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International Conference on Mobilising Social Change to Achieve a more Equitable and Sustainable World
Background and Objectives
To focus on the issue of social transformation, the Club of Rome will convene in Basel in June 2010, a high-level expert conference on the topic: “Mobilising social change to achieve a more equitable and sustainable World.” This conference is an essential component of the Club of Rome’s programme of international research and consultation to define the elements of “A New Path for World Development.”
The two day conference will bring together a high-level group of around forty practitioners, experts and officials from across the world. The participants will come from a wide range of fields of expertise, including, the social sciences, religious institutions, education, government, city management, business, the media and civil society. The conference will be followed by a public event where the results can be more widely presented and discussed.
Besides making intellectual progress in understanding the fundamental importance of attitudes, beliefs, values and behaviour in the new conditions of the 21st century, the conference is intended to produce practical insights and proposals for policy and action. The Club is positioned to insert the conclusions and recommendations of the Conference directly into the policy process through many channels, in particular through GLOBE International, an organisation of senior legislators from the G20 countries.
The aims of the conference are:
- to clarify the goals of social transformation to create conditions for the re-orientation of societies and economies onto an equitable and sustainable path;
- to propose how the necessary changes in attitudes, values and behaviour can be encouraged in different cultural contexts;
- to recommend how governments and city authorities, business and financial institutions, education, the media and civil society can contribute to motivating the necessary social transformations.
In fact, underlying the crises in the fields of economics, finance, environment and development lies a deep moral and social crisis. The issues on which the Conference is focused are therefore of fundamental importance: how must attitudes, beliefs, values and behaviour be transformed to lay the foundations for a new economy and a new society which will be more just and inclusive and more respectful of the natural systems on which we depend.
The conference agenda will be published soon.
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