Promoting Peaceful Coexistence and Common Citizenship

[ 73 ] — PANEL DISCUSSION TWO — “It’s time to work with young people to drive this agenda to ensure that the world we want is, in fact, achievable” Mr. Ahmad Alhendawi, Secretary General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement As the youngest Secretary-General in the history of WOSM, Mr. Alhendawi has extensive experience working on youth issues at the local, regional and international level. Prior to this, he was the first-ever UN Secretary- General’s Envoy on Youth, and the youngest senior official in the history of the UN. “We have this big challenge ahead of us to see how the developmental world can coordinate better: not reinventing the wheel, but rather talking to each other and developing programmes from common goals” Mr. Ulrich Nitschke, Head of the Secretariat of the International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development Serving as the head of Sector Program Values for Religion and Development at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, as well as the head of PaRD Secretariat for the International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development, Mr Nitschke has worked in municipal development, capacity- building, and political development education. “The challenge that we are facing is that we need to bring better cooperation. We need to bring better coordination in our efforts as we move forward. But the relationship and the partnership between governments and religious leaders always works” Dr. Mohamed Elsanousi, Director of the Secretariat of the Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers Mr. Elsanousi has a long career in fostering interfaith relations and supervising joint projects with interfaith organizations and federal government institutions. Previously he served on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of State John Kerry’s Taskforce on Religion and Foreign Policy Working. “Religions must create multireligious virtue ethics that call each and everyone to contribute to the common good“ Dr. William F. Vendley, Secretary General of Religions for Peace International Dr. Vendley is a pioneer in advancing multi-religious cooperation to help resolve conflict and advance development. He has coordinated these efforts to mediate among and heal societies in the aftermath of violence in Ethiopia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Iraq and many other countries. He is convinced that multi-religious efforts for peacemaking provide unique strengths that complement those marshaled by governments and bodies like the United Nations.