Ethics for Life Voices from Ecumenical Partners on a New Paradigm of Life and Society Jubilee Volume: 60 years of Bread for the World Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel/Dietrich Werner Imprint Publisher Brot für die Welt Evangelisches Werk für Diakonie und Entwicklung e. V. Caroline-Michaelis-Straße 1 10115 Berlin, Germany Phone +49 30 65211 0 [email protected] www.brot-fuer-die-welt.de Authors Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel, Dietrich Werner Responsible according to German press law Dietrich Werner Layout János Theil Print DBM Druckhaus Berlin-Mitte GmbH Art. Nr. 119 115 560 Donations Brot für die Welt IBAN DE10 1006 1006 0500 5005 00 Bank für Kirche und Diakonie BIC GENODED1KDB Berlin, May 2019 Ethics for Life Voices from Ecumenical Partners on a New Paradigm of Life and Society Jubilee Volume: 60 years of Bread for the World Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel/Dietrich Werner List of contents Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel/Dietrich Werner Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 7 Religion, Development and Ecumenical Diaconia ....................................................... 13 1 Rudelmar Bueno de Faria The significance of religion and development and the critical revision of the development concept ...................................................................................... 14 2 Azza Karam How faith-based organizations contribute to current paradigms of global cooperation and development ....................................................................... 27 3 Kjell Nordstokke The significance of the new discourse on Ecumenical Diaconia for the future of development cooperation .................................................................... 38 4 Cibele Kuss The role of churches for Transformative Diaconia .................................................. 49 5 Kenneth Mtata How faith actors have defended, defined and widened civic space in Zimbabwe .................................................................................................................. 59 6 Theresa Carino The role of faith-based NGOs in service and advocacy in a rapidly changing China ......................................................................................................... 76 Ethics of Integral Development ..................................................................................... 89 7 Alberto Acosta Buen Vivir. An existing utopia and a concept under construction .......................... 90 8 Sushant Agrawal and Joycia Thorat Ethics of integral development ................................................................................. 102 9 Colin Gonsalves The Indian Right to Food Case ‒ Public Interest Litigation ................................... 114 10 Kailash Satyarthi The march towards a child friendly world continues… ........................................... 124 11 Obiora Ike Interreligious ethics in higher education ‒ Challenges for a new paradigm of life and society ................................................... 134 12 Joyanta Adhikari The role of Asian interfaith relationships for a new paradigm of development .............................................................................................................. 147 4 Ethics for Life List of contents Ethics of Ecological and Climate Justice....................................................................... 161 13 Elena Cedillo Central American perspectives on ecological and climate justice ........................... 162 14 Ngonidzashe Edward/Kate and Geoff Davies/Francesca de Gasparis Ethical perspectives on interfaith approaches for ecological transformation in Southern Africa ........................................................................... 173 15 Gloriose Umuziranenge Community empowerment and environmental justice in Rwanda: case of Protestant churches ...................................................................................... 183 16 Simon Awad/Hannah Wright Osborn New paradigms for ecological education in Palestine .............................................. 195 17 William Magesse Tanzanian perspectives on ecological and climate justice ....................................... 210 18 Vandana Shiva Ecological Integrity, Rights of Seeds, Rights for Life ............................................... 222 19 Emele Duituturaga Rethinking Development ‒ Conceptual Pre-Suppositions for the Pacific We Want ........................................................................................................ 236 Ethics of Economy, Caring and Sharing ........................................................................ 247 20 Cândido Grzybowski Ethical Principles of Caring and Sharing on the Basis of the New Economy ........................................................................................................... 248 21 Athena Peralta/Isabel Apawo Phiri Ecumenical perspectives on the global financial architecture and economy for life......................................................................................................... 262 22 Agnes Abuom African perspectives on values of economy, caring and sharing ............................. 281 23 Janka Adameova Reforming Community Diaconia and Working Towards a Convivial Economy in the Context of Eastern and Central Europe ........................................ 296 Ethics of Human Rights, Migration and Peace ............................................................. 309 24 Gemma Tulud Cruz When sin meets grace: Toward an ethics of vulnerability in the context of human trafficking in Asia ..................................................................................... 310 25 Basil Fernando Ethical perspectives and priorities on human rights and civil society in Asia ....................................................................................................................... 323 5 26 Karen Nazaryan Ethics of conflict. Ethical perspectives on dialogue and trust building in contexts of conflict in Armenia .............................................................. 336 27 Nicola Piper Towards a Global Compact on Migration ‒ A new paradigm for human rights of migrants? ....................................................... 344 Appendix ......................................................................................................................... 357 28 Global Reference Group BfdW Ethics for Life. A Framework for a New Development Paradigm............................ 358 29 Bread for the World Bread for the World Partnership Concept ................................................................ 366 30 World People’s Conference on Climate Change Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth .............................................. 380 31 List of contributors ................................................................................................... 383 6 Ethics for Life Voices from Ecumenical Partners “Ethics for Life ‒ Voices from Ecumenical Partners on a New Paradigm of Life and Society” Editorial: Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel/Dietrich Werner Bread for the World, the national protestant development agency in Germany is celebrat- ing its 60th anniversary in 2019 as it was on 12th December 1959 that 12.000 Christians came together in Berlin Convention Hall for holding the first founding congress of this organi- zation for ecumenical Diaconia and development cooperation. Bread for the World emerged as a result of ecumenical Diaconia received by churches from America, France and Britain by German churches in a country still marked by the aftermath of a destruc- tive second World War and in a context having to integrate more than 13 Mio. refugees from Central and Eastern Europe. The gratitude having received this aid was transformed into a lasting effort to return aid and to get involved in ecumenical Diaconia for others on a global scale. Bread for the World also was a consequence of the German protestant church leaders strong involvement in the young global ecumenical movement and begin- ning ecumenical social thought. Faced with the challenges of the first development decade in the sixties this organiza- tion from its very beginning put the questions of justice and peace in a global and ecumen- ical context. Bread for the World throughout its six decades of history had understood itself as a learning movement continuing the journey of discerning what is the will of God in the midst of an unjust world, to ask for the significance of unfolding a new ecumenical social ethics in times of “Rapid Social Change” (as a study process of Church and society/WCC was called). Therefore also at this occasion of the 60th anniversary Bread for the World has been in dialogue with its international partners. Some have been asked to accompany the work of Bread for the World in its “Global Reference Group” which meets regularly each year (and again in a new composition in October 2019). Others have been suggested by regional desks and then have been invited to contribute to this volume with key contributions from international partners of BfdW. The idea for this volume emerged with a paper produced in 2018, in the last working period of the former Global Reference Group, the international advisory body of Bread for the World, under the title “Ethics for Life ‒ Towards a New Paradigm” (reprinted in Appendix 1). The Global Reference Group of Bread for the World in a report from 2018 had stated: 7 “The global civilisation is in crisis.