Joan+Kirby,+RSCJ

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//**Sister Joan Kirby**// is a religious of the Scared Heart and worked in education for many years. She was Headmistress at Stuart Country Day School and at the Convent of the Sacred Heart at 91st Street before joining the Temple of Understanding ( []) to foster interfaith dialogue.

She has worked extensively in Interfaith Relations and was Executive Director of the Temple of Understanding from 1994 until 2000. For several years she sponsored a program of immersion in Seven Different Religious Traditions.

Since April 2000, she has represented the Temple of Understanding at the United Nations where she was Chair of the NGO/DPI Executive Committee and President of the Religious NGOs at the UN.

She has worked with the Tri-Partite Forum of Member States, UN Agencies and NGOs working for peace through interfaith cooperation and is promoting a proposal for a UN Decade of Inter-Religious Dialogue and Cooperation for Peace.

Currently she is involved with the Interfaith Consortium for Ecological Civilization and attended COP16, the Climate Change meeting in Copenhagen in 2009.

Sr. Joan has practiced Zen Buddhism for 14 years.

Presentation:

Text of Sr. Joan Kirby's talk "Global Integration and RSCJ Chapter Document 2008"


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[|http://www.IC4EC.org] Interfaith Consortium for Ecological Civilization ICEC is a consortium of religious and secular organizations dedicated to ecological civilization. Its organizing partners are the Temple of Understanding, GreenFaith, the Forum of Religion and Ecology at Yale University, and the International Communities for the Renewal of the Earth, in consultation with the New York office of the United Nations Environmental Program.

[|http://www.earthcharter.org] The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental ethical principles for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society in the 21st century. It seeks to inspire in all people a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the well-being of the whole human family, the greater community of life, and future generations. It is a product of a decade-long, worldwide, cross cultural dialogue on common goals and shared values.

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