An expert drafting panel is to prepare a legal definition of “ecocide” as a potential international crime that could sit alongside War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, in the context of a new global threat: the climate and biodiversity crisis.
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Bahá'í International Community
One hour video roundtable for Geneva Peace Week
2-6 November 2020
Creating Built Environments: Bridging Knowledge and Practice Divides
by Roderick J. Lawrence, New York and London: Routledge, 2021. 241 p.
Book review by Arthur Dahl
On 25 October 2020, IEF member Dr. Ashiyan Rahmani of California State University, East Bay, gave a webinar on "Thank God for Science" as one of the weekly OZ Whitehead Firesides in the United Kingdom. Dr. Rahmani used the example of his own Ph.D. dissertation research in Fiji to illustrate how science and religion could be complementary and mutually reinforcing.
22 October 2020
Arthur Lyon Dahl
A presentation to the Agriculture Working Group
Association for Bahá'í Studies
27 September 2020
Watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k6gnvoMKRs&feature=youtu.be
5-8 October 2020
Op Ed by Ian Hamilton
Office of Public Affairs, Bahá'ís of the United States
1 July 2020
https://www.bahai.us/newsroom/avoiding-another-new-normal/
United Nations Environment Programme
Faith and Biodiversity
https://www.unenvironment.org/faith-and-biodiversity
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