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Thursday, September 15, 2005

potentially interesting meeting
Georgia: President Mikheil Saakashvili"The fight for freedom brings out the best people have in themselves .... Mediocre people succeed when there's no democracy."Mikheil Saakashvili, Law '94 and the President of the Republic of Georgia, spoke on Sept. 14, 2005 concerning how the Rose Revolution was more than a political revolution but also a cultural one that gave Georgian's their first true taste of freedom since Soviet rule. Five years ago President Shevardnadze himself had appointed Saakashvili the justice minister, but the young Columbia graduate resigned two years later protesting widespread corruption and cronyism among the Georgian leadership.Click Here to access Video and Program Highlights including comments by Asst. Dir. of Columbia's Harriman Institute Gordon Bardos and students attending this event.Rwanda: President Paul Kagame"Leadership is important to resist the tendency of absolute power to corrupt absolutely. Recognizing that people will do wrong things, strong leaders must help create institutions and mechanisms that will create a sense of balance to avoid the extremes and the pitfalls of practices that should be avoided."At the heart of Rwanda's development efforts is the last and perhaps the most important of all eight Millennium Development Goals—a global partnership for development. President Paul Kagame spoke on September 15, 2005, crediting partnerships—at the local, national, and global levels—for moving Rwanda forward on the path to a brighter future for all its citizens.Click Here to access Video and Program Highlights including comments by Columbia Professor Josh Ruxin and students attending this event.Poland: President Kwasniewski"What happened in Poland 25 years ago deserves to be called a turning point, .... But the idea of solidarity was not born in Poland. It is an eternal idea that goes to the core of what is best for humanity."Polish President Kwasniewski, on September 15, 2005, addressed the geopolitical challenges his country is facing as a result of joining NATO and the European Union—particularly in regard to the war against terrorism, Poland's eastern policy, and the war in Iraq.Click Here to access Video and Program Highlights including comments by Columbia Professor John S. Micgiel, Director, East Central European Center and students attending this event.Pakistan: President Pervez Musharraf"Pakistan is determined to move forward as a very progressive, dynamic, moderate Islamic Republic of Pakistan and we want to continue along that line so that we can contribute to peace and harmony in the world and the progress of humankind."President Pervez Musharraf's speech on September 16, 2005, entitled "Pakistan: Meeting the Challenge of Peace and Development" focused precisely on how he sees his own country's role in these two paramount global goals. Musharraf began his speech with a summary of the past quarter century of Pakistani history focusing primarily on the chaotic and violent series of political events in neighboring Afghanistan and their impacts on Pakistan during that period. He explained how Western support for various groups fighting against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan has left a legacy of armed, radical groups that continues to frustrate prospects for peace in his region today.Click Here to access Video and Program Highlights including comments by Columbia Professor Vidya J. Dehejia, Director ofSouthern Asia Institute and students attending this event.Iraq: President Jalal Talabani"We will not sell out democracy to the few to threaten violence if their demands are not met."Referring to himself as a representative of "the youngest democracy in the world," President Jalal Talabani addressed the Columbia University World Leaders Forum on September 17, 2005, to discuss the two point strategy for his country's efforts to fight terrorism and fascism and to develop a constitution: build a security force and have an inclusive democratic political process for all Iraquis.Click Here to access Video and Program Highlights including comments by Senior Research Scholar, and Director of Columbia's Center for International Conflict Resolution Andrea Bartoli and students attending this event.Sierra Leone: President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah“I inherited a severely battered nation, ... But the killing and maiming has been abated by a commitment from people to end violence.”Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, the president of Sierra Leone and a former United Nations civil servant, spoke to a crowd in the Low Library Rotunda on Monday, Sept. 19 – the seventh day of the 2005 World Leaders Forum. His speech, “The Millennium Development Goals,” dealt with his country’s effort to implement the United Nations’ roadmap for economic and social prosperity. Kabbah said his government has chosen the path of non-violence in dealing with a rebel faction that has taken refuge in Sierra Leone’s hinterland and is mining diamonds to buy arms.
posted by macrae.nets @ 3:40 PM 0 comments

Worldwide, club of city supports collaboration and networkers: to pose serious questions, notably on future curves that seem to be trending down in many places and communities. How do all peoples and media 1 2 3 turnround such examples as:
  • Healthcare – ever increasing costs
  • Children – increased family strain, lost safety of community
  • Professionals- loss of Hippocratic oath, ever more bureaucratic
  • Water – Clean water is getting scarcer
  • Transport – getting slower
  • National Government – Increasingly powering over instead of facilitating what people need next Mass media – dumbing down, loss of social space and transparent debates
  • Food chain – cost of good for you food going up
  • Nations Cultures- love of each other’s diversity going down
  • Pensions (investment in sustainable growth) – going down
  • Adult confidence in making a difference with lifelong learning potentials – seems to be going down
  • Insurance – cost going up, learnings across biggest tragedies seem increasingly blocked
  • Underclass – compounding underclass- their loss of hope in life and mutual risks to all of us in a hi-connected world
  • NGOs/Charity – Global*Local infrastructure further removed from depth of grassroots needs in crisis or sustainability turnround challenges
    We are interested in any city network that either recognises any of these as a problem which it wants to question or has some answers they are happy to share with the world
    Chris Macrae, wcbn007@easynet.co.uk, London & DC, 30 years at origin of Entrepreneurial Revolution, 21 years @ Death of Distance transparency networking, valuetrue mapmaking 1