Emerging Global Challenges

Project Summary

Title: CFGS Conference - "Emerging Global Challenges / G8 - Africa Planning Meeting"

Date: April 16-18, 2002

Location: Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy

Lead organization: Center for Global Studies (CFGS)

Director: Gordon Smith (CFGS)

Funder: the Canadian International Development Agency, the Ford Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the International Development Research Centre

Description: In April 16-18, 2003, the Centre for Global Studies led members of the Canadian G8 Summit team, representatives from donor agencies, and leading African personalities involved with the NEPAD process (New Plan for African Development) in a conference to discuss specific strategies for integrating Africa more constructively into the globalization process, working within the parameters set by the G8 Summits, Millennium Declaration and NEPAD Initiative.

"Emerging Global Challenges" comes in follow-up to a series of CFGS consultations during 2001 in which the Centre collaborated with an extensive network of international researchers to identify and prioritize actions in support of reforms to the international governance institutions. Participants at this years' conference had an opportunity to revisit these recommendations in a review of the report from last summer's 2020 Global Architecture Conference, in Victoria, BC.

The Emerging Global Challenges conference was made possible with financial support from

Project Materials

Conference materials:

Conference Agenda

Conference Report

“Exceptionalism, Power and the Global Architecture: Reconciling US Power and Multilateral Institution-Building” by Edward Luck, Director, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.

“Developing Countries and a Plot to Save the Earth: Towards a Post-Johannesburg Agenda for the South”, by Adil Najam, Boston University. View Power Point.

“New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NePAD): Democracy and Political Governance Initiative” by John J. Stremlau, Professor and Head of International Relations, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.

“The Diplomat’s Malaise” by David Victor, Director, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, Stanford University.