Values Education

• Keynote Address
  For the New Zealand Values Education Summit, Wellington, 1998, 9 pp.
  
  New Zealand's educators had become increasingly aware of the seemingly rudderless state of their youth: it had the highest rate of teenage suicides the world. Realizing that education neeed4d to provide a foundation within the context of it secular society, it organized this values education summit, participated in by the Governor General, the Supreme Court Justices and key educators. This is the keynote.
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  The Challenges of Traditional and Modern Values in Educational Management
  For Vietnam regional conference, Hanoi, 1997 11 pp.

• Panel Response: Premises for Inter-Faith Dialogue
  For Griffith University Inter-Faith Center Conference," Weaving Cultural Solidarity and Harmony," Brisbane, 2005, 4 pp.
  
  Griffiths University hosted an inter-faith symposium soliciting different perspectives on the necessary harmony to achieve world peace. Ironically this is one speech I never gave, though it was distributed and much appreciated afterwards. When it was my turn to speak, I felt impelled to lay out more clearly the premises for interfaith dialogue which distinguishes between a belief system, a moral code (largely common to all and the basis for harmonious collaboration), and outward expression of the first two, often ritual imbedded in culture and history.

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  The Need for Catholic Universities to Respond to Globalization and Evangelization
  For annual conference of the Association of Southeast and East Asian Catholic Universities, Manila, 2007, 9 pp.
  
  Catholic school administrators from different countries in Asia met to tackle the twin themes of globalization and evangelization. My keynote was intended to the raise the main issues for the talks and discussions that followed.
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