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Embra Cing Diversity – Onepeople.Sg EMBRACING DIVERSITY EMBRACING OnePeople.sg (OPSG) was launched by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on 27 May 2007 to champion racial harmony initiatives in Singapore. OPSG works hand in hand with the Community Development Councils, Self-Help Groups and People’s Association to bring Singaporeans together as one people regardless of race or religion. The HarmonyWorks! Conference and the Community Leaders’ Conference – ONEPEOPLE.SG aim to provide a platform for youths and community leaders to discuss issues Embracing related to race and religion in Singapore. These are part of OnePeople.sg’s continuing efforts to champion the cause of racial harmony. Diversity Proceedings of OnePeople.sg events HarmonyWorks! 2012 ‘Regardless of Facebook, Twitter or YouTube’ Community Leaders’ Conference 2013 ‘Securing Peace: Lessons from History’ HarmonyWorks! 2013 ‘Generation Next: The Future of Harmony’ EMBRACING CONTENTS DIVERSITY Chairman’s Foreword / p.4 HarmonyWorks! Conference 2012 / p.6 Looking at social media / p.8 The evolution of social media and its Proceedings of larger impact on community integration / p.12 Students engage on current challenges / p.17 HarmonyWorks! Conference 2012 Bringing about positive change / p.22 ‘Regardless of Facebook, Twitter or YouTube’ Real connections needed in a virtual world / p.24 HarmonyWorks! Conference 2013 Harmony Works! 2013 Conference / p.40 ‘Generation Next: The Future of Harmony’ Dealing with diversity / p.42 Community Leaders’ Conference 2013 Racial and Religious Harmony – ‘Securing Peace: Lessons from History’ How many more indicators to scale? / p.45 A journey of learning / p.52 Students share their views / p.54 Crossing the racial-religious divide / p.60 Community Leaders’ Conference 2013 / p.74 The challenges of integration / p.76 Forging a Singapore identity / p.80 The fight to preserve one’s humanity / p.90 Marching forward as a nation / p.96 EMBRACING CONTENTS DIVERSITY Chairman’s Foreword / p.4 HarmonyWorks! Conference 2012 / p.6 Looking at social media / p.8 The evolution of social media and its Proceedings of larger impact on community integration / p.12 Students engage on current challenges / p.17 HarmonyWorks! Conference 2012 Bringing about positive change / p.22 ‘Regardless of Facebook, Twitter or YouTube’ Real connections needed in a virtual world / p.24 HarmonyWorks! Conference 2013 Harmony Works! 2013 Conference / p.40 ‘Generation Next: The Future of Harmony’ Dealing with diversity / p.42 Community Leaders’ Conference 2013 Racial and Religious Harmony – ‘Securing Peace: Lessons from History’ How many more indicators to scale? / p.45 A journey of learning / p.52 Students share their views / p.54 Crossing the racial-religious divide / p.60 Community Leaders’ Conference 2013 / p.74 The challenges of integration / p.76 Forging a Singapore identity / p.80 The fight to preserve one’s humanity / p.90 Marching forward as a nation / p.96 Foreword am pleased to present you One- race relations. An open and honest People.sg’s third publication of The Harmony Works! Conferenc- conversation can be its Conference proceedings ti- es engaged over 1,500 students and tled, Embracing Diversity. serves as a voice for youths to speak powerful in bridging ISingapore’s social landscape has up on race relations. I am encouraged gaps. seen vast changes in the wake of glo- by the robust discussions especially balization. Never before have we ex- how sensitive issues were addressed each other on one hand and building perienced diverse communities from with open minds. Hate speech, ra- hope when all seems lost on the various parts of the world sharing the cial stereotyping and ethnic prejudice other. The Bosnian experience common space. At these crossroads, were some topics that were openly served an important lesson – it is important to understand that with discussed in our Conferences and even in the toughest times; an increasingly diverse society, there this publication sheds light on these one should never give up on will be differing community views issues. You will also find passionate humanity. and interests. This is not necessarily responses, burning questions and I would like to extend bad. Differences in cultures, opinions and ideas from our youths flowing my special thanks to all guest and interests serve to enrich a nation through this book painting a vision speakers, supporters, partic- as long as these do not polarize socie- for the future. ipants and well-wishers for ty. From time to time, it is natural for This publication also consoli- making the Conferences a every mature society to have its own dates proceedings of OnePeople.sg’s worthwhile experience and set of issues concerning communal third biennial Community Leaders’ whose valuable exchanges space. An open and honest conversa- Conference. The Conference titled have contributed towards this tion can be powerful in bridging gaps. “Securing Peace: Lessons From His- publication. I sincerely hope At OnePeople.sg, we believe dia- tory” relived learning lessons from that the publication of our logue has to be a way of life for a di- one of the world’s most devastating Conference proceedings verse society to build mutual respect ethno-religious conflicts – the Yugo- will allow readers fresh ide- and understanding. Our Conferences slav Wars. We were privileged to have as, perspectives, and take- probe issues of communal harmony Mr Jacob Finci, founding member of aways. I count on you to which may be seldom talked about. Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Inter-Religious spread our cause. Through deeper exchanges, we hope Council and Bosnia’s former Am- Enjoy your read. to question assumptions and open up bassador to Switzerland to share his blind spots. As you read the chapters personal experiences. Mr Jacob gave in this publication, you will find re- a sobering first-hand account of how Zainudin Nordin flections from people of all walks on religion can be used for both good Chairman wide ranging challenges confronting and bad; turning neighbours against OnePeople.sg 4 CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD 5 An open and honest conversation can be powerful in bridging gaps. each other on one hand and building hope when all seems lost on the other. The Bosnian experience served an important lesson – even in the toughest times; one should never give up on humanity. I would like to extend my special thanks to all guest speakers, supporters, partic- ipants and well-wishers for making the Conferences a worthwhile experience and whose valuable exchanges have contributed towards this publication. I sincerely hope that the publication of our Conference proceedings will allow readers fresh ide- as, perspectives, and take- aways. I count on you to spread our cause. Enjoy your read. Zainudin Nordin Chairman OnePeople.sg CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD 5 HarmonyWorks! Conference 2012 EVENT PROGRAMME 9.55 am “Yamko Rembe Yamko” - welcome performance by students of Crescent Girls’ School 10.00 am Opening address by Mr Zainudin Nordin, Chairman, OnePeople.sg 10.10 am Plenary session: The evolution of social media and its larger impact on community integration. Speaker: Mr Kelly Choo, co-founder of Brandtology 10.50 am Breakout sessions 2.35 pm “In Harmony” – Performance by students of Jurong Junior College 2.45 pm Students engage on current challenges – presentation by three Conference Participant Groups 3.00 pm Presentation on Community Engagement Champions Programme by students of Innova Junior College 3.05 pm Dialogue session. Panel chair: Mr Zainudin Nordin (Chairman, OnePeople.sg). Panel Members: Dr Yaacob Ibrahim (Minister for Communications and Information and Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs), Mr. Eugene KB Tan (Associate Professor, School of Law, Singapore Management University) and Mr. Kelly Choo (co-founder of Brandtology) 4.15 pm “What’s Your Story” – prize presentation 4.25 pm “Orange Ribbon Song” – a video montage 6 HarmonyWorks! Conference 2012 ‘Regardless of Facebook, Twitter or Youtube’ Saturday, 28 July 2012 Temasek Convention Centre 7 CHAIRMAN’S SPEECH Looking at social media Think before you post, says Mr Zainudin Nordin, Chairman of OnePeople.sg he HarmonyWorks! Conference is held yearly to engage youths on critical issues concerning race relations in our country. This confer- ence is about you. We want to hear your views. You are our next gen- eration who will carry Singapore into the future and your opinions are Timportant. Today’s conference marks the finale of the Orange Ribbon Celebrations. Every year, OnePeople.sg and its partners organise island-wide racial harmony activities in the month of July called the Orange Ribbon Celebrations. We en- courage people to wear the Orange Ribbon to make a stand against racism and show respect and understanding towards our friends from different races and religions. I am proud to say that the Orange Ribbon Celebrations is now an im- portant event in our national calendar, and I hope to see as many of our youths being a part of this movement. The theme of today’s conference, “Regardless of Facebook, Twitter or YouTube”, is a very relevant topic, especially to our young ones. Nowa- days, we cannot spend a day without looking at our Facebook, tweeting or fiddling with our smartphones. We have gotten better at multi-tasking. We have learnt how to eat, SMS, surf the net and talk to someone on the phone, all at the same time. People are switching from SMS to WhatsApp in sending messages. Facebook has become our public diary, where our In the opening speech by Mr Zainudin Nordin, he says that this is the era of friends online get to know where we the social media, a medium which are, what we are doing at any time has greatly changed the way we of the day, simply by us ‘checking in’. communicate. And somehow, we have also gone 8 HARMONYWORKS! CONFERENCE 2012 ESCAPEDTOWISCONSIN Studies have shown that Facebook has 2.7 billion ‘likes’ a day and there are about 900 million active users.
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