Grappling with the Unknown
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
03/19/20
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The three 2019 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winners meet after their participation in the “New Thinking in a New World” workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. Anne Goldfield, Faustin Linyekula and Saul Griffith share their perspectives on the future and their relationship with it. Together they discover how their respective expertise - medicine, dance and fighting climate change - are all fueled by the mystery of the unknown and desire to explore it.
The Tällberg Foundation is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF.org)
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What is the future of democracy?
March 5, 2020
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Are Western democracies the model to emulate for non-Western countries or do they require different models? Do democracies sufficiently represent all their constituents? How are minorities protected?
Kenneth Lusaka (The Rt. Hon. Speaker of the Senate, Parliament of the Republic of Kenya), David Sperling (Research Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Strathmore Governance Centre; Kenya ) and Ulrika Karlsson (Special Advisor on Global Health, Inter-Parliamentary Union) recently discussed some of these questions within the scope of “New Thinking for a New World.” The discussion was facilitated by Maarten Koets, a board member of the Tällberg Foundation.
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•27m
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The Tällberg Foundation is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF.org)
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