UPDATES

UPDATE (as at February 28)
Final Call for Registrations
Opening ceremony: Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford: 3pm Sunday 9th April www.sheldon.ox.ac.uk
Mary Robinson, Director Ethical Globalization Initiative
Danny Leipzeiger, Vice President, World Bank
Dr Huguette Labelle, Chair, Transparency International

And over 100 other speakers including Tunku Abdul Aziz, UN Secretary General’s Special Advisor on the Ethics Office who originally proposed the World Ethics Forum. See the draft program. Numbers for the conference are strictly limited to 250 (except for the Opening Ceremony).

Conference
Despite advances made over the past decade, the challenge to develop more effective ways and means to promote integrity and combat corruption remains with us. Codes of Ethics have evolved in many contexts but their application is often problematic especially in public life. Human tragedies, occasioned either through war, terror or natural disasters, continue to plague the world and raise anew questions about the ethical behaviour of public officials. Together with the World Bank, IIPE, founded to advance the thinking, discussion and implementation of global ethics, is responding to the growing crisis of integrity in world affairs by hosting the first World Ethics Forum in Oxford. It is designed for officials and advisors to national, sub-national and international governments, business professionals, scholars, ethics practitioners, civil society activists, academics, and public officials to reflect, facilitate and support critical thinking about the praxis of public ethics, to expose applied lessons about democratic governance processes and to help rebuild a sustainable future for an ethics culture. This conference follows on from earlier IIPE conferences and the Ethics in the Public Service Network conferences which preceded IIPE. It also follows on from the first Global Integrity Alliance meeting in March 2004 held in Istanbul. The Global Integrity Alliance is planned to bring together a range of individuals and organisations committed to raising standards of integrity and reducing corruption.

Special Symposium for the Global Integrity Alliance
The main conference will run for two days – from 3pm on 9th April to 5pm on 11th April. It will be followed by a special symposium that will build on the ideas and insights generated by the main conference to consider how members of the Global Integrity Alliance can collaborate to build integrity and limit corruption.

Residential and Non-residential Registration:
World Bank sponsorship has allowed us to keep full residential registration (including registration fee, en suite room and all meals including the banquet) to 250 pounds for speakers and 320 pounds for delegates. Non-residential registration is also available.

UPDATE (as at February 20)
PROGRAM
The World Ethics Forum Program is now up on the website: www.iipe.org/worldethicsforum

Some of the highlights are:
- a round table by prominent leaders discussing leadership
- a round table discussion on women in leadership
- a youth forum
- two workshops by TI on monitoring the UN anti corruption convention
- the Vice President of the World Bank Danny Leipzeiger, is joining Mary Robinson and Dr Huguette Labelle in the opening plenary at the Sheldonian Theatre

EXTENSION OF EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION
Given the delays in getting the draft program posted, we are now happy to extend the early bird registration period until March 6th 2006. However, the number of ensuited rooms at Keble College is strictly limited to 150 so that those opting for a residential registration are urged to do so sooner rather than later

TUNKU THE UN SPECIAL ADVISOR ON THE ETHICS OFFICE
Tunku Abdul Aziz, the person who suggested the World Ethics Forum has just been appointed the Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the UN on the Ethics Office. He will be speaking at the conference.

UPDATE (as at February 17)
WORLD ETHICS FORUM(S)
At an IIPE Board meeting in March 2004, Tunku Abdul Aziz suggested that future IIPE Conferences be renamed the 'World Ethics Forum'. The proposal was strongly supported subject only to the agreement of the hosts of our next conference. Later in 2004, the World Bank agreed to link their next Global Integrity Alliance meeting with our next conference. The first call for papers for the inaugural World Ethics Forum was circulated in September 2005. The second call for papers and first call for registrations was posted on our website on 4 January 2006 and widely circulated with registration forms on 10 January 2006. As indicated in the second call, the United Nations University has joined the World Bank as sponsors of the Conference.

In early January 2006, a communiqué was issued by St Paul University in Ottawa, Canada, advertising another ethics event called the 2006 World Ethics Forum. However, to eliminate potential confusion, that organization has agreed to change the name of their conference and to move it to early 2007. We have accepted this gracious offer and hope that those who attend Oxford will attend the Ottawa Conference and vice versa. The organisers of the Ottawa Conference are sending out their own communiqué within the next 24 hours. We look forward to seeing you in Oxford in April.

REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION
The World Bank has supported the conference very generously, allowing us to provide registration AND en suite accommodation AND all meals including a banquet for 325 pounds (250 pounds for speakers) for those seeking early bird registration. There are only 150 rooms available on this basis. The registration form is on our website.

PROGRAM
We are still finalising the program with the world bank and will be advising you early next week. In the mean time we have posted all speakers / title of papers who have agreed to come, on the conference website: <www.iipe.org/worldethicsforum>. The latest addition is Dr Huguette Labelle, the new Chair of Transparency International. She will join Mary Robinson and Sanjay Pradhan at the opening ceremony.

UPDATE (as at January 16)
OPENING CEREMONY – 3pm April 9th, Sheldonian theatre Oxford
We are pleased to announce that the World Ethics Forum Opening ceremony has been moved to allow for more to attend. The Opening Ceremony will now take place in Oxford's historic Sheldonian Theatre. This 17th century masterpiece was designed by Christopher Wren and is used for formal ceremonies including graduations. For more information see: http://www.sheldon.ox.ac.uk
Following a welcome from Dr Sanjay Pradhan, Director of Governance at the World Bank, the conference will be opened with a keynote address by Mary Robinson (Director of the Ethical Globalization Initiative and former President of Ireland).