From Dr Kamran Mofid
Dear all, I hope this email finds you all well. I am delighted to let you know that our eighth annual international conference of the Globalisation for the Common Good Initiative, held at Loyola University, Chicago’s Jesuit University, during during May 31st to June 4th 2009 was a resounding success.The conference attracted 250 delegates and 99 extraordinary presenters from many corners of the world for a lively discussion and a fruitful debate on many different aspects of globalisation. The conference’s main theme was on “Globalisation: The Challenge to America”. The participants at the conference focused their attention primarily on a critique of the role of the United States in the current dynamic of world affairs. They examined the positive and negative dimensions of America’s global stance. They explored some of the very real challenges that America must meet if globalisation is to be guided toward the common good, both within the US and in the larger world. Other thematic areas were also addressed and debated. They included (but were not limited to) the following:
- The Virtuous Economy: the Role of the Global Business Community
- Globalization and the Media: Balanced Representation and the Common Good
- Globalization, Civilizational Dialogue, and the Role of the Global Interfaith Movement
- The Global Environment: Climate, Habitat, Water, Energy, and All Life
- The Struggle for Social and Economic Justice and Universal Human Rights
- Global Cultures of Peace
The Conference provided an excellent forum to analyze, discuss and debate the challenge of globalisation, and to make recommendations for the future, as noted in
our “Chicago Declaration”: http://www.gcgchicago2009.org/Conference_Declaration.html
To read the conference report please see: http://www.gcgchicago2009.org/CONFERENCE_REPORT.html
For past conferences see: http://www.gcgchicago2009.org/PastConferences.html
Finally, it is my pleasure and honour to extend our warmest invitation to you to consider joining us for our 2010 international conference which will be hosted at
California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks.
See details: http://www.callutheran.edu/CLV/2010_GCG_conference.pdf
Warmest regards,
Go Well,
Kamran
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Kamran Mofid PhD (ECON)
Founder, Globalisation for the Common Good Initiative
www.globalisationforthecommongood.info
Co-editor, Journal of Globalisation for the Common Good
Globalisation for the Common Good, Chicago 2009
http://www.gcgchicago2009.info/
