Download the proposals from the participants of the conference:
Watch the conference live by watching the video conferencing webcasts.
http://www.klewel.com/conferences/global-youth/
Watch the It’s One Humanity ‘voices’ video by clicking here.
ItsOneHumanity (IOH) is a Non-Governmental Organization based in Geneva, Switzerland that engages in global civil advocacy. It is run by a team of young dedicated people from all corners of the globe.
The following is a list of the event’s speakers with their respective websites and biographies:
1. Earth Focus Foundation: Quentin Deville
Board Member of the Earth Focus Foundation. Scientific advisor in sustainable development, responsible for communication and creation.
http://www.earthfocusfoundation.org/
http://www.earthfocusfoundation.org/governance_and_management/
2. HRH Prince Frederick von Saxe-Lauenberg GCSL, FIIPS(Lon.)
Founder Children of the World 2000 – Life President World Creative Youth Forum
Prince Frederick aged 57, who is Founder President of Children of the World 2000 and founding father of the World Creative Youth Forum has been involved in peace activism since the early 80’s. His present work is amongst other things being a World Peace Emissary and is a Fellow of the International Institute of Peace Studies & Global Philosophy. He has a moral passion in serving the cause of peace and humanity. “I always have this saying in mind when I go out on my missions for peace: - ’ Wars are the stains of shame which centuries will not wash away and we cannot redress the wrongdoings of mankind, what we can do is educate those who will one day inherit the earth from us and teach them the values of peace, universal understanding and the joy of global friendship.’ “
Children of the World 2000 are initiating two Children’s Peace Gardens in Northern Ireland and Pieria, Northern Greece. Children of the World 2000 are currently offering advice to Haitian charities in their campaigns to raise funds for several initiatives and are involved in the Pakistan disaster appeal. The President also served as Patron of the Child Evangelical Fellowship (South Africa) and was nominated for an award in recognition of his work with children affected by AIDS/HIV. Other charities that Prince Frederick serves as patron or trustee include: SHE Africa Nigeria and Joy for Humanity Uganda which is part of the Kyazanga charity. Children of the World 2000 was created as an active non-governmental-organisation/social enterprise in the late 1980’s, following the successful global fund raising campaign by the Band Aid Trust for Famine Relief in 1985/6. The prince was one of a large team of fund raisers working for the International Red Cross – Red Crescent projects in the Sudan.
In respect for diversity lie the seeds of harmony.
T.E.A.M is the motto of Children of the World 2000
“Together Everyone Achieves More”
www.childrenoftheworld.us
3. Münd: Antony Hequet
Antony Hequet - poet composer performer - The Münd project is a self appointed mission to explore the traditions of oral poetry. My final purpose is to build upon the knowledge of these traditions in order to create current forms.
Münd is a work that explores a multiplicity of tensions - between harmony and chaos, between the individual and authority, between the natural and digital world, between shamanic ecstasy and urban alienation. Theater is, in its essence, an exploration of human conflict. Theater can be the form of a debate where ideas are stated and reinforced, but are also simultaneously called into question by other ideas and implications. In this type of performance, the audience becomes “partners in creation” of the work as they each struggle to resolve these conflicts in their own mind.
http://www.mund.fr/blog-mund-antony-hequet.html
4. Université de Genève: Professor Dr. Martin Beniston, Chair for Climate Research and Director of the new Institute for Environmental Sciences
http://www.unige.ch/climate/Team/Beniston.html
5. Visiting Professor at Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations and Webster University in Geneva: Dr.Curtis Doebbler
http://genevadiplomacy.com/prof-curtis-doebbler/
http://doebbler.net/default.aspx
6. Noé 21: Philippe de Rougemont
http://www.noe21.org/site/
7. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development: Maria Mendiluce
http://www.wbcsd.org/templates/TemplateWBCSD5/layout.asp?MenuID=1
8. Deutsche Bank (Suisse) S.A.: Sarvesh Kumar
http://www.db.com/switzerland/index.html
9. ItsOneHumanity: Elliott Verreault
Elliott Verreault is the founder and President of ItsOneHumanity (IOH), an NGO that engages in global civil advocacy on humanity’s most pressing issues. It has for mission to voice the reality that we are all part of this one great family called Humanity and to urge all to recognize that we have a responsibility to act, united, on global issues for the better of humanity as whole. He is currently leading the Global Visual Petition Project for Climate Justice campaign, collecting messages from world citizens of every corner of the globe to be ultimately delivered to every UN nation state delegation at the next UN conference on climate change (UNFCCC COP16 Cancun, Nov.29-Dec.10).
More info on ItsOneHumanity at :
www.itsonehumanity.org,
more info on Elliott Verreault at :
www.elliottverreault.com.
10. Green Cross: Adam Koniuszewski
http://www.gci.ch/
11. Greenpeace: HansJörg Haas
http://www.greenpeace.org/switzerland/fr/
12. World Wild Fund: Martin Aikin
http://wwf.panda.org/
13. Children of the Earth: Rosie Waygood
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=265501427370&v=wall#!/group.php?gid=265501427370&v=wall
14. Council on Global Issues: Heiner Benking
Heiner Benking is an independent journalist and scholar that serves in the board of the Council on Global Issues, IHTEC, Positive Nett-Works, Tagore-Einstein Council, Youth Leader Magazine, … He represents such groups in the UN-ECOSOC caucuses. He worked in the 1970s as a town- and state-planner in UNDP projects and in the1980s he consulted UNEP environmental (meta)-data harmonisation projects (G7 UN mandate). He is currently a curator of the Global Change exhibition, and organizes, as a founder, open-forum side-events like media-delegates dialogues, or other informal and self-organizing “conference” settings (see Magic Roundtables).
Trained as technician and engineer, Heiner was a marketing and strategy consultant, has worked in the embryonic computer graphics industry in international market development, and is deeply into systems thinking and holistic representations (see Encyclopaedia of Systems and Cybernetics). He has focussed on education for sustainable development, and informal and life-long learning.
http://c-g-i.info/who.html
15. Geneva School of Diplomacy: Jon-Hans Coetzer, Jon Mark Walls, Anastasiya Kotenko, Jillian Neckar
http://genevadiplomacy.com/
16. The Koc School, Turkey: Damla Erkiner, Arzu Yetkin, Ece Yaşar Avcı
The Koc School
Founded in 1988 by the Vehbi Koç Foundation, the Koç School has quickly become one of Turkey’s most selective and competitive university preparatory schools. It attracts an outstanding academic staff of Turkish and foreign teachers, and students who score at the highest levels of entrance examinations. The addition of an elementary school in 1998 brought total enrollment of Koç School to 2000+ students from Kindergarten to 12th Grade. Each year, 40% of our graduates go abroad for further education. The Koç School has had the International Baccalaureate Dıploma (IB) as an option for our students since 1994.
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Damla Erkiner has been working as CAS Coordinator in the IB DP program since the beginning of 2009-10 Academic Year, She also taught Supportive English (Grade 9) and University Entrance Examination English Language Test preparation (Grade 12) courses. She has been enrolled in TESOL (Master’s degree) program at University of Leicester. She has recently been appointed as an IB examiner in English B.
Teacher - 2
Ece Yaşar Avcı worked as an intern at many different schools in Turkey (Özel Bilkent High School, BUPS International, TED Ankara College, METU College, Robert College) throughout her university education and stayed in the States for 2 months (Iowa State University Teacher Education Department - Ames High School). She has been working as a Biology Teacher at Koç School since 2005.
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Arzu Yetkin has been working as the Geography Department Coordinator since the 2010-2011 Academic year in addition to her teaching duties at the Koc School,She has involved in a range of international projects in Turkey and abroad.
http://www.kocschool.k12.tr/en/Home.aspx
17. ITC S.A. Gocycle: Carlos Giger
18. Collège André Chavanne
http://www.cec-chavanne.net/
19. International Union for Conservation of Nature: Andrew Rodrigues
Employee of the IUCN working to support and communicate the work of the world’s conservation scientists via the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. My specialty is tropical biology having worked on either wildlife surveys or sustainable resource use by indigenous communities in Peru, Panama, Central and East Africa, Cambodia and Malaysian Borneo. My most recent work was on the world’s biodiversity hotspots – the most threatened regions of the world supporting the world’s highest levels of biodiversity.
http://www.iucn.org/
20. International Emissions Trading Association President & CEO: Henry Derwent
Henry Derwent is President and CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association, a Geneva-based Trade Association devoted to the promotion of pricing and trading of greenhouse gases as the most effective way of mitigating human-induced climate change. Prior to taking on his current role in 2008, Henry was a policy-maker for 10 years and an international negotiator at the UK’s Department of the Environment. Before that, he was a private finance specialist in various parts of the UK Government.
http://www.ieta.org/
21. Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes: Will Ramsay
http://www.pefc.org/