EVENTS: on April 4th, from 10-00 to 12:00 AM (EST) in the conference room XI at the United Nations Headquarters in New York; The high level event to mark the International Day of Conscience 2024 will be held. This year is the 5th International Day of Conscience, The Federation of World Peace and Love (FOWPAL) and the Permanent Mission of Kiribati to the United Nations will jointly host celebration activities. The event will re-enforce the values of peace, solidarity and compassion and to encourage the international community to regularly mobilize their efforts to promote peace, tolerance, inclusion, understanding and solidarity, in order to build a sustainable world of peace, solidarity and harmony. In recent years, humanity has faced unprecedented global crises, from climate change to geopolitical conflicts and the widening gap between rich and poor. It is imperative that all of us come together in a united effort to overcome these challenges. Distinguished leaders will convene to deliberate on innovative strategies for addressing pressing global challenges and urgent issues with reference to the violent and deadly conflicts in different parts of the world. We wish to cordially invite leaders to deliver a 3-minute speech that emphasizes the sharing of experiences, insights, and visions that foster a collaborative spirit that transcends borders. By the end of this summit, we aspire to promote concrete actions that contribute to peace, love, solidarity, and humanity. The celebration will be presided by the President of the U.N. General Assembly and the U.N. Secretary General. At UN Geneva; The Observance will be organized by the NGO in Consultative status with ECOSOC, and the Mouvement de la Paix. Read the Concept Note and watch the World Leader Summit of Love and Peace - Celebration of the 5th International Day of Conscience!
STATEMENT: The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. António Guterres, warned that the “greatest cascade of crises” and the “breakdown in trust” are threatening world peace and security. “2024 must be a year for rebuilding trust and inspiring hope”, the Secretary-General continues to advocate for peace, human rights, and global cooperation, emphasizing the importance of conscience in shaping our collective future.
LIVESTREAM: The International Day of Conscience 2024 event will re-enforce the values of peace, solidarity and compassion and to encourage the international community to regularly mobilize their efforts to promote peace, tolerance, inclusion, understanding and solidarity, in order to build a sustainable world of peace, solidarity and harmony.
We would love you to join us on 5 April, 2024, in the presence of Mr Alfonso Gomez, Mayor of the City of Geneva and of UN and UNESCO officials, to celebrate the International Day of Conscience that we dedicate to the youth of the world. This event will be taking place at the Palais des Nations, United Nations in Geneva or can be followed on-line.
CONSCIENCE. LOVE. PEACE.
DATE: 5 April 2024, 10:00 – 17:00 CEST;
LOCATION: Building A, Room VII, United Nations - Palais des Nations, Geneva/Switzerland.
Let's work together to open up new paths of awareness and love, so that together we can build more just and happier societies.
WHAT IS THE DAY OF CONSCIENCE?
"Be the change you want to see in the world," the Mahatma Gandhi asserted in the last century. At the dawn of the new millennium, we answer him with Sofia Stril-Rever, "Be the love you want to see in the world." Love is not just a feeling, experienced individually. It is also a collective force for social justice, world peace, and human evolution. History proves that leaders of conscience and love, such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Wangari Maathai, Nelson Mandela or Malala can shape a future of peace, solidarity, and human rights. According to the resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 19 July, 2019, the International Day of Conscience is dedicated to “the promotion of a culture of peace with conscience and love”. It calls us to rethink and rearchitect the way we can build a lasting peace based on conscience and love.
WHY DO WE CELEBRATE THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CONSCIENCE?
As we witness the escalation of wars and settle into the normality of deadly conflicts between peoples, the trivialization of large-scale massacres of civilian populations and a losing war against nature, we want to remember that we are part of the indivisible community of the living. Therefore, on the International Day of Conscience, on 5 April, 2024, we will say with Renaud Ruhlmann: "Nature speaks, listen to her!", and we will reassert that the war of humanity against itself and against life is not a fatality. Non-killing societies and non-violent economies are possible, as demonstrated by the WHO’s World Violence and Health report. It depends on us to make peace a reality, under the roadmap of the Agenda 2030, the IDGs framework and the UN Security Council resolution 1325 on Women and Peace, reaffirming the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts, peace negotiations, and post-conflict reconstruction.
The celebration of the International Day of Conscience on 5 April, 2024 is therefore a call to realize the power of our interconnectedness and take urgent action to open new pathways of conscience and love for fairer, happier, and peaceful societies.
To shift our mindsets that condition our vision and therefore our action in the world, on 5 April, 2024, in the presence of Mr Alfonso Gomez, Mayor of the City of Geneva, and of UN and UNESCO officials, we are bringing together physicists and biologists, representatives of ancestral traditions, experts in sustainability, the IDGs and the 17 SDGs, peace activists, artists, writers and meditators, with the participation of young global actors of change that will give the event a transgenerational dynamic.
Download the full concept note
PROGRAMME
10:00 - 10:30 WELCOME & KEYNOTE MESSAGES
- Lidiya Grigoreva, Cheffe de Cabinet, Office of the Director-General of the United Nations in Geneva (UNOG)
- Hasan Moosa Shafaei, Chargé d'Affaires of the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the UN & other International Organisations in Geneva / Vienna
- Alfonso Gomez, Mayor of Geneva
- Gerald Pillay, President Initiatives of Change InternationalFollowed by: The Caux Palace - a centre for dialogue and peacebuilding to practice the Inner Development Goals by Ignacio Packer, Executive Director of Caux Initiatives of Change
The speakers will address the 3 themes of the International Day of Conscience: CONSCIENCE, LOVE, PEACE.
PART 1: CONSCIENCE, A NEW PARADIGM TO TAKE CARE OF ONESELF, OTHERS AND THE PLANET.
Moderator: Celina Rocquet, Molecular biologist, prof. University Paris 1, France
10:30 - 10:40: Nassim Haramein, Physicist, creative leader, USA
10:40 -10:50: Eric Julien, Spokesperson of the Indian Kogi community, anthropologist & business consultant, France
10:50-11:00: Renaud Ruhlmann, Founder of Naturasounds, musician, independant researcher on plants consciousness, author, France
11:00-11:07: Concluding Remarks: Celina Rocquet (France)
11:07-11:10 Music: The Song of the Sequoia, score by Renaud Ruhlmann, performed by Francisco J Fernandez Benitez, First Violin of the Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra
PART 2: LOVE, A FORCE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, PEACE & HUMAN EVOLUTION.
Moderator: René Longet, Mayor of Onex 1999-2011, expert in Sustainable Development, author
11:10-11:20: Sofia Stril-Rever, Author and spiritual activist, founder of BE THE LOVE, France
11:20-11:30: Naresh Singh, Professor and Executive Dean, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy
11:30-11:40: Hajar Bichri, Creative Leadership Youth Programme of Caux Initiatives of Change, Morocco
11:40-11:50: Jonathan Belolo, CEO Village People Company, founder of THE PEOPLE, France
11:50 - 12:00: WALK THE TALK
11:50-12:00: "Be the Love" medit-action guided by Sofia Stril-Rever
11:57-12:00: Music: The Song of the Blue Pine of the Himalaya, score by Renaud Ruhlmann, performed by Francisco J Fernandez Benitez, First Violin of the Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra
PART 3: CONSCIENCE & LOVE FOR PEACE
Moderator: Sarah Noble, Peace Activist, Head of Global Engagement, Caux Initaitives of Change, Canada/Switzerland
12:00-12:10: TAHA, a poem of Palestinian author Taha Muhammad Ali, interpreted by actor Sylvain Machac (France)
12:10-12:30: In conversation: Sidi Nabil Baraka (Morocco), Sufi spiritual leader & Moses Garelik (Belgium), spiritual conscious leader, UniOne, founder
12:30-12:40: Women Wage Peace (video clip) and The Sarah & Hajar Accords presented by Guila Clara Kessous (France), Ambassador and Artist of Peace for UNESCO, and Yael Deckelbaum, singer and peace activist
12:40-12:50: Lisa Yasko (Ukraine), MP, Parliament of Ukraine, Foreign Affairs Committee
12:50-13:00: The Prayer of the Mothers, World Premiere (lyrics: Guila Clara Kessous, music: Yael Deckelbaum), presented by Yael Deckelbaum and Guila Clara Kessous
13:00-14:00 LUNCH BREAK AT UN CAFETERIA
14:00 – 15:00 WORKSHOPS
WORKSHOPS
I. The Outer and Inner Meaning: How the IDGs accelerate the SDGs.
Moderator: Louise Le Gat, President of A Purpose-led World
With:
- Ignacio Packer, Executive Director Caux Initiatives of Change
- René Longet, Expert in sustainability
- Pascale Fressoz, President AIODD
- Corentin Biteau, Independent researcher Effective Altruism
- Naresh Singh, Professor and Executive Dean, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy
- Moderator: Yael Guillon, CEO Imfusio
With:
I. Conscious Science
Moderator: Thibault Verbiest, International Lawyer
With:
II. Women for Peace: UN Resolution 1325
Moderator: Sarah Noble, Peace Activist, Head of Global Engagement, Caux Initiatives of Change
With:
III. We Are One
Moderator: Jean-Michel Amor, Founder of PACI
With:
15:00 – 17:00 WALK THE TALK
Moderator: Jean Fabre, UN Interagency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE)
15:00-15:10: Keynote Message by Leopoldine Huyghues Despointes, award-winning actress and producer, global expert and advocate for people with disabilities
15:10-15:40: Public restitution of the workshops / Presentation of the Manifesto Peace and Sustainability by Pascale Fressoz, Founder of AIODD
15:40-15:50: Q&A with the public
15:50-16:00: Presentation of UniONE by its founder Moshe Garelik
16:00-16:10: Conscious Entrepreneurship: Jörg Schäfer, Founder of TREECYCLE & Fahed Qaswami, Founder of GOLDEFI
16:10-16:20: Conscious Art by Marc-André de Figueres (MA2F), Visual artist, PhD Art and Sciences of Art, UNESCO Prix Lumière, 2016 & 2023
16:20-16:30: The LoveForce Awards, by Khoa Nguyen, author, founder of BETTER WE BETTER WORLD
16:30-16:40: Humanity at a Crossroads: Concluding Remarks by René Longet, expert in sustainability & Jean Fabre, UNTFSSE
16:40-16:50: Thank You by global covenors, Ignacio Packer, Sarah Noble & Sofia Stril-Rever
16:50-17:00: Gospel "LOVE SHALL OVERCOME", an invitation to sing together in conclusion of the day
AGENDA PROGRAMME: Download the full programme here
MEET THE CONVENORS
SOFIA STRIL-REVER is a public speaker, award-winning author, teacher and spiritual activist. Sofia is the biographer of the Dalai Lama and has co-authored four books with him which have been translated into over twenty languages. She is the founding President of Be the Love, a protocol of heart and mind-awakening for leaders and changemakers, encouraging them to shift from individualism to altruism and accelerate the implementation of the 2023 Agenda and the rise of a civilization of love.
IGNACIO PACKER is Executive Director of the Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation, a Swiss private charitable foundation with the mission to provide a safe and privileged space to inspire, equip and connect individuals, groups and organizations from around the globe to engage effectively and innovatively in the promotion of trust, ethical leadership, sustainable living and human security. Ignacio has over 30 years of experience in humanitarian work and development issues. He is an expert on human rights and social issues and has been strongly engaged in global advocacy on protection frameworks for migrants and refugees with a particular focus on children and youth.
SARAH NOBLE is Head of Global Engagement at Caux Initiatives of Change. She has dedicated her career to building a better world and is passionate about showcasing people's stories on how we can build peace with each other and the planet. Sarah has held leadership positions at international organisations focused on peacebuilding, humanitarian issues, and independent media. She is also co-founder and Curator of the Peace Talks at Interpeace that have taken place in more than 8 countries with over 8.000 attendees and more than 200 speakers from over 50 countries.
- Renaud Ruhlmann, Founder of Naturasounds, musician, researcher on plants consciousness, author, France
- Sylvie Rouen, Ph.D. in Microbiology and Aromatology, Agronomist
- Celina Rocquet, Cellular biologist, Prof. University Paris 1, France
- Bert Barten, Founder of Talking Trees, multi-disciplinairy artist, theater director, entrepreneur, The Netherlands
- Aloe Vera, Vegetal speaker
- Jean Fabre, UN Interagency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE)
I. Conscious Science
Moderator: Thibault Verbiest, International Lawyer
With:
- Nassim Haramein, Physicist
- Eric Julien, Anthropologist
Moderator: Sarah Noble, Peace Activist, Head of Global Engagement, Caux Initiatives of Change
With:
- Guila Clara Kessous (France), UNESCO Ambassador and Artist for Peace,
- Lisa Yasko (Ukraine), MP, Parliament of Ukraine
- Yael Deckelbaum, Singer & Peace Activist
- Leopoldine Huyghues Despointes, Global expert and advocate of people with disabilities
III. We Are One
Moderator: Jean-Michel Amor, Founder of PACI
With:
- Sidi Nabil Baraka, Sufi spiritual leader
- Moses Garelik, Founder of UniOne
15:00 – 17:00 WALK THE TALK
Moderator: Jean Fabre, UN Interagency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE)
15:00-15:10: Keynote Message by Leopoldine Huyghues Despointes, award-winning actress and producer, global expert and advocate for people with disabilities
15:10-15:40: Public restitution of the workshops / Presentation of the Manifesto Peace and Sustainability by Pascale Fressoz, Founder of AIODD
15:40-15:50: Q&A with the public
15:50-16:00: Presentation of UniONE by its founder Moshe Garelik
16:00-16:10: Conscious Entrepreneurship: Jörg Schäfer, Founder of TREECYCLE & Fahed Qaswami, Founder of GOLDEFI
16:10-16:20: Conscious Art by Marc-André de Figueres (MA2F), Visual artist, PhD Art and Sciences of Art, UNESCO Prix Lumière, 2016 & 2023
16:20-16:30: The LoveForce Awards, by Khoa Nguyen, author, founder of BETTER WE BETTER WORLD
16:30-16:40: Humanity at a Crossroads: Concluding Remarks by René Longet, expert in sustainability & Jean Fabre, UNTFSSE
16:40-16:50: Thank You by global covenors, Ignacio Packer, Sarah Noble & Sofia Stril-Rever
16:50-17:00: Gospel "LOVE SHALL OVERCOME", an invitation to sing together in conclusion of the day
AGENDA PROGRAMME: Download the full programme here
MEET THE CONVENORS
SOFIA STRIL-REVER is a public speaker, award-winning author, teacher and spiritual activist. Sofia is the biographer of the Dalai Lama and has co-authored four books with him which have been translated into over twenty languages. She is the founding President of Be the Love, a protocol of heart and mind-awakening for leaders and changemakers, encouraging them to shift from individualism to altruism and accelerate the implementation of the 2023 Agenda and the rise of a civilization of love.
IGNACIO PACKER is Executive Director of the Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation, a Swiss private charitable foundation with the mission to provide a safe and privileged space to inspire, equip and connect individuals, groups and organizations from around the globe to engage effectively and innovatively in the promotion of trust, ethical leadership, sustainable living and human security. Ignacio has over 30 years of experience in humanitarian work and development issues. He is an expert on human rights and social issues and has been strongly engaged in global advocacy on protection frameworks for migrants and refugees with a particular focus on children and youth.
SARAH NOBLE is Head of Global Engagement at Caux Initiatives of Change. She has dedicated her career to building a better world and is passionate about showcasing people's stories on how we can build peace with each other and the planet. Sarah has held leadership positions at international organisations focused on peacebuilding, humanitarian issues, and independent media. She is also co-founder and Curator of the Peace Talks at Interpeace that have taken place in more than 8 countries with over 8.000 attendees and more than 200 speakers from over 50 countries.
COSTS: Participation in the celebration of the International Day of Conscience at the Palais des Nations on 5 April 2024 is free of charge. If you would like to support the values of this day in the service of the common good, you can visit these websites:
Initiatives of Change - Be the Love - Tchendukua - Naturasounds,
HOST, GLOBAL CONVENORS AND PARTNERS:
the conference is hosted by Initiatives of Change, Global Convenors: Ignacio Packer, Sarah Noble & Sofia Stril-Rever; At the initiative of : Be the Love.
Partners : UNESCO, the City of Geneva, lthe International Space Federation, Tchendukua, Naturasounds, and Jindal Global University. An event supported by the PACI Foundation.
Initiatives of Change - Be the Love - Tchendukua - Naturasounds,
HOST, GLOBAL CONVENORS AND PARTNERS:
the conference is hosted by Initiatives of Change, Global Convenors: Ignacio Packer, Sarah Noble & Sofia Stril-Rever; At the initiative of : Be the Love.
Partners : UNESCO, the City of Geneva, lthe International Space Federation, Tchendukua, Naturasounds, and Jindal Global University. An event supported by the PACI Foundation.
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