Conference Reports
The Third Roundtable on Constructing Peace Deconstructing Terror marked the concluding inter-faith and academic exchange launched by SFG on this topic. The Roundtable was endorsed by the League of Arab States. It engaged important public institutions from the Western and Islamic worlds and the group of eminent leaders now numbered at 40 who attended the conference came up with 5 main solutions to bridge the gap between the West and Islamic nations.
Strategic Foresight Group in collaboration with SMWIPM Institute for Peace Studies and the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, organized a workshop on global extremism, terror and response strategies at Alexandria, Egypt. It was and attended by 20 experts from different parts of the world. The participants presented analysis of terrorism and extremism in their respective regions and their suggestions for addressing the problem.
In 2006, Strategic Foresight Group along with Geneva based Horasis group, headed by Dr. Frank-Jurgen Richter, former director of the World Economic Forum,introduced the seminar series Managing Global Challenges. The seminar series was for business and government leaders on the future state of the world, emerging global strategies, dynamics of globalization and sustainability.
Held in collaboration with the Alliance of Liberal and Democrats for Europe in the European Parliament and Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, the second roundtable looked toward more concrete objectives while dealing with the issue of terrorism. 35 eminent leaders from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America contributed to the outcome of the report.
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The First International Roundtable on Constructing Peace Deconstructing Terror marked SFG's preliminary efforts at bridging the divide between West -Islam relations post 9/11. The conference aimed at eliminating several misconceptions about terrorism and focused on identifying the root causes and solutions to this problem in the future.
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