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All past seminars

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Recent Seminars

Meeting with the Group of African Ambassadors

How to Respond to Genocide and Other Crimes Against Humanity.

How to Deal with Crimes Against Humanity

Poetry reading with Anisur Rahman

Climate Justice after Copenhagen, or: “It’s the energy, stupid!”

COP 15 and Climate Justice: Collapse, Greenwash or New Impetus for the Future?

Post-Copenhagen Dialogue on Global Governance, Climate Change and Development

Elections in Namibia: The Political Culture under a Liberation Movement as Government

What About Solidarity?
Exploring the North-South Civil Society Dynamics

Inspiration, Innovation and Achievements

The Writing of the United Nations Intellectual History

The Need for Rule of Law in International Affairs

Finding Ways Towards Dialogue, Democracy and Development in Burma

Is Global Democracy Possible?

Dag Hammarskjöld and Martin Buber – Can we save true dialogue in an age of mistrust?

Care of people and care of the environment: What mainstream economics has neglected

Development – Between Policies
and Evolution

From EBA to EPA - Whereto do European-African (trade) relations move?

Media and Democracy in
Southern Africa

Power - the missing link in development policy analysis

Raila Odinga's Stolen Presidency - Consequences and the Future of Kenya

Mass Violence as Integral Part of European Modernity - The dark side of Enlightenment

Gandhi, Camus and the Struggle for Social Emancipation Today

Responsibility to Protect - A Double Edged Sword?

Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture 2008

Commemorating Dag Hammarskjöld's birthday

Prospects for Political Change in Cyclone-Hit Burma

Transitions in Namibia - What happened to South Africa's 'fifth province'?

Burma in humanitarian and
political crisis

Conflict Resolution between NATO and United Nations

Whatever Happened to the National Project in Africa? – A Retrospective and Prospective View

Perspectives on Liberation and Development in Southern Africa

Seminar on health policies for Burma

What Next feminist alternatives working group: Exploring the nexus between economic globalisation, environment, new technologies and embodiment

Countercurrents for a just world – Right Livelihood Award recipients reflect on our common future

What’s Next for Africa? - Current challenges and future scenarios

A dialogue conference on the
unpredictable past and future of Genocide

Biofuels - a growing solution
or decomposing illusion?

Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture 2007

Has Africa got anything to say?
Academic, cultural and publishing perspectives

The legacy of M.K. Gandhi
in India and the World

World Governance Assessment

Albert Camus and the
Origin of Revolt

Antibiotic resistance:
Have the bugs won? Is a way possible beyond winning and losing?

History of the People's Health Movement

Another development for Burma:
Crosscutting seminar

Government and Opposition in Namibia and Namibian-Zimbabwean Relations - Challenges for Civil Societies

How much is enough?

Carbon Trading: A False Solution to climate change?

World Social Forum 2007

Right Livelihood Award recipients

Mass Violence in Africa

Globalization and health

What Next Forum

How do we avoid missleading drug promotion?

Will nanotechnology save
us or turn us into robots?

Technologies Converging at the Nano-Scale

The price of peace – Dag Hammarskjöld and the vision of UN

Fair Future – Limited Resources and Global Justice

Green vision