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CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE<br />
Address<br />
Clinton Global Initiative, 1301 Avenue of the<br />
Americas, Suite 37-20, New York, NY 10019-6022<br />
Phone +1.212.397.2255<br />
Fax +1.212.397.2256<br />
Web www.clintonglobalinitiative.org<br />
E-Mail info@clintonglobalinitiative.org<br />
Category Dialogue<br />
MISSION STATEMENT<br />
<strong>The</strong> Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), a non-partisan undertaking that is part of the William J. Clinton Foundation, is a catalyst for<br />
action.<br />
CGI brings together a community of global leaders (CGI “members”) to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the<br />
world’s most pressing challenges. Ongoing working groups focus on issues that include poverty, climate change, global health, and<br />
religious and ethnic conflicts. All CGI members—who come from diverse entities including business, non-governmental<br />
organizations, foundations, philanthropy, and government—are required to make a specific action commitment each year to help<br />
address one or more of these problems. Commitments can be made to any cause or organization of the member’s choosing, and can<br />
any number of forms including financial contributions, an investment of time, or the application of special expertise. Over the past<br />
two years more than 500 commitments have been made by CGI members, totaling nearly $10 billion and benefiting the work of<br />
more than 1,000 organizations.<br />
Founding year 2005.<br />
BACKGROUND AND ACTIVITIES<br />
For three days each September, our members participate in the CGI annual meeting, a working session designed to provide insights<br />
into global problems and possible solutions. <strong>The</strong> annual meeting creates an ideal setting for collaboration, recognition of notable<br />
commitments, and the formation of proactive partnerships.<br />
Areas of Focus include:<br />
• Energy and Climate Change<br />
• Global Health<br />
• Poverty Alleviation<br />
• Mitigation Religious and Ethnic Conflict: Creating integrated communities from divided societies, addressing the<br />
growing rift between Islam and the West, finding new and effective ways to resolve deadly conflict: these are among<br />
humanity’s most urgent tasks. In 2005, the Clinton Global Initiative brought together religious and business leaders,<br />
statesmen, as well as NGO and civil society activists who never before had participated in the same gathering to discuss the<br />
role of religion in conflict, social issues and politics. It brought to light a number of at times counterintuitive realities: that<br />
concrete, practical steps can be taken to alleviate inter-religious tensions; that bringing religious leaders to the discussion<br />
table may defuse rather than exacerbate tensions; and that dealing with the gap between Islam and the West was a<br />
business as much as a security imperative. This year’s session is broadening the field, including not only religious but also<br />
ethnic conflict within and between societies, while simultaneously narrowing the substantive focus, emphasizing more<br />
concrete, practical steps that can be taken.<br />
New entry: March 2007.<br />
REMARKS