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Landscapes of Justice and Respect

Title About the Presenter(s) Abstract

J1. A Deeper Self in a Broader World
Rev. Lamont Koerner is a Campus Pastor with Lutheran Campus Ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on the campus of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (USA). By the way, those "Twin Cities" are Minneapolis and St Paul.
We are like stones being skipped across a pond. Touching down only briefly in seemingly unrelated spots. Dilettantes extraordinaire we sample mission trips, dabble in service projects, taste of Bible study, and experiment with worship. Seduced by cultural forces, exhausted by the speed of life, we skip over much that could integrate our fragmentary lives. How do we connect the dots between personal faith in, and public witness to a God of Love and Justice in a broken and violent world? This workshop will be 45% presentation and 55% participation and interaction. back

J2. Advocacy: An Essential Ministry In Academia
Richard Bowyer is Campus Minister, Farimont (WV) State University (USA). Served as pastor of Native American and African American churches. Significant aspect of campus ministry is with Internationals and African-Americans. Taught Christian lay pastors in Liberia and was chaplain for a medical mission in the Philippines. First recipient of NCMA Richard Ross Hicks Award.
In an increasingly marketplace environment and often impersonal context, students, faculty and staff frequently need an Advocate who will act or assist them in acting in places or situations to resolve problems or receive fair treatment. Minorities in any given context are likely to have greater need of such ministry. We will examine how to identify such situations, make members of the community aware of our availability and explore methods of Advocacy. back

J3. An Eco-justice of Learning; establishing new systems of relationship in the university.
Gareth Dyer is Free Church Chaplain (Baptist, Methodist, United Reformed) in the ecumenical team serving the University communities in Manchester U.K. Ordained thirteen years ago he has maintained an interest in eco-justice and is currently engaged in research into cybernetic learning models of the environment and Christian ethics. This paper suggests that issues of eco-justice have highlighted shortcomings in western ethics, specifically in Christian ethics. It goes on to suggest that learning models of the environment provide a valuable way of understanding of eco-justice. Such a model offers a challenge to current understandings of the university and its methods of education and management. 1. Eco-justice as a critique of Christian ethics. 2. Ecological sources for ethics; systems and relationships. 3. Developing a learning theory of ethics. 4. The challenge to university education; learning, research and interdisciplinary. 5. The challenge to university management; communities and relationships. back

J4. Chaplaincy and Philosophy reclaimed
Rev. Erich Kasirye has a Bachelor's Degree in Education (Makerere University) and M.A (Theology) Richmond. Married with two girls and a boy. Been Chaplain to Victory Academy, Kitemu SS and now Lubiri SS
In the Post Modern world, the twin pressures of secularization and pluralism have inhibited Chaplaincy in tertiary institutions as spirituality gets floated free from philosophy. Consequently, the language, meaning and tradition of chaplaincy has fallen into some kind of chaos as Chaplains get increasingly viewed as irrelevant. Drawing from the philosophical paradigms of Justice and Respect, this paper therefore seeks to reclaim chaplaincy in the Tertiary Institutions through prescribing a conscious link between theologia and philosophia as values of Justice and respect are shown to be sustained economically but also nourish us spiritually and morally. History of Theologia and Philosophia: Two major historical rifts in the developments of spiritual belief and practice have rocked our understanding of the nature and scope of Chaplaincy in Institutions, rendering our current discourse about it partially meaningless and somewhat rootless. Landscapes of Justice and Respect in Chaplaincy. In an effort to improve on Chaplaincy in institutions, a judicious integration of elements of Justice and Respect as critical elements of Philosophy in our ministry can never be over emphasized. Examine his Work and Witness Establish a Community of Compassion: Provide Space Revive Worship and Prayers. back

J5. Eco-theology and the Environment – a place for the university?
Matthew Wilson is Chaplain to regional campuses of Charles Sturt University (Albury) and LaTrobe University (Wodonga). A minister of the Uniting Church in Australia, he has ministered in three universities, and a range of urban and regional settings in New South Wales, Australia. Originally trained as a geologist, Matthew has continued an interest in the natural sciences and the environment – both from a scientific and theological perspective.
The environmental movement has gained significant profile in the general community, and in political power and awareness around the globe over the past 30 years. Alongside this growing scientific, community and political awareness has been a development – at least in Christian theology – reinterpreting ‘traditional’ understandings of human stewardship of natural resources, and the place of the environment in the ‘Kingdom of God’. What place does the university have in this? Is it simply an academic exercise, or do universities have an opportunity and/or responsibility to undertake an educative ‘hands-on’ role with staff, students and the wider community. Where can chaplaincy – across faiths – interact with this growing awareness of the place and dependence of humanity on the natural world? Australia has one of the world’s poorest records in preservation of biodiversity – yet it also contains some of the world’s most unusual flora and fauna. Charles Sturt University (Albury) is currently developing a new ‘green-fields’ campus at Thurgoona, based on environmental principles including minimal water use, rammed earth building construction, composting toilets, minimising power use, native vegetation plantings, preservation and restoration of ecosystems including wetlands. Is this a way forward for universities as communities of justice? How can spirituality and our understanding of God help inform these new possibilities? How can universities which are already developed in a ‘non-environmentally friendly’ way themselves become examples of ‘communities of justice’ to the earth and their local environment? Through presentation, discussion and interaction this workshop seeks to explore some of these issues amongst the participants. back

J6. Faithful Extension
Ed Den Haan is a Christian Reformed Campus Minister at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Ed has served at Guelph since 1977 and is coordinator of its Multi Faith Resource Team. Ed has been a key partner in the development of this Interfaith ministry as basis for campus ministry. Our stature on campus in Guelph has improved greatly while a Multi Faith Resource Team. In Canada, separation of the sacred and secular has eroded religious faith from public life. Morals are now based on public demand and directions are set to enhance our national economic productivity. Our Multi Faith Team engages our campus in faithful discussion by multi-faith partners to promote the development of a faith based education and lifestyle. This requires our team members to interact publicly. This workshop is to develop such faithful interaction. back

J7. From Covenant to Contract : Administrative Mobbing in the Academy Andrew Taylor was until this year the Anglican Chaplain and Director of Theological Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London (UK). He has a particular concern, arising out of work with members of staff, in promoting issues around justice in the workplace, especially as that impacts upon the ethos of the institution.
Fundamental idea is to do with the seeming growth of harassment in the workplace, and especially in the modern university. How this affects those whose understanding of that relationship is a covenantal rather than a contractual model, and how this understanding can sometimes ill equip them to deal with situations of harassment when they arise. Idea would also be to share experience of working with staff in such situations. back

J8. "Just Tucker"(Food) events on campus
Rev Judy Redman is currently serving as Uniting Church chaplain to the University of New England, Armidale, NSW (Australia). She has been involved in university chaplaincy for nearly nine years on two campuses. She is particularly interested in peace and justice issues, feminist theology and using the internet in chaplaincy.
Tucker (Aussie for 'food') is a program that aims to provide a chance for people to respond in a positive and empowering way to issues of poverty and injustice; raise awareness about what the Bible has to say about poverty and injustice; raise money for The Evangelical Alliance Refugee Fund's partners who are working with poor communities to bring hope and change. Tucker events sell food from target communities in a cafe or dinner format to raise money for the target communities, educate and entertain those who attend and raise the profile of chaplaincy on campus. While this workshop will look particularly at an Australian situation, it will provide ideas and resources for those outside Australia and those who are not Christian who might like to organise similar events. back

J9. Listening to Country, Listening to Heart: dialogue that takes land and people seriously Polly Walker is a specialist in intercultural conflict transformation with a background in education, cross-cultural communication, mediation and Indigenous knowledge systems. Given her Cherokee and Anglo heritage, she has forged close working relationships with American Indian and Australian Aboriginal communities. Polly is committed to peace making and community healing through building bridges of understanding between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous peoples, institutions and agencies. She lives in Brisbane, where she taught at the University of Queensland from 1997-2003. Bruce Coriell serves as the Chaplain at Colorado College, where he also teaches courses in nature and religion as well as indigenous traditions. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado USA, when he is not off wandering rivers and mountains.
Studying indigenous culture runs the dual risks of romanticism as one idealizes the value of native traditions and fatalism as one despairs over the overwhelming social stresses on indigenous communities. Genuine understanding avoids these dangers by situating learning in the concrete experience of real native people living in actual communities. Workshop leaders will present their recent experience co-teaching a course entitled “Listening to Country: Learning in Aboriginal Australia.” Twenty-five Colorado College students and instructors participated in a living-learning community on Stradbroke Island for one month hosted by the traditional Aboriginal owners at the invitation of the elders of the three active clans of Minjerriba. An integral component of the course was a series of conversations on native issues lead by six American Indian members of the class with their Aboriginal peers. Issues of native land rights and living in multiple worlds point to just a few of the questions raised and lessons learned. back

J10. Walking With My Brothers and Sisters Valerie Powidzki is a member of Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth. She was born, raised and educated in Philadelphia in the USA and was sent by her congregation to minister in Australia in 1987. Valerie is presently a Chaplain at the University of Western Sydney in Australia. She has recently completed an immersion experience working with the poor in the Philippines.
A paper based on my experience of 2 months in the Philippines working with the poor and integrating this experience into the University Chaplaincy - a sharing of my experience after being invited to spend 2 months in Dec '03 and January '04 working with the poorest of the poor in the Philippines. My task was to build houses, teach values, help in the villages with Health, Education and livelihood. How was I going to do that? My paper gives an unfolding of the experience and all that I was able to accomplish. It was an enriching and fulfilling time for me personally. It also opens an avenue for University students who would like an immersion experience in working with the poor and becoming a part of a program to transform poor and hopeless families in former slum areas to a better way of life where the poor can live in peace and with dignity. back

J11. Empowering The Marginalised In The Campus: Synthesising Our Experience And Pedagogy. Rev. Fr. V. Henry Jerome SJ is the National Chaplain of All India Catholic University Federation known as AICUF. He has been serving in AICUF as the regional chaplain for the past 8 years. He has done my masters in Mathematics. He has also done post-graduation degree in Journalism and Mass Communication, and a bachelor degree in education. He is a Jesuit priest. Earlier, he had the opportunity to be with school going students in our State. AICUF is the national level student movement which was born in 1924. Ostracisation, displacement, oppression, dehumanisation and vulnerability are the marks of the marginalised students in the campus especially in India. By marginalised, we mean Dalits (the former untouchables), the tribals (the indigenous people), women and refugees. The on-going search for their identity in order to nurture self-respect, freedom, livelihood, equality and justice has been a struggle always and all ways. The paper attempts to find out indicators to evolve the process of discovering a pedagogy to re-create identity for the marginalised students within the university campus. The paper will be an outcome of our movement's experience for the past 15 years with these groups. In 1989, AICUF determined to gear its services towards the emancipation and empowerment of the marginalised students with in the university campuses all over India. back

J12. Student Empowerment through Participatory Methodology Jerald Joseph from Malaysia is a very experienced trainer. He has been Director of ASPBAE's Basic Leadership Course for the last 2 years. He has also been very closely involved in several of ASPBAE's thematic programmes notably, Education for Citizenship and Good Governance; Education for Peace and Conflict prevention and our Indigenous Education Programme. Jerald is also a human rights activist/lobbyist and has represented in various international human rights fora in that regard. He is presently the director of Pusat Komas (community communication centre) a Malaysian NGO supporting grassroot groups through popular education. He has worked for a variety of groups in the region ranging from the Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB), based in Thailand; the Regional UN Office of the High Commission for Human Rights; UNDP East Timor. He also does training for International Movement for Catholic Students (IMCS) and International Catholic Movement for Intellectual and cultural Affairs (ICMICA Asia-Pacific. He is an active trainer for the South East Asia Popular Communication Programme (SEAPCP) based in the region.
Geared to explore the participatory methodologies that are utilised in workshop processes. It will look at justice issues in the Asian context I.e racial discrimination/caste, conflict issues and see how the learning methods have a role to play in encouraging and empowering students to understand their issues. This will lead to greater participation and ownership of the Asian realties. It would use many group dynamic activities within the permitted time to explore 1 or 2 issues in the region. back

J13. Chaplaincy in Africa: A Success Story of Africa University Rev Dr Phillimon. T. Chikafu is the current Chaplain at Africa University, a United Methodist related institution. He is also a part-time lecturer in the faculty of Theology. He is an ordained Pastor of the United Methodist church who has served in the Church in various capacities. Currently, he is the Chairman of Education Committee in the Zimbabwe East Annual Conference. He served as lecturer at UTC (4yrs) and the university of Zimbabwe (12yrs) before coming to Africa University where he lectured for 3 yrs before receiving appointment as Chaplain. Africa University is a small institution of higher learning located on the Eastern border town of Mutare in Manicaland province, Zimbabwe. It was created through a resolution of the General Conference of the United Methodist Church in 1988. In 1992, the university opened its doors to the first students in the faculty of Theology and Agriculture and Natural Resources. The University appointed its first Chaplain the same year and over the years it has grown in leaps and bounds. Currently, the university has a student population of about 1,500. It is an international university with 24 countries represented. The majority of our students come from franco-phone Africa (DRC and Burundi), Luso-phone Africa (Angola and Mozambique), with the remainder coming from West Africa, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Southern Africa.
Africa University has a success story to share with those who are struggling with their Chaplaincy work. The secret behind that growth involved experimenting with home-grown models on the African soil coupled with their blending with other methods. I notice a bankruptcy in the methods currently used for Chaplaincy in the world today. To break the impasse, there is need to develop some collaborative ventures and tape the potential we find on the African Continent. back

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Title	About the Presenter(s)	Abstract
J1. A Deeper Self in a Broader World	Rev. Lamont Koerner is a Campus Pastor with Lutheran Campus Ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on the campus of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (USA). By the way, those "Twin Cities" are Minneapolis and St Paul.	We are like stones being skipped across a pond. Touching down only briefly in seemingly unrelated spots. Dilettantes extraordinaire we sample mission trips, dabble in service projects, taste of Bible study, and experiment with worship. Seduced by cultural forces, exhausted by the speed of life, we skip over much that could integrate our fragmentary lives. How do we connect the dots between personal faith in, and public witness to a God of Love and Justice in a broken and violent world? This workshop will be 45% presentation and 55% participation and interaction. back
J2. Advocacy: An Essential Ministry In Academia	Richard Bowyer is Campus Minister, Farimont (WV) State University (USA). Served as pastor of Native American and African American churches. Significant aspect of campus ministry is with Internationals and African-Americans. Taught Christian lay pastors in Liberia and was chaplain for a medical mission in the Philippines. First recipient of NCMA Richard Ross Hicks Award.	In an increasingly marketplace environment and often impersonal context, students, faculty and staff frequently need an Advocate who will act or assist them in acting in places or situations to resolve problems or receive fair treatment. Minorities in any given context are likely to have greater need of such ministry. We will examine how to identify such situations, make members of the community aware of our availability and explore methods of Advocacy. back
J3. An Eco-justice of Learning; establishing new systems of relationship in the university.	Gareth Dyer is Free Church Chaplain (Baptist, Methodist, United Reformed) in the ecumenical team serving the University communities in Manchester U.K. Ordained thirteen years ago he has maintained an interest in eco-justice and is currently engaged in research into cybernetic learning models of the environment and Christian ethics.	This paper suggests that issues of eco-justice have highlighted shortcomings in western ethics, specifically in Christian ethics. It goes on to suggest that learning models of the environment provide a valuable way of understanding of eco-justice. Such a model offers a challenge to current understandings of the university and its methods of education and management. 1. Eco-justice as a critique of Christian ethics. 2. Ecological sources for ethics; systems and relationships. 3. Developing a learning theory of ethics. 4. The challenge to university education; learning, research and interdisciplinary. 5. The challenge to university management; communities and relationships. back
J4. Chaplaincy and Philosophy reclaimed	Rev. Erich Kasirye has a Bachelor's Degree in Education (Makerere University) and M.A (Theology) Richmond. Married with two girls and a boy. Been Chaplain to Victory Academy, Kitemu SS and now Lubiri SS	In the Post Modern world, the twin pressures of secularization and pluralism have inhibited Chaplaincy in tertiary institutions as spirituality gets floated free from philosophy. Consequently, the language, meaning and tradition of chaplaincy has fallen into some kind of chaos as Chaplains get increasingly viewed as irrelevant. Drawing from the philosophical paradigms of Justice and Respect, this paper therefore seeks to reclaim chaplaincy in the Tertiary Institutions through prescribing a conscious link between theologia and philosophia as values of Justice and respect are shown to be sustained economically but also nourish us spiritually and morally. History of Theologia and Philosophia: Two major historical rifts in the developments of spiritual belief and practice have rocked our understanding of the nature and scope of Chaplaincy in Institutions, rendering our current discourse about it partially meaningless and somewhat rootless. Landscapes of Justice and Respect in Chaplaincy. In an effort to improve on Chaplaincy in institutions, a judicious integration of elements of Justice and Respect as critical elements of Philosophy in our ministry can never be over emphasized. Examine his Work and Witness Establish a Community of Compassion: Provide Space Revive Worship and Prayers. back
J5. Eco-theology and the Environment – a place for the university?	Matthew Wilson is Chaplain to regional campuses of Charles Sturt University (Albury) and LaTrobe University (Wodonga). A minister of the Uniting Church in Australia, he has ministered in three universities, and a range of urban and regional settings in New South Wales, Australia. Originally trained as a geologist, Matthew has continued an interest in the natural sciences and the environment – both from a scientific and theological perspective.	The environmental movement has gained significant profile in the general community, and in political power and awareness around the globe over the past 30 years. Alongside this growing scientific, community and political awareness has been a development – at least in Christian theology – reinterpreting ‘traditional’ understandings of human stewardship of natural resources, and the place of the environment in the ‘Kingdom of God’. What place does the university have in this? Is it simply an academic exercise, or do universities have an opportunity and/or responsibility to undertake an educative ‘hands-on’ role with staff, students and the wider community. Where can chaplaincy – across faiths – interact with this growing awareness of the place and dependence of humanity on the natural world? Australia has one of the world’s poorest records in preservation of biodiversity – yet it also contains some of the world’s most unusual flora and fauna. Charles Sturt University (Albury) is currently developing a new ‘green-fields’ campus at Thurgoona, based on environmental principles including minimal water use, rammed earth building construction, composting toilets, minimising power use, native vegetation plantings, preservation and restoration of ecosystems including wetlands. Is this a way forward for universities as communities of justice? How can spirituality and our understanding of God help inform these new possibilities? How can universities which are already developed in a ‘non-environmentally friendly’ way themselves become examples of ‘communities of justice’ to the earth and their local environment? Through presentation, discussion and interaction this workshop seeks to explore some of these issues amongst the participants. back
J6. Faithful Extension	Ed Den Haan is a Christian Reformed Campus Minister at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Ed has served at Guelph since 1977 and is coordinator of its Multi Faith Resource Team. Ed has been a key partner in the development of this Interfaith ministry as basis for campus ministry.	Our stature on campus in Guelph has improved greatly while a Multi Faith Resource Team. In Canada, separation of the sacred and secular has eroded religious faith from public life. Morals are now based on public demand and directions are set to enhance our national economic productivity. Our Multi Faith Team engages our campus in faithful discussion by multi-faith partners to promote the development of a faith based education and lifestyle. This requires our team members to interact publicly. This workshop is to develop such faithful interaction. back
J7. From Covenant to Contract : Administrative Mobbing in the Academy	Andrew Taylor was until this year the Anglican Chaplain and Director of Theological Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London (UK). He has a particular concern, arising out of work with members of staff, in promoting issues around justice in the workplace, especially as that impacts upon the ethos of the institution.	Fundamental idea is to do with the seeming growth of harassment in the workplace, and especially in the modern university. How this affects those whose understanding of that relationship is a covenantal rather than a contractual model, and how this understanding can sometimes ill equip them to deal with situations of harassment when they arise. Idea would also be to share experience of working with staff in such situations. back
J8. "Just Tucker"(Food) events on campus	Rev Judy Redman is currently serving as Uniting Church chaplain to the University of New England, Armidale, NSW (Australia). She has been involved in university chaplaincy for nearly nine years on two campuses. She is particularly interested in peace and justice issues, feminist theology and using the internet in chaplaincy.	Tucker (Aussie for 'food') is a program that aims to provide a chance for people to respond in a positive and empowering way to issues of poverty and injustice; raise awareness about what the Bible has to say about poverty and injustice; raise money for The Evangelical Alliance Refugee Fund's partners who are working with poor communities to bring hope and change. Tucker events sell food from target communities in a cafe or dinner format to raise money for the target communities, educate and entertain those who attend and raise the profile of chaplaincy on campus. While this workshop will look particularly at an Australian situation, it will provide ideas and resources for those outside Australia and those who are not Christian who might like to organise similar events. back
J9. Listening to Country, Listening to Heart: dialogue that takes land and people seriously	Polly Walker is a specialist in intercultural conflict transformation with a background in education, cross-cultural communication, mediation and Indigenous knowledge systems. Given her Cherokee and Anglo heritage, she has forged close working relationships with American Indian and Australian Aboriginal communities. Polly is committed to peace making and community healing through building bridges of understanding between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous peoples, institutions and agencies. She lives in Brisbane, where she taught at the University of Queensland from 1997-2003. Bruce Coriell serves as the Chaplain at Colorado College, where he also teaches courses in nature and religion as well as indigenous traditions. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado USA, when he is not off wandering rivers and mountains.	Studying indigenous culture runs the dual risks of romanticism as one idealizes the value of native traditions and fatalism as one despairs over the overwhelming social stresses on indigenous communities. Genuine understanding avoids these dangers by situating learning in the concrete experience of real native people living in actual communities. Workshop leaders will present their recent experience co-teaching a course entitled “Listening to Country: Learning in Aboriginal Australia.” Twenty-five Colorado College students and instructors participated in a living-learning community on Stradbroke Island for one month hosted by the traditional Aboriginal owners at the invitation of the elders of the three active clans of Minjerriba. An integral component of the course was a series of conversations on native issues lead by six American Indian members of the class with their Aboriginal peers. Issues of native land rights and living in multiple worlds point to just a few of the questions raised and lessons learned. back
J10. Walking With My Brothers and Sisters	Valerie Powidzki is a member of Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth. She was born, raised and educated in Philadelphia in the USA and was sent by her congregation to minister in Australia in 1987. Valerie is presently a Chaplain at the University of Western Sydney in Australia. She has recently completed an immersion experience working with the poor in the Philippines.	A paper based on my experience of 2 months in the Philippines working with the poor and integrating this experience into the University Chaplaincy - a sharing of my experience after being invited to spend 2 months in Dec '03 and January '04 working with the poorest of the poor in the Philippines. My task was to build houses, teach values, help in the villages with Health, Education and livelihood. How was I going to do that? My paper gives an unfolding of the experience and all that I was able to accomplish. It was an enriching and fulfilling time for me personally. It also opens an avenue for University students who would like an immersion experience in working with the poor and becoming a part of a program to transform poor and hopeless families in former slum areas to a better way of life where the poor can live in peace and with dignity. back
J11. Empowering The Marginalised In The Campus: Synthesising Our Experience And Pedagogy.	Rev. Fr. V. Henry Jerome SJ is the National Chaplain of All India Catholic University Federation known as AICUF. He has been serving in AICUF as the regional chaplain for the past 8 years. He has done my masters in Mathematics. He has also done post-graduation degree in Journalism and Mass Communication, and a bachelor degree in education. He is a Jesuit priest. Earlier, he had the opportunity to be with school going students in our State. AICUF is the national level student movement which was born in 1924.	Ostracisation, displacement, oppression, dehumanisation and vulnerability are the marks of the marginalised students in the campus especially in India. By marginalised, we mean Dalits (the former untouchables), the tribals (the indigenous people), women and refugees. The on-going search for their identity in order to nurture self-respect, freedom, livelihood, equality and justice has been a struggle always and all ways. The paper attempts to find out indicators to evolve the process of discovering a pedagogy to re-create identity for the marginalised students within the university campus. The paper will be an outcome of our movement's experience for the past 15 years with these groups. In 1989, AICUF determined to gear its services towards the emancipation and empowerment of the marginalised students with in the university campuses all over India. back
J12. Student Empowerment through Participatory Methodology	Jerald Joseph from Malaysia is a very experienced trainer. He has been Director of ASPBAE's Basic Leadership Course for the last 2 years. He has also been very closely involved in several of ASPBAE's thematic programmes notably, Education for Citizenship and Good Governance; Education for Peace and Conflict prevention and our Indigenous Education Programme. Jerald is also a human rights activist/lobbyist and has represented in various international human rights fora in that regard. He is presently the director of Pusat Komas (community communication centre) a Malaysian NGO supporting grassroot groups through popular education. He has worked for a variety of groups in the region ranging from the Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB), based in Thailand; the Regional UN Office of the High Commission for Human Rights; UNDP East Timor. He also does training for International Movement for Catholic Students (IMCS) and International Catholic Movement for Intellectual and cultural Affairs (ICMICA Asia-Pacific. He is an active trainer for the South East Asia Popular Communication Programme (SEAPCP) based in the region.	Geared to explore the participatory methodologies that are utilised in workshop processes. It will look at justice issues in the Asian context I.e racial discrimination/caste, conflict issues and see how the learning methods have a role to play in encouraging and empowering students to understand their issues. This will lead to greater participation and ownership of the Asian realties. It would use many group dynamic activities within the permitted time to explore 1 or 2 issues in the region. back
J13. Chaplaincy in Africa: A Success Story of Africa University	Rev Dr Phillimon. T. Chikafu is the current Chaplain at Africa University, a United Methodist related institution. He is also a part-time lecturer in the faculty of Theology. He is an ordained Pastor of the United Methodist church who has served in the Church in various capacities. Currently, he is the Chairman of Education Committee in the Zimbabwe East Annual Conference. He served as lecturer at UTC (4yrs) and the university of Zimbabwe (12yrs) before coming to Africa University where he lectured for 3 yrs before receiving appointment as Chaplain.	Africa University is a small institution of higher learning located on the Eastern border town of Mutare in Manicaland province, Zimbabwe. It was created through a resolution of the General Conference of the United Methodist Church in 1988. In 1992, the university opened its doors to the first students in the faculty of Theology and Agriculture and Natural Resources. The University appointed its first Chaplain the same year and over the years it has grown in leaps and bounds. Currently, the university has a student population of about 1,500. It is an international university with 24 countries represented. The majority of our students come from franco-phone Africa (DRC and Burundi), Luso-phone Africa (Angola and Mozambique), with the remainder coming from West Africa, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Southern Africa. Africa University has a success story to share with those who are struggling with their Chaplaincy work. The secret behind that growth involved experimenting with home-grown models on the African soil coupled with their blending with other methods. I notice a bankruptcy in the methods currently used for Chaplaincy in the world today. To break the impasse, there is need to develop some collaborative ventures and tape the potential we find on the African Continent. back