Interdependence Day Secondary School Videoconference:

Date: September 12, 2005
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Locations: United Nations, NY
Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia
and selected schools in USA, Canada and Mexico

Program: The United Nations in an Interdependent World

About Program: Mr. Damodaran will speak from the UN and interact with students from various locations in North America. Students will come to the videoconference prepared to dialogue on living in an interdependent world. Interested students in the Philadelphia area should contact GEM. There is no cost to this program.

About Interdependence Day: The Interdependence Day mission is to challenge the direction of the world's current choices to wage war, litigate or avoid conflict by expanding our own choices. We are asking ourselves, and each one of you, to face conflict in your life with effective dialogue. Use dialogue that shows an understanding of what it means to live in an interdependent world.

About Presenter: Mr. Ramu Damodaran, a native of India, is currently Chief, Civil Society Section, United Nations Department of Public Information, (DPI). Mr. Damodaran became political affairs officer at the Dept. of Special Political Questions with responsibilities relating to Namibia and Western Sahara in 1989, and secretary of the UN Iraq Kuwait Observation Mission with the Executive Office of the Secretary General in 1991. More recently he has served as senior focal point and liaison officer with the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, as senior officer in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary General, editor in chief of the UN Chronicle, and as private secretary/executive assistant to the prime minister of India.

To learn more about Interdependence Day visit:  Civworld.org