TRIGLAV CIRCLE- MEETING IN FRANCE –LE VIGNOT- 9-10 JULY 2009 SUMMARY OF THE DISCUSSION The subject was “Revisiting the notion of “material and spiritual needs of individuals and societies”. This “notion” is a quote from the text adopted by the…
AGENDA AND PROGRAMME OF WORK The Circle was founded to pursue the message that the United Nations gave to the world in the 1980s and 1990s through its conferences and summits, notably the Rio Conference on Environment and Development and…
SUMMARY OF THE DISCUSSION HELD IN CAMBRIDGE, MA, 14-15 MARCH 2009 The Agenda recalled that the Circle was founded to contribute putting in practice the main decisions of the UN World Summit for Social Development held in Copenhagen in March…
Statement by the Triglav Circle to the United Nations Commission for Social Development, New York, 4-13 February 2009 Item 1 (a), Priority Theme, Social Integration Madame Chair, distinguished delegates and colleagues: Thank you for this opportunity to make a statement…
The Cosmopolitan Ideal: Content and Actors 25-26 March 2008 REPORT ON THE DISCUSSION Co-organized by The Triglav Circle and the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and hosted by the Bren Center…
Two years ago, in March 2006, a similar meeting took place at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on the subject of The Global Civil Society. The report on this meeting states that "were considered part of the global civil…
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…
REUNION DU CERCLE TRIGLAV OUGNY, 30 Juin-1 juillet 2007 LAICITE, ETHIQUE ET POLITIQUE ORDRE DU JOUR ET PROGRAMME DE TRAVAIL Trois thèmes sont proposes pour ce débat : Premier Thème : Est-ce que les democracies libérales, adeptes de différentes formes de sécularisation…
THEMES AND QUESTIONS FOR DEBATE, PROGRAMME OF WORK, and BACKGROUND NOTE THEMES AND QUESTIONS FOR DEBATE Theme 1: Do secular liberal democracies need to redefine their relations with religions, and/or with the spiritual realm? Among the issues that could be…
TRIGLAV CIRCLE, OUGNY, FRANCE, 30JUNE/1JULY 2007 The choice of this subject for debate -"secularism, ethics and politics"- and the formulation of the agenda were based on a fact and on three judgments. The observable fact was the political visibility and…