Leading with Conscience and Love for Peace - Welcome and Introduction

By the Convenors of the International Day of Conscience 2025:

• Sofia STRIL-REVER, Author and spiritual activist, founder of BE THE LOVE and LoveForce Leaders, France
• Sarah NOBLE, Head of Global Engagement, Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation

Opening Keynotes

• Opening Keynote 1: H.E. Ms. Tatiana VALOVAYA, Director-General of UNOG (invited)
• Opening Keynote 2: H.E. Bahrain Ambassador to the UN
• Opening Keynote 3: Ms. Christina KITSOS, Mayor of Geneva 

Video Conference with Dr. Denis Mukwege, 2018 Peace Nobel Laureate, DR of Congo

• Guila Clara KESSOUS, UNESCO Ambassador introducing:
• Dr. Denis MUKWEGE, 2018 Peace Nobel Laureate, DR of Congo  (video conference)

Short Reflections on Dr Mukwege’s Advocacy for the rights of women and the end of sexual violence as a weapon of war

• Dr Michel-Innocent PEYA, RD Congo, thought-leader
• Leogah FORKWA, LoveForce Ambassador, Cameroon

Musical Pause

"The Chant of the Auroville Banyan" by Renaud RUHLMANN, NaturaSounds Founder

The LoveForce Leaders Manifesto

• Sofia STRIL-REVER, Author and spiritual activist, founder of BE THE LOVE and LoveForce Leaders, France

LoveForce in Action: Embracing Diversity and Unity

• Jonathan BELOLO, founder The People, president LoveForce Leaders

Conscience & Love as drivers of Multilateralism for Peace

PANEL DISCUSSION introduced and moderated by Jean FABRE, 1997-2007 UNDP Dep. Director, Suisse, & René LONGET, former Mayor of Onex, sustainability expert for the Swiss government

PANELISTS:

• Bahrain Ambassador to the UN
• India Ambassador to the UN (invited)
• The Marshall Islands Ambassador to the UN
• Morocco Ambassador to the UN

DIALOGUE:

PM Rep. with students & Ousmane TOURAY, Pan Africanist (Gambia), John NYIRENDRA (Malawi), John L. OTIENO (Kenya), Karen BJÖRK (Iceland), Young LoveForce Ambassadors

Moderated by: Pascale FRESSOZ, AIODD Founding Pres., France

Inner Development for Outer Change

• Ignacio PACKER, Executive Director of Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation

Peace in the Hearts, Peace on Earth

Cheikh Khaled BENTOUNÈS, Sufi leader (Algeria), with Saïd TOUHAMI (The Netherlands) & Ahmed DIAKITE (France)

Feminine Diplomacy for Peace

• Guila Clara KESSOUS, UNESCO Artist & Peace Ambassador, & Hélène PICHON, Diplomat, Director of the French Alliances in the Netherlands

Lunch Break

Restitution of lunch discussions with youth perspective

Shaping the future with Conscience & Love

Keynote Speech: Scherto GILL, University of Wales & Global Humanity for Peace, UK

LOVEFORCE DIALOGUE with students, Ghaya AL-AHBABI, UNICEF Youth Advocate (UAE) & Maruee PAHUJA, Elsa CUISSARD, Isadora CANELA, LoveForce Ambassadors

Moderated by: Leopoldine HUYGHES-DESPOINTES, film director & ambassador of people with disabilities

CONCLUSION: Nonkilling Societies are possible: Christophe BARBEY, Center for Global Nonkilling, UNOG

FILMTEASER "I shall not hate" with producer Isabelle GRIPPON

Leave no-one behind, a tenet for peace economy & social justice

KEYNOTE SPEECH : Carl BJERTNES, SEEDS-Africa, CEO

DIALOGUE with students & Priscila FISCHER, Vanessa SYRIO, LoveForce Ambassadors

Moderated by: Vanessa MENDEZ, former Director of the UNESCO Chair for Peace Economy:

KEYNOTE SPEECH: Ali MALHOODJI, social entrepreneur & UNICEF Ambassador, with Kaivalya KASHYAP, Academy of Transformative Leadership & Valerie SEGUIN, film diirector

Musical Pause

"The Chant of the Nag Kesar tree" by Renaud RUHLANN, NaturaSounds Founder

Be the Love Medit-Action

• Sofia STRIL-REVER, Author and spiritual activist, founder of BE THE LOVE and LoveForce Leaders, France

Concuding Remarks

With:

• Ignacio PACKER
• Pascale FRESSOZ, AIODD Founding Pres., France
• Sofia STRIL-REVER, Author and spiritual activist, founder of BE THE LOVE and LoveForce Leaders, France

Friendship Cocktail