Webinar
Wednesday, July 17, 2024, 1:00-2:30PM EDT / 10:00-11:30AM PDT / 11:00AM-12:30PM MDT / 12:00-1:30PM CDT / 6:00-7:30PM BST & CMT / 7:00-8:30PM CEST / 8:00-9:30PM EET & IDT
This International Center for MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma webinar is held in partnership with URI-Voices for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, in advance of both the 22 July to 2 August 2024 Preparatory Committee for the 2026 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and of 6 and 9 August, when, in 1945 the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that killed over 226,000 people, mostly civilians. Anticipating Nuclear Prayer Day, diverse international faith leaders will call for prayer and action to abolish nuclear weapons and cataclysmic threat they pose for current and future generations.
Opening Prayer:
Jacqline Wolf Tice
An Indigenous law and culture scholar, and adjunct for University of Oklahoma’s Indigenous Peoples Law program, Jacqline Wolf Tice is affiliated with Cherokee and Mandan Hidatsa Arikara tribal communities. Writing for publications on issues of sovereignty at the intersection of culture and the environment, she is a Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward, and volunteers with water monitoring efforts in the Delaware Water Basin.
Speakers:
Toshikazu Kenjitsu Nakagaki
Rev. Dr. TK Nakagaki, ordained as a Buddhist priest in Jodoshinshu tradition (1980, Japan), is a President of Heiwa Peace and Reconciliation Foundation of New York; President Emeritus of the Buddhist Council of New York; Hiroshima Peace Ambassador; Peace Correspondent of Nagasaki City; and an Honorary Board Member of the Interfaith Center of New York. He is also the author of The Buddhist Swastika and Hitler’s Cross, published in 2018.
Fumi Johns Stewart
Fumi Johns Stewart is Executive Director of May Peace Prevail On Earth International, established in 1988 to spread the movement started by Masahisa Goi in the 1950’s after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Fumi was born in Tokyo, Japan and grew up with a sincere wish to bridge the two cultures of her American and Japanese parentage. Fumi also represents the Goi Peace Foundation and the Fuji Sanctuary of Japan.
Jonathan Granoff
Jonathan Granoff, President Global Security Institute, Representative to UN for World Summits of Nobel Peace Laureates. Recipient 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award International Law Section American Bar Association, Senior Advisor Committee National Security. Fellow and Trustee World Academy Art and Science. Distinguished Alumni Awards Rutgers University School of Law, 2012, Vassar College, 2022. Prolific author. Expert before US Congress, Parliaments of the UK, Canada, and UN. Nominated Nobel Peace Prize 2014.
Kehkashan Basu, M.S.M., MBA
An educator, environmentalist, feminist, author, musician, peace and sustainability campaigner, Kehkashan Basu is the recipient of Canada’s Meritorious Service Medal, Pax Christi Toronto Teacher of Peace Award, the only Canadian to win the International Children’s Peace Prize, a UN Human Rights Champion, Forbes 30 Under 30, first-ever Winner of the Voices Youth Gorbachev-Schultz Legacy Award for her work on nuclear disarmament, and Founder-President of the global social innovation enterprise Green Hope Foundation.
Rev. Alvin P. Sion
The Very Rev. Alvin P. Sion, an ordained priest for ten years serving in the Episcopal Church in the Philippines – Diocese of Davao. Currently assigned as the Dean and Rector of the Cathedral of St. Philip and St. James and take charge in the implementation of the diocesan programs through the Integrated Mission Office.
Moderator:
Dr. Yael Danieli
A Clinical psychologist, traumatologist, victimologist and psychohistorian, Dr. Danieli is Founder and Executive Director of the International Center for the study, prevention and treatment of MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma; Director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children and Past-President, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
