Caux Initiatives for Business (CIB) encourages business leaders, young professionals, NGO representatives, trade unionists, experts and decision makers to work together to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of values - in personal conduct and in economic life.
Elizabeth J Harris of Liverpool Hope University reviewed Michael Henderson's book No enemy to conquer in the December 2011 issue of the publication Interreligious Insights (published by the World Congress of Faiths).
The stats quoted by John Lanchester in Whoops!, his excoriating book about the financial crash of 2008, are simply staggering. By June that year, the size of the market in derivates, the complex financial instruments devised by the banks to spread the risk of lending in the mortgage market, was estimated at $54 trillion, ‘close to the total GDP of the planet and many more times more valuable than the total number of all the stocks and shares traded in the world’. Later in the book he reports that the market in Credit Default Swaps was, by the end of 2007, worth $62 trillion. And in London, the global HQ of the derivatives market, the average turnover of over-the-counter derivates ‘peaked in 2007 at a value of £2,105,000,000,000 (that’s $2.105 trillion) every day. That’s right: every day.’
Michael Smith reviews Tania Ellis's new book The New Pioneers
Andrew Rigby reviews No Enemy to Conquer in Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, an influential quarterly publication in the field of peace and conflict studies, edited by Dr Robert Elias of the University of San Francisco
Publishers Weekly of 15 December has carried an advance review of IofC author Michael Henderson's new book 'No enemy to conquer: forgiveness in an unforgiving world' to be published in February by the Baylor University Press, USA, ISBN-978-1-60258-140-1. The review states:
Against the backdrop of the economic crisis in Greece, Italy and other EU economies, the conference entitled ‘Trust and integrity in the global economy’, 17-23 July 2012, will explore ways to help create a just and equitable global economy.
Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis
by Dr Noel Purcell, Chair, Caux Round Table
Podcasts of the TIGE 2011 conference are available here. Please click on the links below to download.
Yahaya Ahmed at the Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy Conference
Date: Monday, 8 August 2011
Yahaya Ahmed discusses the development of a solar cooker that uses less resources
Sergio Gridel, Philip Koenig et Nicolas Reynaud sur la « Gouvernance de Communion: redécouvrir le management
Date: Friday, 5 August 2011
Témoignage de Sergio Gridel, Philip Koenig et Nicolas Reynaud sur la « Gouvernance de Communion:redécouvrir le management » lors de la rencontre Confiance et intégrité dans une économie mondialisée (TIGE). Avec introduction par Lavinia Sommaruga.
Göran Carstedt, chairman of The Natural Step International, speaking on “Creating a sustainable future – the leadership challenge of our time”
Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer on “Integral Economics: a new transcultural approach towards social and economic transformation”
Date: Saturday, 6 August 2011
Ronnie Lessem, from the UK, and Alexander Schieffer from Switzerland on “Integral Economics: a new transcultural approach towards social and economic transformation”
Sumio Takeichi on “Green Energy: future for a sustainable global economy”
Date: Sunday, 7 August 2011
Sumio Takeichi (Japan, Limited Partner of the Green Finance Corporation (GFC), during the “Trust and integrity in the global economy“ conference
Speech by Paul Moore at the opening of the ‘Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy’
Date: Thursday, 4 August 2011
Paul Moore, the former head of group regulatory risk at Halifax Bank of Scotland HBOS, internationally known as ‘the HBOS whistle-blower’; telling his personal story and the lessons learned for the future of the financial services sector and the global economy.
Diana de Vallescar habla sobre "Diaspora, identidad y el rol de las políticas de identidad"
Date: Saturday, 6 August 2011
Diana de Vallescar habla durante la conferencia "Aprender a vivir en un mundo multicultural" sobre "Diaspora, identidad y el rol de las políticas de identidad"
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