The 2023 Symposium on the Role of Religionand Faith-Based Organizations in International Affairs was heldon January 23, 2023. It is the ninth in a series of symposiums held annuallysince 2015. This year’s theme is “Securing People’s Wellbeingand Planetary Sustainability” and features faith-based leaders,officials from the UN System, Member-States, and other experts in the humansecurity field who will discuss practices of human security and its necessityfor peace and prosperity for people and the planet.
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Audrey E. Kitagawa, J.D.
Audrey E. Kitagawa, J.D., is President/Founder of the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation, President of the Light of Awareness International Spiritual Family, and Chair of the Anti-Racism Initiative and the Gender Equality Working Group of the G20 Interfaith Forum. She is the former Advisor to the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict at the UN, a UN Representative for the URI, a member of the Advisory Council of the Global Security Institute, and a Board member of the International Center for Religion and Democracy. She has been listed in Who’s Who of American Law, Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, and Prominent People of Hawaii. She was enstooled into the royal family of Ajiyamanti, Ghana as the Nekoso Hemaa (Queen Mother of Development) where a school she helped to build, the Nana Ode Anyankobea Junior Secondary School, is named after her.