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…
Presentation of the subject for discussion 1. The world conferences organized by the United Nations in the last part of the 20th century represent an effort to define an agenda for public policy and international cooperation in a globalizing world…
International Symposium: Development for Harmonious Societies in a Pluralistic World 23-24 June 2006 Organized jointly by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the Harvard-Yenching Institute, this international symposium was devoted to Seeking Harmonious Society and Multiple Modernities. It…
This meeting was organized and supported by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation(FES) and the Harvard Yenching Institute through the Director of the FES in Washington, Dieter Dettke and the Director of the Harvard Yenching Institute, Professor Tu Wei Ming. Triglav Circle…
Considering general notions of social justice and their moral foundations, John Locke wrote in his work entitled, Of the Conduct of the Understanding, 1754, “Our Savior’s great rule that we should love our neighbors as ourselves, is such a fundamental…
Cambridge, 15-17 September 2005: The Moral and political foundations of social justice in an interdependent world Attendance Twenty-six participants, including two persons working at the United Nations in New York. Themes and questions included in the agenda Theme 1: What are…