Intercultural dialogue on the challenges of global governance

Veranstaltungsart
Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum 2012

Ort / Datum
Bonn, 25.06.2012

German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) & Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in cooperation with Deutsche Welle

From 25 until 27 June 2012, the fifth Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum - Culture, Education, Media. Shaping a Sustainable World took place in Bonn with more than 1,500 participants from 95 countries. The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) organised the Panel Intercultural dialogue on the challenges of global governance.

The emergence of global and regional powers from the developing world has fundamentally changed the contours of the international order. As a consequence, the predominance of Western countries which came about with the Industrial Revolution has come to an end. The ongoing transition to a “multi-polar” or rather “non-polar” world raises the question which norms and values will guide the evolution of a new global governance system. World cultures and civilizations differ in their understanding of global challenges and domestic responsibilities. Therefore, we need to develop avenues of intercultural dialogue which recognize diversity while fostering common views and practical solutions to planetary problems.

It is against this backdrop that since 2007 the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) have been training highly qualified young professionals from Egypt, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan and South Africa. This Training and Dialogue Programme called “Managing Global Governance” (MGG) strengthens the capacities of Germany’s partner countries’ in shaping globalisation processes as well as supporting them with the implementation of national reform policies and the reduction of poverty. At the same time the programme encourages high-level networking between Germany/Europe and the participating countries. The aim is to design stable, strategic partnerships on equal terms in order to identify common approaches for the solution of global challenges.

Is global governance a Euro-centric, Western concept or can it be applied in other world regions and at the global level as a useful framework for international cooperation? How can we find a consensus on universal values that apply to global governance? What are success stories for North-South cooperation on key global challenges? How can we strengthen dialogue between civilizations to promote common solutions to specific global problems? These and other questions were addressed by the panel of high-level experts from developed and developing countries.

Panellists:

• Imme Scholz(Germany)
  Deputy Director, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Bonn
• Astrid Skala-Kuhmann (Germany)
  Director "Global Partnerships, Emerging Economies", Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
• Philani Mthembu (South Africa)
  GSGP-Graduate School of Global Politics at the University of Berlin (FU); MGG-4
• Shafiah Muhibat (Indonesia)
  IFSH - Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg; MGG-3
• Wang Qiang (China)
  China Institute of International Studies (CIIS); MGG-2

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