Kim Campbell 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 Karen Armstrong, 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 Mary Robinson’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.