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Virtual GDL, May 10-31
For the first time the Global Diplomacy Lab is conducted as an online Summit. GDL members quickly and creatively reacted to the current situation caused by the pandemic. In the course of three weeks different formats from Pitch-Talks and Fishbowls to Failing Forwards deal with the global challenges around Future Diplomacy and Leadership.
Solutions Lab News
After the second Lab face-to-face meeting held from 18-21 February 2020 in Mexico City a strong sense of urgency has emerged in the Lab community. The four workstreams, (1) THINK 20 (T20) Policy Briefs, (2) Upstream Policy Considerations, (3) Ensuring Sustainability at Project and Pipeline Levels, (4) Innovation Space, are working hard towards reaching their milestones. Our last module is being held in virtual formamts between June 30 and July 2.
New Impact Story
Robert Axelsson is a climate change strategist at the County Administrative Board of Västmanland, Sweden. He is also a chairman of the Board of the Western Visayas Integrated Learning Centre at San Joaquin, Iloilo, Philippines to deepen his engagement both for the environmennt and for the life-long learning. He took part in the Global Wellbeing Lab 2.0. Read the continuation of his story.
GLAC @ 4IR Conference
We are happy to announce that four community members participated in the European Women Lawyers Association (EWLA) 17th Congress on “The fourth Industrial Revolution and its Impact on Ethics - Solving the Challenges of the Agenda 2030” on 21 and 22 November 2019 in Impact Hub Picasso (Madrid). Stay tuned for more information about the event.
New Ways to Reconcile
The 3rd symposium of the Elisabeth Käsemann (EK) Foundation titled "New Ways of Dealing with Past Conflicts and Past Autocracies Versus Traditional Criminal Prosecution" took place in Argentina from September 30 to October 2. The keynote was given by Daniel Rafecas, a GLAC community member, federal judge and human rights activist who participated in the Nelson Mandela Dialogues.
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Giving a Voice to the Ocean
David Obura is passionate about protecting our oceans: to fight the degradation of the coral reefs, he intensively works and researches at CORDIO East Africa to increase sustainability and long-term preservation of the Western Indian Ocean. He took part in the Sustainable Oceans Lab.
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Digital Memory Work
Remembering is usually confined to certain spatial and temporal contexts. Digital memory work overcomes these limitations and creates new, virtual spaces to share facts, stories and views. Three projects, that emerged from Mandela Dialogues on Memory Work 2 set example of its potential.
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