Kyoto's Civil Society Critics: Feb. 22, 2008

The Center for Democracy and Civil Society at Georgetown University Presents

Kyoto's Civil Society Critics: The Debate over Market Solutions to Climate Change

Patrick Bond

Director of the Centre for Civil Society Durban, South Africa

Friday, February 22
10:30 am - 12 pm
Mortara Center
36th and N Streets, NW

Please RSVP to mhb26@georgetown.edu

Patrick Bond is a political economist with long standing research interests and NGO work in urban communities and with global justice movements in several countries. He teaches political economy and eco-social policy at SDS, directs the Centre for Civil Society and is involved in research on economic justice, energy and water. In service to the new South African government, Patrick authored/edited more than a dozen policy papers from 1994-2002, including the Reconstruction and Development Programme and the RDP White Paper, and he taught at the University of the Witwatersr and Graduate School of Public and Development Management from 1997-2004. Patrick currently also serves as an adjunct professor at York University Department of Political Science, Canada and visiting professor at Gyeongsang National University Institute of Social Sciences, South Korea and the Stellenbosch University Sustainability Institute. He is an external examiner at the University of Mauritius, and was also visiting professor in 2004 at the Africa University Institute for Peace, Leadership and Governance, Zimbabwe; in 2005 at the Central European University Summer School on Transnational Flows, Structures, Agents and the Idea of Development, Hungary; and in 2006 at Chulalongkorn University's Focus on the Global South Course on Globalisation and Civil Society, Thailand.

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