Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns (Geneva)

"On November 2000 a Spiritual Caucus was created at the United Nations in New York for the purpose of adding a spiritual and ethical component to the United Nations' work. On October 2001 a group comprised of Alfredo Sfeir-Younis, Renate Bloem and Astrid Stuckelberg set up a Spiritual Caucus in Geneva. On 24 October 2002 member NGOs applied to CoNGO for it to be made a standing Committee of CoNGO. The Application was supported by the regulatory number of over 20 Organisations in consultative status with ECOSOC which submitted it to the CoNGO Board at its Meeting in Vienna on 30-31October 2002, where it was discussed and adopted. Since this Committee has been officially adopted, NGOs that want to join are welcome. Following several months of work and discussions with organisations based in New York, the CSVGC in New York (www.csvgc-ny.org) came into being on February 27, 2004. "

Board (2009-2012)
Accessed December 2011:


 * Chair / President - Vita de Waal (Planetary Association for Clean Energy)
 * Vice-Chair / Vice-President - Trevor Davies (Anglican Consultative Council)
 * Treasurer - Rudolf Schneider (Institute for Planetary Synthesis)
 * Secretary - Oliver Rizzi Carlson (UNOY & OPTU)
 * David Fernandez Puyana (UNESCO Etxea) -
 * Sylvette Huguenin (Armee de Salut) - Full Member
 * Katherine Carré (Susila Dharma) - Full Member
 * Warren Hansen (Kennedy Center for International Studies)
 * Lydia Hansen (Kennedy Center for International Studies)
 * Fawzia Al-Ashmawi-Abouzeid (International Islamic Relief Organisation Saudi Arabia / IIROSA) -
 * Ursula Barter-Hemmerich (International Network for Prevention of Elder Abuse / INPEA) - Full Member
 * Marcel de Picciotto (Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani OSMTH) - Full Member
 * John Schmeling (Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani OSMTH) - Full Member
 * Jean Ford (Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani OSMTH) - Full Member
 * John Taylor (International Association for Religious Freedom IARF) - Full Member
 * Afton Beutler (Worldwide Organisation for Women / WOW)
 * Mutua Kobia ( Worldwide Organisation for Women / WOW)
 * Amir Abdul Hashom (Al Hakim Foundation)
 * Naoki Taketani (Rissho Kosei-kai) - Associate Member
 * Jeya Wilson (Emmanuel Church) - Associate Member
 * Arun Pabari (Sathya Sai Centre, Geneva) - Associate Member
 * Teny Pirri-Simonian (European Project for Inter-religious Learning) - Associate Member
 * Gonzalo Oviedo Carrillo (International Union for the Conservation of Nature /IUCN) - Associate Member
 * Bas Verschuuren (IUCN Cultural and Spiritual Values of Protected Areas / IUCN's CSVPA) - Associate Member
 * Liza Zogib (Association for Biological * Cultural Diversity / ABCD) - Associate Member

Contact
URL: http://www.csvgc-geneva.org

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