Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft - Das internationale Forum der Deutschen Bank - 2010

25th March 2010, New Delhi

The international Foresight India Symposium on India´s role in a multi-polar world takes place on 25-26 March at Sapru House. This forum is part of the Foresight – forging common futures in a multi-polar world series and discussions will focus on India’s rise as a key power of the 21st century.

The Foresight initiative, organised by Deutsche Bank´s Alfred Herrhausen Society, in partnership with the think-tank, Policy Network is in response to the reality that we live in a multi-polar world. No country remains in position to dictate the course of the future and each approaches global challenges from a perspective shaped by its own historical background, culture and identity. The result is often divergent visions of the future, which the programme seeks to compare and clarify. Foresight seeks to prevent a clash of futures with the aim of finding common ground on critical global challenges. The India symposium is organised in partnership with the Indian Council of World Affairs.

Shashi Tharoor, Indian Minister of State for External Affairs will address the symposium. Policy-makers and experts from Russia, China, US, Europe, Brazil, Iran and other parts of the world will attend. Daniel Benjamin, US Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism; Bernd Mutzelburg, German Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan; and Wu Jianmin, former Chinese ambassador to the UN and President, China Foreign Affairs University are amongst the participants.

Following forums in Moscow and Washington DC, the Foresight India symposium will be the first in Asia and will analyse India’s role in a multi-polar world through the prism of three critical challenges: sustaining economic globalisation; combating terrorism in South Asia and ensuring resource security. The second day will feature a debate on whether there can be a global grand strategy in a multi-polar world. Further symposia are planned in Brazil and China.

Wolfgang Nowak, Managing Director of the Alfred Herrhausen Society, the International Forum of Deutsche Bank, says: “"India is set to be one of the key powers of the 21st century. India has the chance to become a role model for a world in which disharmony threatens to break out into open conflict. We welcome this opportunity to be in India and to learn from a country of unlimited contradictions: not only to learn to accept contradictions but also to transcend them in peace."

Paarul R. Chand.
Bright Lite Communications: Media Coordination for the Foresight India 2010 Symposium
Email: paarulchand9@gmail.com
Mobile: 9811426392

Priya Shankar
Policy Researcher, Policy Network
Email: pshankar@policy-network.net
Mobile: 9899172719
           
Website Sources:
www.foresightproject.net
www.alfred-herrhausen-gesellschaft.de/en/index.html
www.policy-network.net
www.icwa.in

About the Foresight Project

Foresight's principal aims are to foster better multilateral understanding of the key challenges facing today's major players in order to promote a fairer and more functional international order that is able to recognise and accommodate the values and preferences of the different global players. Foresight pursues these aims through a programme of events, research and publications that engage diverse constituents on the issues and challenges affecting their futures. The Foresight working method includes a series of high-level roundtable symposia, at which different "insider" and "outsider" perspectives on a number of key global challenges are compared. The aim of these events is to identify areas where common positions between the Foresight countries/regions can be developed and thus progress made towards forging common futures. By bringing together participants from different parts of the world, these events will help build and sustain a Foresight network. The first Foresight Symposiums have been held in Moscow and Washington DC in 2009 and now in New Dehi on March 25-26th, 2010 .Further symposia are scheduled in Santiago de Chile, Berlin, and Beijing, with events in other regions being planned as well.


About Alfred Herrhausen Society

The non-profit Alfred Herrhausen Society is the international forum of Deutsche Bank. Its work focuses on new forms of governance as a response to the challenges of the 21st century.
The Alfred Herrhausen Society seeks traces of the future in the present, and conceptualises relevant themes for analysis and debate. It works with international partners across a range of fields, including policy, academia and business, to organise forums for discussion worldwide. It forges international networks and builds temporary institutions to help to find better solutions to global challenges. It targets future decision-makers, but also attempts to make its work accessible to a wide public audience. The society is dedicated to the work of Alfred Herrhausen, former spokesman of the Deutsche Bank board of directors, who advocated the idea of corporate social responsibility in an exemplary manner until his assassination by terrorists in 1989. The Alfred Herrhausen Society is an expression of Deutsche Bank‘s worldwide commitment to civil society.


About Policy Network

Policy Network’s origins began in 1999 with the launch of the Progressive Governance Network of international policymakers and academics. Initiated by the then US President Bill Clinton, with the support of the British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, the aim of the network was to enhance cooperation and links between key progressive policymakers and academics as well as to provide a meeting place for exchanging concrete policies and practices.The president of Policy Network is Peter Mandelson, UK first secretary of state, secretary of state for business, innovation and skills, and former European commissioner for trade. Roger Liddle, former economic adviser to the European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso, and former European adviser to Tony Blair, is the chair. Formally launched in 2000 to facilitate the sharing of ideas and experiences among politicians, policymakers and experts on the centre-left, Policy Network seeks to inject new ideas into progressive politics that address the common challenges and opportunities of the global age. Through its international programme of research, publications and events, Policy Network seeks to promote international best practice and provide innovative answers to shared problems, equipping social democrat modernisers with the intellectual tools necessary to meet the policy and political challenges of the 21st century.


About the Indian Council for World Affairs (ICWA)

The Indian Council for World Affairs aims at promoting India's relations with other countries through study, research, discussions, lectures, exchange of ideas and information with other organisations within and outside India engaged in similar activities. The Indian Council of World Affairs was established in 1943 by a group of Indian intellectuals as a think tank and is devoted exclusively for the study of international relations and foreign affairs.
Since then it has continued to effectively serve the purpose for which it was established. Historic international conferences like 'Asian Relations Conference' in 1947 under the leadership of freedom fighter Sarojini Naidu and 'United Nations and the New World Order' in 1994 have been held by this think tank in which world renowned dignitaries addressed huge gatherings of intellectuals.