The Council of Conscience

The Council of Conscience, a multi-faith, multi-national group of religious thinkers and leaders, will gather together and sort through all the world's contributions. They will then mold the final version of the Charter for Compassion from those words.

The Council is comprised of the amazing members below.

Salman Ahmad

Salman Ahmad is an artist, humanitarian and social activist. He grew up as a teenager in New York and later trained as a medical doctor in Lahore. A UN goodwill ambassador for HIV/AIDS, Salman founded South Asia's biggest rock band Junoon.

Ali Asani

Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Ali S. Asani is currently Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Culture at Harvard University. After completing ...

Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell

The Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell presently serves as the Director of the Department of Religion at the Chautauqua Institution, ...

Sadhvi Chaitanya

Sadhvi Chaitanya is a Vedic Monk and the spiritual director of the Arsha Vijnana Mandiram, an ashram in south Georgia, dedicated to the study of Vedanta, Sanskrit, and holistic and harmonious living. Sadhviji travels both in the US and abroad...

Bishop John Bryson Chane

The Rt. Rev. John Bryson Chane serves a diverse diocese in the District of Columbia and the State of Maryland as the Episcopal Bishop of Washington. He is President and CEO of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation...

Sister Joan Chittister

Joan Chittister, OSB, is one of the Church's key visionary voices and spiritual leaders. A Benedictine Sister of Erie, PA, Sister Joan is an ...

Sheikh Ali Gomaa

Sheikh Ali Gomaa is the Grand Mufti of the Arab Republic of Egypt --- the second highest religious position in the country, after the position of Sheikh al-Azhar, one of the most respected religious authorities in the entire Muslim world.

Chandra Muzaffar

Dr. Chandra Muzaffar is the President of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST), a human rights advocacy organization in Malaysia that ...

Baroness Julia Neuberger

Baroness Neuberger DBE became a rabbi in 1977, and served the South London Liberal Synagogue for twelve years, before going to the King's Fund ...

Tariq Ramadan

Prof. Tariq Ramadan is Professor of Islamic Studies at Oxford and a Visiting Professor at Erasmus University in the Netherlands. He is currently ...

Rabbi David Saperstein

Rabbi David Saperstein represents the national Reform Jewish Movement to Congress and the Administration as the Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism.

Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp

Awraham Soetendorp is currently rabbi of the Reform Jewish Community of The Hague, and rabbi of the Union of Dutch Reform Jewish Communities ...

Peter Storey

Peter Storey is a former Methodist Bishop from South Africa, and national ecumenical leader during the anti-apartheid struggle. His 38-year church ministry focused on the marginalised people ...

Ha Vinh Tho

Ha Vinh Tho comes from a Vietnamese and French background. He is the head of training, learning and development in the International Committee of the Red Cross whose mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu has been in the priesthood for almost 50 years, serving first as a teacher and theologian, then as the General Secretary of the ...

Jean Zaru

Jean Zaru was born in Ramallah, Palestine in 1940, eight years before the Palestinian diaspora. Her life has been devoted to dialogue and non-violent social change. Jean is the presiding clerk of ...