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Asia-Pacific

2012 AC Roma

Conference Level

1.

drafting “Our Environmental Way of Proceeding”

2.

jointly developing a course on green campus management for plant managers

3.

conducting workshops on Healing a Broken World

4.

preparing a protocol on Disaster resilience

5.

assisting the meeting of Scholastics and Brothers Circle of JCAP

6.

July 2011: Mekong meeting

7.

Aug 2011: Official co-operation of AJCU-Asia Pacific.

Healing of the broken world

 Translation  Dissemination  Reflection, discussion  Aware of ecology

Jesuit position

 General Awareness and acknowledgement -> Yes but...

• lack of organized approach to action.
• More disasters – greater awareness

 Spiritual Sources:

• Seen as Ignatian, ‘Seeing God in all things” -> starting point
• Workshops and recollections – use caritas veritate, ‘Our Envir. Way
• f proceeding’- JCAP

 Change of life style:

• More struggle and difficult, personal
• Eco. as a dimension of apos. action a challenge
• Need for policy communication to all, principles for sust. Living?
• Engaging with others, sharing

Discernment of Jesuit communities

 Recognize the need for discernment  Phil., Japan: see it more based on recent calamities  Korea  Australia – wants to engage in com. Discernment

but no set structure

Planning of apostolic institutions

 A Profile of a Formed Jesuit in AP  Campus management: Philippines, Indonesia, St.

Ignatius College Riverview

 Xavier University  ESSC :

 culture & ecology, youth education,  watershed integration and forest cover updates  Apu Palamguwan Cultural Education Center  Resource management  Working with communities, local government, and

civil society

Ateneo

 Ateneo de Davao on mining,  Ateneo de Zamboanga on peace and indigenous

and Muslim relations (and relations to land),

 Ateneo de Manila, regarding planning and

condominium developments

Civil movements

 no organized system for civil movements by

Province, but more by individual Jesuits

 Korean Province: opposed the planned

construction of a naval base on Jeju Island

 Indonesia & Cambodia: forest protection & water

conservation

With students

 Eco-literacy  Australia  Philippines, Indonesia; Korea, Japan  ESSC’s Apu Palamguwan Center for Cultural

Education

 Envt. sustainability workshop March 2011  ESSC activities plus Jesuit Service Cambodia –

Reconciliation with creation

Pedro & ESSC

Natural disasters protocol ESSC, a leading role in the Conference

Environmentally threatened community

 Philippines: Institutes Yes, not as Prov. (ISO – fisherfolk,

ESSC – Indigenous) besides research, advoc.

• ICSI along with Univ. – on land ownership, policy
• Scholastics prog. – awareness and involvement

 Korea: Nuruk Community – with farmers, org. Farming;

• ppose open pit mining

 Indonesia: Call to re-examine the two Jesuit foundations

supporting the Newmont Mining Co., Qns. Raised by JPC.

 Australia: Research on climate change and impact on

communities

• Develop response -> awareness and advocacy.
• JMs support projects for environmental refugees in countries
• Estb. Jesuit Mission and Eco. TF

Alternative Development

 Japan: Sophia Univ. -> research on envir. & Justice

issues; IGC – Interdisciplinary studies; ISGE – responds to env. related areas

 Korea: Sogang Univ. Eco. dept – helped in central

planning for devt. Model, but envt. cost is visible now; Change of thrust is not visible still

 Indonesia: Sanata Dharma Univ. -> Ecology centre  Philippines: Institutes for alt. models of devt., but not

strategic.

Ecology & Spirituality

 Japan: Socio-pastoral comm. Plans to prepare a

brochure

 Philippines: need is felt  Korea, Indonesia: offer retreats, eg. Sunchon JSC

in Korea, Girisonta’s Ig. Retreat centre – retreats

 Australia: Fr. Michael Hansen’s book  Cambodia: Eco retreat, recollection

Disaster

 Info. on how to contact Provincials, funds -Yes  Pedro Walpole is drafting one for JCAP, to be

examined in July 2012

geographic priority

No formal priority. Regional priority

• Korea and Japan Provinces: Peace and

anti-nuclear advocacy.

• Mekong: Siem Reap
• Bukidnon, Philippines: ecology and

culture

Evaluation

 How to spread the workload and groom

leadership;

 how to activate the role of “Fr. Greens” (the

ecological coordinator of the Province);

 how to strengthen the witness of Jesuit

communities and institutions: Green institution

 How to get synergy effects (spiritual, social,

educational, and intellectual sectors)

Personal reflection

Honor, joy, and hope

 Dream team: Christina, Julie, Andre, Fernando  Jesuits at the corner of Asia: Pedro, Kunming,  People who bear the burdens of life and struggle

for life: China and Eldoret

 Progress of Social sector, Korea-Japan  Formation of myself as a Jesuit: knowing Asia, the

Society

 God who works with people and assign me in this

double locations

Shadow

 Personal limitation  Two assignments:

 Time, energy  “I cannot meet my standard for both”

 Frustration: no staff, week inter-Province

collaboration(Manila), reluctant communication

Challenges

 Capacity building of social sectors

 Leadership – delegates and directors: migration,

ecology

 Next generation

 Resources – manpower and finances  Strategy

 Delegates  How to learn from younger gen and attract

Delegates

 Part-time: most are in double assignments,

working in other sectors

 Needs to promote a sense of group identity and

mission

What I heard:

 Implementation paper: how for the sectors to

evolve

 Why difficult to find people for poor in univ.,

parish, etc.?

 Injustice  Small Society  Individual culture, Provincial structure  Change, but slow and gradual; look far and aheard.  We needs friends.

Reflection

 Reactions

• a sense of solidarity out of marginal position against

big dream/ideal; A sense of loneliness

 How can we help one another?

• Personal, friendship, visit
• Mission > Sector: But, it is significant what the soc

sector can and should offer?

 Major change as a group?

• How to make fire alive: hope, vision, passion = joy
• Prioritize
• Joy > anger