Is it culturally convening power?
Hope for vulnerable children "We wish to build on the current success story and continue working with provincial and national authorities, using UNICEF's convening power and ability, to establish linkages between partners to bring essential services to disabled children nationwide," said Mr. Morch.
Davos has extraordinary convening power and the ability to bring important issues to the fore, including LGBT issues this year.
After mid-term elections in November handed control of the Senate to the Republicans, and solidified the right's majority in the House of Representatives, Mr Obama has been left with the (formidable) tools available to even lame-duck American presidents: his ability to convene debates and his power to sign executive orders and take administrative actions.
What drives her, she said, is "the excitement and intellectual satisfaction, frankly, of creating live events with the ability to influence the conversation and the ability to convene major people of great influence and unknown people of great moral importance in public settings which would bring the spotlight to them".
"We feel that we have a special talent, and a special ability, to convene the New York conversation," he said.
The ability to convene on state property without the presence of the press -- or members of the opposing party -- enables legislators and their leaders to horse-trade votes easily and to shoot down bills without free and open debate.
"I am optimistic that our ability to convene the most significant and influential minds on the planet can result in the global transition necessary to protect both our society and our natural world," he said.
The ability of political activists to disrupt companies will be curbed under government plans to prevent small groups from convening special company meetings, the Australian Financial Review reports.
