Hello - just some insights of the achievements of eea3, day2:
Today, some young delegates had the opportunity to meet parts of the drafting committee for the final message of the Assembly and handed them the statement of the young delegates (born in St. Maurice). As it's shortly over one page and the final message should not have more than two pages, there are two possibilities: a) they take it, put some starting formula in the beginning and some ending formula in the end. Final message done. b) they squeeze it and then we can search in and inbetween the lines of the final message, what remained.
Scenario a) would make the work of the drafting committee easier - but it is not very likely to happen - unfortunately. Scenario b) is more likely, but luckily the committee got euqipped with a proposal how to shorten the long version: they got a short version. We will see. But still, having had the opportunity to meet the drafting committee is a step of success. And it shows, that the young delegates are well prepared and working hard. (We would work as hard as well, if we had a young member in the drafting committee, but it is not the case. But of course, we tried to convince them.)
Unfortunately, working hard has to take place in the breaks to a great extent. Working hard during the plenary mornings is difficult. The greatest opportunity to work hard in order to participate is to fill in forms. You can write what you think and hand it in, and if you're lucky, your message is picked. Yesterday, the picked messages were presented to the persons on the panel, but there was no time for any answers :-(
Today, six persons were selected to talk for two minutes each, but young delegates were not lucky in the selection process. Maybe tomorrow.
So, plenary is a little bit like radio, but luckily the people being allowed to speak can be seen on big screens. (This is a good change in the scenario, as the Assembly tent is held in dark blue. It's hard when you're tired.)
Videostar of the day: Thomas Wipf. Yesterday, he took part in the youth hearing and got to know the discussion about the statement. During his message in plenary this morning, he highlighted the achievement of the young delegates' statement and asked the facilitators to give some time to present it to the Assembly. Wow. We will see, if we are in the lucky position to grab two precious minutes of the Assembly plenary speaking time.
I'll let you know.
Who's your videostar?
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I was impressed by Sughra Ahmed, a Muslim woman from the UK who took part in the panel discussion on the "Religions" fora.
On the first impression seeing her sitting on the stage you could think that she will raise rather conservative positions, because she wore a headscarf. But, it was the opposite. She had a really liberal, enlightened thinking about her own religion and the relations between religions.
So, she talked about the One god we share - not really a position all Muslim and Christian people do compare. Her main topic was on the needed solidarity between religions (for example in the project "Make poverty history"). Working together for the welfare of your community, supporting each other in its social work.
She used a very reflected language and had a good understanding of her religion and her own believe. A person you can discuss with.
I suppose that it's not easy for her to have a standing within the Muslim community. But I also think that people like her are needed to improve the relations between religions.
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