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Date: 27-Jun-96 
 
96232     Seminar on Sustainable Development Scheduled  
              at Presbyterian United Nations Office 
 
                      by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
NEW YORK CITY--How to keep economic development sustainable and how to keep 
it focused on human beings is the subject of a Nov. 13-15 seminar here 
hosted by the Presbyterian United Nations Office and co-sponsored by the 
Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy (ACSWP) of the Presbyterian 
Church (U.S.A.).  
 
     The seminar, entitled "Christian Vision and the Global Challenge: 
Toward Just and Sustainable Human Development," will feature addresses by 
and conversations with United Nations officials, church staff persons and 
representatives from nongovernmental organizations working in the field of 
global development. 
 
     Seminar participants will also study "Hope for a Global Future: Toward 
Just and Sustainable Human Development," an ACSWP policy paper that is 
going to the upcoming General Assembly in Albuquerque. 
 
     Seminar organizers say "development issues are particularly salient 
today, when the U.N.  estimates that more than one billion people live in 
extreme poverty.  This poverty leads to environmental problems such as 
widening deserts.  It also has human costs, including high infant 
mortality, low life expectancy and increasing marginalization of millions 
of people." 
 
     With most underdeveloped countries seeing industrialization as the way 
out, levels of resource consumption and pollution of all kinds will 
inevitably rise.  The questions then become, seminar organizers say, "How 
can we have development without destruction?" and "Who pays for it?" 
 
     Registration deadline is Oct. 14.  The registration fee is $120 and 
accommodations are $110 per person, single or double occupancy.  More 
information is available from the Presbyterian United Nations Office at 777 
U.N. Plaza, New York, NY 10017, or by phoning (212) 697-4568. 

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