women’s leadership in conflict regions, com- into a multi-dimensional creative organization - devel- bating sexual trafficking, and increasing philanthropy. We want to disarm human hearts and oping and producing rock tours, TV shows, albums, Ambassador Hunt also chairs the Washington-based human beings, one by one, country by DVDs, film scores, musical instruments, museum Institute for Inclusive Security (including the Women country. - exhibits and more. Throughout their long association, Waging Peace Network), which advocates for the full Matt, Chris and Phil have been fascinated by the inter- participation of all stakeholders, particularly women, connections between learning, creativity and commu- in peace processes. She has conducted research, train- nity. Inspired by these passions, Blue Man Group has ing, and consultations for women leaders in some 60 recently expanded its Mission, putting education at the countries. forefront and launching the Blue Man Creativity Cen- ter and Early Childhood Program in Manhattan. SEPTEMBER 2009 . . 23 Mary Therese Winifred Robinson served as the seventh, and first female, Dialogue of Minds President of Ireland, serv- ing from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002. Robinson has been Hon- orary President of Oxfam Matthieu Ricard is a Bud- International since 2002; We have learned that change cannot come dhist monk, an author, trans- she is Chair of the International Institute for Environ- lator, and photographer. He ment and Development (IIED) and is also a founding through war. War is not a feasible tool to earned a Ph.D. degree in cell member and Chair of the Council of Women World use in fighting against the oppression we genetics at the renowned Leaders. She serves on many boards including the face. War has caused more problems. We Institut Pasteur under the GAVI Fund. Robinson’s newest project is Realizing cannot embrace that path. Nobel Laureate Francois Rights: the Ethical Globalization Initiative, which – Rigoberta Menchu Tum Jacob. He is a board member fosters equitable trade and decent work, promotes the of the Mind and Life Insti- right to health and more humane migration policies, tute, an organization dedicated to collaborative research works to strengthen women’s leadership and encour- between scientists and Buddhist scholars and medita- age corporate responsibility. Since 2004, she has also Peace is not just the absence of war. It’s tors. His latest book, L’Art of Meditation has sold over been Professor of Practice in International Affairs at a world with justice and equality. It’s 120,000 copies during its first three months of publica- Columbia University, where she teaches international a world where the basic needs of the tion, and has been featured in all the major magazines human rights. Robinson also visits other colleges and and television shows in France. He is engaged in the universities where she lectures on human rights. In majority of the people on our planet are research on the effect of mind training and meditation 2004, she received Amnesty International’s Ambassa- met. If we stop spending money on war on the brain at various universities in the USA (Madi- dor of Conscience Award for her work in promoting and the weapons of war, we’d have more son, Princeton, and Berkeley) and Europe (Zurich). human rights. than enough to invest in these basics of He received the French National Order of Merit for long-term peace. People should have his humanitarian work in the East. For the last few years, Ricard has dedicated his effort and the royalties Kimberly Schonert-Reichl basic housing, access to medical care, of his books to various charitable projects in Asia, that began her professional career education, and work. Everyone should include building and maintaining clinics, schools and first as a middle school teacher have clean drinking water and food to eat orphanages in the region. Since 1989, he has acted as and then as a secondary school every day. – the French interpreter for the Dalai Lama. teacher at an alternate school for “at risk” adolescents. For over 20 years Dr. Schonert- “The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded Sir Ken Robinson, Ph.D, is Reichl has been conducting for what one has done, but hopefully what an internationally recognized research in the area of the one will do.” leader in the development child and adolescent social- – Betty Williams of creativity, innovation emotional development with and human resources and a an emphasis on discerning the developmental process- New York Times best sell- es/mechanisms associated with positive development I am not interested in picking up crumbs ing author. He works with across childhood and adolescence, especially in rela- of compassion thrown from the table governments in Europe, Asia tion to school settings. Before arriving at University of of someone who considers himself my and the USA, with interna- BC, Dr. Schonert-Reichl served as a National Institute master. I want the full menu of rights. tional agencies, Fortune 500 of Mental Health (NIMH) Postdoctoral Fellow in the – companies, and some of the word’s leading cultural Clinical Research Training Program in Adolescence at organizations. He was the central figure in developing the and Northwestern Univer- a strategy for creative and economic development as sity Medical School, Dept. of Psychiatry. For the past part of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland. For 12 several years, Dr. Schonert-Reichl has worked in col- Be kind whenever possible. years he was Professor of Education at the University laboration with educators across British Columbia in It is always possible. – Dalai Lama of Warwick in the UK and is now Professor Emeritus. the area of social and emotional learning and, in 2004 He was been honored with the Athena Award of the she was awarded the Vancouver School Board Recog- Rhode Island School of Design for services to the arts nition Award in acknowledgment of her support for and education; the Peabody Medal for contributions district initiatives regarding social responsibility and By making your clients women, you serve to the arts and culture in the United States, and the social and emotional learning. the entire family [and community] better. Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts – Fazle Hasan Abed for outstanding contributions to cultural relations between the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2005 he was named as one of Time/Fortune/CNN’s ‘Principal Voices’. In 2003, he received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts There cannot be any excuse for not and education. He speaks to audiences throughout the removing poverty. The priorities have to world on the creative challenges facing business and change. – Ela Bhatt speakers education in the new global economies.

24 . . SEPTEMBER 2009 Betty Williams, along with Mairead Maguire, was & participants awarded the Nobel Prize for her work as a cofounder of Community of Peace People, Dan Siegel, M.D., is an award- an organization dedicated to winning educator and the Exec- The strength of women will only be promoting a peaceful reso- utive Director of the Mindsight lution to The Troubles in Institute. The institute is an realized when we have engaged the faith Northern Ireland. She heads educational organization that and confidence of men in our leadership the Global Children’s Foun- focuses on how the develop- abilities. – Swanee Hunt dation and is President of the World Centers of Com- ment of insight, compassion passion for Children International. She is also the Chair and empathy in individuals, of Institute for Asian Democracy in Washington D.C. families and communities can and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Nova South- be enhanced by examining the eastern University. In 2006, Williams was one of the interface of human relation- founders of the Nobel Women’s Initiative along with ships and basic biological processes. Dr. Siegel served as Eckhart Tolle is a Spiritual sister Nobel Peace Laureates Mairead Corrigan Magu- a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow Teacher and author born in ire, , Wangari Maathai, Jody Williams at UCLA, studying family interactions with an empha- Germany and educated at the and Rigoberta Menchu Tum. In the 30 years since the sis on how attachment experiences influence emotions, Universities of London and award, Williams has devoted her life to creating a new behavior, autobiographical memory and narrative. He Cambridge. At the age of 29 way forward, a movement to begin a reversal of think- is the author of the internationally acclaimed text, The a profound inner transforma- ing on how the world deals with the injustices, cruelty Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Inter- tion radically changed the and horror perpetrated on the world’s children. Wil- personal Experience (1999). He serves as the Founding course of his life. He began liams has travelled the globe recording the testimonies Editor for the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobi- to work in London with of children who have been subjected to horrors. In her ology. His book with Mary Hartzell, M.Ed., Parenting individuals and small groups travels, it became evident to Williams that to create the from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understand- as a counselor and spiritual changes necessary and persuade governments to listen ing Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive (2003) teacher. Since 1995 he has lived in Vancouver, Canada. to the voices of their children, legislative changes must explores the application of this newly emerging view Eckhart Tolle is the author of the #1 New York Times be implemented (legislation to protect children). of the mind, the brain, and human relationships. Sie- bestseller The Power of Now (translated into 33 lan- gel’s latest book is The Mindful Brain: Reflection and guages) and the highly acclaimed follow-up A New Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (2007). Earth, which are widely regarded as two of the most In 1984 Archbishop influential spiritual books of our time. Eckhart’s pro- Desmond Tutu was awarded found yet simple teachings have already helped count- the Nobel Peace Prize for Maria Owings Shriver is less people throughout the world find inner peace and his nonviolent work to end an award-winning Ameri- greater fulfillment in their lives. apartheid and bring equality can journalist, author and for the people in South First Lady of California. Africa. In 1986 he became She is married to Governor Jody Williams served as the the first black person to be Arnold Schwarzenegger, and founding coordinator of the Archbishop in the Anglican is a member of the Kennedy International Campaign to Church of South Africa. family. Shriver has used her Ban Landmines (ICBL) until Archbishop Tutu continues voice to advocate on behalf February 1998. In 1997, to be a world leader in the struggle for human rights. of women, the working poor, Williams and the ICBL were He believes that all people are God’s children, sisters the intellectually disabled awarded the Noble Peace and brothers, members of the same family. and families struggling with Alzheimer’s. She has cre- Prize. Along with sister Lau- ated groundbreaking programs and initiatives that reate Dr. Shirin Ebadi of , educate, enlist, empower, connect, and honor people Jody Williams took the lead Professor Sakena Yacoobi who are what she calls “Architects of Change.” Shriver in establishing the “Nobel is President and Executive has organized these initiatives under a banner called Women’s Initiative,” together with sister Laureates Director of the Afghan Insti- WE. Under Shriver’s leadership, The California Gov- Wangari Maathai (Kenya), Rigoberta Menchu Tum tute of Learning (AIL), an ernor and First Lady’s Conference on Women has (Guatemala) and Betty Williams and Mairead Cor- Afghan women-led NGO grown into the nation’s premier forum for women, rigan Maguire (Northern Ireland). Launched in Janu- she founded in 1995. The with more than 14,000 attendees every year since ary 2006, its mission is to use the prestige and access organization was established 2004. The conference encourages women to become afforded by the Nobel Prize to spotlight and promote to provide teacher training to Architects of Change in their own lives, in their com- efforts of women’s rights activists, researchers and orga- Afghan women, to support munities, and in the country. Hundreds of world nizations working to advance peace, justice and equal- education for boys and girls, opinion leaders and newsmakers have spoken at the ity for women. Williams, a widely published writer and and to provide health education to women and chil- conference, including Oprah Winfrey, Justice Sandra author, serves as its chair. In February-March 2007, dren. Under Sakena’s leadership AIL has established Day O’Connor, Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice Professor Williams lead a High Level Mission on Dar- itself as a groundbreaking, visionary organization and Madeleine Albright, Barbara Walters, Governor fur for the UN’s Human Rights Council. She present- which works at the grassroots and empowers women Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Prime Minister Tony ed the Mission’s hard-hitting report to the Council in and communities to find ways to bring education and Blair, Bono, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. March and is now actively involved in work related to health services to rural and poor urban girls, women stopping the war in Darfur. Professor Williams contin- and other poor and disenfranchised Afghans. ues to be recognized for her contributions to human rights and global security. She is the recipient of 15 honorary degrees, among other recognitions. In 2004, she was named by Forbes Magazine as one of the 100 most powerful women in the world.

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