Donal O'Mahony - Catholic Franciscan priest coordinating the Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation mission for the Franciscan Capuchin Order in eleven African countries

Organisers: SACBC Environmental Justice, SACBC Justice & Peace and St Augustine's
For more info: Dawn Linder, tel. 012 323 6458

Angelo Pansa - Catholic priest working with indigenous Americans in the Amazon for the past 30 years

Organisers: SACBC Environmental Justice, SACBC Justice & Peace and St Augustine's
For more info: Dawn Linder, tel. 012 323 6458

Venue: Christ the King Anglican Church, 49 Ray Street, Sophiatown
Organisers: Ecumenical Service for Socio-Economic Transformation (ESSET)
For more info: Kholi Mabena, tel. 011 833 1190

Venue: Christ the King Anglican Church, 49 Ray Street, Sophiatown
Organisers: Ecumenical Service for Socio-Economic Transformation (ESSET)
For more info: Kholi Mabena, tel. 011 833 1190

Venue: Uniting Presbyterian Church, Stand 91892, Phase 2, Alexandra
Organisers: South African Council of Churches
For more info: Sipho Mtetwa, tel. 011 492 1380

Official development aid is increasingly being redirected through the export credit agencies (ECAs) of rich countries to support private investment in under-developed countries. But ECAs are responsible for most of the debt burden of poor countries and are big culprits in supporting dirty industries. Yet most people have never heard of these organisations. Learn more about how ECAs operate and what global action is being taken to hold ECAs to account.

Sander van Bennekom - Consumption and Production Officer at the Northern Alliance for Sustainability (ANPED) in Amsterdam.

Antonio Tricarico - Coordinator of the Campaign to Reform the World Bank in Rome.

Organisers: SACBC Justice & Peace Department and ECA Watch
For more info: Dawn Linder, tel. 012 323 6458

Can an International Currency Transaction Tax (CTT) harness and control international currency speculation to the benefit of sustainable development? Hear the problems and the opportunities for the implementation of a CTT.

Bart Bode - Head of Broederlijk Delen's policy and advocacy unit in Belgium and president of the CIDSE Advocacy Platform.

Dr Reinhard Hermle - Head of MISEREOR's development department in Aachen, Germany.

Organisers: SACBC Justice & Peace Department and the CIDSE EU Advocacy Office
For more info: Dawn Linder, tel. 012 323 6458

John Ashworth - MA in Spirituality, currently secretary of the Sudan Focal Point, working on peace and advocacy issues with the churches in the Sudan

Organisers: SACBC Environmental Justice, SACBC Justice & Peace and St Augustine's
For more info: Dawn Linder, tel. 012 323 6458

Foreign investment is an essential part of the future of South Africa. With investment taking place all around us, South Africans need to ensure the ethical integrity of their society and business practices. South Africa needs a code of conduct for business as a tool for assessing the ethics of investment.

This event will mark the press launch of a new NGO, the Bench Marks Foundation in Southern Africa for Corporate Social Responsibility (BeFSA CSR), and will give stakeholders an opportunity to discuss principles of global corporate responsibility.

The Rt Revd Dr Jo Seoka - Anglican Bishop of Pretoria and Chair of BeFSA CSR

Member of the International Bench Marks panel - to be announced

Registered WSSD delegates and day visitors only.

Organisers: Bench Marks Foundation
For more info: Piet Beukes, tel. 082 433 0900

A number of countries are considering ways of ensuring that all of their people enjoy a guaranteed minimum income. Can this strategy effectively eradicate extreme poverty and stimulate broad-based and lasting economic growth? Three advocates of the concept from different parts of the world talk about the prospects for, obstacles to and impact of the introduction of universal income support grants.

The Hon Eduardo Suplicy - Professor of Economics at the School of Business Administration of the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (São Paulo) and the Brazilian Labour Party's first elected Senator, Dr. Suplicy introduced legislation to establish a Guaranteed Minimum Income in Brazil.

Bernard Fargeot - A municipal government official for Limeil- Brévannes, a Paris suburb, Mr Fargeot is a member of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) and active in the basic income movement in France.

Dr Michael Samson - Director of Research at the Economic Policy Research Institute (Cape Town) and Associate Professor of Economics at the Center for Development Economics, Williams College (Mass., USA). Dr. Samson was an advisor to the South African government's Committee of Inquiry into a Comprehensive Social Security System which recommended a Basic Income Grant (BIG).

Registered WSSD delegates and day visitors only.

Organisers: Basic Income Grant Coalition
For more info: Doug Tilton, tel. 021 423 4261

To talk of good governance is to make the various agents of a political system work for the betterment of all citizens, especially marginalized and vulnerable communities, but is this possible?

Dr Prakash Louis, SJ - Executive Director of the Indian Social Institute in New Delhi. He holds a PhD in sociology and is the author of People Power: The Naxalite Movement in Central Bihar

Registered WSSD delegates and day visitors only.

Organisers: International Jesuit Network for Development
For more info: Jeff Brogan, tel. 011 827 3298

The September 11^th attack on New York and Washington DC has had a profound impact on the global debate about world development, North-South relations, and the possibility of building a world of peace and justice. Hear a theological reflection and discussion on changing views of globalisation.

Prof Tinyiko Maluleke - Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the University of South Africa (UNISA). He is has published widely in the areas of contextual theology and black theology.

Registered WSSD delegates and day visitors only.

Organisers: Ecumenical Service for Socio-Economic Transformation (ESSET)
For more info: contact Nana Gumede or Kholi Mabena, tel. 011 833 1190

This workshop will address the poverty implications of the theory behind neo-liberal policies backed by international financial and trade organisations as well as multinational enterprises. It will provide a critique of fifteen sophisms upon which neo-liberal economics is built, assessing the system from the perspective of those in poverty and considering alternative, more just approaches from the experience and reflection of the Global South.

Eduardo Valencia Vasquez - Director of the Economic Research Institute at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Ecuador. He has served as general manager at the Central Bank of Ecuador where he negotiated with creditor countries for debt reduction for Ecuador. He edits the journal Revista Economia y Humanismo.

Registered WSSD delegates and day visitors only.

Organisers: International Jesuit Network for Development
For more info: Jeff Brogan, tel. 011 827 3298

Panel discussion; panelists to be announced. Duration: 1½ hours.

Organisers: World Council of Churches
For more info: Sipho Mtetwa, tel. 011 492 1380

Luc Hoebeke - Graduate from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) in Electronics and Nuclear Sciences Engineering, director of a company that aims to stimulate, accompany and realise boundary activities in various social domains

Organisers: SACBC Environmental Justice, SACBC Justice & Peace and St Augustine's
For more info: Dawn Linder, tel. 012 323 6458

The currently dominant development paradigm places economic growth as the foremost goal for developing countries. But is this compatible with a development model that is sustainable?

Professor Patrick Bond - Co-director of the Municipal Services Project, University of the Witwatersrand, and an associate of the Alternative Information and Development Centre in Cape Town and the Center for Economic Justice in Washington.

Bishop Kevin Dowling - Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Rustenburg and Chairperson of the SACBC Justice & Peace Department.

Registered WSSD delegates and day visitors only.

Organisers: SACBC Justice & Peace Department
For more info: Dawn Linder, tel. 012 323 6458

Sustainable development can be understood as development of humanity in harmony with itself and with nature. The current tension between human development and the environment has been caused in part by a lack of harmony among people which has, in turn, skewed resource use and distribution. In order to reduce this tension, it is necessary to reaffirm and operationalise a value system that can promote harmonious relations, both among people and between people and the environment.

The universal human rights (economic, social, cultural, political) recognised in various international covenants and declarations constitute the core of a shared value system that can support sustainable development. If it is to be viable, however, we must challenge policies, processes and institutions that violate or impede access to these rights. The state and global governance structures have a crucial role to play in defending and upholding these rights, including preventing violations by international entities such as multinational corporations and international financial and trade institutions (World Bank, IMF and WTO). Civil society organisations, too, have a critical responsibility to identify violations and facilitate the protection and promotion of rights.

Opa Kapajimpanga - AFRODAD

Steve de Gruchy - Institute for Theology and Development

Registered WSSD delegates and day visitors only.

Organisers: Economic Justice Network, AFRODAD and Diakonia Sweden
For more info: Leif Newman or Katherine Cash,
tel. 012 342 8058

A roundtable discussion examining the tensions sometimes experienced between social activists and environmental activists when either group focuses exclusively on either poverty or environmental degradation. The group will explore the intimate and complex relationship between the social, economic, and environmental factors involved in sustainable development, towards cooperation for the good of both the poor and the environment.

Fr Roland Lesseps SJ - A Jesuit priest with a doctoral degree in biology from The Johns Hopkins University. He taught and undertook research in biology at Loyola University, New Orleans, for 20 years and then shifted into sustainable agriculture at Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre, Zambia.

Registered WSSD delegates and day visitors only.

Organisers: International Jesuit Network for Development
For more info: Jeff Brogan, tel. 011 827 3298

Panel discussion; panelists to be announced. Duration: 1½ hours.

Organisers: World Council of Churches and WEDO
For more info: Sipho Mtetwa, tel. 011 492 1380

Panel discussion; panelists to be announced.

Venue: Christ the King Anglican Church, 49 Ray Street, Sophiatown
Organisers: Ecumenical Service for Socio-Economic Transformation (ESSET)
For more info: Kholi Mabena, tel. 011 833 1190

Join Catholic delegates to the WSSD from around the world in a celebration of the Holy Eucharist.

Organisers: SACBC Justice & Peace Department
For more info: Zukile Tom, cell. 082 977 4595

International trade is being strongly promoted as the economic centrepiece for rapid and sustained development in poor countries. But this is strongly linked to the promotion of genetically modified agricultural products, the removal of basic labour protections, and increased environmental vulnerability. Is international trade compatible with sustainable development? Are there alternatives?

Larry J. Goodwin - Associate Director for Organizing at the Africa Faith & Justice Network in Washington DC. He has led a 2-year trade policy campaign urging the US Government to respect African community/farmer rights to agro-ecological resources according to the principles of the OAU-initiated African Model Law.

Rev Malcolm Damon - Coordinator of the Southern African regional Economic Justice Network and former director of the SACC Parliamentary Office.

Registered WSSD delegates and day visitors only.

Organisers: Trade Strategy Group, Economic Justice Network and SACBC Justice & Peace Department.
For more info: Dawn Linder, tel. 012 323 6458

The New Partnership for Africa's Development proposes to "put Africa on the path of sustainable development". But can it really do that? Does NEPAD contain any new approaches to development that are specifically appropriate to African conditions?

Oupa Bodibe - Coordinator of the national secretariat of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). He recently contributed to developing COSATU's position paper on NEPAD.

Dr John Kudjoe - Chief Research Specialist at the Africa Institute of South Africa.

Registered WSSD delegates and day visitors only.

Organisers: South African Council of Churches and the SACBC Justice & Peace Department
For more info: Dawn Linder, tel. 012 323 6458

Panel discussion; panelists to be announced. Duration: 1½ hours.

Organisers: World Council of Churches
For more info: Sipho Mtetwa, tel. 011 492 1380

Geoff Davies - Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Umzimvubu , the 'green' bishop who has a particular concern for environmental justice

Organisers: SACBC Environmental Justice, SACBC Justice & Peace and St Augustine's
For more info: Dawn Linder, tel. 012 323 6458

Join residents of Johannesburg's townships, popular campaigns for social, economic, and environmental justice, and local social movements to form a human chain linking the WSSD inter-governmental summit in the comfort of the Sandton Convention Centre to the impoverishment of Alexandra - as part of the campaign for a basic income grant (BIG): BIG Beats Poverty!

Meet at the stadium in Alexandra at 10h00 for cultural events or simply join the chain anywhere along the 1.8 km route (through Marie Street, Sandton Drive, Grayston Drive, to the speakers' corner on Fifth and Alice Streets, Sandton) by introducing yourself to one of the Marshalls stationed along the route.

The Link will conclude with the handing over of a memorandum to the South African Ministers of Finance and Social Development at 11h45. Participants should bring their own food and drink, if desired. Members of the clergy are encouraged to wear clerical garb.

Organisers: Basic Income Grant Coalition
For more info: Shelagh-Mary, tel. 011 402 6400 or Douglas Torr, tel. 011 624 2124