本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛Mosaic Travels to the Nation’s Capital to Launch “New Beginnings: Young Canadians’ Peace Dialogue on China and Tibet”
Posted on May 7, 2012
Ottawa, Ontario
Friday, April 27, 2012
Today, the Mosaic Institute announced that it has received a two-year funding commitment from Citizenship and Immigration Canada to design and deliver a “peace dialogue” for young adults from Canada’s Tibetan and Chinese communities living in Toronto and Calgary. The initiative, to be formally known as “New Beginnings: Young Canadians’ Peace Dialogue on China and Tibet”, will combine constructive, peace-focused, inter-community dialogues about the challenges affecting the relationship between China and Tibet with collaborative service projects that manifest the values of good Canadian and global citizenship. Other recent initiatives of the Mosaic Institute involving young Canadians connected to such parts of the world as Sri Lanka and the Middle East have followed similar models, and have met significant success.
Mosaic Institute Executive Director briefs H.H. the Dalai Lama and actor Richard Gere on “New Beginnings: Young Canadians’ Peace Dialogue on China and Tibet” prior to its formal launch on April 27, 2012.
The announcement of the “New Beginnings” project was made in the Centre Block of Parliament to an audience that included His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the actor Richard Gere, in addition to dozens of members of Canada’s Chinese and Tibetan communities. John Monahan, the Mosaic Institute’s Executive Director, opened the event, and then introduced Tenzing Dekyikhangsar, Mosaic’s Project Manager for the “New Beginnings” project. In his remarks, Mr. Dekyikhangsar stressed the need to work across community lines and outside of “personal comfort zones” with the sort of mutual respect and commitment to constructive action for which Canadians are known. His speech was followed by that of Senator Consiglio DiNino, who formally announced a contribution of $280,000 towards the project from the Government of Canada over the next two years. Senator DiNino then introduced the Dalai Lama, who spoke very favorably of the concept of inter-community dialogue, and engaged in a prolonged “question and answer” period with community representatives in the audience.
After the formal event had concluded, the Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration, and Multiculturalism – whose department had made the positive funding decision – came by to express his personal enthusiasm for the “New Beginnings” project, and to encourage the assembled community members to lend it their full support and energies.
Said John Monahan on behalf of the Mosaic Institute:
It is an honour to begin this important and exciting work with young Canadian adults of Tibetan and Chinese background. We know from our previous work with other communities that there is a whole generation of Canadians from all different backgrounds who are committed to working together to identify creative, Canadian ways of being effective agents for peace and pluralism both at home and abroad. In that regard, this particular project truly does present us with an opportunity to help define a “new beginning” in the relationship between Canadians with strong personal and family connections to China and Tibet.
Headquartered in Toronto, the Mosaic Institute is a “think and do” tank that harnesses the connections, knowledge, and resources of Canada’s ethnocultural communities to advance Canadian solutions and promote peace and development in conflict-ridden or under-developed parts of the world – starting right here at home.
For further information please contact:
Tenzing Dekyikhangsar, Project Manager, “New Beginnings: Young Canadians’ Peace Dialogue on China and Tibet”, The Mosaic Institute
td@mosaicinstitute.ca / 416-644-6000, ext. 610 / www.mosaicinstitute.ca更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
Posted on May 7, 2012
Ottawa, Ontario
Friday, April 27, 2012
Today, the Mosaic Institute announced that it has received a two-year funding commitment from Citizenship and Immigration Canada to design and deliver a “peace dialogue” for young adults from Canada’s Tibetan and Chinese communities living in Toronto and Calgary. The initiative, to be formally known as “New Beginnings: Young Canadians’ Peace Dialogue on China and Tibet”, will combine constructive, peace-focused, inter-community dialogues about the challenges affecting the relationship between China and Tibet with collaborative service projects that manifest the values of good Canadian and global citizenship. Other recent initiatives of the Mosaic Institute involving young Canadians connected to such parts of the world as Sri Lanka and the Middle East have followed similar models, and have met significant success.
Mosaic Institute Executive Director briefs H.H. the Dalai Lama and actor Richard Gere on “New Beginnings: Young Canadians’ Peace Dialogue on China and Tibet” prior to its formal launch on April 27, 2012.
The announcement of the “New Beginnings” project was made in the Centre Block of Parliament to an audience that included His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the actor Richard Gere, in addition to dozens of members of Canada’s Chinese and Tibetan communities. John Monahan, the Mosaic Institute’s Executive Director, opened the event, and then introduced Tenzing Dekyikhangsar, Mosaic’s Project Manager for the “New Beginnings” project. In his remarks, Mr. Dekyikhangsar stressed the need to work across community lines and outside of “personal comfort zones” with the sort of mutual respect and commitment to constructive action for which Canadians are known. His speech was followed by that of Senator Consiglio DiNino, who formally announced a contribution of $280,000 towards the project from the Government of Canada over the next two years. Senator DiNino then introduced the Dalai Lama, who spoke very favorably of the concept of inter-community dialogue, and engaged in a prolonged “question and answer” period with community representatives in the audience.
After the formal event had concluded, the Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration, and Multiculturalism – whose department had made the positive funding decision – came by to express his personal enthusiasm for the “New Beginnings” project, and to encourage the assembled community members to lend it their full support and energies.
Said John Monahan on behalf of the Mosaic Institute:
It is an honour to begin this important and exciting work with young Canadian adults of Tibetan and Chinese background. We know from our previous work with other communities that there is a whole generation of Canadians from all different backgrounds who are committed to working together to identify creative, Canadian ways of being effective agents for peace and pluralism both at home and abroad. In that regard, this particular project truly does present us with an opportunity to help define a “new beginning” in the relationship between Canadians with strong personal and family connections to China and Tibet.
Headquartered in Toronto, the Mosaic Institute is a “think and do” tank that harnesses the connections, knowledge, and resources of Canada’s ethnocultural communities to advance Canadian solutions and promote peace and development in conflict-ridden or under-developed parts of the world – starting right here at home.
For further information please contact:
Tenzing Dekyikhangsar, Project Manager, “New Beginnings: Young Canadians’ Peace Dialogue on China and Tibet”, The Mosaic Institute
td@mosaicinstitute.ca / 416-644-6000, ext. 610 / www.mosaicinstitute.ca更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net