
Vichaar Manthan aims to explore the narratives that societies tell each other and to themselves. These stories embody, legitimise and contextualise the knowledge and experiences of a society. They order a collective memory. The most powerful stories shape our behaviour and in turn influence institutions to react to the world in equal stead.
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At the Sustainable Narratives conference, we are exploring the most prevailing and long-lasting stories about how we govern a truly globalised technological world. What are the stories we tell ourselves about how nation-states regulate large, powerful international corporations; or ought to build greater real-time transparency, and therefore greater accountability; or to re-think the relationship between nationalism and fraternity amongst a citizenry? We want to put each prevailing narrative in the dock and cross-examine it in the light of sustainability.
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How many of our narratives about governance are truly sustainable, and how might new outlooks alter behaviour of people and institutions?
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Our panel of expert witnesses from around the world will come together and explore sustainable narratives on governance.