This March has been a fairly big month for U of T events devoted to
discussing global issues and how they're to be solved.
The annual Health and Human Rights Conference is continuing today:
http://hhrights.wordpress.com/conferenceinformation
Earlier this month there was the Environmental Actions for Sustainable
Development Conference (
http://undpuoft.blogspot.ca/2013/02/mdg-7-environment-sustainability.html
), the forum on Religion and the (De)criminalization of Drugs (
discussing [solutions to] issues around drugs, criminalization, and
the war on drugs, with a religious slant:
http://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/event_details/id=984 ), the Why Do
We Go To School seminar (co-sponsored by U of T Friends of Wisdom; we
discussed among other topics issues in education and how education
needs to change:
http://www.multifaith.utoronto.ca/Events-And-Programs/Why-do-we-go-to-School-March-6.htm
), the inDepth conference (
http://indepthconference.com/about/ ), as
well as the following Munk School events: Smart Defence in an Austere
World: Lessons from Afghanistan and Libya; Media & Global Governance:
New Dynamics, Opportunities, and Challenges; Japanese Experiences with
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Past, Present, and Future of Peacebuilding and
Justice in the 21st century; The Rise and Fall of the Global Drug
Prohibition Regime; A World In Flux - The Movement of Conflict in the
21st Century (
http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/events/past/ ).
Sorry for the late notice about these.
If you hear about a Toronto event focused on discussing solutions to
global issues, please send a link to
u-of-t-frien...@googlegroups.com or
uoft.friend...@gmail.com .