Have a look at Martin’s blog (and at his extraordinary career.). He is blogging live from President Clinton’s just launched initiative to launch a new version of the Davos Summit (World Economic Forum), focused on results, and less on glamour. Very interesting. Extract:
“ Shimon Peres started the session saying that even though President Clinton worked hard at bringing solutions to the Middle East conflict that unfortunately "we were more successful at bringing problems". Another phrase of his was, quoting, Ghandi "When a cat is chasing a mouse there´s no sense if the mouse declares a ceasefire". This he said to Nasser to ask the Palestinian Authority to stop Hamas, the cat in this picture. ”
On another post:
"There are two faces of global poverty. 1200 hundred children will die today of poverty. The combined GDP of the 48 poorest countries is less than the wealth of the worlds 3 richest people. On the positive side there´s never been a larger movement commited to the alleviation of global poverty. Our challenge is to narrow the gap between what we know and what we do."
Even better:
" Wolfowitz thinks that fighting corruption is tremendously important" [...] "As I listen to Wolfowitz going on about transparency I think of his role in promoting the Iraqi war arguing that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and I wonder how he got to run the World Bank and speak like this."
From the official site:
“The Clinton Global Initiative is a project of the William J. Clinton Foundation. The mission of the Foundation is to strengthen the capacity of people throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence. To advance this mission, the Foundation has developed programs and partnerships in the following areas:
- Economic Empowerment
- Health Security with an emphasis
on HIV/AIDS- Racial, Ethnic and Religious Reconciliation
- Education, Leadership Development
and Citizen ServiceThe Foundation works principally through partnerships with like-minded individuals, organizations, corporations, and governments, often serving as an incubator for new policies and programs. […]
To read more about the current work of the Foundation and the Clinton Presidential Center, please visit www.clintonfoundation.org.”
The Washington Post has some background on the event.
