Global Trade Think Tank at Trinity College

by suprised Wed Sep 17, 2003 20:07

such as the above stuff on Sutherland, but it soon gets lost among the sort of rubbish that 'Redneck' contributed above. There should be links to the more important information.

by DF Thu Sep 11, 2003 18:48

International Conference to highlight and analyse major issues affecting the developing world and the global environment

Trinity College hosts the "Global Development Challenge" Conference

US foreign policy and its impact on human rights in an age of globalisation is just one of the important themes being tackled by an all-day conference being hosted today (Thursday, 10 July 2003) by Trinity College Dublin. The aim of the conference is to highlight and analyse some of the major issues in promoting broadly-based global development and to identify the most effective forms of development assistance.

The event, entitled the Global Development Challenge Conference, has attracted a significant number of notable speakers from around the world, among whom are a Nobel Laureate, a former UN Commissioner for Human Rights, a past President of Mexico, a Pulitzer Prize Winner and a special advisor to the UN General Secretary, Kofi Annan.

Tackling the sensitive issue of American foreign policy in the modern world and its relation to international human rights in an age of globalization is Samantha Power, a former war correspondent currently lecturing in Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where she was the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Ms. Power is the author of A Problem from Hell?: America and the Age of Genocide, which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction.

Another distinguished speaker, the Honourable Ernesto Zedillo, will also address the conference. Mr. Zedillo was President of Mexico from 1994 - 2000 and is now Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalisation. Addressing the role played by international institutions in global governance, Mr. Zedillo will focus on the upcoming world trade talks at Cancun. Mr Peter Sutherland, Chairman of BP, will also address the future of multilateralism in international trade negotiations.

Another former head of state and former UN Commissioner for Human Rights, Mrs. Mary Robinson, will address the conference in her current role as Executive Director of the Ethical Globalisation Initiative and will speak on the importance of improving the quality of domestic institutions and policies in developing countries.

A major theme of the conference is the role to be played by scientific research in addressing the healthcare problems facing the developing world: speakers on this topic include Dr. Harold Varmus, a Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine, and Dr Richard Klausner, Director of Global Health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The conference will also address other priority topics such as the challenge of overcoming hunger in Africa, the HIV/AIDS crisis and the potential role of the ICT sector in accelerating development.

The conference is being hosted by the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) at Trinity College. The IIIS is a major research initiative on the global and regional dimensions of international economic, political and cultural integration. The conference co-organisers are Philip Lane, Director of the IIIS, and Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Special Advisor to the United Nations' Secretary General on the Millennium Development Goals.

by Fergus Wed Sep 10, 2003 13:45

For attempts at cultural integration via the education system in primary and secondary schools in Ireland
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http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=60956

by Redneck Tue Sep 09, 2003 11:54

World government eh? I was wondering why there were all thses black helicopters outside MY window.

Sutherland works for the Illuminati.

by R Tue Sep 09, 2003 08:08

King Globalisation, Peter Pan of the new world order - Sutherland land is in town this morning. Speaking at American Chamber of Commerce 'business lunch' on transatlantic relations. He will no doubt be pushing his agenda for a one world govt., the erosion of national sovereignty and corporate rule. As well as being chair of BP and Goldman Sachs, this sinister dude is Ireland's man on the secretive Bilderberg group - check it out at http://www.bilderberg.org

WELCOME PARTY - 11.30am onwards, Conrad Hotel (near St. Stephens Green), Dublin....

MORE INFO:


http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=60763&search_text=bp