Signatories of the Manifesto

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actively involved in interfaith dialogue in the UK for three decades and board member of the International Interfaith Centre, Oxford. She has participated in international interfaith conferences arranged by the World Council of Churches and the Vatican. Mrs AjitSingh regularly contributes articles to books, magazines, and newspapers. Her book, Wisdom of Sikhism, received excellent reviews.

 

Director of The Regeneration Project / Interfaith Power and Light Campaign which is mobilizing a national religious response to global warming while promoting renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation.

 

Religious historian whose work has particular reference to East Asia

 

Bishop of London since 1996. Has written several articles on religion and the environment. Founder of the Centre for Reconciliation and Peace. Is an ex officio member of the House of Lords. Holds posts including chair of the ecumenical organisation London Church Leaders and is one of the directors of the Coexist organisation, which works to promote interfaith understanding. He is responsible for relations with the Orthodox Church on behalf of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

 

Representing the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I of Constantinople, who has gained widespread reputation as a prominent environmentalist, putting the support of the Ecumenical Patriarchate behind various international environmental causes and initiatives, thereby earning him the title "Green Patriarch" and including him among Time Magazine's 50 most influential world leaders.

 

Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies, University of Wales, Lampeter, UK. Islamic scholar and author of a number of studies on Islam and ecology. Collaborating with the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) to create a Centre for Islam and Ecology at the University to further theological and practical work by Muslim communities in the UK and world–wide. Teacher of human and social sciences and coordinator of three international scientific meetings on the spiritual patrimony, the last meeting about  Spiritual Patrimony and Inter-faith Dialogue, in cooperation with Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg.

 

University of Mostaganem, Algeria. Member of the commission of IFAPA, Inter-faith Action for Peace in Africa, and of the Scientific Committee of Djanatu-al-Arif, Mediterranean Foundation of Sustainable development.  As one of the African Delegates Prof. Djeradi also participated in the Asia-Africa Spiritual Summit 2007, Awakening of Global Compassionate Leadership.

 

Head of the China Program of ARC, Alliance of Religions and Conservation.

 

Master of the Halveti Jerrahi Sufi Order, Mexico City, and President of the Commission on International Relations of the Inter-religious Council of Mexico (CIM). Coordinating Committee Member of the Latin American and Caribbean Women of Faith Network

 

Tore Johnsen is moderator of the Sami Church Council in Norway. He is the author of the book Jordens barn, Solens barn, Vindens barn. Kristen tro i ett samiskt landskap [Children of the Earth, Children of the Sun, Children of the Wind: Christian Faith in a Saami Context].

 

Environmental scientist, at the forefront of the national campaign to protect the islands of Palau.

 

Director of External Affairs of the Orthodox Church in America and Moderator of the World Conference of Religions for Peace. Has served as Moderator of ACT, Action by Churches Together. Former president of the National Council of Churches USA (NCC), currently President of Christian Churches Together in the USA.

 

Oren R. Lyons is a traditional Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan, and a member of the Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. Professor of American Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

 

Africa representative, World Council of Churches Working Group on Climate Change.

 

Member of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches. Held a Service at the UN climate conference in Tromsö, Norway in 2007. Highly involved in the climate issue because of its tangible effects on her homeland. Bishop in the Church of Denmark.

 

For thirty years considered a pioneer in the area of feminist theology in North America, with a particular focus in modern feminist theology and liberation theology, especially in Palestine and Latin America. Visiting Professor of Feminist Theology at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University.

 

Secretary General of AMAN, a network for Muslims in Asia. AMAN works with other faith traditions to address issues of human dignity and social justice.

 

The Church of South India, Madhya Kerala Diocese with its 3.8 million members, has been playing a lead role in eco-study and activities among its members for the last 10 years. Bishop Thomas Samuel says: "Our aim is to keep this beautiful world beautiful, and not to turn it into a wasteland."

 

One of the world’s great rabbis, Dutch leader of the Reformed Jewish congregation in the Hague. He has long been involved in the dialogue between the world’s religions and in the Earth Charter initiative, in which he recently received the prestigious Interfaith Gold Medallion for “Peace Through Dialogue”.

 

Personal advisor to the Buddhist Supreme Patriarch in Cambodia.

 

Professor of History at Arizona State University, USA. Editor of Judaism and Ecology: Created World and Revealed World. Has written articles on Judaism and ecology in various reference books, e.g. The Oxford Handbook on Religion and Ecology. Dr. Tirosh-Samuelson writes on Jewish intellectual history with a focus on philosophy and mysticism in premodern Judaism, feminism and Jewish philosophy, Jewish bioethics, and Judaism and science.

 

Thervada Buddhism Coordinator at the Fo Guang Shan monastery.

 

Professor of Comparative Religion and Ethical Studies at Mahidol University. Vice Director at Mahidol University Research Center of Peace Building, conducting dialogue in the South of Thailand, and also on the working committe of Mahindol University Center of Contemplative Education, Thailand.

 

Rabbi Waskow wrote Down-to-Earth Judaism (Morrow) on the relationship of Jewish practice over the last four millennia to healing of the earth, and edited two major collections of sacred texts and scholarly commentary of these relationships. In addition, he has led Shalom Centre in celebrating Jewish festivals as acts of public advocacy to change governmental and corporate policy in regard to the climate crisis.

 

Archbishop of Uppsala, Primate of the Church of Sweden.

 

Professor of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Director of the Research Centre for Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Visiting professor with the Pacific School of Religion, San Fransisco. Co-editor and contributer of Taoism and Ecology: Ways within a Cosmic Landscape.