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Symposium on South Asia 2002 - Speeches

• P.D. John, Executive Director, Policy Institute for Religion and State, Opening Remarks
• Congressman Joseph Pitts, House International Relations Commmittee, US Congress, Inaugural Address

Panel on Nuclear Issues:

Moderator: Senator. Sam Brownback, Chair, Subcommiittee on South Asia, US Senate

• Admiral Ramu Ramdas (Retd. chief of Naval Staff, Indian Navy, New Delhi, India
• Brig. Feroz Hasan Khan (Brookings Institution; Retd. Pakistan Military)
• Dr. Jonathan Glenn Granoff (Author; President, Global Security Institute)
• Dr. Douglas Shaw (Nuclear Proliferation Control Expert; Vice President, Institute on Religion and Public Policy)
• Dr. Nayer Ali (Social Activist; Physician, CA)

Panel on Religion and Politics

Moderator: Honorable Nina Shea (Director, Center for Religious Freedom, Commissioner - US Commission on International Religious Freedom)

• Bishop Geevarghese Coorilos (President, National Council of Churches, India)
• His Holiness The Jagadguru Shankaracharya of Puri (Head of a Hindu Religious Order)
• Dr. Bruce Robertson (Author; Faculty, John’s Hopkins University)
• Dr. Lise Mckeon (Author; Research Scholar, Chicago, IL)
• Dr. John Dayal (Secretary General, All India Christian Council, New Delhi, India)

Panel on Socio Economic Development:

Moderator: Ambassador Nancy Ely-Raphel (Special Advisor to the Secretary of State; Director, Offie to Monitor and Combat Human Traficking)

• Bishop Percy Fernandez (General Secretary, Catholic Bishops Conference of India)
• Mr. Pashupati Rana (General Secretary, RPP, Nepal)
• Dr. Keshav Bhattarai (Sociologist, University of Missouri)
• Dr. John Dayal (General Secreatry, All India Christian Council, New Delhi, India)
• Dr. K.P. Singh (Sociologist, University of Washington, Seatle, WA)
• Mrs. Jayanthi Jayaseelan (Social Worker, Mumbai, India)

Panel on US-South Asia Trade & Economic Issues:

Moderator: Congressman Sherrod Brown, Senior Member, International Relations Committee, US Congress)

• Dr. Ashutosh Varshney (Political Scientist, Dept of South Asia Studies, Univ. of Michigan)
• Dr. Gautham Adhikari (Endowment for Democracy, Washington DC)
• Dr. Lokendra Bahadhur Chand (Former Prime Minister, Katmandu, Nepal)
• Dr.Rahman Nakadar (Publisher; Physician; Social Worker, Detroit MI)
• Mr. Farrukh Goindi (Social Activist, Pakistan)
• Honorable Tariq Karim (Former Ambassador of Bangladesh to US; Political Scientist, University of Maryland)