Conference Information

Speakers

David Korten
dkorten@bainbridge.net

Dr. David Korten is a respected author and a leading authority on International Development in Third World countries. He has over thirty-five years of experience in pre-eminent business, academic and international development institutions as well as in contemporary citizen action organizations.

He uses his presentations to raise consciousness of the political and institutional consequences of economic globalization and the expansion of corporate power at the expense of democracy, equity and the environment.

Trained in economics, organization theory and business strategy with MBA and PhD degrees from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, his early career was devoted to setting up business schools in low income countries, in the hope that creating a new class of professional business entrepreneurs would be the key to ending global poverty. After graduation David completed his military service in Vietnam, before becoming a Visiting Associate Professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Business.

In the late 1970's David left US academia and moved to Southeast Asia, where he lived for fifteen years, serving first as a Ford Foundation project specialist, and later as Asia regional advisor on development management to the US agency for International Development (USAID). His work there won him international recognition for his contributions to pioneering the development of powerful strategies for transforming public bureaucracies into responsive support systems dedicated to strengthening community control and management of land, water and forestry resources.

Adil Najam
anajam@bu.edu

Originally from Pakistan, Najam joined the faculty of the Department of International Relations at Boston University in Fall 1997. He is also affiliated with the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Boston University.

Najam holds a Ph.D.and two Master's degrees from MIT, a Specialization in Negotiation from the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Engineering and Technology.

His current areas of research and writing include: Human Development and Human Security; The politics of the Muslim World; South Asian politics, particularly Pakistan; International environmental policy and negotiation with a particular focus on developing countries; Environmental security; Sustainable development and political ecology; Global climate change negotiation and policy; Global trade and environmental policy; International organizations, global governance and the United Nations system; The role of non-state actors (NGOs) in international relations and International Development.

Ricardo Navarro

Dr. Ricardo Navarro is the founder and president of CESTA (Centro Salvadoreno de Tecnologia Apropiada). More than a decade ago, in the middle of El Salvador's 13-year civil war, Dr. Navarro organized CESTA as a grass roots conservation group to promote community-based strategies to reverse past environmental destruction and prevent future degradation. Working in partnership with urban and rural communities, Dr. Navarro and CESTA teach people how to make and use human- powered machines, facilitate ecological and social community-based solutions, raise ecological consciousness through a multimedia campaign, and help cities and industries solve waste problems. Dr. Navarro is also working with youth to plant a "forest of reconciliation" on land damaged by the civil war. Recipient, United Nations Environment Program's Global 500 award (1995); recipient, Goldman Foundation Environmental Award (1995). El Pensamiento Ecologista (Centro Salvadoreno de Tecnologia Apropiada) (co-author); Necesidades Basicas y la Tecnologia (Basic Needs and Technology) International Symposium on Engineering (El Salvador: Universidad Centroamericana Jose Simeon Canas, 1980, 3d ed.) (co-editor); Ricardo Navarro, Alternativas de Transporte en America Latina: La Bicicleta y los Triciclos (St. Gallen, Switzerland: 1985).

Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva, one of Western’s most distinguished graduates, is an internationally recognized figure and a recipient of the 1993 Right Livelihood Award - often called the "Alternative Nobel Prize", the Award recognizes "vision and work contributing to making life more whole, healing the planet and uplifting humanity."

A physicist and philosopher of science, Shiva completed her PhD at Western in 1978. She is an eloquent spokesperson on the environment, women’s rights, sustainable development and bio-diversity and has long worked to protect the legal and commercial rights of traditional farmers. Shiva also promotes participatory processes which allow people to develop their own solutions to their problems and through the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology has established a network of researchers to work with local groups on environmental issues, including forest preservation and water conservation.

Shiva currently serves as a science and ecology advisor to many organizations including the Third World Network and the Asia Pacific People’s Environment Network and has served as the Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology since 1982.

Host

College of Menominee Nation/Sustainable Development Institute
P.O. Box 1179
Keshena, WI. 54135
Phone: 715-799-5600
Fax: 715-799-5951

Purpose

To provide a forum that encourages dialogue, learning, solidarity, cross-fertilization of ideas and international concepts of sustainable development.

Dates

June 8-12, 2003

Location

Radisson Hotel & Conference Center
Green Bay, Wisconsin
(920) 494-7300
www.radisson.com/greenbaywi

Proceedings

Presentations of current research and position papers will be
compiled for publication.

Field Trip

A visit to the Menominee Forest will be provided to participants
to witness first-hand a model of sustainable forestry in practice.