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Once a year Conversation Cafes and co-hosts organize a week when everyone, everywhere is invited to sit down in small groups to consider together the most important questions in the world today. We live in challenging and complex times. No one knows THE answer, but everyone holds a piece of the answer. You can say your piece during Conversation Week. We, and the world, will be all listening.

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Discuss the Top 10 Questions Here

admin | Questions, 2008 Questions | Monday, March 24th, 2008

Below this post, we’ve created separate blog posts for discussion of each of this year’s top ten questions. Please uses the comments on each question to post your own reactions. And after your face-to-face Conversation Week dialogues take place, please use these to share any insights, epiphanies, wisdom, or new questions that emerged.

Question 1: How can we best prepare our children for the future?

admin | Questions, 2008 Questions | Monday, March 24th, 2008

Please begin your post with your city and country.

Question 2: What does sustainability look like to you? How do we get there?

admin | Questions, 2008 Questions | Monday, March 24th, 2008

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Question 3: How do humans need to adapt to survive the changes predicted for this century?

admin | Questions, 2008 Questions | Monday, March 24th, 2008

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Question 4: How do we shift from “Me” to “We” on both the local and global levels?

admin | Questions, 2008 Questions | Monday, March 24th, 2008

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Question 5: How can you, as Gandhi said, be the change that you want to see in the world?

admin | Questions, 2008 Questions | Monday, March 24th, 2008

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Question 6: What kind of economic structures can best support a shift to sustainable living?

admin | Questions, 2008 Questions | Monday, March 24th, 2008

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Question 7: How should we re-invent the political process so that people feel that they have a voice?

admin | Questions, 2008 Questions | Monday, March 24th, 2008

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Question 8: What kind of leadership does the world need now?

admin | Questions, 2008 Questions | Monday, March 24th, 2008

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Question 9: How can we balance our personal needs with the most pressing needs of our community and the larger world?

admin | Questions, 2008 Questions | Monday, March 24th, 2008

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Question 10: What can we do to reduce or eliminate violence in the world?

admin | Questions, 2008 Questions | Monday, March 24th, 2008

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Question 11: What is the most important question in world today – to you?

admin | Questions, 2008 Questions | Monday, March 24th, 2008

For Conversation Week 2007 this was the winning question. We add it here to give you a chance to survey the people at your Conversation Week table as we have surveyed the world to suggest and select the ten questions above. What questions do you and your community need to be asking right now? What’s not being talked about that, were it explored, would free us up to have the world we want?

Please begin your post with your city and country.

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