OVERVIEW of HUMANITY CONFERENCE
-Earth
Humans in Pursuit of a "New Humanity" and Culture
in the 21st Century
OUTLINE
World-renowned
scholars, thinkers and social activists gathered together in Seoul, Korea on June
15, 2001 to attend the New Millennium World Peace Humanity Conference. The conference
was presented by the New Millennium Peace Foundation (NMPF) which is a non-governmental,
independent organization founded by Dr. Ilchi Lee and Neale Donald Walsch in 1997.
NMPF invited prestigious academicians, journalists, activists, and experts in
the fields of religion, journalism, culture and the environment to make presentations
and engage in discussions with an international audience. It was an ambitious
attempt at exploring the concrete influence that spirituality can have on our
current political, economic and cultural makeup.
CONFERENCE
OUTCOME AND SIGNIFICANCE
The conference held great significance in two respects. First, the
Declaration of Humanity of June 17, 2001, was adopted unanimously
by the panelists and signed by lots of people from different nations.
The declaration is a five-point statement of intention for "Earth
Humans." An Earth Human is 1) a Spiritual Being, 2) a Child
of the Earth, 3) a Healer, 4) a Protector, and 5) an Activist. An
Earth Human works actively to save the earth and resolve potentially
devastating problems including pollution, threat of war, disease,
poverty, and increasing disparity between rich and poor. (See last
page of this article to sign the Declaration.)
Second,
this conference was especially encouraging to Koreans due to the symbolic value
of the Conference being held in Korea, the last remaining divided country in the
world. In the opening speech, President Lee noted: "The year of 2001 marks
the 51st anniversary of the Korean War which broke out on June 25, 1950. I hope
that the first Humanity Conference, which is being held in the world's only remaining
ideologically separated nation, will contribute to the unification of our divided
peninsula and, ultimately, to sustainable peace throughout the world."
FEATURED
SPEAKERS AND PARTICIPANTS
 | Co-host
: | Dr.
Ilchi Lee, president of the New Millennium Peace Foundation |
| Co-host
: | Neale Donald
Walsch, Author of Conversations with God series, Founder of the Conversations
with God foundation, vice-president of the New Millennium Peace Foundation |
| Keynote
Speaker: | Al
Gore, former Vice-president of the United States of America, current
visiting professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
|
| Panelist:
| Maurice Strong,
senior advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations and the president
of United Nations University for Peace | | Panelist:
| Seymour
Topping, administrator of the Pulitzer Prize and professor at Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism | | Panelist:
| Reverend Wyatt
Tee Walker, a senior pastor of Canaan Baptist Church and noted civil
rights activist and former executive secretary to Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Panelist:
| Dr.
Jean Houston, an anthropologist and co-director of the Foundation for
Mind Research | | Panelist:
| Hanne Strong,
president of Manitou Foundation and an environmental activist | | Panelist:
| Audrey
Ronning Topping, a photo-journalist and author |
ABSTRACTS OF THE SPEAKERS' PRESENTATION
THE
2001 DECLARATION OF HUMANITY
Can you imagine a moment
in which 12,000 candles light up in the darkness? The Jang Chung Indoor Stadium
in Seoul glowed as 12,000 gems glittered everywhere on June 17th, 2001. The 2001
Declaration of Humanity ceremony was the grand finale of the conference. The candlelight
ceremony with 12,000 candles symbolized the world's unity and enlightenment beyond
the boundaries of race, religion, nationality gender, and age. Dr. Ilchi Lee,
president of the New Millennium Peace Foundation and one of the world's leading
philosophers and spiritual leaders, officially proclaimed the Declaration of Humanity.
Sign
the Declaration of Humanity
You are invited to share the spirit of 'Earth
Human' and sign the ' Declaration of Humanity ' via the Internet.
Visit our website www.healingsociety.org
for signing and further information. Your signature will be presented
officially to the United Nations and will become one of the many
important documents used to support the establishment of an "Earth's
Human Day".
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