Ecumenical Diakonia
A trendsetting paradigm for development cooperation?
Symposium on the occasion of the retirement of Rev. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dietrich Werner. The livestream starts 6 July 2022 at 1 pm and ends around 3.30.
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Program
12:45 Virtual Arrival
01:00 Word of Greeting and Opening of the Symposium
Rev. Dr. Dagmar Pruin, President of Bread for the World and Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe
Heike Bosien (Moderator), Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg
01:20 Input 1
Ecumenical Diakonia as an Alternative to the Paradigm of Development? Learning experiences and impulses from the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace
Prof. Dr. Isabel Apawo Phiri, Deputy General Secretary of the World Council of Churches
01:40 Input 2
Ecumenical Diakonia in the Context of Shrinking Spaces – Challenges for ecumenical development cooperation on the example of the Asia region
Dr. Mathews George Chunakara General Secretary of the Christian Conference of Asia
02:00 Response
Ecumenical Diakonia as a chance to strengthen the specific profile and potential of churches as actors of eco-social transformation – facing the three major challenges of the 21st century: economic inequality, climate change/one health, global crisis of democracy
Rev. Prof. Dr. Dietrich Werner, Bread for the World
02:20 Small Break
02:25 Questions from the plenum
02:35 Panel Discussion
Ecumenical Diakonia – a trendsetting paradigm for development cooperation?
Rev. Prof. Dr. Dietrich Werner Prof. Dr. Isabel Apawo Phiri, Dr. Mathews George Chunakara
03:25 Concluding Remarks
Heike Bosien
03:30 End of Symposium