CONCERNS

How the Triglav Circle Works :

The Circle pursues its objectives through seminars, research, and collaboration with national and international groups. We explore ideas through individual efforts and organized discourses. We add our voice to many others who , throughout the world strive for more humane progress, while preserving the noble and diversified heritage of humanity, and the integrity of our natural environment.

Regular dialogues

The Circle holds annual or biannual meetings in the US and Europe to consider topics relevant to one of its major concerns. Meetings provide opportunities to refine ideas and offer a wellspring from which participants draw inspiration and intellectual support .

Research and Publications

Considerable research goes into the preparation of each gathering of the Circle. Following each meeting the discussions are summarized in reports that are circulated to members, other participants, and to al wider public audience

United Nations

Participation in the work of United Nations and collaboration with similarly motivated organizations, and individuals committed to the betterment of the human condition

The work of individual members in their respective spheres of interest and competence.

We seek to bring to contemporary empirical analyses, the light of the spirit expressed in the time-honored ideas and wisdom honed in the philosophies, religions, and cultures that have flourished in different epochs and places in history. In so doing, we draw attention to the material and the non-material needs and rudiments of human life in the global community

Such questions are posed to the Circle :

Theme 2 : Moral issues in the political discourse

What would be the features of a “morally perfect” political discourse?

Are there moral issues that ought to be left outside of the political discourse ?

Or, evoking again the “morally perfect” ideal, are intellectual quality and moral prudence and moderation more important than the distinction between a private and a public sphere of morality ?

Poverty and Social Justice

Poverty and socio-economic inequalities are present in all parts of the world and are on the increase since several decades. They take many forms, from material deprivation to poverty of the spirit. While the consequent social injustice is felt primarily by — individuals and households – it also affects the prosperity, peace, and security of communities from local to global.

Culture, Arts, Education

The Triglav Circle aspires to enrich the empirical discourse on global problems by also taking into account of the world’s diverse arts, cultures, and philosophies, as well as its rich spiritual worldviews.

Harmony with Nature

Nature has intrinsic as well as instrumental value and should be considered not simply a collection of diverse resources, inputs to feed the world’s economy, but the interdependent parts of an integrated ecological system existing in an infinite universe. The realization of harmony with nature in consonance with sustainable development requires imaginative, holistic and transcendent thinking.

Development and Social Progress

Societal change is rapid and massive, ushering in-besides its material benefits-serious disturbances in human relations and in the natural environment. These issues call for a broadened socio-political vision that gives priority to human dignity and to the public good.

Spirituality in Public Life

The Triglav Circle promotes an approach to international relations and public policy grounded in moral and spiritual values to be expressed in ethical norms and behavior. Wisdom, sympathy, and humility are universal ideals that should prevail over cynicism, violence, and selfish conceptions of individual and national interest.

Rights, Law and Governance

Law is the instrument for framing and maintaining order at all levels of governance. Public and private institutions, notably the United Nations and other international organizations, provide arenas where states and individuals can negotiate and cooperate to solve common problems. Good goverance mitigates the danger of war, supports the development of shared norms, protects and promotes rights, duties and responsibilities required for a just global order.