World Social Summit
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The World Social Summit (WSS) is a yearly international initiative of Fondazione Roma, a private institution that works to support social and economic progress, realized with the collaboration of Censis.
The Summit's aim is to promote a debate on the numerous issues, such as the environment, demography, immigration, poverty and security, that have an impact on the global social evolution.
The WSS is focused on the social aspects of the global progress. The summit put together major global experts, such as Nobel Prize laureates, academics, politicians, people from the business community, and representatives of national and international institutions and create a setting where ideas, and possible solutions to global issues, can be exchanged.
The WSS Organizational structure:
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WSS 2008 Edition
The first edition of World Social Summit, called: Fearless: discussion on how to combat global anguish, will focus on global fears, will take place in Rome on between the 24th and the 25th of September 2008.
This choice was made by taking into due consideration the central position that fear occupies within contemporary societies, not only due to the increase of risks that threaten society (terrorism, crime, environment), but chiefly, the expansion of uncertainty that now distinguishes people's lives, makes fear, real or imagined, an emotion that an increasing segments of the world's population are forced to come to terms with.
The main protagonists of the WSS 2008 Edition are : the sociologists Anthony Giddens
and Zygmunt Bauman
, the economist Jacques Attali
, the economist and Nobel laureate Gary Becker
, the psychologist James Hillman
, the journalist Bill Emmot, the architect Massimiliano Fuksas
, the scientist Edoardo Boncinelli, the writer and journalist Roberto Saviano
, the writer Suketu Mehta
.
The 2008 summit is focused on:
A special session of the Summit will be dedicated to metropolitan insecurity. Through a research realised by the Censis for WSS on ten big cities around the world, the summit will analyse the current conditions of urban life and study the solutions that have been implemented to reduce insecurity.
The Summit's aim is to promote a debate on the numerous issues, such as the environment, demography, immigration, poverty and security, that have an impact on the global social evolution.
The WSS is focused on the social aspects of the global progress. The summit put together major global experts, such as Nobel Prize laureates, academics, politicians, people from the business community, and representatives of national and international institutions and create a setting where ideas, and possible solutions to global issues, can be exchanged.
The WSS Organizational structure:
- WSS President - Emmanuele F. M. Emanuele (Fondazione Roma, Italy)
- WSS Secretary-General - Giuseppe De Rita (Censis, Italy)
- WSS Director - Giuseppe Roma (Censis, Italia)
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WSS 2008 Edition
The first edition of World Social Summit, called: Fearless: discussion on how to combat global anguish, will focus on global fears, will take place in Rome on between the 24th and the 25th of September 2008.
This choice was made by taking into due consideration the central position that fear occupies within contemporary societies, not only due to the increase of risks that threaten society (terrorism, crime, environment), but chiefly, the expansion of uncertainty that now distinguishes people's lives, makes fear, real or imagined, an emotion that an increasing segments of the world's population are forced to come to terms with.
The main protagonists of the WSS 2008 Edition are : the sociologists Anthony Giddens
Anthony Giddens
Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens is a British sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern contributors in the field of sociology, the author of at least 34 books, published in at least 29...
and Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman is a Polish sociologist who, since 1971, has resided in England after being driven out of Poland by an anti-Semitic campaign, engineered by the Communist government which he had previously supported...
, the economist Jacques Attali
Jacques Attali
Jacques Attali is a French economist, writer and senior civil servant.Former adviser to President François Mitterrand and first president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, he founded the non-profit organization PlaNet Finance and was nominated President of the Commission for...
, the economist and Nobel laureate Gary Becker
Gary Becker
Gary Stanley Becker is an American economist. He is a professor of economics, sociology at the University of Chicago and a professor at the Booth School of Business. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992, and received the United States' Presidential Medal of Freedom...
, the psychologist James Hillman
James Hillman
James Hillman was an American psychologist. He studied at, and then guided studies for, the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, founded a movement toward archetypal psychology and retired into private practice, writing and traveling to lecture, until his death at his home in Connecticut on October 27,...
, the journalist Bill Emmot, the architect Massimiliano Fuksas
Massimiliano Fuksas
Massimiliano Fuksas is an Italian architect, born in Rome in 1944 to an Jewish Lithuanian father and Italian Catholic mother. He received his degree in architecture from the La Sapienza University in 1969 in Rome, where he opened his first office. Subsequent offices were opened in Paris and Vienna...
, the scientist Edoardo Boncinelli, the writer and journalist Roberto Saviano
Roberto Saviano
Roberto Saviano is an Italian writer and journalist.In his writings, articles, television programs, and books he employs prose and news-reporting style to narrate the story of the Camorra , exposing its territory and business connections.Since 2006, following the publication of his bestselling...
, the writer Suketu Mehta
Suketu Mehta
Suketu Mehta is a writer based in New York City. He was born in Kolkata, India, and raised in Bombay where he lived until his family moved to the New York area in 1977. He has attended New York University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.His autobiographical account of his experiences...
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The 2008 summit is focused on:
- The analysis of the relationship between the different aspects of globalization and social, multicultural, and economic anguish.
- The growth of global flows and its connection with new anxieties in emerging countries. Central to this issue is the analysis on how the relationship with "others" can breed fear.
- The analysis on the social and communication mechanisms that today preside over the construction of fear.
- The analysis of the instruments and the models that modern societies use to face up to anxieties and create a more secure environment.
A special session of the Summit will be dedicated to metropolitan insecurity. Through a research realised by the Censis for WSS on ten big cities around the world, the summit will analyse the current conditions of urban life and study the solutions that have been implemented to reduce insecurity.
External links
Sources
- “Roma al via il World Social Summit”. (June 21, 2008). ItaliaOggi, p. 9
- EMo. “World Social Summit sulle paure planetarie”. (June 20, 2008). Il Giornale, p .37
- "Attali e Saviano al World Social Summit sulla paura". (June 20, 2008). Fuoriluogo.it
- “Paura. World Social Summit a Roma discuterà quelle planetarie”. (June 20, 2008). Articolo 21