The 2019 Justice Conference was held at the de Poort Conference Centre near Nijmegen in the Netherlands on 19-22 April. There was a beautiful spirit and some very inspiring plenary presentations including representatives of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. I gave an opening plenary on "Responding to the Migrant Crisis: Educating Receiving Communities", and shared another plenary with Maja Groff on "Building Global Unity for Global Governance Reform: Towards 10,000 Conversations", as well as co-leading two workshops on "The Establishment of Peace as a Duty of the Entire Human Race: A Study of the Letter of the Universal House of Justice of 18 January 2019" and "Perspectives on Comprehensive UN Reform and Ensuring a Just International System". After the Justice Conference, I also had meetings with local Baha'i communities and three events at Wageningen University organized by my close friend Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen: a seminar on science and religion, a workshop on quantifying the unquantifiable looking at how to measure people's relationship to nature and biodiversity, and a lecture on "Global Governance for the 21st Century" (see the report on the IEF web site).

The 2019 Justice Conference

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de Poort; conference organizers Maja and Anisa; me in a pensive moment

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My opening plenary on migration; Tiffany Jana discussed the importance of truth in healing and reconciliation

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Rod Clarken provided a conceptual framework for transformation through truth, love and justice

One feature of the conference was the presence of significant figures from the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States: Professor
Funmilola Fagmamila, one of the founders of BLM, and Hawk Newsome, head of the New York Black Lives Matter. Their presentations reflected positive responses to issues of police racial bias and brutality.

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Hawk Newsome speaking on "Building Bridges to Justice: The Depolarizing Power of Love" with Paddy Honan

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My second plenary with Maja Groff was on our global governance proposals

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Shirin and Yas Taherzadeh spoke on rewriting narratives from his-stories to her-stories to our-stories.

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Parvaneh Andacheh gave a workshop on the science behind the core activities

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Another workshop acted out business relationships with and without values

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Maja Groff at the closing session; me

Some of the keynote speakers

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Arthur Dahl; Rod Clarken; Maja Groff

Shirin and Yas Taherzadeh; film-makers Clark Donnelly and Mary Darling; Tiffany Jana; Funmilola Fagmamila

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There was also time for rich informal exchanges

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We also went for a walk in the woods around de Poort

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The enthusiastic group; Yas Taherzadeh is also the editor of my new book "In Pursuit of Hope"