Making the Great Transformation | A Pardee Center Conference
The conference discussants and participants analyze why transitions happen, and why they matter. Transitions are those wide-ranging changes in human organization and well being that can be convincingly attributed to a concerted set of choices that make the world that was significantly and recognizably different from the world that becomes.
Transition scholars argue that that history does not just stumble along a pre-determined path, but that human ingenuity and entrepreneurship have the ability to fundamentally alter its direction. However, our ability to ‘will’ such transitions remains in doubt. These doubts cannot be removed until we have a better understanding of how transitions work.
Keynote Address: Millennium Development Goals, A Compact Among Nations To End Human Poverty
Dr. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, UN Development Programme
Panel Discussion: What are Great Transformations?
Dr. Robert Kaufmann, Boston University
Prof. Adil Najam, presenting for: Robert Prescott-Allen, Consultant On the Wellbeing of Nations
Dr. Paul Raskin, Tellus Institute
Panel Discussion: How Do Transformations Happen?
Prof. Adil Najam, Fletcher School, Tufts University
Dr. David Ozonoff, Public Health, Boston University
Dr. John Haaga, Population Reference Bureau
Prof. Cutler Cleveland, CEES, Boston University
Panel Discussion: What Drives Transformations?
Prof. Cutler Cleveland, CEES, Boston University
Dr. Tariq Banuri, Tellus Institute
Dr. Pedro Conceicao, United Nations Development Programme
Panel Discussion: Transformations in the Making
Dr. Peter Saundry, National Council for Science and the Environment
Prof. Barry Hughes, University of Denver
Prof. Iqbal Z. Quadir, Harvard University