The Primacy of Life – The Priority of Protecting Life

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The UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights is pleased to invite you to participate in the Inaugural Ceremony of the Forum of Rome for Peace, Conference of Partners of the Programme of The Global Taskforce in Support of African Initiative for Peace that will be held on November 26^th, 2024, at Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum and European University of Rome, Aula Magna, in via degli Aldobrandeschi 190 from 9am to 4pm. The ceremony is organized by Pan African Congress for Ethics and Bioethics (COPAB), UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights, International Chair in Bioethics supported by the Network of Italian UNESCO Chairs.

In this occasion the Global Task Force for Peace Programme will be presented. To operationalize and sustain the Integrated Ethical Sphere of the African Continent, the African Union’s COPAB program has developed several “Pillar Tools” of the African Initiative for Peace. These tools encompass various aspects of societal development, from education and technology to governance and ethics.

PROGRAM

MORNING SESSION

9:00 – Arrival / Coffee

9:15 – 10:00 – Welcome Address
Professor Alberto GARCIA GOMEZ and Prof. Pierre EFFA of the Programme of the Global Task Force for Peace (Moderator)
Fr. Professor Jose OYARZUN, Rector of the Ateneo Pontifico Regina Apostolorum
Fr.Professor Pedro BARRAJON, Rector of the University of Europe in Rome
Message from M. Patrizio BIANCHI, President of the Network of Chairs of UNESCO of Italy (ReCUI)

10:00 – Presentation of the Programme of the Global Task Force for Peace by the Moderator:

• Professor Pierre EFFA, Executive President of the Pan-African Congress for Ethics and Bioethics (COPAB), Executive Director of the Programme of the Global Task Force for Peace, Director of the Centre for Study and Research in Ethics and Bioethics (CERB) in Yaoundé.
• Professor Alberto GARCIA GOMEZ, Dean of the Faculty of Bioethics, Holder of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights (APRA), Director of the Rome Office of the Global Task Force for Peace Programme.
• Professor Rui NUNES, Head of the International Chair of Bioethics, University of Porto, Portugal

10:30 – Inaugural Conference
Theme : “African Life and the Future of Humanity. Life comes First: the First Reference Value. What can we learn from the culture of life in the African World?”
Speaker:
Professor Fidèle Pierre NZE NGUEMA, University Professor, Honorary Rector of Omar Bongo University, Libreville, Gabon.
Respondents:
Professor Alberto GARCIA GOMEZ, Dean of the Faculty of Bioethics (APRA/UER)
Professor Martin NKEMKIA NKAFU, University of Latran, Rome

11:00 – Speech of the Trustees.
His Excellency The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Italy.

11:30 – COFFEE BREAK

11:45 – Workshop of Partner Institutions of the Global Task Force for Peace Program

Moderator :
Professor Pierre EFFA, Executive President of the Pan African Congress for Ethics and Bioethics  (COPAB)
Professor Alberto GARCIA GOMEZ, Director, School of Bioethics,  APRA and UER
Professor Louison Emérick BISSILA MBILA, Executive Secretary of SCCAI – CSSp

11:45 – 12:45 Education Programme. Imhotep Polytechnic College Project.
Bioethics education program. It is operationalized through a specialized institute of the Pan-African University, the African Union University, called Imhotep Polytechnic College. Its Doctoral School includes a dozen specialized university centres called CUBE, distributed equitably across the five regions of the African Union and the Afro-descendant Diaspora. It is the continental polytechnic powerhouse for the exploration of intelligence and the mastery of engineering for the preservation and security of life.

Moderators:
Professor Alberto Garcia Gomez, Dean of the Faculty of Bioethics (APRA/UER)
Monsignor Renzo Pegoraro, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Rome
Professor Rui Nunes, Director, International Chair of Bioethics, University of Porto
Professor Sylvie ADOTE HOUNZANGBE, University Professor, Honorary Rector, Benin
Professor Patrizio BIANCHI, President of the Network of Chairs of UNESCO of Italy (ReCUI)
Prof. Francesco Corvaro, Special Envoy of Climate Change of Italy
Professor François NGOA KODENA, Lincoln University, Pensylvania, USA

Speakers: COPAB Imhotep Polytechnic College Commission : Professors Halima BENBOUZA (Algeria), Sam IBENEME (Nigeria), Raphaël CHIRIMWAMI BULAKALI (R.D. Congo), Elshemy HANY (Egypt), Jacques SIMPORE (Burkina Faso), Martin N. NKAFU (Rome), Emmanuel KAMDEM and Geneviève Naoban BENGONO TOURE (Cameroon), Fidèle Pierre NZE NGUEMA (Gabon), Doctor Victor Steve ATEBA (Cameroon), Professors Joseph MFUTSO BENGO (Malawi), Paul NDEBELE (Zimbabwe), Emile Sabita KOU’SANTA AMOUZOU (Togo), Christopher AGULANNA, Temidayo OGUNDIRAN (Nigeria), Daniel ASSEFA (Ethiopia).

12:45 – 13:45 Lunch Break

AFTERNOON SESSION

13:45 – 14:45
Workshop on Community Development. Grassroots Community Resilience.
African Green Village
Accelerated modernization program for villages and towns in Africa. The fractal of this program is presented through the African Green Village Project. It comes down to the supervision of grassroots communities with a view to resuming the historical initiative, i.e. the capacity to create or recreate for themselves the material and immaterial conditions of their existence, based on their own cultural heritage. This program to support the development of the resilience of grassroots communities is a work that is part of the operationalization of the Strategic Plan for Africa’s Development, the African Union’s Agenda 2063, “The Africa We Want”: a peaceful, prosperous and sovereign Africa, living in harmony with its children in life in abundance, and constituting a dynamic force of the International Community. The programme integrates the concerns of the Millennium Development Goals, in particular in the United Nations 2030 Agenda.

African Green Village, a call to the sources of African cultures and civilizations for the mastery of the anthropological and demographic transitions of grassroots African communities, with a view to their empowerment and resilience. African architecture and territorial planning and village-city integration. Guarantee of food self-sufficiency and health safety. On-site stabilization of African youth and African communities.

Moderators:
Fr. Louison Emérick BISSILA MBILA, Executive Secretary of SCCAI, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Father Jean Pierre WELSCH, Ecclesiastic Advisor of the International Federation Catholic Pharmacists (FIPC)
Father Samuel FOKA BENJO, Assistant Professor,  Pontifical University Gregorianum, President Cameroon Religious Group, Rome
Reverend Sister Anne FALOLA, NDA, Presidente Association des Africains et Malgaches au Service des Généralats (ASMG) à Rome
Reverend Fr. Guy Marcel ENGANABISSEN, CSSp, Provincial Superior, Cameroon
Fr. Théodore Fulgence RABELAZA, CSSp, Provincial Superior, Antananarivo, Madagascar
Fr. Fredrick Elima WAFULA, CSSp, Provincial Superior, Nairobi, Kenya
Fr. Florentine Joseph MALEYA, CSSp, Provincial Superior, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Speaker:
Fr. Sylvain MBOLLO, CSSp, JPIC Coordinator, Cameroun, Yaoundé
Fr.  Stephen Otieno OMOKAGUTU, JPIC Expert, Nairobi, Kenya
Architect Cyrille MOUKOKO NDOUMBE, Yaounde, Cameroon
Fr. Sylvestre Olivier EVES, CSSp, Coordinator for Interreligious Dialogue, Belgium
Fr. Armand Janvier FESSI, CSSp, Douala, Cameroon
Mrs Célestine NAVIGUE, CICIAMS, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

14:45 African Bioethics Survey
Ethics Monitoring Program. It is operationalized through the African Bioethics Survey project, an ethical regulation centre, a portal for ethical evaluations of all activities linked to the preservation and security of life in terms of agriculture, health, industry, environment, ecology, commerce, etc. Let us cite its African Cohort for health research and its network of Certification institutions in ethical evaluation in connection with the UN Agencies in charge.

Moderator:
Fr. Sylvain MBOLLO, CSSp, JPIC Coordinator, Cameroun, Yaoundé
Fr.  Stephen Otieno OMOKAGUTU, JPIC Expert, Nairobi, Kenya
Architect Cyrille MOUKOKO NDOUMBE, Yaounde, Cameroon
Fr. Sylvestre Olivier EVES, CSSp, Coordinator for Interreligious Dialogue, Belgium
Fr. Armand Janvier FESSI, CSSp, Douala, Cameroon
Mrs Célestine NAVIGUE, CICIAMS, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Speaker
Professor Sam IBENEME, University of Nigeria, Enugu campus, Enugu, Nigeria

15:15 Financial Engeeniering and Management Programme
Contribution of technical and financial institutions solicited in the partnership of the Global Task Force Programme for Peace.
Programme of mastery and professionalization of management through the animation of Foundations promoted by the Global Task Force Programme in support of the African Initiative for Peace.

Moderators:
Professor Emmanuel IHIYIRA, Lincoln University, USA
Professor Martin Nkemkia NKAFU, University of Lateranensis, Rome
Mrs Roselyne MPOUDI NGOLE, Engeneer, Financial Expert (Cameroon)
Mgr Charles NAMUGERA, Rome

Speaker
Professor Elshemy HANY, University of Cairo, Egypt
Doctor Aurelien SANIKO, Financial Expert, Belgium

15:45 CONCLUSION
THE WHITE PAPER ON CIVILISATIONAL TRUCE FOR PEACE

Moderators
Mrs Wendyam KABORE, Magistrate, Government Commissioner, Council of State, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Admiral Fofana SARJO, Former Commander in chief, Banjul, Gambia
Docteur AMZAT BOUKARI YABARA, Historian, Writer
Professor Jean Jacques NGOR SENE, Lincoln University, Oxford, Pensylvania, USA
Speaker
Time for African Youth.

Ozong Oumate KAVAYE, Victor Steve ATEBA, Oscar Eric ELANGA MPOUHE and Arsene NGANDE (Cameroon), Anatole KABORE (Burkina Faso), Médard Kofi ABOUE (Rome), Fred Maurice NGOLE MBOULA, Emma BELLA NGOLE (France), Rosa NGONO NJIE (Gambie), Jean Nicolas TOTONAFINIRINA (Madagascar), Alphée Sorel MPASSI (Congo).

16:45 – Health Break

17:000 End of the Day`s Activities