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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!