Engaging Civil Society in Authentic Discourse

Engaging Civil Society in Authentic Discourse

a sharing and dialogue series hosted by the Institute of Cultural Affairs Asia Pacific

with sharing from ORP, CPYen Foundation, HarmonyWorks, Leadership Inc. Shenzhen and others

We are globally and locally at a time of crisis and separation we hope by exploring some of the successes in profound dialogue it will reveal approaches that might be used by others to move toward reconciliation and healing.

We invite you to a series of four 2-hour sessions. Each sharing is a local Asia Pacific successful or ongoing case. Our intention is to use this opportunity to explore experiences and ways to deepen discourse toward peace and authentic respect.

The sessions

· Oct 19 Korea Social Dialogue For Peace And Unification Building Of Korea with ORP Korea

· Oct 26 Taiwan Revealing the Power of Dialogue - cases from "Dialogue Impact Award hosted by CP Yen foundation (CPYF)

· Nov 2 China “Promoting Children's Public Participation and Women’s Leadership Shenzhen hosted by Leadership Inc. Shenzhen

· Nov 9 Malaysian Building Bridges in Cross Cultural Dialogue Harmonyworks and others

· Nov 16 Regional Dialogue - Emerging Story and Next steps – ICA Asia Pacific with participants from any of the earlier sessions.

Times (17:00 ~19:00 China/Taiwan/Malaysia; 18:00 ~20:00 Korea/Japan; 14:30 ~16:30 India; 2100~2300 Wellington)

Online zoom meeting: Register here to receive the zoom link. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/icaiECS2022

Language: The sessions include tri-lingual language support in English, Chinese and Korean.

Registration Fee: We will not charge a fee since the collection costs are so high across so many countries, we invite you to give a donation to a local organization that is promoting authentic dialogue. In the program we will share some options.

The Institute of Cultural Affairs has for the past sixty years explored ways to collaboratively engage individuals, communities, and organizations to build capacities for self-reliance and human development. We are honored that other individuals and organizations are joining to share their work and expand the reach of the invitation. The Institute of Cultural Affairs International (ICAI) is a global community of non-profit organisations advancing human development worldwide. ICAI is about empowering an authentic and sustainable transformation of individuals, communities and organizations.

Each session is composed of three parts:

· Sharing experiences of Authentic from a specific Asia Pacific context

· Reflection on the Sharing

· A group dialogue to share your experiences, with the intent to impact the future of civil discourse locally.

BRIEF FOR EACH SESSION

Korea - October 19 2022

SOCIAL DIALOGUE FOR PEACE AND UNIFICATION BUILDING OF KOREA: A Trans-Partisan Civic Organizer Hosted by ORPi Korea

Taiwan – October 26 2022

REVEALING THE POWER OF DIALOGUE - CASES FROM "DIALOGUE IMPACT AWARDS” hosted by CP Yen foundation (CPYF)

China - Nov 2 2022

Promoting Children's Public Participation and Women’s Leadership Shenzhen

Hosted by Leadership Inc Shenzhen

Malaysia - Nov 9 2022

BUILDING BRIDGES in Cross Cultural Dialogue Hosted by Harmonyworks and others

The Social Dialogue on Peace and Unification, implemented for the first time with the Moon Administration, ensured balanced participation of conservative, centrist, and progressive civil society organizations and South Korea’s 7 major religions. The conservative Korea NGO Association, the progressive Civil Society Organizations Network in Korea, and centrist civic groups, with over 100 years of history, came together for the Social Dialogue.

In 2019, all these organizations together established the Social Dialogue for Peace and Unification Building of Korea to be the civic organizer of the Social Dialogue, and have worked side by side since. They formed what became “The Social Dialogue for Peace and Unification Building of Korea” is an independent civic organizer of social dialogue, working together with the central government (Ministry of Unification), local governments, the National Assembly, and other entities to spread social dialogues on peace and unification, in which it will encourage the public to participate, and build and institutionalize a social consensus on peace and unification.

In the session, the consensus process on drafting the unification agreement, which was created through the dialogue of over 6,000 people, and the reflections of the facilitators will be shared.

The Dialogue Impact Award is an annual program honoring communities and organizations that illustrate the power of dialogue in their practice. In the past three years, we have had the honor to award nearly 30 cases from all sectors. In this session, we will present 3 cases that are from government, university and not-for-profit (NPO)organization to illustrate how dialogue is implemented through their efforts and create impact in social good.

1. Taiwan Parks & Playgrounds for Children by Children – a very powerful group of Moms, were focused on making changes in policies and facilities of public parks. This is an illustration of utilizing women power and children’s rights to support dialogue among government agencies, parents, communities and children.

2. Social Participation Center, National Dong Hwa University USR (University Social Responsibility), an example of how universities practice their University Social Responsibility to respectfully help an aboriginal community develop their micro business in managing chicken farm.

3. Department of Health, New Taipei City Government- Co-Creating A Dementia Friendly Community. Since dementia / aging is a growing and important social issue, further it requires all stakeholder’s to engage in the conversation for government to develop a comprehensive social welfare policy.

CPYF is a Taiwan based not for profit organization, established in 1999. Its mission is to “Foster the art of dialogue Facilitate positive social change”.

We believe all solutions start with conversations /dialogue. The quality of dialogue impacts the quality of decision and collaboration. CPYF received Gold Award of the International Association of Facilitators - Facilitation Impact Award (2016)

Children and women are one of the key constituent elements of the city, so their voices should be heard and seen.

The 5th Shenzhen International Children's Forum was held in Shenzhen city on 31^st May,2017. We have designed and facilitated a topic of "My City and Me" Workshop, for children to explore, discover and imagine the Future of Shenzhen, to guide children on dialogue and propose changes to the impact of existing problems in the city from a child’s perspective.

In 2019, the Shenzhen Women's Federation initiated programs to develop female leadership and provide facilitation training for female cadres of the Shenzhen Women's Federation. The project involved female cadres mastering the ability to facilitate and support services to more women.

The series of dialogue activities as policy initiatives, business roadshows, and cultural creativity, to re-frame the image for women: “We are an ordinary yet an extraordinary group of people in society”.

The early development of the Building Bridges programme and the later work since the pandemic. It includes sessions like Encounter Malaysia, the inter-faith sessions and the sessions done with Prof Tajuddin on recent political developments in Malaysia, values, spirituality and education.

Our intent is to share the work being done, the challenges and invite comment and sharing from participants who may also be doing similar work in their own countries.

· Setting the Context of the Work

· Brief infographic on Malaysia

· Building Bridges – how it began

· The impact of pandemic

· Building a critical mass of socially conscious individuals and communities

Harmonyworks is inviting those who have worked with us in these various projects to be on the panel to share experiences with Hamidah Marican as the MC / moderator

· Prof Tajuddin - academician & Muslim thought leader

· Andal Krishnan - entrepreneur / the Hindu/Indian perspective

· Angeline Lesslar – community leader / Christian perspective

· Dr Ooi Hean Beng – academician / Buddhist community representative

· Harry Chew – young working professional / business perspective

Facilitated by

Dr Hamidah Marican & Patricia Nunis

Resource and more detail

· ORP Korea

· CP Yen foundation (CPYF) www.cpyen.org

· Harmony Works Malaysia

· Leadership Inc 立德管理顾问有限公司 www.leadershipinc.com.cn

ICA International https://www.ica-international.org/

With ICA offices in Australia, India, Japan, Nepal, Taiwan and with associate organizations ORP Korea, Leadership Inc Shenzhen