While environmental degradation quietly accelerates, part of human society prospers in the deceiving splendor of great wealth in things, other parts aspire to this affluent life style and the rest of humanity remain in various levels of poverty—be it relative…
In the seven years since 9/11, religion has taken a more central stage in defining world politics. Global security issues and many conflicts are now seen through the prism of religion: with the view that they are about religious groups…
Preliminary ideas for a project of the Triglav Circle The issue Since the last quarter of the 20thcentury, religions have an increasing presence in world affairs. A number of armed conflicts and tensions within countries have a religious dimension and…
REUNION OUGNY/LE VIGNOT, 9-10 JUILLET 2009 SUJET : REVOIR L’IDEE DE « BESOINS MATERIELS ET SPIRITUELS DES INDIVIDUS ET DES SOCIETES » ORDRE DU JOUR Contexte Le Sommet Mondial pour le Développement Social, conférence organisée en 1995 par les Nations Unies et à laquelle avaient…
We are here today to consider the relation between politics and the arts, two major domains of human life that are often kept apart. Some see politics as the exercise of power in distinction from the merely esthetic. In contrast,…
CERCLE TRIGLAV REUNION DES 9 ET 10 JUILLET 2008, OUGNY L’Idee de Progrès et son Utilité Aujourd’hui ORDRE DU JOUR ET PROGRAMME DE TRAVAIL La raison d’être de ce Cercle Triglav, crée quand l’Organisation des Nations Unies jouait par ses…
Agenda The following agenda contains a number of suggested questions participants might address to move the discourse on this broad subject beyond the traditional debates on development taking place regularly in international and national forums where the discourse is dominated…
Seminar on the Philosophical, Ethical and Cultural Dimensions of Health and the Environment The Sawyer Seminar Program on Health and Environment in China and India organized in cooperation with the Triglav Circle Duke University 9-10 November 2007 The Sawyer Seminar…
12 November 2007 Duke-Triglav Environment and Health Conference Remarks Jeffrey Plank, University of Virginia Introductory Remarks for Panel Discussion Ruth Bell’s experiences as a practitioner in global climate change policy, Chunling Lu’s case study about China, and all the…
An opinion poll conducted among Somali children and young people tells us that two thirds of the children believe that elections are a ‘very effective’ means to improve the state of things in the country. Though none of the children…