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FIFTH COMING TOGETHER ROUNDTABLE “Connect, Collaborate, Create” Crowne Plaza, Dubai December 27, 30 and 31, 2009. Commemorating Togetherness Working Together in the Spirit of Hamazori Hamazor Bad, Hamazor Hama Asho Bad Please greet the person sitting next to you With the Hamazor hand clasp.
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FIFTH COMING TOGETHER ROUNDTABLE“Connect, Collaborate, Create”Crowne Plaza, DubaiDecember 27, 30 and 31, 2009 Commemorating TogethernessWorking Together in the Spirit of Hamazori Hamazor Bad, Hamazor Hama Asho Bad Please greet the person sitting next to you With the Hamazor hand clasp
“COMING TOGETHER ROUNDTABLE Session I, December 27, 2009, 9 am - 3 pm AGENDA 9:00 Registration 9:30 Benediction, Monajat, Talk on Hamazori- Er. Soli Dastur and Er. Dr. Jehan Bagli Welcome – Congress Chair Meher Bhesania Background and Vision of the CTR - Rohinton Rivetna Self-introductions – all participants The CTR - Technology and the Spirit- Yazdi Tantra, Dr. Zareen Karani Araoz 10:15 Review of 1Vth CTR and Followup 10:30 Discussion Items and Development of 5 Goals 1:00 Lunch 2:00 Discussion Items and Development of 5 Goals (cont) 2:45 Summation
“COMING TOGETHER ROUNDTABLE Session II, December 30, 2009, 10 -11 am WORLD LEADERSHIP FORUM Co-chaired by: Dr. Esfandiar Ekhtiyari (Iran), Dinshaw Mehta (BPP-India),Paurush Jila (ZTFE), Bomi Patel (FEZANA) 10:00 Introduction. Presentation of 5 Goals developed in Session 1.- Rohinton Rivetna 10:10 CTR Website and Communications - Yazdi Tantra 10:15 Vision and Future Directions - Co-chairs: Dr. Ekhtiyari, Dinshaw Mehta, Paurush Jila, Bomi Patel 10:45 Open Discussion
“COMING TOGETHER ROUNDTABLE Session III, December 31, 2009, 8:30 - 9:30 am AGENDA 8:30 Summation of 5 Goals with responsibilities identified 9:00 Future Directions
OBJECTIVES FOR THIS ROUNDTABLE • We are gathered here today for the 5th Roundtable to build upon the good work done by many around the world. • We are gathered here today to strengthen our bonds of hamazori and Ashoi, through dialogue and joint action. • We must focus on social togetherness, harmony and cooperation, with respect for our religious diversity. Diversity is richness. At this 5th Roundtable, we will: • Prioritize and Select Discussion Items/Projects to work on, and follow up on past items. • Develop 5 Goals for the CTR, as requested by the WZCongress. • Transition ownership of the CTR to Regional Leadership.
DISCUSSION ITEMS/PROJECTS - 1 • Engaging the Apex organizations in dialogue and action • Resolution by apex bodies to “Come Together and Work Together”. Transition ownership of the CTR to Regional leadership. Suggest BPP hold a convention of all Zarathushti organizations world wide annually. - Rohinton Rivetna • Network of Zoroastrian Organizations - Jehangir Sarosh • Technology Platform for Communications - Eric Engineer • Information about various Zoroastrian organizations - Alayar Dabestani
DISCUSSION ITEMS/PROJECTS - 2 • Socio-Communal Projects • Regional Survey Results - Meher Bhesania • Review world wide Zoroastrian demographics (special concerns about Pakistan). • Future directions for the next generation – Jim Engineer (NextGenNow) and Eric Engineer (YLEP) • Critical role of women in sustaining the Community (ZWIN).– Dr. Zareen Karani Araoz • Concerns of Iranian Youth – Beharam Firoozfard and Parto Kavoosian • Breast Cancer (mammographic facilities in Mumbai) - Behram Pastakia • Community health care, Venture capital, Dharamshallas – Khodayar Attaie • Setting up Hunnarshallas (vocatioinal training). • Coordination of Welfare internationally.
DISCUSSION ITEMS/PROJECTS - 3 3) Infrastructure Projects • Hospitality Center in Mumbai and Services for Zarathustis in the diaspora. • Building a facility with continuously burning Atash in the West. 4) Intellectual Projects • Understanding our Zarathushti idientity world wide. • Zarathushti diaspora - Duties, Rights and Privileges.
DISCUSSION ITEMS/PROJECTS - 4 5) Spiritual/Religious Projects • Forum for Priests to “Come Together” world wide. • What services would Behdins like Priests to provide and what are Behdins prepared to provide for the Priests? • Protection of Mobeds from the hazards of Atash. 6) Educational/Cultural Projects • Participate and support Interfaith organizations and UN projects. Set up an All-India Interfaith Organization. • Set up a Dadabhai Naoroji Library or any institution in Delhi. • Start a Zarathushti school or any institution of learning in the West. • World Zoroastrian Cultural Foundation – Dr. Homi Dhalla