I’m pleased to announce that the Caux Round Table 2025 Global Dialogue will be taking place Friday, April 11 through Sunday, April 13, in Washington, D.C., in collaboration with the Convention of Independent Financial Advisors and the Center for Professional Ethics at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia and you are invited to join us.
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Our ambition is to provide round table discussions on the elements of a global ethic relevant to our age and new dynamics of our global community.
In some ways, our times are reenactments of ages past. There is trench warfare in Europe, conflict within the Abrahamic family of religions in the Middle East. In Africa, the American Secretary of State has just made public his conclusion about genocide in South Sudan and since 1996, war in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has claimed an estimated 6 million lives. The BRICS alliance recently proposed its own terms for world order, independent of the Pact for the Future proposed by the United Nations. Russia and China have proposed a world order centered on the prerogatives of “civilization states.” China, in a move without precedent in human history, seeks to impose its sovereignty over the South China Sea, or what the Vietnamese call the “Eastern See.” The challenge of clashing civilizational communities – religious and ethnic, the West and the Rest, North and South – is with us still
In Europe, effective and respected governance at the national and E.U. level is hard to find. In Canada, a political transition is underway. In the U.S., divisive factionalism – just as feared by its Founders in 1787 – has taken sway over public affairs. Re-elected President Donald Trump has proposed tariffs as barriers to trade and market rationality and new arrangements for Greenland and the Panama Canal.
What should be done? What can be done?
The tentative agenda, as of now, with speakers to be added shortly, is as follows:
Friday, April 11:
Location: Marymount University
-Opening Dinner
Saturday, April 12:
Location: Marymount University
-Welcome and Introductions
-Session 1: The New Global Order of Civilization States: BRICS et al; the E.U. in Decomposition; MAGA Isolationism in America
-Coffee Break
-Session 2: The Decline of the West, Just as Ibn Khaldun Predicted
-Lunch: Speaker
-Session 3: Fragmentation of the Global Economy
-Coffee Break
-Session 4: Money, Debt and Storing Value
-Session 5: Summary of Day’s Discussions
-Dinner: Speaker – Prospects for the New American Administration
Sunday, April 13:
Location: Think Tank in Washington, D.C. (TBD)
-Session 1: A View from Asia
-Coffee Break
-Session 2: A View from the Middle East; the Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad; is Islam a Civilization State?
-Lunch: Speaker – What Value is Virtue?
-Session 3: Stakeholders in the Global Economy: Qui Bono? Qui Dicit?
-Coffee Break
-Session 4: AI and Moral Capitalism
-Session 5: Conclusions
-Closing Dinner: General Discussion
I do hope you can join us.
Additional information, including registration information, will be sent out shortly.