06/16/2008 - 06/18/2008
Glasgow
The CIVICUS Youth Assembly will be held immediately prior to the World Assembly in Glasgow and has rapdily established itself as a unique global youth forum encouraging young people to engage with critical challenges facing their communities, countries and the world. It will offer an exceptional opportunity to meet and work with other young women and men who are really making changes for the better. It will give young people an opportunity, programme and space to develop and commit to unified action internationally. The dates of the Youth Assembly are 16th -18th June 2008. The application process will open online on 6 November and the closing date for applications is Monday 31 March 2008
Host: Civicus
06/18/2008 - 06/21/2008
Glasgow
The overall theme of the 8th World Assembly will be Acting Together for a Just World, with a focus theme of People, Participation and Power.
People, Participation and Power involves people coming together to access, engage and participate in the various spheres of governance at the local, national and international levels. Civil society has long bemoaned the fact that governments do not appear to listen to the voice of the people. What therefore is the role of civil society in governance?; why is its participation so resisted?; what does civil society need to do to overcome these challenges?. Business seems to be more successful at getting governments to hear their views; Can we learn anything from some of the methods they employ?
Once again the 2008 programme will include plenaries, mini-plenaries, learning exchanges – such as a visit to the Scottish Parliament – workshops, film screenings and networking opportunities.
Please join us for our last Glasgow World Assembly next year. Registration will open on the World Assembly website on 12 November and close on 15 January 2008. The website also has a discussion forum and we invite you to make a contribution to this blog leading up to the next World Assembly. We very much look forward to seeing many of you there.
For more about the CIVICUS World Assembly, visit http://www.civicusassembly.org or email civicusassembly@scvo.org.uk
Host: CIVICUS
06/30/2008 - 07/04/2008
Melbourne/ Australia
Melbourne, the Major Events 'capital' of Australia, is preparing a warm welcome for participants at the 2008 International Conference, Globalisation for the Common Good - at historic Trinity College, the first College established within The University of Melbourne.
Melbourne is recognised as the Interfaith Centre of Australia and is proud of its multicultural and multi-faith communities. The city will also host a series of events prior to World Youth Day in July 2008 and host the 2009 Parliament of the World's religions.
The GCG 2008 programme is designed to achieve three objectives:
* To explore the far-reaching ramifications of conflict in the Middle East (broadly defined) for the religious, cultural and political landscape of the Asia-Pacific region;
* To bring together in fruitful interaction the insights of several disciplinary traditions (in particular religious studies, cultural studies, international relations, history, sociology and law);
* To illuminate and strengthen the connections between the Middle East and the geographic regions which constitute Asia Pacific, in particular West Asia, South Asia, Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.
Previous conferences have been held in Oxford (2002), St Petersburg (2003), Dubai (2004), Kericho, Kenya (2005), Honolulu (2006) and Istanbul (2007). The Melbourne conference will be the first in the series to be held with a clear Asia-Pacific focus. For background information on the initiative and details of previous conferences visit: http://www.globalisationforthecommongood.info/.
This major international conference is organised by the Centre for Dialogue (La Trobe University; Melbourne, Australia), Trinity College (University of Melbourne), the Melbourne College of Divinity, and the Asia-Pacific Institute for Inter-Religious Dialogue (Australian Catholic University).
The Conference is jointly convened by Dr Kamran Mofid and Professor Joseph A. Camilleri (Director of the Centre for Dialogue and Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University).
For more information please click here.
URL: http://www.gcgmelbourne2008.info/
Host: Globalisation for the common Good Melbourne
01/27/2009 - 02/01/2009
Belem, Brazil
The International Council has just met in Abuja, Nigeria, from March 30th to April 3rd, and confirmed the precise date of the World Social Forum 2009. It will happen from January the 27th until the 1st of February 2009 in Belem, Para, Brazil. The territory of the WSF2009 is constituted by the Universidade Federal do Pará (Federal University of Para), the Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia (Federal Rural University of Amazon ) and possibly the Núcleo Pedagógico Integrado – NPI (Pedagogic Integrated Nucleus), mainly. To find out more about the building of the WSF2009, please go to: http://belemjaneiro2008.blogspot.com
Host: World Social Forum
