International Conferences

FORUM 2000:
Convening the Community of Stakeholders
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 4 – 10, 2000

For the Millennium, the Forum convened in New York, timed to coincide with the United Nations Millennium Summit, the largest gathering of Heads of State in modern history. A few blocks away at the New York Hilton, Forum 2000 gathered over one hundred worldwide partners and upwards of 2,000 leaders of civil society, government and business, including a number of Heads of State, to discuss perhaps the most compelling challenges currently confronting the human community at the turn of the century: How do we govern globalization? What do we think actually constitutes globalization? How do we ensure that it is equitable? And how do we make it more democratic?

At the same time as our multi-stakeholder dialogues on globalization were taking place in the Grand Ballroom, several parallel programs presenting other aspects of globalization were also convened. The International Space Sciences Organization and the John Templeton Foundation convened a “Future Visions” track of leading scientists and spiritual leaders to discuss how these two very different disciplines could come together to re-imagine the human future. Additionally during the conference a number of European partners convened a three-day “Enterprise Summit” specially designed for business executives. And on September 6, Co-Chair of the Forum Wally N’Dow convened a special session on The World’s Fresh Water & Wetlands in the 21st Century.

Out of the “post Seattle” dialogues on globalization held at Forum 2000 came the commitment by the Forum and a number of partnering organizations to establish a Commission on Globalization to continue the multi-stakeholder dialogues begun at the event.

Read more about Forum 2000 on the 21st Century Learning Initiative’s website.