Committee on Global Thought

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The Committee on Global Thought was established in 2005 at Columbia University to "serve the expanded needs of knowledge and society in the twenty-first century". It is an interdisciplinary research group where the research focus is broader than the concept of globalization and "calls for a collective reflection on the way we teach, analyze, and make our way in the world" .It has piloted courses on "Globalization Global Governance and Issues of Secularism and Diversity in Global Thought". The site provides workshop and other event information.

Notable committee members include Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, former Assitant Secretary-General and Special Advisor to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, Michael W. Doyle and leading urban sociologist, Saskie Sassen.

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