Dear Peace Building Colleagues, You may have received emails from me in September & October to join in the Virtual Dialogues offered by the Peace Building & Good Governance Theme by Christina Bache Fidan from Istanbul on Peace in the Middle East and Tom Porter of JustPeace on Conflict Resolution & Healing Methods. Now you can join in the conference as it is being held from 29th Oct-2nd Nov. Each day there will be posting and even some live streaming taking place. Check in when convenient with your time and I hope some of that checking in will be on the Peace Building & Good Governance Theme. I was invited to help lead the team when my colleague in Japan, Wayne Ellsworth was not able to attend due to health. Virtual Dialogues and Live Streaming are a "learning process" for us globally and I hope if you tried in the past to join us that you will continue to help and learn with us how we build a vision globally to be lived locally...... Links are below to help you jump into the reality of global conferencing! Hope to see you in Katmandu....via the internet "ethos".... I will be back in Austin by Nov. 10th.... Peace, Wanda Holcombe Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) is hosting the 8th Global Conference on Human Development, 2012 From 29 October to 2 November, 2012 in Kathmandu, Nepal. http://www.conference.ica-nepal.org Virtual Conference Link: This is the home of the virtual conference site. Here you will be able to collaborate with conference attendees discussing and contributing to the theme topics. Please register and join one of the six conference themes. Just click the theme picture to go to the Virtual Conference portion of the website. Virtual Conference: http://www.conference.ica-nepal.org/tag/virtual-conference/ The conference will run over 5 days including one day site visit and will include 6 major themes as follows: Growing a New Sense of Leadership Reshaping Education for the 21st Century Promoting Peace Building and Good Governance Building a Viable Future Planet Earth Building Strategies for Comprehensive Development Resourcing Human Development. The conference will be highly participatory and focus on practical sharing of approaches that work. Each theme will be facilitated by national and international theme leaders. This interactive global conference will provide a common platform and bring together international and national intellectuals, community workers, volunteers, government and non-government officials, diplomats, politicians, leaders, business professionals, educators and social workers, youth and students. We have expected 400 participants from all over the world. People who may not be able to come to the conference will have an opportunity to participate online in a Virtual Conference. Virtual Site http://www.virtual.ica-nepal.org/ is officially made public from today. Wanda Holcombe wandah70@gmail.com 512-619-3469