A trendsetting paradigm for development cooperation?

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12:45 Virtual Arrival

01:00 Word of Greeting and Opening of the Symposium
Rev. Dr. Dagmar Pruin, President of Bread for the World and Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe
Heike Bosien (Moderator), Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg

01:20 Input 1
Ecumenical Diakonia as an Alternative to the Paradigm of Development? Learning experiences and impulses from the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace
Prof. Dr. Isabel Apawo Phiri, Deputy General Secretary of the World Council of Churches

01:40 Input 2
Ecumenical Diakonia in the Context of Shrinking Spaces – Challenges for ecumenical development cooperation on the example of the Asia region
Dr. Mathews George Chunakara General Secretary of the Christian Conference of Asia

02:00 Response
Ecumenical Diakonia as a chance to strengthen the specific profile and potential of churches as actors of eco-social transformation – facing the three major challenges of the 21st century: economic inequality, climate change/one health, global crisis of democracy
Rev. Prof. Dr. Dietrich Werner, Bread for the World

02:20 Small Break

02:25 Questions from the plenum

02:35 Panel Discussion
Ecumenical Diakonia – a trendsetting paradigm for development cooperation?
Rev. Prof. Dr. Dietrich Werner Prof. Dr. Isabel Apawo Phiri, Dr. Mathews George Chunakara

03:25 Concluding Remarks
Heike Bosien

03:30 End of Symposium