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  • The present portrait of our world today, and where we want to go.

    I live between California, Japan, and France; and childhood was in Punjab, India. I am the East and the West. I am a mother, wife, and a woman, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, an artist, an intellectual, and a social activist. Such multidimensional identities are not so unique in our interconnected global society. Thus, I am…

  • Identity: Why and for What Good

    Erin Moore Associate Professor, Department of Architecture and the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Oregon The design of the built environment structures the way we relate to one another. It shapes our identities and it determines the movement of ideas and values. Lionel Veer  Ambassador of Netherlands to UNESCO Identity is a struggle…

  • Making Deliberative Democracy Practical

    James S. Fishkin, Stanford University   All over the world there are efforts to consult the public about decisions that affect their lives, their communities, their countries. But most people, most of the time are not engaged in thinking about the details of public issues. They are not well-informed about the tradeoffs affecting key choices.…