The Possible Futures Research Group Meeting in Yerevan Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:43

The Possible Futures Research Group meeting was held on June 12, 2009 in Yerevan, Armenia.

The meeting, chaired by the WPF Founding-President Vladimir Yakunin, dealt with the global dialogue perspectives and forthcoming Rhodes Forum’09 agenda. Notes on the current international issues and the perspectives of the world society development were made by the PFRG members during the conversation. Suggestions on aims and coordination of the PFRG work before and after the WPF “Dialogue of Civilizations” Seventh Session at Rhodes have been also announced.

 

List of the meeting attendees:

Craig Calhoun — President, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York; Professor, New York University, NY;
Georgi Derlugian — Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL;
Jomo Kwame Sundaram -Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), New York, NY;

Çaglar Keyder — Professor, Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Istanbul;
Vladimir Kulikov — Executive Director, World Public Forum «Dialogue of Civilizations», Moscow;
Manuel Montes — Chief, Policy Analysis and Development Branch at Financing for Development Office of United Nations DESA, New York, NY;

Aram Sargsyan — Chairperson, Armenian National Center «Dialogue of Civilizations», Yerevan;
Vadim Volkov — Professor, The European University at St. Petersburg;
Immanuel Wallerstein — Professor, Yale University, New Haven, CT.


On the photo above (from left to right): Manuel Montes, Çaglar Keyder


On the photo: Beatrice and Immanuel Wallerstein, Jomo KS


On the photo:  Craig Calhoun, Beatrice and Immanuel Wallerstein

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