The Carnegie UK Trust is proud to be supporting this year’s Festival of Politics programme which was announced on Monday 5 July 2010.
In sponsoring three different events at the Festival, the Carnegie UK Trust is playing an active in role in ensuring that the award winning Festival, now entering its sixth year, continues to thrive and that the overarching theme of the Festival, Changing Politics, can be a positive one.It is hoped that all of the events on this year’s programme will help to promote interest and involvement in civil society, participative democracy and international conflicts as well as other areas of social and political discussion.
The Carnegie UK Trust has itself just launched ‘Making good society’, the report of the independent Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland.Carnegie UK Trust’s first event will take place on Wednesday 18 August 2010 at the Scottish Parliament and will look at the vital role that civil society can play in helping to bridge the gap that is being vacated by traditional news media as the link between representative democracy and an increasingly cynical public.
Following an invitation extended at the 2009 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy awards, the second event will turn the spotlight on another of the 20 and more world-wide Carnegie family of foundations – the New York-based Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, the world’s leading voice in promoting ethical leadership on the issues of war, peace and global social justice. In Holyrood’s Main Chamber, Council President Joel Rosenthal will engage with the former Foreign Secretary and Secretary of State for Defence, Sir Malcolm Rifkind QC MP, on the theme: “Is Peace Worth Fighting For?” They will debate the ideas of just war, peace and security in a modern global society.On Friday 20 August, the importance of land reform will be the subject of the Trust’s final event which will feature leading Highlands historian and land reform campaigner James Hunter, discussing what more could be done by Scottish politicians to build on the land reform success story.
The full programme can be viewed and tickets can be booked via the official Festival website.
