Dalai Lama & Chinese civic leaders to meet through International FOR

The International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) has just forwarded the exciting news that it will be hosting a meeting next week between Tibetan and Chinese community leaders. The message from Johannes Schot, executive director of IFOR, reported:

The International Secretariat is herewith proud to announce the news that the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, in cooperation with the Swiss Tibetan Friendship Association, has invited the Dalai Lama for a conference in Geneva between Chinese and Tibetan scholars, scientists, journalists and other members of Chinese and Tibetan civil society. The conference is proceeding as planned, held from 6 — 8 August.

The conference is a closed conference (only for Chinese and Tibetan representatives), and appears to be a conference which we as the International Fellowship of Reconciliation can be proud of. It is organized in the true spirit of the Fellowship. IFOR will be represented by its vice-president Françoise Petremand, the International Secretariat’s Executive Director Johannes R. Schot, and the conference convener Jonathan Sisson (previous President of IFOR).

All our thanks to Jonathan for this great initiative!

During the conference the Dalai Lama will give a press statement.

For more information, please see the IFOR website.

The "Finding Common Ground" conference has also set up a separate website for the event, which hopefully will provide additional information during and after the conference.