Host a Global Affairs Salon
The Global Affairs Salon is a forum for individuals to convene and discuss these pressing issues. Salons are Book Clubs for the 21st Century. World Savvy's Global Affairs Monitor provides you with the content, context and tools to organize a Salon in your school or community. By focusing on one major global hotspot or trend each month, the Monitor and Salons are designed for participants to:
- Inform themselves about critical world affairs.
- Gather with a group of internationally curious individuals to discuss the issues involved, as well as possible solutions on the world stage and in your own backyard.
- The dinner party with a purpose – to educate, to inspire, to promote global citizenship.
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Helping educators, youth and individuals understand the conversation in the global community.This Month's Edition:PakistanSixty years after its founding from the tatters of the British colonial empire, Pakistan has yet to resolve what experts agree are its most basic identity crises. Is it a state for Muslims or an Islamic state? Will it remain an oligarchy of (often corrupt) feudal, religious, and military leaders or does it aspire to become a modern, progressive democracy? Is it an integrated partner in the international community, or is it simply a means to an end for competing Western and Middle Eastern interests globally? Does it have the capacity and will to be a productive partner to the United States in the Global War on Terror and the war in Afghanistan? The country’s historic pattern of receiving Western aid only in times of regional crisis has created perverse incentives that continue to haunt Pakistani-US relations today; and what is unfolding daily in Pakistan has the potential to affect Americans as much as the outcome of the 2008 US Presidential Elections…     |