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BRIDGING DIVIDES: Turf, Truth and Trust

August 28, 2022 @ 8:00 am - 8:00 pm

Our world is divided in many ways and along different fault lines. The 2022 Forum will focus on ways to bridge these divides:

  • Bridging economic divides
  • Bridging social divides
  • Bridging environmental divides

The Victoria Forum is structured around a number of plenary panels and parallel think tank sessions to elaborate solutions and recommendations. The Forum is designed to facilitate constructive dialogue, collaboration anf forward thinking by focusing on results and building bridges between different groups.

The Victoria Forum is working with the Commonwealth Games Federation to develop a global declaration on the power of sport in addressing historical and contemporary issues of truth and reconciliation.

There are 2 ways to register for this 3 day event. You can attend in person or virtually. Click here to register

The Victoria Forum 2022 will promote constructive and evidence-based conversations with the objective to bridge economic, environmental, and social divides on a global scale, focusing on three intersecting perspectives of turf, truth and trust. This year’s forum will combine face-to-face discussions in Victoria, BC Canada, with online plenary sessions, that bring together Indigenous leaders, governments, educators, industries, youth, and grassroots organizations to create essential solutions for global growth.

The Victoria Forum 2022 considers three interesting perspectives:

Turf

Our sense of place, land, territory, physical landscape or home shapes our identity, behaviour, culture, social norms and sense of belonging. Turf reflects the relationship of people to place and directs us to consider ownership, protection and rights over such place. Questions relating to turf lie at the heart of contemporary divides and conflicting definitions of truth.

Truth

What is “truth” and whose “truth” is “true”? The diffusion of diverse perceptions corresponding to the same reality, particularly with the advent of social media, is undermining social consensus and exacerbating the fault lines in our society. Concepts of alternative truth and post-truth are accelerating the erosion of trust in institutions, in others and in the future.

Trust

Trust serves as the foundation for building social relationships, prosperity, and institutions. Lines of divide between members of different groups are systematically reshaping the degree to which people extend trust to others. Bridging divides starts with (re)building trust.

The Victoria Forum acknowledges and respects the Lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose traditional territory the University of Victoria stands, and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

Parallel roundtable sessions include: – The Promise of Democratic Innovations for Student Voice in Universities – Student Voices: Featuring Finalists of the Bridging Divides Essay Contest 2022

Details

Date:
August 28, 2022
Time:
8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Series:

Our world is divided in many ways and along different fault lines. The 2022 Forum will focus on ways to bridge these divides:

  • Bridging economic divides
  • Bridging social divides
  • Bridging environmental divides

The Victoria Forum is structured around a number of plenary panels and parallel think tank sessions to elaborate solutions and recommendations. The Forum is designed to facilitate constructive dialogue, collaboration anf forward thinking by focusing on results and building bridges between different groups.

The Victoria Forum is working with the Commonwealth Games Federation to develop a global declaration on the power of sport in addressing historical and contemporary issues of truth and reconciliation.

There are 2 ways to register for this 3 day event. You can attend in person or virtually. Click here to register

The Victoria Forum 2022 will promote constructive and evidence-based conversations with the objective to bridge economic, environmental, and social divides on a global scale, focusing on three intersecting perspectives of turf, truth and trust. This year’s forum will combine face-to-face discussions in Victoria, BC Canada, with online plenary sessions, that bring together Indigenous leaders, governments, educators, industries, youth, and grassroots organizations to create essential solutions for global growth.

The Victoria Forum 2022 considers three interesting perspectives:

Turf

Our sense of place, land, territory, physical landscape or home shapes our identity, behaviour, culture, social norms and sense of belonging. Turf reflects the relationship of people to place and directs us to consider ownership, protection and rights over such place. Questions relating to turf lie at the heart of contemporary divides and conflicting definitions of truth.

Truth

What is “truth” and whose “truth” is “true”? The diffusion of diverse perceptions corresponding to the same reality, particularly with the advent of social media, is undermining social consensus and exacerbating the fault lines in our society. Concepts of alternative truth and post-truth are accelerating the erosion of trust in institutions, in others and in the future.

Trust

Trust serves as the foundation for building social relationships, prosperity, and institutions. Lines of divide between members of different groups are systematically reshaping the degree to which people extend trust to others. Bridging divides starts with (re)building trust.

The Victoria Forum acknowledges and respects the Lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose traditional territory the University of Victoria stands, and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

Parallel roundtable sessions include: – The Promise of Democratic Innovations for Student Voice in Universities – Student Voices: Featuring Finalists of the Bridging Divides Essay Contest 2022

Details

Date:
August 29, 2022
Time:
8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Series:

Our world is divided in many ways and along different fault lines. The 2022 Forum will focus on ways to bridge these divides:

  • Bridging economic divides
  • Bridging social divides
  • Bridging environmental divides

The Victoria Forum is structured around a number of plenary panels and parallel think tank sessions to elaborate solutions and recommendations. The Forum is designed to facilitate constructive dialogue, collaboration anf forward thinking by focusing on results and building bridges between different groups.

The Victoria Forum is working with the Commonwealth Games Federation to develop a global declaration on the power of sport in addressing historical and contemporary issues of truth and reconciliation.

There are 2 ways to register for this 3 day event. You can attend in person or virtually. Click here to register

The Victoria Forum 2022 will promote constructive and evidence-based conversations with the objective to bridge economic, environmental, and social divides on a global scale, focusing on three intersecting perspectives of turf, truth and trust. This year’s forum will combine face-to-face discussions in Victoria, BC Canada, with online plenary sessions, that bring together Indigenous leaders, governments, educators, industries, youth, and grassroots organizations to create essential solutions for global growth.

The Victoria Forum 2022 considers three interesting perspectives:

Turf

Our sense of place, land, territory, physical landscape or home shapes our identity, behaviour, culture, social norms and sense of belonging. Turf reflects the relationship of people to place and directs us to consider ownership, protection and rights over such place. Questions relating to turf lie at the heart of contemporary divides and conflicting definitions of truth.

Truth

What is “truth” and whose “truth” is “true”? The diffusion of diverse perceptions corresponding to the same reality, particularly with the advent of social media, is undermining social consensus and exacerbating the fault lines in our society. Concepts of alternative truth and post-truth are accelerating the erosion of trust in institutions, in others and in the future.

Trust

Trust serves as the foundation for building social relationships, prosperity, and institutions. Lines of divide between members of different groups are systematically reshaping the degree to which people extend trust to others. Bridging divides starts with (re)building trust.

The Victoria Forum acknowledges and respects the Lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose traditional territory the University of Victoria stands, and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

Parallel roundtable sessions include: – The Promise of Democratic Innovations for Student Voice in Universities – Student Voices: Featuring Finalists of the Bridging Divides Essay Contest 2022

Details

Date:
August 30, 2022
Time:
8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Series:


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