One World Week 2011 Forum Talks

The internationally renowned One World Forum attracts high-profile speakers from across the world through a series of panel debates, with each speaker offering views on current issues, followed by an interactive session allowing the audience to debate what has been discussed. Forum is a platform for the exchange of ideas and ideologies, featuring leading luminaries from diverse professions, political spheres and academic disciplines.

Every night of One World Week, Forum embraces critical themes that engage with the contemporary world. This year this premier global forum once again is manifesting the reality of common humanity and the shared existence of all the people in the world by focusing on the following topics:

Mon 31 Jan – 6pm – ACCR

Panel debate: The Future of Nuclear

Protests, controversial energy ministers, and a new nuclear energy plan; and no we are not in the 70s. We are entering a new era of nuclear debate with uncertain energy sources and a world where a nuclear deterrent may still be necessary. Well, with relations between the US and Russia being the worst they have been since the fall of the Berlin wall; it’s a new, different world we now live in. With the cuts published in October; do we ditch nuclear? Come to discuss what we now should do with the mysterious and ever growing technology.

The panel includes:

Prof David Webb – Chair of CND
Prof Steven Cowley – CEO of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)
Dr Tony Razzell of Rolls-Royce Turbine Systems
Dr Isaac Newton Acquah Snr. – Former Consultant IAEA
Mr Olzhas Suleimenov (Kazakhstani ambassador at the UN)

Movie Screening: Energy Crossroads: A Burning Need to Change Course

An award-winning documentary which exposes the problems associated with our energy consumption. It also offers concrete solutions for those who want to educate themselves and be part of the solutions in this decisive era. The film features passionate individuals, entrepreneurs, experts and scientists at the forefront of their field bringing legitimacy and expertise to the core message of the piece.

Tue 1 Feb- 6pm – ACCR

Panel debate: Feeding the Hunger

This year we seek to piece together the Global Food Crisis and look not only at the ‘have-nots’ but also at those who have too much. With a panel of expert speakers we will consider not only the ‘hungry’ and how this can be dealt with, but also the ways in which we feed and exacerbate the food crises. In the popular imagination words like ‘Third-World’ and ‘Famine’ go together. But how does the West fit in to the picture, how do we provoke an existing crisis and how are we dealing with our own crisis; our abuse of this most vital of the world’s resources?

The panel includes:
Dr Zoltan Tiba – Policy adviser to the World Food Programme
Mr Chris Stevens – A Senior research Associate at the Overseas Development Institute
Mr Tony Begley – Education Coordinator for Mary’s Meals, a charity that offers ‘a simple solution to hunger’

Movie Screening: Food Inc

Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here

Wed 2 Feb – 6pm – R0.21

Panel debate: Asia and the West: the New Frontier

The World is changing and Asia seems to be at the pinnacle of this change, both economically and politically. We at One World Week seek to explore the finer aspects of the relationship Asian countries share with each other and with the Western World. From Governance to economic policy making to issues of security, this talk has it all.

The panel includes:

Mrs Ashwini Deshpande – Professor of Economics at the Delhi School of Economics
Mr Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi – Foreign Minister of Pakistan
Mr John Hancock – World Trade Organisation serving as Senior Policy Advisor to the Director-General
Mr Ian Mackichan – Managing director at Credit Suisse
Mr Ghaffar Hussain – Head of Quilliam Outreach and Training Unit (The Quilliam Foundation)

Movie Screening: Ajami Arts Centre Conference Room

A chance to see the critically acclaimed Ajami, in collaboration with the Israel Palestine Forum. Ajami is an area of Jaffa where Arabs, Palestinians, Jews and Christians try to live together in an atmosphere that is -to say the least – electric. Omar, an Israeli Arab, struggles to save his family from elimination by a gang of extortionists. He also courts a beautiful Christian girl, Hadir, but marrying her is far from obvious. Malek, an illegal Palestinian worker, tries to collect enough money to pay for his mother’s operation. Dando, an Israeli cop, does his utmost to trace his missing brother who may have been killed by Palestinians. Binj, Malek and Omar’s Arab friend, suffers from being rejected by other members of his community for mixing with an Israeli girl. All of them will meet violence, most of the time with violence.

Thu 3 Feb – 6pm – MS.02

Panel debate: The Forgotten Land: Latin America and the Caribbeans in Focus

Do we neglect Latin America and the Caribbean? Are we ignoring rising political and economic powers? Are the LEDC’s of Latin America and the Caribbean of less importance to the western world both politically and in terms of social opinion? Why? We have brought together experts from across the globe to explore these questions for One World Forum 2011.

The panel includes:

Mr Michael Reid – author of “Forgotten Continent: the battle for Latin America’s soul” and Journalist for Economist
Mr David Jessop is the Director of the Caribbean Council

Movie screening: Oliver Stone;s South of the Border

There’s a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn’t know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media’s misconception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents. In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Nėstor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba), Stone gains unprecedented access and sheds new light upon the exciting transformations in the region

Fri 4 Feb – Corporate Social Responsibilities: Keeping it Private

Panel debate:

“Poverty fuels desperation and policies stoke humiliation”. Can, should and what are corporations’ role in eradicating poverty? Can corporations shape policies? Corporate Social Responsibility has become a global phenomenon over the last decade, crossing different fields- politics, economics and business. The talk would be focusing on the role of the private sector in poverty reduction by examining various case studies, discussing cross border questions that is pertinent in the world today.

Speakers include:

Mr Richard Bernstein – founder, shareholder and Chief Executive officer (CEO) of Eurovestech.
Ms Melissa Powell is the Head of Strategy and Partnerships with the United Nations Global Compact
Mr Gavin McGillvray – Head of the Private Sector at the Department for International Development

Movie screening: The Corporation

Provoking, witty, stylish and sweepingly informative, The Corporation explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Part film and part movement, The Corporation is transforming audiences and dazzling critics with its insightful and compelling analysis. Taking its status as a legal “person” to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist’s couch to ask “What kind of person is it?” The Corporation includes interviews with 40 corporate insiders and critics – including Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva and Michael Moore – plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change

Dates & Times

Mon 31 Jan	Conference Room	6:00pm
Tue 1 Feb		6:00pm
Wed 2 Feb	Conference Room	6:00pm
Thu 3 Feb		6:00pm
Fri 4 Feb	Conference Room	6:00pm