"Unleashing India's Innovation: Toward Sustainable and Inclusive Growth" discussed at the InfoShop on October 9 at 10:00 pm in J1-050

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&
The Finance and Private Sector Development Unit, South Asia Region

cordially invite you to a book launch and panel discussion featuring
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| | Unleashing India's Innovation: |
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| | Mark Dutz (editor) |
| | |
| | India's challenge over the next two |
| | decades will be to maintain and |
| | increase the encouraging growth rates |
| | over the past few years whilst |
| | empowering and investing in people, |
| | particularly poor people. Innovation |
| | and investment will be at the heart |
| | of any success. This important book |
| | provides a powerful analytical |
| | contribution to this challenge that |
| | will be of lasting value. |
| | Sir Nicholas Stern, Head, London |
| | School of Economic's Indian |
| | Observatory and Asia Research Centre |
| | |
| | This is undoubtedly one of the most |
| | important policy reports from the |
| | World Bank in recent years. Energetic |
| | implementation of the policy |
| | proposals contained in this book will |
| | enable the economy to ensure that the |
| | present growth momentum is maintained |
| | and to achieve a growth miracle in |
| | the coming decades. This superb |
| | report requires full reading. |
| | Vijay Kelkar, Chairman, India |
| | Development Foundation, New Delhi |
| | |
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Tuesday, October 9
10:00 - 11:30 am
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

WELCOMING REMARKS AND CHAIR
Praful Patel
Vice President, South Asia Region, World Bank

EDITOR AND AUTHOR
Mark Dutz
South Asia Region, World Bank

PANELISTS BY VIDEOCONFERENCE
Sam Pitroda,
Chairman, National Knowledge Commission, New Delhi

R.A. Mashelkar
President, Global Research Alliance;
former Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New
Delhi

LOCAL PANELISTS
Carl Dahlman
Professor, Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service

Charles Wessner
Director, Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, The National Academies
_________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

"Trade Imbalance: The Struggle to Weigh Human Rights Concerns in Trade Policymaking" discussed at the InfoShop on October 9 at 12:00 pm in JB1-080

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DECRG (Development Economics Research Group), International Trade Department,
World Bank
International Labour Organization, Washington Office
The Financial Times

invite you to a book launch of a recent Cambridge University Press publication
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| | Trade Imbalance: The Struggle to Weigh |
| | Human Rights Concerns in Trade Policymaking |
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| pic19489.jpg) | Trade is controversial; around the world |
| | many people believe that trade agreements, |
| | even trade per se, undermines particular |
| | human rights such as labor rights or access |
| | to affordable medicine (the right to |
| | health). But trade and trade agreements |
| | can also advance human rights, directly or |
| | indirectly. In fact, some countries use |
| | trade policies to advance specific human |
| | rights such as labor rights or property |
| | rights. Although scholars, policy makers, |
| | and activists have long debated this |
| | relationship, in truth we know very little |
| | about it. This book enters this murky |
| | territory with three goals. First, it uses |
| | stories about frogs, chocolate, culture, |
| | tires and other topics to provide readers |
| | with new insights into the relationship |
| | between trade and human rights. Second, it |
| | includes the first study of how South |
| | Africa, Brazil, the United States, and the |
| | European Union coordinate trade and human |
| | rights objectives and resolve conflicts. It |
| | also looks at how human rights issues are |
| | seeping into the WTO. Finally, it provides |
| | suggestions to policy makers for making |
| | their trade and human rights policies more |
| | coherent. |
| | For more information about the book, please |
| | go to: www.tradeimbalance.net

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Tuesday, October 9, 2007
12:00pm
World Bank J Building, JB1- 080
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

Moderated by
Bernard Hoekman
Research Manager, Development Research Group, The World Bank
Mr. Hoekman is the manager of the international trade team of the
Development Research Group of the World Bank. He has worked
extensively on the Middle East and North Africa and economies in
transition. Between 1988 and 1993 he was on the staff of the GATT
Secretariat in Geneva. He is a Research Fellow of the London-based
Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Presented by the Authors
Susan Aaronson
Research Associate Professor, George Washington University
From 2002-2006, Ms. Aaronson was the Director of Globalization
Studies at the Kenan Institute, Kenan Flagler Business School. She
is the author of 6 books and numerous articles on globalization,
global corporate social responsibility, business and human rights as
well as trade issues. She is also a frequent speaker on public
understanding of globalization issues. She has appeared on All
Things Considered, Marketplace and Morning Edition, as well as on
CNN, BBC and PBS. Aaronson also serves as a consultant to the
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, the ILO, and other
organizations.

Jamie Zimmerman
Associate Director of the Global Assets Project, Washington
University in St. Louis
Ms. Zimmerman is conceptualizing, building and managing the Global
Assets project, a joint venture of the Asset Building Program at the
New America Foundation and the Center for Social Development at
Washington University in St. Louis. The program aims to advance
savings and asset-building policies and projects in the developing
and developed world. Previously, Ms. Zimmerman was the Associate
Director of Globalization Studies at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill?s Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise,
where she managed research and outreach efforts for projects aimed
at building awareness of the relationship between international
trade, human rights, and corporate social responsibility. She has
also worked as an international trade consultant in Sao Paulo,
Brazil, and with nonprofit micro-enterprise development groups in
Urubamba, Peru.
And Special Guest
John Ruggie
United Nations Special Representative on Business & Human Rights
Mr. Ruggie is the Evron and Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of
International Affairs. Prior to joining the Kennedy School he was
Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving as chief
adviser for strategic planning to Secretary-General Kofi Annan. His
responsibilities included the U.N.'s Global Compact, intended to
advance human rights, labor standards, and environmental principles
in global corporate practices. Mr. Ruggie was Dean of the School of
International and Public Affairs at Columbia University from
1991-96. He also has taught at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego, and has
held visiting appointments at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (Geneva), The Royal Institute of International
Affairs (London), Beijing University, and the European University
Institute (Florence).

Comments by:
Armand Pereira
Director, International Labor Organization Washington Office
Mr. Pereira is Director of the International Labor Organization
(ILO) in Washington since May 2005. Before that, he was Director of
the ILO Office in Brasilia, between Jan 1998 and May 2005. He
served the ILO at Headquarters in Geneva from Jan 1982 to Dec 1997
as Senior Economist in the Employment and Development Department
(1982-1992), and as Industry Specialist in the Sectoral Activities
Department (1993-1997).

For more information or to order the book, please visit:

http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

For information about the book go to: www.tradeimbalance.net

About ILO
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is devoted to advancing
opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work
in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity. Its
main aims are to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment
opportunities, enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue in
handling work-related issues. In promoting social justice and
internationally recognized human and labour rights, the organization
continues to pursue its founding mission that labour peace is
essential to prosperity. Today the ILO helps advance the creation of
decent jobs and the kinds of economic and working conditions that
give working people and business people a stake
in lasting peace, prosperity and progress.

For more information, visit: www.ilo.org

Reminder: Africa Series: Agricultural Roundtable Strategy Session - A United Approach to Meeting the Millenium Development Goals on September 27 from 1:00pm to 7:00 pm in H auditorium

Please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org
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Event Program

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REMINDER Africa Series: Agricultural Roundtable Strategy Session - A United Approach to Meeting the Millenium Development Goals on September 27 from 1:00pm to 7:00 pm in H auditorium

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Event Program

(See attached file: Afs-CFA Agriculture Round Table program.doc)

"The Challenge of Rural Electrification: Strategies for Developing Countries" discussed at the InfoShop on Tuesday October 9 at 12:00 pm in J1-050

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The InfoShop and Energy Sector Management Assistance Program

cordially invite you to a book launch and panel discussion featuring
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| | Strategies for Developing |
| | Countries |
| | (a copublication with RFF |
| | Press) |
| | |
| | Edited by Douglas F. Barnes |
| | |
| | Written by development experts |
| | ranging in expertise from |
| | engineering to economic |
| | history, this book demonstrates |
| | that there are major |
| | opportunities to increase the |
| | pace and widen the scope of |
| | rural electrification. Case |
| | studies of successful rural |
| | electrification programs in |
| | Bangladesh, Chile, China, Costa |
| | Rica, Ireland, Mexico, the |
| | Philippines, Thailand, Tunisia, |
| | and the United States will be |
| | of interest to a broad range of |
| | policy makers, development |
| | professionals, and community |
| | advocates. The book confirms |
| | that there is not one way to |
| | accomplish rural |
| | electrification, but an |
| | underlying set of principles |
| | that should be followed in |
| | order to reach the 1.6 billion |
| | people currently without access |
| | to electricity services. |
| | |
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Tuesday, October 9th
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building, J1-050
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)

________________________________________________________________________________
Introduced by
Jamal Saghir
Jamal Saghir is Director of the Energy, Transport and Water
department in the Sustainable Development Vice Presidency of the
World Bank and Chair of the Energy and Mining, Transport, and Water
Sector Boards. Mr. Saghir joined the Bank in 1990 as a Financial
Officer specializing in private sector development, privatization
and restructuring assignments. He became Principal Private Sector
Development Specialist in 1997, and was appointed Sector Manager in
the Infrastructure Development Group in MENA, in 1999.

Presented by
S. Vijay Iyer
Vijay Iyer is Sector Manager for Energy for the Africa Region at the
World Bank. His 15+ years of experience as an Infrastructure Project
Leader at the Bank builds upon 10 years of experience in development
and public administration in India. Mr. Iyer?s Bank career spans
projects in the South Asia and Africa regions, covering the full
range of energy sector activities from renewable and household
energy to large scale oil/gas, electricity generation, transmission,
and distribution.

Elizabeth Cecelski
Elizabeth Cecelski (Co-author) has worked for more than 25 years on
rural electrification and rural development and serves on the
3-member Technical Advisory Group for the Energy Sector Management
Assistance Program. She was an energy economist at Resources for the
Future and later worked in the Rural Employment Policies Branch of
the International Labour Organisation in Geneva. She is a founding
member of the Advisory Group and technical adviser for ENERGIA, the
International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy.

Douglas F. Barnes
Doug Barnes is a Senior Energy Specialist in the Energy Sector
Management Assistance Program and has been working in rural and
urban development for over 25 years. Mr. Barnes has published
extensively on the topic, and led efforts to develop a rural energy
strategy at the World Bank Group. Before joining the World Bank, he
worked at the Center for Energy Policy Research at Resources for the
Future. He recently coauthored The Urban Energy Transition: Energy,
Poverty and the Environment in the Developing World and
Environmental Health and Traditional Fuel Use in Guatemala.

Moderated by
Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez
Ede Ijjasz is the manager of the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP)
and the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP). These
are global partnership programs administered by the World Bank and
supported by 14 donor countries. Prior to joining the World Bank,
Mr. Ijjasz worked in environmental consulting. He is currently a
lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University Master?s Program of
Environmental Science and Policy, in the area of contaminant fate
and transport modeling and policy.

For more information or to order the book, please visit:

http://www.rff.org/rff/RFF_Press/CustomBookPages/RuralElectrification.cfm

___________________________________________________________________________________________
About the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP)
ESMAP is a multi-donor trust fund program administered by the World
Bank and established in 1983. The Program helps build consensus and
provides policy advice on sustainable energy development to
governments of developing countries and economies in transition.
ESMAP promotes the role of energy in poverty reduction and economic
growth in an environmentally responsible manner. Its work applies to
low-income, emerging, and transition economies and contributes to
the achievement of internationally agreed development goals.

For more information, visit: www.esmap.org

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Moving Out of Poverty (Volume 1): Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility on October 3 at 11:00am in JB1-080

InfoShop & The Poverty Reduction Group (PRMPR)

Invite you to a book launch featuring a recent publication
MOVING OUT OF POVERTY
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility (Volume 1)
Edited by Deepa Narayan , Patti Petesch

This book makes a case for focusing on mobility to better understand the
barriers to reducing poverty. Leading development practitioners and scholars
from the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology
critically examine the literature from their disciplines and contribute new
frameworks and evidence from their own works.

While covering a vast body of conceptual and empirical knowledge about economic
and social mobility, the authors take the reader on compelling journeys of
multigenerational accounts of mobility in two villages in Kanartaka, India,
three favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the life of a street child in Burkina
Faso, and much more.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
World Bank J Building, JB1-080
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A light lunch will be served
For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org

Chair:
Luca Barbone
Sector Director, Poverty Reduction Group, World Bank

Introductory Remarks:
Deepa Narayan
Senior Advisor, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank

Patti Petesch
Consultant, Poverty Reduction Group, World Bank

Keynote Address:
"Democracy and Mobility"
Charles Tilly
Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University

Discussants:
Steen Lau Jorgensen
Sector Director, Social Development Department, World Bank

Vijayendra Rao
Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank

The Moving Out of Poverty series, launched in 2007, is under the editorial
direction of Deepa Narayan, Senior Advisor of the World Bank and former director
of the Voices of the Poor series. Future volumes will feature the results of new
comparative research across more than 500 communities in 17 countries to
understand how and why people move out of poverty.

For more information or to order the report, please visit:
http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=6361596
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Moving Out of Poverty (Volume 1): Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility on October 3 at 11:00am in JB1-080

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&
The Poverty Reduction Group (PRMPR)

Invite you to a book launch featuring a recent publication
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| | MOVING OUT OF POVERTY |
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| to file: | Edited by Deepa Narayan , Patti Petesch |
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| ) | This book makes a case for focusing on mobility |
| | to better understand the barriers to reducing |
| | poverty. Leading development practitioners and |
| | scholars from the fields of anthropology, |
| | economics, political science, and sociology |
| | critically examine the literature from their |
| | disciplines and contribute new frameworks and |
| | evidence from their own works. |
| | |
| | While covering a vast body of conceptual and |
| | empirical knowledge about economic and social |
| | mobility, the authors take the reader on |
| | compelling journeys of multigenerational accounts |
| | of mobility in two villages in Kanartaka, India, |
| | three favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the life |
| | of a street child in Burkina Faso, and much more. |
| | |
| | |
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
World Bank J Building, JB1-080
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A light lunch will be served

Chair:
Luca Barbone
Sector Director, Poverty Reduction Group, World Bank

Introductory Remarks:
Deepa Narayan
Senior Advisor, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World
Bank

Patti Petesch
Consultant, Poverty Reduction Group, World Bank

Keynote Address:
"Democracy and Mobility"
Charles Tilly
Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University

Discussants:
Steen Lau Jorgensen
Sector Director, Social Development Department, World Bank

Vijayendra Rao
Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank

The Moving Out of Poverty series, launched in 2007, is under the
editorial direction of Deepa Narayan, Senior Advisor of the World
Bank and former director of the Voices of the Poor series. Future
volumes will feature the results of new comparative research across
more than 500 communities in 17 countries to understand how and why
people move out of poverty.

For more information or to order the report, please visit:

http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=6361596

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

REMINDER: "Amnesty after Atrocity?: Healing Nations after Genocide and War Crimes" on Wednesday, September 26 at 12:00pm in J1-050

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and
Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics
The World Bank
Invite you to a discussion featuring a recent publication.
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| | |
| | AMNESTY AFTER ATROCITY?: |
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| pic00229.jpg | In Amnesty after Atrocity? Veteran journalist |
| ) | Helena Cobban examines the effectiveness of |
| | different ways of dealing with the aftermath of |
| | genocide and violence committed during deep |
| | intergroup conflicts. She traveled to Rwanda, |
| | Mozambique, and South Africa to assess the |
| | various ways those nations tried to come to grips |
| | with their violent past: from war crimes trials |
| | to truth commissions to outright amnesties for |
| | perpetrators. She discovered that in terms of |
| | both moving these societies forward and |
| | satisfying the needs of survivors, war crimes |
| | trials are not the most effective path. This |
| | work provides strategic historical context and |
| | includes interviews with a cross-section of the |
| | panoply of humanity that makes up any |
| | post-atrocity society: community leaders, |
| | victims, policymakers, teachers, rights |
| | activists, and even some former abusers. These |
| | first-person accounts create a rich, readable |
| | text, and Cobban?s overall conclusions will |
| | surprise many readers in the West. |
| | |
| | |
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Wednesday, September 26
12:00 - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
Coffee and cookies will be served

______________________________________________________________________________________________________

CHAIR
Katherine Marshall
Senior Advisor, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Marshall has worked for over three decades on international
development, with a focus on issues facing the world?s poorest
countries. She is a Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor at
Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs.
From 2000-2006 her mandate covered ethics, values, and faith in
development work, as counselor to the World Bank?s President. Ms.
Marshall served earlier as Country Director in the World Bank?s
Africa region, first for the Sahel region, then Southern Africa.
She led the Bank's work on social policy and governance during the
East Asia crisis years. She also worked extensively on Eastern
Africa and Latin America.

PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Helena Cobban
Ms. Cobban is a veteran writer, researcher, and program organizer on
global affairs. She is a Contributing Editor of Boston Review,
where her recent articles have included lengthy essays on Lebanese
and Palestinian affairs, and on post-genocide justice issues in
Rwanda. She has an affiliation as 'Friend in Washington' with the
Washington, DC-based Friends Committee on National Legislation.

DISCUSSANT
Dick Ruffin
Executive Vice President, Initiatives of Change International
Mr. Ruffin is Executive Vice President of Initiatives of Change
International, an NGO with a seventy-year track record of building
trust across the world?s divides. IofC International is in special
consultative status with ECOSOC, is active in over thirty countries
and holds annual conferences at its international center for
reconciliation in Caux, Switzerland. Mr. Ruffin has been associated
with IofC since leaving the Pentagon in 1971, where he was a systems
analyst on the staff of the Secretary of Defense.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Africa Series: Agricultural Roundtable Strategy Session - A United Approach to Meeting the Millenium Development Goals on September 27 from 1:00pm to 7:00 pm in H auditorium

Please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org
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Event Program

(See attached file: Afs-CFA Agriculture Round Table program.doc)

Africa Series: Agricultural Roundtable Strategy Session - A United Approach to Meeting the Millenium Development Goals on September 27 from 1:00pm to 7:00 pm in H auditorium

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Event Program

(See attached file: Afs-CFA Agriculture Round Table program.doc)

"Amnesty after Atrocity?: Healing Nations after Genocide and War Crimes" on Wednesday, September 26 at 12:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop and Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics, The World Bank
Invite you to a discussion featuring a recent publication.
AMNESTY AFTER ATROCITY?
Healing Nations after Genocide and War Crimes
by Helena Cobban

In Amnesty after Atrocity? Veteran journalist Helena Cobban examines the
effectiveness of different ways of dealing with the aftermath of genocide and
violence committed during deep intergroup conflicts. She traveled to Rwanda,
Mozambique, and South Africa to assess the various ways those nations tried to
come to grips with their violent past: from war crimes trials to truth
commissions to outright amnesties for perpetrators. She discovered that in
terms of both moving these societies forward and satisfying the needs of
survivors, war crimes trials are not the most effective path. This work
provides strategic historical context and includes interviews with a
cross-section of the panoply of humanity that makes up any post-atrocity
society: community leaders, victims, policymakers, teachers, rights activists,
and even some former abusers. These first-person accounts create a rich,
readable text, and Cobban?s overall conclusions will surprise many readers in
the West.
Wednesday, September 26
12:00 - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
Coffee and cookies will be served
For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org
____________________________________________________________

CHAIR
Katherine Marshall
Senior Advisor, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Marshall has worked for over three decades on international development,
with a focus on issues facing the world?s poorest countries. She is a Senior
Fellow and Visiting Professor at Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace
and World Affairs. From 2000-2006 her mandate covered ethics, values, and faith
in development work, as counselor to the World Bank?s President. Ms. Marshall
served earlier as Country Director in the World Bank?s Africa region, first for
the Sahel region, then Southern Africa. She led the Bank's work on social
policy and governance during the East Asia crisis years. She also worked
extensively on Eastern Africa and Latin America.

PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Helena Cobban
Ms. Cobban is a veteran writer, researcher, and program organizer on global
affairs. She is a Contributing Editor of Boston Review, where her recent
articles have included lengthy essays on Lebanese and Palestinian affairs, and
on post-genocide justice issues in Rwanda. She has an affiliation as 'Friend in
Washington' with the Washington, DC-based Friends Committee on National
Legislation.
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