His Holiness To Inaugurate Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MITTuesday, 14 April 2009, 9:27 a.m.
The Center will nurture a new generation of leaders
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| His Holiness the Dalai Lama |
Dharamshala: His Holiness the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will host its inaugural event on 30 April with His Holiness the Dalai Lama as the speaker and featuring a benefit concert by Philip Glass. The Center aims to nurture a new generation of self-aware, responsible and caring leaders who have a sense of moral purpose at individual, community and global levels. An inclusive and collaborative think tank, the Center will foster inquiry and dialogue between scientists, technologists, policy-makers and religious leaders concerning ethical responsibility and enlightened leadership. Nobel Peace Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Betty Williams are founding members. As one of four centers in the world to which His Holiness the Dalai Lama has lent his name, the Center hopes to create educational programs that will transform the conversation about the global and long term social, economic and environmental impact of the decisions being made by a new generation of leaders.”Economies and societies can no longer be thought of separately, for they are intertwined in a global community,” said His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama. “Our actions as individuals and as societies affect not just ourselves but our global neighbours. It is imperative that we contemplate and understand our relationship to each other as individuals, as countries, and as inhabitants of our planet.” The inaugural event takes place at the Kresge Auditorium on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 29 – 30 April. His Holiness will deliver a talk on ‘Ethics and Enlightened Leadership’ on 30 April.The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT will also host its first public conference on ‘The Human Impact: Economy, Ethics, and Environment’.The conference will be an interdisciplinary forum exploring ethical responsibility in the context of a globalized economy and an environment that is vulnerable on a planetary scale.The conference begins with a series of talks during the second half of April featuring intellectuals and thinkers. List of invited speakers for spring and fall 2009 include APJ Kalam, Samdhong Rinpoche, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Wangari Mathaai, Howard Zinn, Jane Goodall, Martha Nussbaum, Betty Williams, Fr. Thomas Keating, Richard Davidson, and Daniel Goleman.The Center website: http://thecenter.mit.edu
