On World Reconciliation Day September 9, 2019, the Roundtable “Framework for Peace and Security in the 21st Century” was co-hosted by Consulate General of Greece in Boston and co-chaired by Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-founder and Chairman of the Boston Global Forum, and Consul General of Greece in Boston, Stratos Efthymiou.
Thought leaders, such as Professor Stephen Walt, Harvard Kennedy School; Professor Nazli Choucri, MIT; Professor Thomas Patterson, Harvard Kennedy School; Professor Constantine Arvanitopoulos, former Minister of Education and Culture of Greece, the Karamanlis Chair at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Professor Christo Wilson, Northeastern University, Harvard Law School, Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow; Professor Thomas Creely, Naval War College; Barry Nolan, Adviser of US Congress; and Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-founder and CEO of the Boston Global Forum; attended the event.
After opening remarks by Consul General Stratos Efthymiou and leading talks by Governor Dukakis and Professor Stephen Walt, participants discussed the threats and challenges to peace and security and contribute ideas and solutions to solve them to build a framework in the 21st century. One of most challenging opposition to peace and security is dictatorship and totalitarianism of China. Democracy, openness, transparency, accountability, responsibility, international laws, norms. decentralization of power, promotion of citizens, and civic societies are very important for peace and security, and the world today need a new social contract, a new model to meet the rapidly changing society, which contains deep-applied AI and is connected by Internet.
AI World Society Model and The Social Contract 2020 are considered as parts of the Framework. The Boston Global Forum will continue discussing with thought leaders around the world and will officially launch the Framework for Peace and Security in 21st Century in Spring 2020 at Harvard University.