Two recipients of the World Leader for Peace and Security Award, President Emmanuel Macron (2024) and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (2020), are playing visible leadership roles amid ongoing debates about the future of Ukraine and Europe’s...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, recipient of the 2020 World Leader for Peace and Security Award, emphasized that the security risks Estonia long warned about have now materialized. Speaking at Ämari Air Base, she underlined the EU’s determination...
(7th March 2016) Boston Global Forum (BGF) friends will want to hear and see this learned and passionate presentation by Prof. Carlos Alberto Torres on the potential of global education and citizenship programs to promote world peace. At the end of his more formal...
(7th March 2016) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s nomination of Makoto Sakurai, an obscure 70-year-old economist, to the board of the Bank of Japan signals his determination to ensure that the central bank supports Mr. Abe’s stimulative economic policies. Japan,...
(Feb.08, 2016, Los Angeles) – The UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies celebrated the establishment of a new United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair in Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education Monday...
(February 8, 2016) - Professor Carlos Alberto Torres, member of Boston Global Forum's Board of Thinkers, Distinguished Professor of Education at University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA), delivers his speech at the International Conference on Global Citizenship...
(Jan.31, 2016) - In an effort to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees the German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday at a regional meeting of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the state of Mecklenburg-Western...
(Jan. 31, 2016) - Japan still sticks with its scheme of providing humanitarian and monetary aids instead of sending its people to directly join the international force in the fight against terrorist or environment crisis. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stated...