With generous support from donors at Goldman Sachs, two anonymous donors, and a grant from the Hewlett Foundation, the Forum will convene six two-day sessions at the Kennedy School, bringing together young, innovative thinkers from 16 of America's leading universities between 2016-2019.
The Forum will convene researchers, students, policy makers, and individuals working in conflict zones or with victims of conflict.
The Lab will convene multiple forum events in order to share the emerging results from the multi-local prototying, including in Berlin in July and in Cambridge, MA, this fall with a student workshop at MIT and a public forum on "Transforming Ego-system to Eco-system Economies" (Feb 10-11 , 2014 Cambridge, MA).
UNICEF and the Malaysian Bar Council will convene a forum themed 'Education for Every Child' to discuss challenges facing children in Malaysia, and inspire commitments from various sectors to push the education agenda for every child.
President Bush will convene an economic forum on Tuesday at Baylor University in Waco, Tex.
The Lab will convene a similar forum in Asia in 2015 – to add to the groundswell around the world for new economic indicators – and for relinking economic value creation with the well-being of all.
At the Forum, the World Bank Group and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs will convene a broad group of stakeholders to share and receive feedback on the draft of the Global Mobility Report, which is the first-ever attempt to examine performance of the transport sector globally, and its ability to support sustainable development.
As such, the commission will convene an annual national forum on tolerance and harmony, the first of which will likely be held in 2016.
Niles said she and the committee will convene after the final community forum, on Sept. 14, to review the feedback and relay it to the mayor.
"Clearly, there will be no negotiations between the opposition and the Assad regime to achieve a specific goal, but rather a Syrian forum under the auspices of the UN envoy will convene at the expense of the main issue," said Burhan Ghalioun, a leading member of the opposition Syrian national coalition.
Next Wednesday, Lieberman will convene a second hearing that will give Davis a national forum to make his case for price controls--then summon officials from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to explain why they have rebuffed that request.
