State of the World Forum

Sunday, November 1 2:48pm PST

Schedule

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	Friday Roundtable Sessions:
		In addition to the Plenary Sessions, Keynote Addresses and Keynote Discussions listed in the Forum Schedule, there will also be Roundtable Sessions on Thursday and Friday afternoon to allow participants to meet in small groups to discuss specific issues. The following are among those being developed:
		Governance and the East Asian Economic Crisis Principal Discussants: William Fuller, moderator; President, The Asia Foundation Stephan Haggard, Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego Chung-in Moon, Professor, Graduate School of International Studies Yonsei University, Korea Pasuk Phongpaichit, Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand John Zysman*, Professor, Department Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
		Investing in Women: Strategies for Expanding Resources Principal Discussants: Nell Merlino, moderator; President, Strategy Communication Action, Ltd. Nicolás Ardito-Barletta, President, Republic of Panama (1984-1985) Gwendoline Konie, former Zambian Ambassador to Germany Linda Pei, Co-Founder, Women's Equity Mutual Fund Sayeeda Rahman, Chief, Coordinating Unit for Micro-related Activities, UNESCO Ann R. Roberts*, President, Fund of the Four Directions
		Uncommon Leadership: Reconciling Commercial Freedom and Corporate Responsibility in an Increasingly Interdependent World Principal Discussants: Michael Banks, co-moderator; Director, KRW International Kathryn Williams, co-moderator; Director, KRW International Hans-Peter Dürr, Director, Max-Planck Institute Bernard Leitaer, former Managing Director, Central Bank of Belgium Douglas K. Smith, Author, "The Wisdom of Teams" and "Taking Charge of Change" Judith Woodard, Managing Director, Bear Sterns
		Indigenous Wisdom: Living Solutions, the Future Principal Discussants: Alexa Aviles, co-moderator; Program Officer, Fund of the Four Directions Donna House, co-moderator; Ethnobotanist Jeannette C. Armstrong, Director, Language and Culture, En'owkin Centre, Canada Mindahi C. Bastida Munoz, Research Associate, Pacific Cultural Conservancy International Donna Sitting Bear*, Youth Fellow, Pacific Cultural Conservancy International
		The Middle Powers Initiative Principal Discussants: Douglas Roche, moderator; Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament to the United Nations; Chairman, United Nations Disarmament Committee, 1988 Lee Butler, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Strategic Air Command (1990 - 1994) Jayantha Dhanapala, UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs and Head, UNSCOM Special Group in Iraq Andrei Kortunov, Director, Russian Public Scientific Foundation Joseph Rotblat*, President, Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1995
		The Whole Child: Bringing Current Knowledge to Bear on Policy Making Principal Discussants: Kenneth Jaffe, moderator; Executive Director, International Child Resource Institute Caius Brandao, Director, Projeto Brasil Jane Goodall, Director, Gombe Stream Research Centre, Tanzania Gunni Karrby, Professor, Department of Education and Educational Research, Gothenburg University, Sweden Liew Sau Pheng*, Director, Child Resource Institute, Malaysia
		Capitalism and the Common Good: The Public Use of Private Interest Principal Discussants: Lawrence Chickering, moderator; Founder, International Center for Economic Growth; Author, "Beyond Left and Right" Robert B. Hawkins, Jr., President, Institute for Contemporary Studies Arianna Huffington, Founder and Chair, Center for Effective Compassion Benno C. Schmidt, President, Yale University (1986 - 1992); President, The Edison Project Barbara Waugh*, Worldwide Personnel Manager, Hewlett Packard Labs
		Claiming a Place at the Table: Women and Human Rights Principal Discussants: Mahnaz Afkhami, moderator; Minister of State for Women's Affairs, Iran (1976 - 1978) Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers University Azar Nafisi, Visiting Scholar, School of Advanced Studies, Johns Hopkins University Jacqueline Pitanguy, Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro Ingrid Washinawatok*, Director, Fund of the Four Directions
		The Role of the Subject in Science Principal Discussants: Piet Hut, moderator; Professor of Astrophysics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University Anne Harrington, Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Diedel Kornet, Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy of Biology, University of Leiden, Holland Arthur Zajonc, Professor of Physics, Amherst College
		Sustainable Development: The Role of Community Based Initiatives Principal Discussants: Arthur Campeau, moderator; President, Canint Consulting Services; Retired Ambassador for Environment and Sustainable Development Jorge Recharte, Program Director, Mountain Institute, Latin American Program Jane Pratt, President, Mountain Institute Gary Taylor*, Publisher, Environmental, Health and Safety Newsletter
		Coexistence and Community-Building: Strategies for Networking Principal Discussants: Susan Collin Marks, co-moderator; Vice President, Search for Common Ground William Ury, co-moderator; Co-Author, "Getting to Yes"; Director, Project on Preventing War, Harvard University Peter Gastrow, Capetown Director for Institute for Security Studies, Republic of South Africa John Marks, President, Search for Common Ground Kumar Rupesinghe, Director, State of the World Forum, Europe Danijella Zunic, Co-Founder, Post Pessimist Youth Peace Initiative, Croatia
		Philanthropy for the 21st Century Principal Discussants: John Levy, moderator; Consultant on Inherited Wealth Tracy Gary, President, Community Consulting Services Thomas Hurley, Organizational Consultant and Coach Kavita Ramdas, Chair, The Global Fund for Women
		Capital Markets for Socially Responsible Business Principal Discussants: Susan Davis, moderator; CEO, Capital Missions Company Ronald Grzywinski, Chairman, Shorebank Corporation Barbara Stuckey, Board Mamber, VTZ-Green Money for the Blue Planet, Switzerland Alhaji M.D. Yusufu, C.F.R., Chairman, Sunrays, Nigeria, West Africa
		The Possibilities for Healing in Dying Principal Discussants: Frank Ostaseski, moderator; Founding Director, Zen Hospice Center Rachel Naomi Remen, Co-Founder and Medical Director, Commonweal Cancer Help Program
		Gender Reconciliation: Women and Men in Collaboration Principal Discussants: Susan Bailey, co-moderator; Executive Director, Wellesley Centers for Women Will Keepin, co-moderator; President, Shavano Institute Nancy Adler, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Cross-Cultural Management, McGill University, Montreal Andre Carothers, President, Rockwood Fund Abby Napeahi, Native Hawaiian Elder Claude Pepin, Executive Director, The Marian Foundation
		A Design for Generative Leadership Principal Discussants: Mel Toomey, moderator; Co-Founder, Generative Leadership Group; Co-Founder, Institute for Leadership in the 21st Century John Hamm, President & CEO, Whistle Communications Rita Harmon*, President and CEO, Leadership America; Co-Founder, Institute for Leadership in the 21st Century
		Teenagers and Drugs: Just Say Know Principal Discussants: Marsha Rosenbaum, moderator; Director, Lindesmith Center, West Karen Blanpied, Health Educator, University High School Joel Brown, Research Scientist, Center for Education Research Sandee Burbank, Executive Director, MAMA Dave Cropp*, Sergeant, Sacramento Police Department
		The State of the Leadership Soul Principal Discussants: Kathy Gardarian, co-moderator; CEO. Qualis International, Inc. George McCown, co-moderator; Chairman, World Business Academy Nick Bunick, Author, "In God's Truth" Robert Rabbin, Author, "Invisible Leadership: Igniting the Soul at Work"
		Our Common Enterprise (Closed Working Session) The roundtables on Our Common Enterprise (OCE) will be comprised of a selected group of people who have been invited from around the world to particpate. The focus of this endeavor will be to: articulate an integrated, ethical and programmatic framework for the future, the cornerstone of which will be the seven major UN conferences held during the 1990's; identify model programs and best practices, already in existence, which exemplify and point toward the possibilities being envisioned; establish a permanent, internet-based global research and decision-support capability comprised of an international consortium of leading private and public think tanks and applied research centers worldwide which can serve as an objective reference standard for the provision of critical information, knowledge and wise council as regards the future development of a sustainable human civilization; create a Global Leadership Council comprised of innovative leaders from the fields of politics, social activism, business, science, academia, religion and the arts who have participated in and are committed to OCE; develop television, radio, print and internet presentations and educational packages designed to inform, inspire and involve interested public and civic institutions; convene in September of the year 2000 in New York to coincide with the special Millennium General Assembly of the United Nations and present the findings and recommendations of OCE to the political leaders as they gather for their deliberations. The Wednesday afternoon plenary on October 28th will dedicate itself to OCE. This will be followed by three days of closed sessions for the pre-selected group. The final plenary of the Forum on Sunday, November 1 will be a 'town meeting' to provide an opportunity for reporting back and large group discussions concerning OCE.

"If we don't do that and blow ourselves up, nothing else matters"
--Former U.S. senator Alan Cranston, on the need to make nuclear disarmament the number one issue for the world

NUCLEAR ELIMINATION: The SWF helped facilitate a statement from 117 former world leaders, including Mikhail Gorbachev and Jimmy Carter, calling for the Nuclear Weapons States to declare their support for the complete abolition of nuclear weapons.
Go to INITIATIVES for details...