Tanner Forum to focus on global justice

• How can governments be respected yet control equitable distribution of the economic benefits from industry?
• How can indigenous people make the right choices when they do not have the experience and education to evaluate the consequences of the choices offered?
• Can governments and businesses shape globalization to mitigate the inequalities of race, class, and gender?
• What can be done when internationally recognized human rights conflict with cultural conventions?

These are some of the questions that will be addressed at the sixth annual Tanner Center for Nonviolent Human Rights Advocacy Forum Feb. 22-24. This year will mark the first of in a series of three annual conferences on global justice. The 2012 conference will focus on the impacts of economic globalization—how it affects living standards, and the repercussions of rapid economic growth on social, cultural, and political institutions within nations. Keynote addresses will be presented by Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Richard Miller, Wyn and William Y. Hutchison Professor of Philosophy and director of the Program on Ethics and Public Life, Cornell University; and a roundtable discussion led by Joel Rosenthal, president, Carnegie Council.

Additional information about the conference, including registration, is online.

As a lead-in to the conference, the award-winning film The Island President will be shown Thursday, Feb. 16, at 7 p.m. at the Post Theatre in Fort Douglas. The film tells the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting the survival of his country and everyone in it.