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chris macrae  02-02-2004 12:09 PM ET (US) Edited by author 02-02-2004 10:17 PM 24 world future commissions assemble here http://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/commissions.htm These raise some big issues not indexed below- please feel free to mention any that matter to you. For example: at www.valuetrue.com we're discussing leads on the following big issue for humanity:What role could big mass media play in international harmony in the age of the internet and worldwide web communities? corespondingly the worldfuturecouncils have this to say: World Future Council Commissions: 23. Children's Rights:Previous generations have often made large sacrifices to provide a better life for their children. Today many of us are doing the opposite: the interests of our children and their children are being sacrificed for our own short-term comfort, in the expectation that they will somehow find solutions to the many problems we have created...20. Cultural Diversity and the Media:We need to challenge the short-term commercial thinking that currently has veto power over global decision-making. Our basic problem is not a “values vacuum” but the fact that values that are widely agreed by the global citizens' community are not acted upon. Its voices are drowned out by the global power of commercial speech. ”Censorship by sound bites” also makes serious debate on implementing substantial change ever more difficult

chris macrae  03-03-2004 10:47 AM ET (US) Edited by author 03-06-2004 07:46 AM I would be most interested to hear of other bookmarks like this which are focusing on a selection of big issues with eminent networking people involved in connecting experts and those at the grassroots http://www.gan-net.net/projects/current.html ) Initiating a Global Network Project Partner: Oxfam America and Civicus Project Associates: Constance Kane, Oxfam America Simon Billenness, Oxfam America Steve Waddell, The Collaboration Works, Organizational Futures Project Goals: Investigate the potential for creating a global civil society action network to respond to the challenge and opportunity posed by business and private capital for socially equitable development; Support the development of Oxfam America's corporate engagement strategy; and Produce lesson and a methodology for effective global network initiation. Project Status: The report will be completed in September and a meeting with global civil society leaders will be held in January 2004. 2) Building a Global Issue Domain Project Partner: International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development Project Associates: Ricardo Melendez, ICTSD Bernice Lee, ICTSD Andrew Crosby, Independent Consultant Steve Waddell, The Collaboration Works, Organizational Futures Verna Allee, Verna Allee and Associates David Stroh, Bridgeway Partners Project Goals: Produce a systems network analysis of the global trade and sustainable development (TSD) domain 1 and ICTSD's role within it Identify key systems organizing steps for the second phase, which will focus upon the creation of stakeholder-owned fora within the TSD policy domain and the development of tools for use by ICTSD and others to manage various types of networks; and Develop new analytical tools and methodologies for global network organizing on an "issue domain" basis. Project Status: The project will be completed in May 2004. 3) Developing Deep Change Globally Project Partner: Global Dialogue Initiative Project Associates: Adam Kahane, Global Dialogue Initiative Steve Waddell, Strategic Clarity Bettye Pruitt, Pruitt and Company Otto Scharmer, Leadership Lab for Social Responsibility in Business at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Katrin Kaufer, MIT Sloan School of Management and the Fujitsu Global Knowledge Institute in Tokyo Project Goals: To test the hypothesis that among multi-stakeholder dialogue processes, a particular subset-tri-sector generative dialogue-holds the potential to create dramatically effective results in global problem solving. To develop, through collective learning and action research in partnership with dialogue practitioners, the process knowledge and tools needed to make tri-sector generative dialogue robust and replicable across a wide range of problem areas. Project Status: The project is running September 2003 - 2005. 4) Building Communicators' Capacity to make GANs Effective Project Partner: The International Institute for Sustainable Development Project Associates: Heather Creech, IISD Terri Willard, IISD Steve Waddell, Strategic Clarity Gabor Heves, CE University Project Goals: To support the transformation and growth of the Sustainable Development Communications Network (SDCN) from an international, but single sector, formal knowledge network of research institutes to an international, multi-sectoral network of practitioners and develop associated tools and knowledge for making this change As part of the transformational process, focus the practitioners on developing solutions for critical communications challenges facing sectors, organizations and networks, and Strengthen the communications capacity of other Global Action Networks through their interaction with the transformed SDCN. Project Status: The project began in November, 2003 and is projected to last a year. 5) Building Collaborative Capacity for Learning and Change: Responding to the Water and Climate Change Challenge Project Partner: Cooperative Project on Water and Climate Project Associates: Henk Van Schiak, CPWC Steve Waddell, Strategic Clarity Geroge de Goojier, Consultant Project Goals: Assist the partners of the Cooperative Programme on Water and Climate (CPWC) to build a Community of Practise for coping with the impacts of climate change. A platform for capacity development Develop new knowledge about how to create a generative change network. 1"Domain" is an important analytical concept that refers to a conceptual boundary that distinguishes between organizations that are stakeholders in the domain and those that are not.

chris macrae  03-06-2004 07:50 AM ET (US) Dare we ask: are we being controlled to do less human things than we are capable of by powerful people who know how fear coditions people and control the levers to impress This conference studies how fear works its vicious ways http://www.socres.org/fear/fear.html#thematic

chris macrae  08-04-2004 12:48 PM ET (US) Sadiq (location Pakistan) is currently exploring whether it is possible to network contacts together to form Global University of Poverty. This is a concept aimed at connecting all open poverty movements into a clearing house that isnt caught in W/E or N/S politics. We anticipate various education and other initiatives needed to dramatise how urgent poverty is when for example it has life-stunting consequence for kids as reported this week from a case study in Malawi. We invite anyone who wnats to brainstorm what GUP could link together to postit ideas . At the ecademy the space for doing this is The Emancipation Club http://www.ecademy.com/module.php?mod=club&op=mem&c=1907 queries on GUP can also be sent to me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

CONFLICT BETWEEN NATIONALITIES OR RACES 4

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chris macrae  02-01-2004 11:56 PM ET (US) Reuters carries an excellent summary of conflict crises by nation at http://www.alertnet.org/

chris macrae  08-11-2004 01:58 AM ET (US) Edited by author 08-11-2004 02:00 AM Rhis is a long post. It announces detaikls for the premier annual gathering of reconciliation experts linked out of Australia at http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org and http://www.collapsingworld.org This year's annual gathering is in Delhi, India in December 04 RELEASE DATE 4th August 2004 Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Janpath, New Delhi, India Bhasha Research and Publication Centre, Baroda, India Centre for Conflict Resolution, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA Global Reconciliation Network, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia   Towards Harmony: Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation A workshop to be held on 17th to 19th December 2004 at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Janpath, New Delhi, India Summary People with an interest in the sources of conflict and the possibilities of for conflict resolution and reconciliation are invited to participate in a workshop to be held in New Delhi, India, in December 2004. Participants will address a range of issues relating to regional and international conflicts, and strategies based on action within local communities to promote reconciliation. The meeting will take the form of a series of dialogues around a range of themes of local and global significance. Participants will include people working in India itself in this field, including representatives of academic institutions and community based organisations, and international contributors with experience in both theoretical and practical aspects of these issues. Background Events over the last three years have emphasised the fragility of the international structures designed to maintain and promote harmonious interchanges between nations. It is widely felt that there is a need for a more direct, community to community process of cultural dialogue that could permit the development of a more robust infrastructure for peace. Open discussion and dialogue to promote mutual understanding across cultural, racial and political divides is needed both at the local level, within communities, where people live, and at the national and global levels, in relation to which the conditions of local discourses are set and new possibilities have developed. The stimulation of communication around issues of deep common concern can help restore some of the basic trust that has been lost, thereby contributing to the development of non-violent strategies for the resolution of conflicts. In order to promote such communication and dialogue, an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural network to foster practices directed towards reconciliation has been established. The network aims to bring together people and organisations from around the world working to promote practical strategies for the broad, common goal of reconciliation. It seeks specifically to promote dialogues within and between communities that have been divided in order to address issues of global significance that continue to generate and perpetuate division and conflict and to initiate, develop and encourage collaboration on cultural, intellectual and educational projects of common interest. To assist in the development of this concept, a meeting was held in London in September 2003, in which participants from thirty five countries from a great variety of cultural, national, philosophical and religious traditions were represented. Topics covered included the concepts of civil society and reconciliation and the possibilities for creative change that have been generated by contemporary processes of globalisation, the ways these have altered the dimensions of personal experience, society and culture, and how they are continuing to shape decisions about values at all levels of social life, the nature of the impact recent world events have had on specific communities, implications for human rights, health and health care delivery, and how to understand the motivations and impulses underlying terrorism and the responses to terrorism in relation to culture, meaning and ethics. Further details about this meeting can be found at www.grn.org.au. Towards Harmony: Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation: New Delhi, 2004 It is proposed that the forthcoming meeting be a continuation of the conversations initiated in London, with special emphasis on cultural and ideological roots of conflict and their successful resolution. It is anticipated that the discussions will address the sources of conflict in the structures of geography, language, politics, religion, gender and culture. It is not the objective of the meeting to develop policy recommendations for government but rather to foster ongoing relationships within civil society that may facilitate continuing processes of reconciliation. The meeting will address issues concerning the sources of conflict that arise out of the action of global processes, such the operation of the World Economic Forum and the World Social Forum. It will also examine the forces that operate at the local level, such as conflicts of values between sedentary society and nomadic groups, and those involving indigenous, migrant, refugee and other communities. Some proposed themes Themes to be addressed at the meeting will include the following: • The local conditions of conflict and possibilities for cross-cultural dialogues within specific communities. • Local rights to the use of resources versus the conditions imposed by the globalised economy. • Community rights to environmental self determination as opposed to the sovereign rights of states. • The concept of, and the possibilities for, “multiculturalism” in Western and non-Western societies. • Perceptions of the West from non-Western societies, and vice versa. • The ethics of terrorism and responses to it. • The possibilities for civil society based movements for global cooperation and conflict resolution. Note on the word “reconciliation” The concept of reconciliation has a long history and many interpretations, and remains controversial today. It is applied in different ways in different cultural settings. However, there is a common theme: the stimulation of communication and dialogue across boundaries defined by nationality, culture, philosophy, race, and religion. Such dialogues ultimately arise from local, face to face interactions between individuals. However, they depend also on the broader, cultural contexts within which communities are constituted. Today, the communication occurs on a global scale, instantly across national and international boundaries. The possibilities for community building and sharing of experiences and knowledge are greatly expanded. Reconciliation is therefore a process, not an end in itself. It can accommodate the great diversity of viewpoints and perspectives and embrace a large variety of endpoints and moral goals. This does not imply passivity in the face of human rights abuses or a neutral stance on matters of social or ethical principle. Rather, it leaves open the specificity of the responses to such problems, which need to be decided in relation to the particular details of individual contexts. Dates 9 a.m. Friday 17th to 6 p.m. Sunday 19th December 2004. Venue Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Janpath, New Delhi 110 001, India. Telephone: 91-11-23383895; fax: 91-11-23388280. Contact personnel Conference convener: Professor Ganesh Devy, Bhasha Research and Publication Centre 6 United Avenue, Near Dinesh Mills, Baroda 390 007, India Telephone 91-265-2331968 OR 91-987919130 e mail: ganesh_devy@yahoo.com OR ganesh_devy@da-iict.org or brpc_baroda@sify.com. Contributing organisers: Henry Schwarz, Director, Centre for Conflict Resolution, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA (schwarzh@georgetown.edu); Paul Komesaroff, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (paul.komesaroff@med.monash.edu.au). Head of host institution: Dr. Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty, Member-Secretary and Trustee, IGNCA; e mail: msignca@yahoo.com OR ms@yahoo.com Resource issues It is anticipated that accommodation will be provided free of charge to conference participants along with some assistance with domestic travel. It is planned that a post-conference visit to Baroda/ Tejgadh will be organised. Further information An on-line bibliography on Conflict Resolution can be found at http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/pjp/conresorgs.html. More information on the Global Reconciliation Network can be found at: www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org or www.grn.org.au.

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chris macrae  02-01-2004 11:29 PM ET (US) Edited by author 02-01-2004 11:30 PM These are the World Economic Forum's confirmed C-100 leaders for facilitating Islam-West dialogues as per January 2004 http://www.weforum.org/pdf/AM_2004/c100_members C-100 Confirmed Members As of 22 January 2004 CONFIRMED Ahmed K. Aboulmagd* Commissioner, Dialogue of Civilizations, League of Arab States, Egypt Mohammad H. Adeli* Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Kamel Al-Sharif* Secretary-General of the International Islamic Council for Da'wa and Relief, Egypt Abdullah Alireza* Minister of State, Saudi Arabia Khalid A. Alireza* Chairman, Xenel/Saudi Cable Company, Saudi Arabia Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri* Director General, Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), Morocco Anastasios Archbishop of Tirana and All Albania, Albania Mouneer Anis* Bishop, Diocesan Office, Egypt Randa Ayoubi* Chief Executive Officer, Jordan Training Technology Group, Jordan André Azoulay Counsellor to His Majesty King Mohammed VI of Morocco Abdelouahed Belkeziz* Secretary General, Organization of the Islamic Conference, Saudi Arabia François Burgat* Associate Fellow, Institut de Recherches et d'Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman (IREMAM), France Nick Butler* Group Vice-President, Policy Development, BP, United Kingdom Lord Carey of Clifton* Former Archbishop of Canterbury, United Kingdom Hasan Cemal* Columnist, Milliyet Newspaper, Turkey Mustafa Ceric* Grand Mufti of Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina Elizabeth Cheney US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Geda Condit Independent Business Person, Cascade Restoration Company, USA Mazen S. Darwazah* Chairman, Hikma Pharmaceuticals, Jordan Steven Davis* Professor of Philosophy and Director, Centre on Values and Ethics, Carleton University, Canada Raghida Dergham* Senior Diplomatic Correspondent and Columnist, Al-Hayat, New York Debra L. Dunn* Senior Vice-President, Corporate Affairs and Global Citizenship, HP, USA Angeles Espinosa* Middle East Editor, El Pais, Spain John L. Esposito* University Professor of Religion and International Affairs, Founding Director, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, USA Heba R. Ezzat* Lecturer, Cairo University, Egypt David Ford* Regious Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom M. Shafik Gabr* Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Artoc Group for Investment & Development, Egypt Shafeeq Ghabra President, American University of Kuwait, Kuwait Curtis Welton Gaddy* President, The Interfaith Alliance, USA Orit Gadiesh Chairman of the Board, Bain & Company Inc., USA Massimo Gaggi* Deputy Edito-in-Chief, Corriere Della Sera, Italy A.C. Grayling* Reader in Philosophy, Birkbeck College, University of London, United Kingdom Richard N. Haass* President, Council on Foreign Relations, USA Julien Hawary* Managing Director, Arabies Trends, France Hishammuddin Tun Hussein Minister of Youth and Sports of Malaysia Shamil Idriss* Chief Operating Officer, Search for Common Ground, USA Josiah Idowu-Fearon* Archbishop of Kaduna, Nigeria Tayeb A. Kamali* Managing Director, Centre of Excellence for Applied Research & Training (CERT), United Arab Emirates Hardev Kaur* Assistant Group Editor, New Straits Times Press, Malaysia Irene Khan* Secretary-General, Amnesty International, United Kingdom Jihad B. Khazen* Director, Al Hayat Newspaper, United Kingdom Hamza B. Al Kholi* Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hamza Alkholi Group, Saudi Arabia Samer S. Khoury* Executive Vice-President, Operations, Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC), Greece Abdulla Bin Saleh Al- Khulaifi* President, University of Qatar, Qatar Thomas Knipp* Editor-in-Chief, Handelsblatt, Germany Jim Kolbe Congressman from Arizona (Republican), USA Hans Küng* President, Global Ethic Foundation, Germany Daniel Lubetzky* Chairman and Founder, PeaceWorks Foundation, USA Khaled Al-Maeena* Editor-in-Chief, Arab News, Saudi Arabia Hans Ulrich Maerki* Chairman of the Board, IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa. France Hassan Marican* President and Chief Executive Officer, PETRONAS (Petroliam Nasional Bhd), Malaysia Katherine Marshall* Counsellor to the President, Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics, World Washington DC Diarmuid Martin* Coadjutor Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland Ali Mazrui* Professor in the Humanities and Director, Institute of Global Cultural Studies, State University of New York (Binghampton), USA Aaron D. Miller* President, Seeds of Peace, USA Patricia Mitchell* President and Chief Executive Officer, PBS, USA Attaollah Mohajerani Director, International Centre for Dialogue Among Civilisations, Islamic Republic of Iran Sir Mark Moody-Stuart* Chairman, Anglo American Plc, United Kingdom Marwan Jamil Muasher Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan Abdullah Omar Nasseef* President, World Muslim Congress, Saudi Arabia Seyyed Hossein Nasr* Professor of Islamic Studies, George Washington University, USA Farhan A. Nizami* Director, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, United Kingdom Lubna S. Olayan* Chief Executive Officer, Olayan Financing Company, Saudi Arabia Jan Petersen* Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway Thomas R. Pickering* Senior Vice-President, International Relations, The Boeing Company, USA Lord Puttnam* Chairman, The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, United Kingdom Michael Rake* International Chairman, KPMG, United Kingdom Feisal Abdul Rauf* Imam of Masjid al-Farah in New York and President of the American Sufi Muslim Society, USA David Rosen* International Director, Interreligious Affairs, The American Jewish Committee, Israel Lamin Sanneh* D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity Professor of History, Yale University, USA Mahmood Sariolghalam Professor of International Relations, National University of Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran Ikram ul-Majeed Sehgal* Managing Director, Pathfinder Group, Pakistan Ismail Serageldin* Director, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt Muzammil H. Siddiqi* Director, Islamic Society of Orange County, USA Tavleen Singh* Columnist, Indian Express, India Awraham Soetendorp* President, European Region, Progressive Judaism, Liberal Jewish Community, Netherlands Gunnar Stalsett* Bishop of the Church of Norway Gabriella Stern* Senior Editor, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Dow Jones Newswires, United Kingdom John M. Templeton* President, John Templeton Foundation, USA H.R.H. Turki Al Faisal Al Saud* Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United Kingdom, Chairman, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Saudi Arabia Sundeep Waslekar* President, Strategic Foresight Group, India Fawzi El- Zafzaf President, Permanent Committee for Dialogue among Monotheistic Religions, Alazhar Al Sharif, Egypt Aziz G. Zapsu* Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BIM (Birlesik Magazalar AS), Turkey * = present at the C-100 meeting at the Annual Meeting 2004 in Davos

chris macrae  02-02-2004 12:13 PM ET (US) We've also added the C-100 leadership council for reconciling Islam and Western mutual respect in our space at http://www.valuetrue.com/home/community.cfm?intClassID=3 for seeing what criss-crossing patterns emerge among the 12 biggest humanitarian networks. Over the months we'll be building lots of links to the thousands of names mentioned at this bookmark. Do tell us if you find a link we should program as a priority

chris macrae  02-18-2004 10:06 PM ET (US) Is there a westerner here who doesnt understand the urgency of resolving the fear compounding around our networked world of high connectivity; know of this communication written 1997 by an American chief of staff. It is worst leadership execution of global communications I have ever seen, yet it's still there 7 years on: http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/97summer/peters.htm "We have entered an age of constant conflict. Information is at once our core commodity and the most destabilizing factor of our time. Until now, history has been a quest to acquire information; today, the challenge lies in managing information. Those of us who can sort, digest, synthesize, and apply relevant knowledge soar--professionally, financially, politically, militarily, and socially. We, the winners, are a minority. For the world masses, devastated by information they cannot manage or effectively interpret, life is "nasty, brutish . . . and short-circuited." The general pace of change is overwhelming, and information is both the motor and signifier of change. Those humans, in every country and region, who cannot understand the new world, or who cannot profit from its uncertainties, or who cannot reconcile themselves to its dynamics, will become the violent enemies of their inadequate governments, of their more fortunate neighbors, and ultimately of the United States. We are entering a new American century, in which we will become still wealthier, culturally more lethal, and increasingly powerful. We will excite hatreds without precedent...There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and economic struggles will be steadier and ultimately more decisive. The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing."Major Ralph Peters

aeiOnline  08-11-2004 02:26 AM ET (US) Global View of the World - some questions? What good purpose the first Atomic Bomb Project has yielded for the world or even for the USA? – killing of 200,000 in Japan in two days, stockpiling of WMD that can destroy the planet earth in seconds and USA leadeship got sleepless nights to control this gini - Nonproliferation. How the social security and democratic governments are possible in EU and why these cannot be made available in rest of the world? Why 'empowerment' is systematically denyed to majority of people in the world and how the trend could be reversed, at least? What is the difference between the enlightened political leadership of today and that of 'uncivilized' Muslim rulers of 7 centuries before or the Kings of Mideaval Europe when the objectives are same - ruling over people by befooling them on any pretext, religion or otherwise? What benefit OBL has achieved through 9/11? Why President Bush shifted focus from the 'war on terrorism' by starting war in Iraq? Why the mightiest man on earth today, President of the USA, cannot win without spending a lot money on the elections? What President Bush would achieve through terrorizing the world on the pretext of 9/11? The answers to the questions listed above, some of these, have a direct bearing on the poverty and ignorance at the global scale - vertical (glaring disparities) and horizontal (number of poor people in the world, say 2.8 billion who live on $2 or less/day. It is the hegemonic mindset that has to be changed, or at least relaxed. Apartheid is still rampant in the world, not only in racial terms but also in various other forms and varied magnitude; e.g. systematic denial of opportunities for good education, and thus employment, by the application of 'purchase power' - the single most important factor to maintain socio-economic status quo. Pakistan Scenario Here a master degree after 16 years of education in the hands of majority cannot help the holder to get a job, while a six-month training at a premier institution, after 12 years' education, can help someone earn a 5 figure monthly income. But the six months' quality training costs around Rs 60,000 (all inclusive). How a job less person or the one earning Rs 3 to 6,000/month with an average family size of 5 persons, can afford Rs 10,000/month on training any of his eligible child? Pakistan's highest export earning is around $ 12 billions while India earns this sum just in one field - IT, because they have trained workforce though not from rural areas. India is blessed with the real democracy and nobody could deter the rural poor in rejecting the 'Shining India' because ratio of poverty remained rising or constant. Pakistan's political elite (army that mostly represents fuedals, Clergy and Big Business) are master players of great games in maintaining the status quo. Our figures on literacy are on rise though most of those with Masters degree can not express themselves in English, IT training is mushrooming in private sector - the best and the worst quality; hundreds of cities are ITC-enabled though the available speed is just enough to view vulgarities; very large funds are spent on welfare programmes - targeted at political constituencies; international media is kind not be investigative, and all is OK - 'sab acha' in Pakistan Army parlance! It bothers none of them if majority of younger generation is illitrate or badly educated, unemployed, edicted or on the pay-roll of vested interest. The elites are keeping their money safe in banks in foreign currency, many in foreign countries, and earn heft profit (thanks to currency fluctuations) without any risk that is prone to business and industry. It is a really tough job to bring out that facts that can help better planning at the national level. Thank you. Sadiq

1 2 Israel & Palestine 6

1 continuation of progress in S.Africa 7

1 History of Australia (Aborigines) 8

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1 2 Internal factions in India, Kashmir & India & Pakistan 9

1 Continuation of reconciliation in Bosnia Herzegovina 10

2 Colombia 11

2 U.S. urban communities 12

2 Haiti  13

3 Arab Women 14

Shomaly, Denise University Professor and journalist, Universidad Diego Portales, Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicacion  26

Brown, William MBA Center, Xiamen University Makino, Chosei President, Fudan University International Institute of Business & Technology 28

Khutsishvili, George Director, International Centre on Conflict and Negotiation (ICCN)  34

Health Care for all 55

1 3 HIV 56

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chris macrae  03-06-2004 07:02 AM ET (US) http://allafrica.com/stories/200402050043.html The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, a new initiative spearheaded by UNAIDS, was launched at Marlborough House, the headquarters of the Commonwealth Secretariat, in London on Monday, 2 February 2004. The Coalition is an informal grouping of individuals, organisations and networks working to mitigate the impact of AIDS on women and girls worldwide. It aims to raise worldwide awareness of how HIV and AIDS impacts on women and girls, and stimulate concrete, effective action.   At a press conference in Marlborough House marking the launch, Dr Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS (the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS), said: "Women's issues are still very marginal in global responses to AIDS, but they need to be at the centre of the response. Globally more than half of those infected by HIV are women. In Africa the figure is up to 60 per cent. And among teenagers, girls are two-and-a-half times more likely to be infected than boys of the same age. Women also do most of the caring for family members who have AIDS, but they have much less access to treatment -- where treatment is available." The Coalition aims to: address the increasing global impact of AIDS on women and girls; improve prevention for them; and address severe societal and legal inequities which compound the impact of HIV and AIDS on women and girls. It also seeks to support the wider global AIDS response, and help meet a series of ambitious international targets set out in the 2001 UN Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS.

Education for all 57

Clean Water 58

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chris macrae  03-05-2004 02:02 PM ET (US) We have this discussion on water http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=87795 From this conversation : I became shocked how many of the world's people without access to freshwater are being blocked by political problems or commercial interests rather than mother nature I gather that Oxfam in New Zealand has a water project, which I mention because now this organsiation is headed locally by Barry Coates, it is well worth atching. Barry's talents in campaigning are such that he packed 1000 people meetings in London on what many campaigners would find the obscure challenge of GATTS http://www.wdm.org.uk/campaign/colludo/colludo.htm

chris macrae  07-13-2004 03:12 PM ET (US) Edited by author 07-13-2004 03:19 PM Many of the netrworks I associate with are focusing on water as the big collaboration issue of the next 9 months; once we've made progress iwth this we hope to move on to another big colaboration issue and another Key co-production teams include those at http://www.simpol.org.uk Brazil's protagonists for a new water rights academy the 10000 and 30000 forums of the European Social Forum Oct 04 London and WSF Brazil Jan 05 some links where I am trying to connect news I hear with interesteted participants are: ecademy http://www.ecademy.com/module.php?mod=club...=1550&t=106926#endm knowledgeboard http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item...format=%o%20%B%20%Y (some of these spaces require free membership registartion before you can fully link) please mail any other connections we should know about or be making

Terror-Free 61

Personal safety in Community 62

Poor Issue: Agriculture trade & productivity & safety (eg pesticides shouldn’t cause cancer risks) 63

Diet (Rich: less obesity). Diet (Poor: less starving) 64

Sustainable energy consumption: Rich: world first, local second. Poor: Rights to modernise in best way for community’s sustainability & then the world’s.Open Knowledge of choices being made 65

Natural Disasters Resilience 66

Rich: Relicensing World’s largest corporations www.c4cr.org www.business-ethics.com 67

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chris macrae  03-06-2004 06:47 AM ET (US) Edited by author 03-06-2004 06:48 AM We are hoping great movements will gravitate around the coming movie, book, and web of http://www.thecorporation.com

Rich:Transparency webs against corruption: Positive media; simplifying and reducing cost of law.  68

Poor:Transparency against corruption starting at regime and minimum level of law 69

Systemising safety culture over long-term in any area capable of disaster such as nuclear. No outsourcing of deepest responsibility. 70

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chris macrae  03-06-2004 06:55 AM ET (US) Work to benchmark on cleaning up unsafe places compounded by many different organsiational silos can be found at this nuclear clean up context http://nalu.geog.washington.edu/dms/transparency.html

Pensions & welfare of elderly  71