Hartford Seminary presents
The Practice of Reconciliation Leadership
With Virginia Swain, MA
and Sarah Sayeed, Ph.D.
Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Hartford Seminary, 77 Sherman Street, Hartford
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The best of our humanity is needed now from people from all faith traditions to address the leadership crises in community, institutional, national and global arenas. This presentation highlights and appropriates participants’ unique gifts and special calling to be Reconciliation Leaders for the United Nations General Assembly 2009 International Year of Reconciliation. Reconciliation Leadership is a distinct vocation, requiring reflection time first for new knowledge of one’s own values, gifts and talents. It arises from one’s integrity, special calling and skillbuilding in learned behaviors, a philosophy of life to be at peace in oneself and in service to our planet – acting locally or globally. You will be introduced to the personal, interpersonal, group, systemic and global competencies of Reconciliation Leadership as well as its historic, visionary and pragmatic approaches for community institutional and global challenges. A case study of Reconciliation Leadership at work in the Philippine Peace Process and with American Muslims post 9/11 will be presented. Reconciliation Leadership is a trademarked service of the Center for Global Community and World Law and has been taught at the United Nations under the sponsorship of the Under-Secretary-General for the Least Developed Countries.
Sarah Sayeed is a Program Associate at the Interfaith Center of New York, and was formerly an assistant professor at Baruch College, School of Public Affairs. Sayeed graduated from Princeton University in 1990 and earned her doctorate in communications from the Annenberg School for Communications where she specialized in public health communication. She has been involved in interfaith dialogue for several years and has also received a certificate in Reconciliation Leadership. She is currently a board member of the Muslim Consultative Network and Women in Islam, Inc. and is the author of numerous articles relating to women, Islam, and communications.
With work experience on five continents, Virginia Swain is the Co-Founder and Director of the Center for Global Community and World Law and the Institute of Global Leadership. Swain’s inaugural project at the United Nations, A Celebration for the Children of the World: A Model for Global Community was later developed in dozens of local and global projects into a Peacebuilding Process of Reconciliation for Political Will and a Global Mediation and Reconciliation Service. She is the author of A Mantle of Roses: A Woman’s Journey Home to Peace.
Virginia and Sarah have co-authored two articles entitled “Reconciliation as Policy: Moving beyond the Victim–Perpetrator Lens in the United Nations Secretariat and Member States” and “Leadership and Practice to Reconcile Challenges in a Post-September 11th World”.
Cost $15
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For more information, contact Yvette Law at (860) 509-9555 or events@hartsem.edu.
