October 18 in the frame of the Day of Spiritual Accord, at 14:00 (GMT + 6), Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan) will host an International conference themed: "Strengthening interfaith and interethnic harmony as an answer to modern world challenges ".

04.10.2021

The letter sent by Suheil Farah

Dear members of the Presidium of WFSC! Dear members of the Conference Organizing Committee! Due to the preparation of the new conference let me express some suggestions and if it is possible some notes in reference to the previous and further Forums: In the first place, it is obvious that our movement began to attract not only new legendary figures and ordinary people, but gradually begins to gain new intellectual and geographical areas on different continents in the world and this gives it a push so that it has a worthful international character indeed. In short, the experience you and we have gained for 20 years, began to give a visual, good, I would dare say, high-quality results! And so I congratulate from the depths of my soul those heroic enthusiasts who took up this bright idea and very carefully and wisely treated and implemented it! In the second place, in order to improve the scientific and cultural aspect of our Forums I offer to pay more attention to the scientific preparation of each Forum. In this connection I submit specific proposals: a) From the part of the Organizing Committee it would be great if we could clearly identify the main ideas, objectives and themes of the conference and ask each proposed participant not only to determine the exact title and text for the conference in advance, but send his or her report about 2 months before the Forum.

b)  Then on the basis of the reports collected by the Organizing Committee to re-build the structure, subject and headings of the conference and post all the reports on the web-site of the Forum.
c) Then the Organizing Committee is to re-send letters to each participant so that he or she has a look at all papers and carefully read all reports of at least the reports of their own session and come to the Forum  almost ready with thier own issues and specific proposals on the subjects of his or her session, and about the overall process of the Forum in general. Session hours will be a live ground to receive questions, suggestions, for intelligent dialogues, etc. You can give the speaker 3 minutes to present his or her report briefly, and the order remaining (12-15 minutes) will be to answer questions and for possible new practical proposals.
d) Upon completion of the Forum the author of each report should (I would even say - it would be ethically and properly – the author is obliged to) improve his or her text, after he or she had responded to questions, comments and suggestions.
e) In the end, the Organizing Committee collects the final versions of reports to publicate in different languages. It would also be nice if you could create a special committee of experienced researchers and editors who would adhere gently, but rigorously to scientific novelty and practicality of a particular text.
f) The last thing is the scientific profile of the Forum. I think we should more carefully and strictly select representatives of the scientific world. Unfortunately, it was not only me who noticed, that there were fanatics or people with narrow religious, professional or ethnic views, or some people repeated the previous antiquated dogmas and tenets at the Forum. In short, we need new scientific paradigms, new talented and intelligent ideas and advanced propositions. In connection with this I offer to include in the work of the following conferences reputable thinkers who have rich experience in research, for example, from some countries of the Western world as well as from Russia.
g) For the general subject, I suggest that the theme of the next Forum should be "Spiritual values: meaning, topicality, prospects, and technology".
In the third place, it would be nice to give the opportunity to participate in our movement for representetives of the new generation. And let the spark in this direction start from representatives of  younger generation in Astana and Kazakhstan.
The essence of my proposal is to allow our children reach a very prestigious organization under the UN (where condition is age from 9 to 25). They can provide video no more than from 1 to 5 minutes long. Comments can be made in different languages, although it is desirable that the sounded text should be in English, or at least its major titles.
This time video is to be prepared and send to the organization under the UN until the end of May, 2012.
The story should express a vision of representatives of new young generation of societies or groups, which contain in their structure: a variety of cultures and religions and, more specifically, mass migration processes, with their positive and negative moments, which are in their societies, or where there are a lot of cross marriages of different nationalities.
It is desirable that the author successfully and vividly should express through the camera the following:
a)  in what way his or her young soul perceives various believers, religious beliefs, customs and traditions of other cultures;
b) how the author of the plot sincerely wants (even on the basis of his or her current knowledge or experience) to bring people of different religions, cultures, professions, different generations to the idea of a single divine essence, to precious timeless values which are love, peace, kindness, justice and beauty. In short, it fits the philosophy and mission of WFSC;
c) how we can fight together on our long suffering planet for life far removed from wars and conflicts;
If the video contains some interesting ideas and thoughts and well presented technically, on an exceptional basis this year I am ready (because I was approached by the UN) to give a recommendation to the jury in "Alliance of Civilizations". There, if the jury accepts the work, they will invite the author to New York, providing the cost of tickets, accommodation and a small honorarium. They will organize and enable the author to present his or her work to a very prestigious audience in New York at the UN, the media, and then, importantly, some unexpected opportunities in the international arena may occur. Also as a result the work will be shown in the international structures of the UN.
Within the framework of WFSC a special committee or jury, which could accept videos, show the most remarkable of them during sessions, hand in medals and diplomas for outstanding works, promote them to other international organizations, can be established. I am ready to help you in this process!
By the way, the theme for possible plots of videos can be defined as "National Accord"!

Sukhail Farakh, professor, academician of RAE