GLOBAL LEADERSHIP RESOURCE DEVLOPMENT:
OIKOSNET Reinvents Itself After Evaluation
and 24 Month Transition Period

Stony Point, NY. June 27th, 2005
OIKOSNET representatives
Representatives from the OIKOSNET network

At its 28th Annual Encounter from June 23rd to 27th, 2005 at the Stony Point Centre near New York, OIKOSNET set sails on a new course for the coming years. Based on an evaluation in 2002-2003 and a subsequent 24 month transition and restructuring period, OIKOSNET seventeen leaders from around the world took a number of strategic decisions regarding the main focus of OIKOSNET activities, the working structures and governance principles, as well as the legal foundation for OIKOSNET as a truly global network of Christian laity and retreat centres, academies, and movements of social concern:

  • OIKOSNET redefines itself and sees its role in the wider ecumenical movement as a global leadership resource development agency.
  • OIKOSNET will take its global pilot project on DIALOGUE FOR PEACEFUL CHANGE to scale by offering training courses around the world in 2007. It sees this as a contribution to the WCC’s Decade to Overcome Violence.
  • Before the end of this year OIKOSNET will be registered as a foundation (Stichting) under Dutch law in Utrecht/Netherlands.
  • Equally before the end of this year the OIKOSNET SUPPORT FOUNDATION will be established in the United States as a foundation under US law.
  • OIKOSNET will be governed by a BOARD OF REGIONS with rotating composition that meets annually. A CORE COMMITTEE will oversee the work between meetings. The COORDINATION of OIKOSNET will be carried out through one of the member regions on the basis of two year contracts. For the years 2006 and 2007 this will be EAALCE-OIKOSNET EUROPE in Brussels/Belgium. Thus, OIKOSNET will establish a flexible and light governing model.
  • OIKOSNET decided on a multi year work plan and a portfolio of global programmes. It designed a structured process for planning and carrying out its global activities. There will be an evaluation after five years time.
  • OIKOSNET will actively take part in the 9th General Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Porto Alegre (2006).

For further information please contact: Wolfgang Lenz, OIKOSNET Coordinator at wolfgang.lenz@eaalce.org tel +32 2 231 5543

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