The 8^th Global Leadership Forum:

June 22-25, 2006 

ISTANBUL

The Challenges of Leadership:

1. Leadership and Public Policy, nationally and internationally

2. Leadership and new initiatives in the private sector

3. Leadership in academic institutions, citizens’ associations, and NGOs.

4. Leadership development and capacity building.

Keynote Speakers:

Ø      Dr. Linda Chisholm, President, the International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership. New York.

Ø      Dr. Leo Bruno, former Vice-President of Samsung Brazil, Director Center for Leadership Development, Dom Cabral Foundation. Brazil.

Organising Committee

·        Dr. Adel Safty, Founding UNESCO Leadership Chair

·        Dr. Linda Chisholm, President, the International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership. New York.

·        Dr. Carol Allais, Chair of Sociology, University of South Africa, Pretoria.

·        Ms. Marina Tyasto, Chair of International Relations, The Siberian Academy of Public Administration, Russia

·        Dr. Hafiza Golandaz, Director, the International Leadership and Management Alliance, Mumbai, India

·        Mr. Leong Sze Hian, Singapore Representative of the Inter-American Economic Council. Singapore.

·        Dr. Mansour Elagab, Chairman, Sudan Human Rights Organisation, London, England.

·        Dr. Leo Bruno, Director. Center for Leadership Development. Dom Cabral Foundation. Brazil.

·        Ms. Deniz Kite, President, the Turkish Mediators’Association..

·        Ms. Arzu Akar, Graduate Student, Marmara University.Istanbul

Quotes from Previous Global Leadership Forums:

  “ Building Europe is building Peace”, Simone Veil, former President of the European Parliament, quoting Jean Monet. 1^st GLF. Amman

  “No one leads by fiat in the modern world” Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Former UN Secretary General. 2^nd GLF. Amman.

  “Non-violent leadership requires maximum openness.” Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the former Soviet Union. 3^rd GLF. Amman.

  “Leadership requires patience, perseverance, humility, commitment and compromise.” Oscar Arias, former President of Costa Rica. 4^th GLF. Istanbul.

  “We do find leaders in all walks of life” Ajay Chhibber, Director, the World Bank. 5^th GLF. Istanbul.

  “Six Sigma combines leadership and operational excellence to achieve maximum success.” Muhsen Menguturk. Partner, Breakthrough Management.5^th GLF.

  “By deliberately bringing in turbulence, organizations are actually embracing innovations.” Stan Gryskievicz, former Vice-President of the Center for Creative Leadership. 6^th GLF. Istanbul.

  “Leadership development grounded in the mind process of the arts acts as transformative thinking in leadership.” Mr. John Cimino, President of Creative Leaps International. 6^th GLF. Istanbul

  “Globalisation requires that we expand our horizons and learn to appreciate other modes of expression and behaviour.” Mrs. Harriet Fulbright, former Executive Director of the Committee for the Arts and Humanities in the Clinton Administration. 7^th GLF. Istanbul.

  “What is the most important qualification for public office?  I hope all of you will climb the political ladder and, as you do, offer integrity as your foremost qualification.  Each of you can make a difference.” US Congressman Paul Findley speaking at the 7^th Global Leadership Forum in Istanbul, June, 2005.

  “Ultimately leadership is a value concept that cannot be separated from human development- a concept inextricably linked to peace, democracy, and development.” Adel Safty, Founding UNESCO Chair of Leadership and President of the Global Leadership Forum.

Registration

v     Registration Package BEFORE FEBRUARY 1st: US$790 including 5 nights at a 4 star hotel, breakfast and lunch everyday during the conference and a tour of Istanbul. (US$990 for 5-star equivalent accommodation). Respectively $890, $1190 after Feb 1.

v     For registration please send checks, money orders, or credit card information to: Nevin Brown, Academic Dean, The International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership. 815 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10017 USA. Tel: (212) 986-0989. Fax: (212) 986-5039. Email: nbrown@ipsl.org

v     For presentations, please send 100 word abstracts and 50 word biographical note by March 1, 2006 to Prof. Adel Safty at globalleaders@gmail.com

v     For information, contact. Arzu Akar at thegloballeadershipforum@gmail.com

Guidelines for presentations and paper preparation for the Global Leadership Forum

Presentations

The Global Leadership Forum seeks to encourage interactive discussions and learning opportunities. We are also anxious to maximise opportunities for people to share their views with all participants at the forum. That is why we opted not to use parallel sessions and decided to focus on plenary sessions, that is sessions with the whole group present.

In the interest of maximising these interactive opportunities, presentations must not exceed 15 minutes in length. Those participants interested in learning more about a particular presentation may do so during the question/answer period or by speaking directly to the presenter during the break. They may also read the full presentation in the paper form prepared by the presenter. Presenters are encouraged to bring several copies of their paper for distribution at the forum.

Papers to be considered for publication in the leadership book that follows the forum:

In order to be considered for publication, papers must conform to the following guidelines:

1. Length: no less than 10 pages and no more than 35 pages
2. Single-spaced, font size 12, Times New Roman text.
3. Margins: 1.78 cm top, bottom, left, and right. And 1.25 cm header and
footer

4. One single paragraph indentation
5. Three spaces from top to title and three spaces from title (font size 18)
to name (font size 14) and three spaces from name to beginning of text.
6. No space between paragraph headings (size 14) and text
7. No embedded reference in the text. All references and notes must be at
the end of the text.
8. No tables that do not fit within the required margins.
7. Deadline for sending the completed paper as a microsoft attachment is
June 1st, 2006. Deadline for submitting the electronic version on
diskette is on arrival at the forum.
8. Please send 50-word biographical note along with 200-word abstract to Prof. Adel Safty at globalleaders@gmail.com
9. Deadline for submission of abstracts is March 1st.

About the Global Leadership Forum

q       Professor Adel Safty, the founding UNESCO Leadership Chair, founded the Global Leadership Forum to promote a multidisciplinary and multicultural conception of leadership, when he was Head of UN Mission in Amman, and Director of the UNU Leadership Academy in the 1990s.

q       The Global Leadership Forum emphasises an inclusive approach to leadership in the public policy arena, the private sector, inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations, in educational institutions, and in citizens’ associations. It seeks to promote Value Leadership by emphasising the interconnectedness of peace, democracy and development, on the one hand, and the relationship between human development and leadership in whatever field, on the other hand.

q       The GLF has been sponsored by the UN, the World Bank, the UNESCO, several governments, private sector corporations, and educational institutions including the university of Bahcesehir, the Centre for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA, and the International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership, New York.

q       Over the years the GLF has brought together distinguished political leaders, senior representatives of inter-governmental organisations such as the UN and the World Bank, distinguished scholars of public policy and of management, corporate and business leaders, students, and representatives of various governments from all over the world, and members of civil society organisations.

Leadership Publications:

Ø      Leadership and the United Nations (EM University Press, 1999)

Ø      Leadership and Global Governance (EM University Press, 1999)

Ø      Leadership and Conflict Resolution (EM University Press, 1999)

Ø      New Paradigms in Leadership, with an introduction by Nobel Peace Laureate Oscar Arias (University of Bahcesehir Press, 2003)

Ø      Global and Multidisciplinary Leadership (University of Bahcesehir Press, 2003)

Ø      Value Leadership, with an introduction by Harriet Fulbright (University of Bahcesehir Press, 2004)

Ø      The Future of Leadership, with a foreword by Harriet Fulbright (the University of Bahcesehir Press 2005)

Ø      Dr. Safty's book, Leadership and Democracy, endorsed by former Secretary of the United Nations Boutros Boutros Ghali, is published in New York (New York: IPSL Press, 2004).