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2004 Summer Events in Aspen
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Leadership Initiative Launches in Central America
The Aspen Institute, in partnership with INCAE (Central America's leading business school), FUNDEMAS (Business for Social Responsibility/El Salvador) and TechnoServe (a US-based international development organization) held a 3-day Executive Seminar for 21 senior business, government, and civil society leaders from across Central America in San Jose, Costa Rica, May 23-27. If all goes as planned, this group will become the nominating committee and early sponsors for the first class of "Central America Leadership Fellows" in early 2005. Modeled after the Africa Leadership Initiative, the Central America program will convene successive classes of 24 young business, government, and civil society leaders for a series of seminars designed to encourage them to play a greater role in tackling the foremost social challenges facing their countries.
Former President of Costa Rica and 1987 Nobel Laureate Oscar Arias opened the seminar with moving remarks titled, "Thinking About the Good Society," which encouraged participants to "cultivate a vision of the world that will motivate us to act in our varied capacities in favor of progress."
Feature story archives.
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The Aspen Idea, a new magazine from the Aspen Institute. Spring/Summer 2004 issue: training young leaders to think big...
 Aspen Institute Dialogue Radio Series
A monthly interview program on KAJX, Aspen Public Radio (91.5 FM in Aspen). Listen to an interview with recent guest, Vijay Vaitheeswaran, environment and energy correspondent for The Economist magazine. (mp3 format, Download RealPlayer).
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In the News
(archived articles)
Jeffrey Gedmin, director of Aspen Institute Berlin, describes the strength of anti-American sentiment in Europe in a May 24 Weekly Standard article, "An Orgy of Anti-Americanism"...
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Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson delivered an address at Tufts University's commencement ceremony, sharing lessons from Benjamin Franklin, including the need for increased humility as America pursues its interests in the world. Read more in the May 24 Boston Globe article: "Speaker at Tufts calls for humility in US diplomacy"...
Latest News Releases
New Trustees Elected to Aspen Institute Board
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PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST: To see a full list of Aspen Institute publications, visit our Bookstore.
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Crossing the Atlantic, A Report from the Aspen Atlantic Group 2003 Workshops
This report presents an executive summary of the Aspen Atlantic Group’s 2003 deliberations. It includes a forward from former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, remarks by former NATO head Klaus Naumann, and several papers commissioned for the meetings. The authors tackle such issues as the current transatlantic security architecture, the gap between American and European threat perceptions, transatlantic cooperation in the Middle East, and the possibilities for invigorating NATO and other international organizations vital to the health of transatlantic relationship. |
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Fundusz Mikro: An Experiment In Partnership-Based Microfinance 1998 - 2002
An Experiment In Partnership-Based Microfinance explores the manner in which Fundusz Mikro has used product development and relationship building to develop an innovative support system for Polish entrepreneurs, who are learning to work within a capital markets framework. Download PDF (FREE)
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 Capital Plus: The Challenge of Development in Development Finance Institutions
"Capital Plus" recognizes that the work of development finance institutions often includes not only intermediation of financial capital but also the intermediation of complex social and civic relationships. Development finance institutions can serve as catalysts for the creation of unique coalitions of public agencies and private institutions to address the constellation of constraints that must be tackled in order to have significant impact on poverty alleviation and long-term economic development. By mobilizing the array of institutional actors needed to address the complexity of issues, development finance institutions play a key role in building and supporting not only financial capital but also social capital - inter-personal and inter-group networks and relationships that are reliable, reciprocal, and trustful - among DFI clients and between clients and the broader economy. Download in English as a free PDF (554 KB). Also available for download in French and Spanish.
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