Biography – Marijke van Duin

Music

See for my music biography www.piano-zang.nl (also in English).

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Mennonites

Since 1990 I have worked part-time for the Algemene Doopsgezinde Sociëteit (ADS, the national office of the Mennonites in the Netherlands), successively as:

1990 – 1999

Minutes secretary of the national board and various councils and committees / assistant to the board secretary.

1999 – 2011

Managing editor of the biweekly magazine Algemeen Doopsgezind Weekblad, later Doopsgezind NL (national magazine of the Mennonites in NL).

2012 –

Editor-in-chief of the new monthly magazine Doopsgezind NL and the biweekly newsletter Doopsgezind NU. As of 2023, the now bi-monthly magazine has been renamed Mondig.

www.doopsgezind.nl

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Psychology

Three-year course ‘The Psychology of Carl Gustav Jung’, by Karen Hamaker-Zondag in Amstelveen, NL, 2012-2015/16. Followed by an in-depth year ‘Jung and mythology’, 2016/17.

www.asfaloth.nl/site/jungiaanse-psychologie

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Ecumenism, climate change and sustainability

Since 1995 I have been involved in international ecumenism on the issue of climate change. In addition to many smaller (work) conferences, mainly in Geneva and Brussels, the most important ecumenical and secular conferences in which I have participated are listed below. Not mentioned are numerous webinars, among others organized by various (UN) organizations and/or NGOs. Furthermore, I regularly give introductions, lectures and workshops on climate change and the role of religious organizations, both in NL and abroad.

1995

First European environment- and climate conference of the Conference of European Churches (CEC) in Mühlheim, Germany. Delegate on behalf of the ADS.

Member of the Council of Churches in the Netherlands’ working group Church and Environment, on behalf of the ADS. This remains so until 2012.

1996

CEC-CCEE European environmental conference, Eichstätt, Germany.

1997

Second European Ecumenical Assembly in Graz, Austria, on behalf of the ADS and as a member of Church and Environment (Council of Churches NL). Involved in the preparation of the establishment of the European Christian Environmental Network (ECEN).

1998

Establishment and first Assembly of ECEN in Vilemov, Czech Republic.

Eighth Assembly of the World Council of Churches, Harare, Zimbabwe. Delegate on behalf of the ADS.

1999

Second Assembly of ECEN in Loccum, Germany. Elected as leader of the climate working group and q.q. member of the ECEN enabling team. In this capacity I organized the climate work during Assemblies in the form of workshops, and publications in between Assemblies. This remains so until September 2012.

Although ECEN is ecumenical, the European Roman Catholic Bishops’ Conference (CCEE) has been organizing its own environmental conferences for a number of years. I have attended a number of these as a representative of ECEN and/or CEC.

2000

Invitation from the World Council of Churches (WCC) to participate in its international climate working group which follows the United Nations climate negotiations (UNFCCC-COPs) and the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD). Both trajectories emerged from the first UN conference on the environment and economy, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro. The World Council of Churches has had programs in this area since the 1970s. During and alongside these UN conferences, the World Council organizes ecumenical celebrations and side events, and offers a statement during the final plenary session. As a member of the climate working group, I worked closely with other NGOs and within the UN Energy Caucus at UN headquarters in New York.

Participation in UNFCCC COP 6 in The Hague, chaired by then Minister Jan Pronk. This was my first COP.

Seventh MERK (European conference of Mennonites and related denominations), Ludwigshafen, Germany. Workshop.

2001

Editor of the ECEN Climate Dossier.

Third CCEE Environmental Conference in Badin, Slovenia. Delegate on behalf of ECEN.

Third ECEN Assembly in Raubichi, Belarus.

UNFCCC COP 6b, Bonn, Germany.

WCC Climate Expert Conference with IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.

UNFCCC COP 7, Marrakesh, Morocco.

2002

PrepCom 1 (Preparatory UN Conference) for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD, also known as Rio+10), New York, USA.

PrepCom 2, New York, USA.

PrepCom 3, Bali, Indonesia.

UN World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), Johannesburg, South Africa.

WCC consultation in Western Europe ‘Economy in the Service of Life’, Soesterberg, NL.

2003

Fourth CCEE Environmental Conference in Wroclaw, Poland. Delegate of the CEC.

Fourth ECEN Assembly in Volos, Greece.

Twelfth Assembly of the CEC, Trondheim, Norway.

2005

Earth Charter + 5, Amsterdam, NL.

Fifth ECEN Assembly in Basel, Switzerland.

UNCSD 13, New York, USA.

2006

Sixth ECEN Assembly in Flämslätt, Sweden.

UNCSD 14, New York, USA.

2007

UNCSD 15, New York, USA.

Third European Ecumenical Assembly, Sibiu, Romania.

ECEN meeting, Sibiu, Romania.

2008

UNFCCC COP 14, Poznan, Poland.

2009

Thirteenth CEC Assembly, Lyon, France.

UNFCCC COP 15, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2010

Eighth ECEN Assembly in Prague, Czech Republic.

2011

WCC congress to conclude the Decade to Overcome Violence, Kingston, Jamaica. Workshop.

UNFCCC COP 17, Durban, South Africa.

2012

Ninth ECEN Assembly in Elspeet, the Netherlands, including organization. After this a sabbatical in the period 2013-2014.

2015

Member of the Working Group on Ecological Sustainability of the Council of Churches (CoC) NL (successor of Church and Environment).

Inspiration Table Climate Change, Scheveningen, the Netherlands, including organization (CoC).

UNFCCC COP 21, Paris, France.

2016

WCC Climate Working Group meeting, Bethlehem, Israel (failed: I was not allowed to enter Israel).

Eleventh ECEN Assembly in Helsinki, Finland.

WCC Climate Working Group meeting, Geneva, Switzerland.

UNFCCC COP 22, Marrakech, Morocco (digital).

2017

Member of the Theology, Church and Sustainability Working Group of the CoC NL (successor of the Ecological Sustainability Working Group).

WCC Climate Working Group meeting, Wuppertal, Germany.

Ecothee 17, Chania, Crete. International conference on eco-ethics and eco-theology. Presentation on climate psychology (Jung). Publication in The Ecumenical Review.

UNFCCC COP 23, Bonn, Germany.

2018

WCC Climate Working Group meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina (digital).

Tenth MERK (European conference of Mennonites and related denominations), Montbéliard, France. Workshop and lead author of Mennonites and Creation Care (published in three languages).

Twelfth ECEN Assembly, Katowice, Poland.

UNFCCC COP 24, Katowice, Poland.

2019

WCC Climate Working Group meeting (digital).

Editing of Dutch Ecumenical Bulletin no. 60: ‘The earth and all that lives there belong to God. Why sustainability belongs to the heart of church and faith’.

Ecothee 19, Chania, Crete, Greece. International conference on eco-ethics and -theology. Presentation on the climate crisis and populism from a depth psychological perspective. Publication in the book Contemporary Ecotheology – climate justice and environmental stewardship in world religions.

UNFCCC COP 25 Santiago-Chile/Madrid-Spain (digital).

2020

Due to the corona crisis, all meetings were digital. COP 26 was postponed to 2021.

Digital tour of the WCC along indigenous population groups, including Inuit-Alaska and Sami-Lapland, and meeting of the Climate Working Group (digital).

Thirteenth ECEN Assembly (digital).

2021

WCC Climate Working Group meeting (digital).

Chair of Network Creation & Sustainability, Council of Churches NL. Also lead author of the vision document Towards a sustainable future, of CoC NL.

UNFCCC COP 26, Glasgow, UK (digital).

2022

Fourteenth ECEN Assembly (digital).

WCC Climate Working Group meeting, Bad Herrenalb, Germany.

Eleventh Assembly of the World Council of Churches, Karlsruhe, Germany, advisor to the ADS-delegate.

UNFCCC COP 27, Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt (digital).

2023

Member of the Advisory Committee on Society, Sustainability and Peace of the CoC NL, on behalf of the ADS.