Globalisation For The Common Good

Globalization: the Challenge to America
Eighth Annual Conference
Globalization for the Common Good: An Interfaith Perspective
May 31 – June 4, 2009
Loyola University • Chicago, Illinois, USA

Loyola University, Chicago’s Jesuit University, is delighted to announce that it will host the eighth annual conference of Globalization for the Common Good.

The Event will be a featured part of Loyola University’s 2009 celebration of 100 years as a university. (more…)

Dr. Kamran Mofid recently delivered the keynote address entitled, “Be Global Citizens: Promote the Common Good Regionally and Globally” at a conferecne in Australia. Click the more link to watch a video of the presentation now online. (more…)

The 8th Globalisation for the Common Good Annual International Conference will take place in June 2009 and will be supported by and hosted at Loyola University, located in Chicago, IL, USA - http://www.luc.edu/index.shtml.

The Globalisation for the Common Good Initiative is very honoured to have been recognised and chosen by Loyola and look forward to working with them for the Common Good.

Dr. Kamran Mofid will be visiting Loyola and Chicago during the week of March 31, 2008, when a formal announcement will be made, providing greater details and information.

The 2008 Presidential Campaign and The Economy:

Presidential candidates, political commentators, and the public at large are talking about the economy.  The average person today is struggling.  It seems that in every sphere of our daily lives our income can not keep pace with our expenses.  The steadily rising cost of fuel, healthcare/insurance, education, combined with a war, the mortgage crisis, and unemployment are issues that need immediate attention.

How did the economy get this way?

Read more at: http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/No%20More%20Fear/gGB3BV

The Speech was given at the Palm Sunday Peace Rally in Melbourne, Australia on 16th march 2008:
 
“I am delighted and honoured to be here today, making this brief presentation. I wish to thank you for inviting me and to thank you for the generosity of your hospitality and friendship.

I am especially delighted to be in Australia now: a time of change and a time of hope. You, the good people of this beautiful land, decided that you wish to be, once again, a country of hope, a country of justice, peace and compassion, when you voted in your general election a few months back. Since then your new government has taken a few gallant steps, enhancing peace nationally and internationally. We need more governments around the world to be inspired by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and under take similar humane and just policies…”

Read more at: http://paxchristi-oz.blogspot.com/2008/03/kamran-mofids-palm-sunday-speech.html

National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies Australia, The University of Melbourne, Friday, March 7, 2008

“Inter-faith dialogue has emerged in recent years as a nexus where scholars, theologians, conflict-resolution practitioners and concerned citizens have engaged one another to discuss ‘big picture’ human concerns, from conflict to migration, the environment, technology and poverty.

Dr Kamran Mofid has been a pioneer in this field, establishing Globalisation for the Common Good (GCG) in 2002 as an organisation aimed at, in their own words, “rekindling the human spirit and compassion in globalisation”. This organisation has grown into a global community, promoting awareness through landmark conferences, lectures and their publication, the Journal of Globalisation for the Common Good.

In 2008, the GCG will host its 8th annual conference in Melbourne with the keynote speaker being former Iranian President and catalyst for the establishment of the United Nation’s ‘Year of Dialogue of Civilisations’ in 2001, Seyyed Mohammad Khatami. On Friday March 7 2008, Dr Mofid visited NCEIS, where he spoke to Dr Benjamin MacQueen”.

Read the interview: http://www.nceis.unimelb.edu.au/events/DrKamranMofid_Interview.html

His Excellency Seyyed Mohammad Khatami (President of Iran 1997-2005) 

“Leader of the reform movement in Iran, he is credited with having placed the dialogue of cultures and civilizations on the international map. He was instrumental in getting the idea of dialogue unanimously accepted by the Organisation of Islamic Conference in 1997 and by the UN General Assembly in 1998. Since then, in a number of landmark speeches delivered to large audiences around the world, he has brought to the idea intellectual depth, political insight and practical focus. His advice is widely sought by religious and political leaders around the world. He will give the keynote address at the conference on Monday evening 30th June. Given the importance of the occasion, the meeting will be open to the public…”

For more information and complete details visit the conference website by clicking this link.

Today, September 30th, 2007 is Rumi’s 800th Birthday, a day of global celebration and joy.

A Reflection by Kamran Mofid
 
Rumi was born on 30th of September 1207 in Balkh in today’s Afghanistan, then within the domains of Persian Empire, and died in Konya, in present-day Turkey where he spent many years of his precious life. (more…)

The official conference website is now online for the Globalisation for the Common Good - An Interfaith Perspective Seventh Annual Conference taking place in Melbourne, Australia in 2008.

Read Kamran Mofid’s message regarding the Melbourne 2008 conferene.

The website will be home to conference specific news and registration. Learn more by visiting the conference website http://www.gcgmelbourne2008.info/ now.

Images are now available from the conference taking place in Istanbul, Turkey. Images are courtesy of Fatih University, site of the 2007 conference.

View the Fatih University conference image gallery

More images will be published to the Globalisation for the Common Good website in the coming weeks.