Download Global Challenges - Development, security and justice in our time

Global Challenges
- Development, security and justice in our time
Using four different speakers, we give four different, but equally important aspects on
some of the global challenges that societies today are facing.
The programme will be held in English and is open for the public. Welcome!
Time: Monday November 21, 13:00-17:00
Place: Malmö University, Orkanen D138
Target group: students and researchers of Malmö University, the public, and officials of City of Malmö.
13:00 Gapminder
Staffan Landin, writer and lecturer, focusing on global development issues, presents ”Gapminder” – a non-profit
venture – a modern “museum” on the Internet – promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the
United Nations Millennium Development Goals. A tool for fighting the most devastating myths by building a fact-based
world view that everyone understands. www.gapminder.org
14:00 The role of cities in the future world order - nodes for global governance or battlefields of
social conflicts.
Hans Abrahamsson, peace and development researcher and professor at Gothenburg University and visiting professor
in Global Policy Studies at Malmö University shares some mind-juggling experiences form Gothenburg and Malmö, to
explain the The role of cities in the future world order as nodes for global governance or battlefields of social conflicts.
www.globalstudies.gu.se/kontakt/personal/abrahamsson_h/
15:00 Förorten i centrum (Voices of the Suburbs)
Ester Barinaga, Author of the book ”Powerful Dichotomies: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Information Society”, EFI,
2010, and associate professor at the Dept of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School. Her
reseach focuses on methods, strategies, and tools aiming at social change, and especially overcoming ethnicity.
Ester will talk about Förorten i Centrum, a social initiative that she has started and that uses the collective production of
public art (murals) to work in the disadvantaged suburbs of Sweden’s major cities. uk.cbs.dk/staff/barinaga
16:00 Hard Rain
With his exhibition Hard Rain top-photographer and environmental communicator Mark Edwards wants show the link
between climate change and poverty, and set the scene for a more intelligent debate. Climate change has given us a
new sense of urgency to tackle all our problems together, and an extraordinary opportunity to rethink what we really
want for ourselves and for the world at large. www.hardrainproject.com
Hosted by: the Malmö University research network “Globaliseringens Lokala Uttryck”
Arranged by: Globala Malmö and ISU
Global Malmo is a joint project between the City of Malmö, local associations and Sida. This means that we during these days work together to put
extra focus on global issues.
See www.malmo.se/globalmalmo for more details about the program!