invite you to a panel discussion on a recent Vanderbilt University Press
publication
Global Democracy: The Struggle for Political and Civil Rights in the 21st
Century
From trade agreements to a new treaty on climate change, from UN sanctions
against Iran's nuclear program to peacekeeping in Darfur, global public policy
increasingly affects people's lives and has become too important to bypass the
democratic process. Global institutions designed to be controlled by a powerful
few are grinding to a halt as the global landscape of power shifts.
Global Democracy sets a vision for global governance rooted in the realities of
the 21st century. After centuries of struggles for political equality by the
working class, women or ethnic minorities, it is time for nationals of poor and
emerging countries to achieve political equality with Westerners in world
affairs.
This is a book that everyone interested in creating a better world should read,
discuss, and act upon.
- Peter Singer, Princeton University
Didier Jacobs reminds us that institutions matter, and that the concept of
political equality is as relevant at the global level as it is at the national
level.
- David Held, London School of Economics
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
Light lunch and book signing to follow
World Bank J Building
Auditorium JB1-080
701 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC
For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org
(Please include full names of all attendees and name of event in your message.)
PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Didier Jacobs
Special Advisor to the President, Oxfam America
Mr. Jacobs is Special Advisor to the President at Oxfam America, and was
formerly a researcher at the London School of Economics and Catholic University
of Louvain. He also was an aid worker for Médecins Sans Frontières in Liberia
during the civil war.
DISCUSSED BY
Ann Florini
Visiting Professor and Director, Centre on Asia and Globalization, Lee Kuan Yew
School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore and
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Program, Brookings Institution
Ms. Florini is Visiting Professor and Director of the Centre on Asia and
Globalization at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National
University of Singapore. She is also Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies
Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. Ms. Florini is
internationally recognized as an authority on new approaches to global
governance, focusing on the roles of civil society and the private sector in
addressing global issues. Currently, she is examining governance in the energy
sector.
Amar Bhattacharya
Director, G-24 Secretariat
Mr. Bhattacharya is Director of the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Group
of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development. The G24
Secretariat serves the G24 Finance Ministers and their officials in the
deliberations and work program of the Group. Prior to taking up his current
position, Mr. Bhattacharya had a long-standing career in the World Bank. In his
last position, he was advisor to the President and Senior Management on the
Bank?s engagement with key international groupings and institutions including on
issues of global governance and reform of aid as well as international financial
architecture.
MODERATED BY
John Garrison
Senior Civil Society Specialist, Civil Society Team, World Bank
Mr. Garrison joined the World Bank in 1996 as a Civil Society Specialist. He
spent the first five years working in the Bank?s office in Brasilia, Brazil
where he carried out applied research, organized outreach activities, and
helped supervise Bank projects, all related to improving World Bank?civil
society relations. In 2002 he joined the Bank?s Civil Society Team (CST).
Current activities include working to formulate Bank-wide strategy, providing
advice to senior management, reaching out to international civil society
networks, and disseminating information on the Bank.
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About Oxfam America
Oxfam America is an international relief and development organization that
creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger and injustice. Together with
individuals and local groups in more than 120 countries, Oxfam saves lives,
helps people overcome poverty, and fights social injustice. To join our efforts
or learn more, go to www.oxfamamerica.org.
About the Civil Society Team
The Global Civil Society Team serves as the institutional and global focal point
for the Bank?s engagement with civil society. As such, the CST formulates
institutional strategy, provides advice to senior management, provides guidance
and technical assistance to program staff on how to consult and involve civil
society in Bank operations, and undertakes ongoing outreach efforts to global
civil society.
www.worldbank.org/civilsociety
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
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