2001

TNI

August 2006

			See also TNI Annual Report 2001
	January		Workshop Regionalisms from Below. Dot Keet, Walden Bello and Manuel Peréz from the Alternative Regionalisms project speak. World Social Forum 1, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
	22 January		Forum: Bush on the Middle East Crisis and Iraq, TNI, Amsterdam. Phyllis Bennis speaks on the new American Administrations' position to the crisis in the Middle East, the anniversary of the Gulf War and the unravelling of the UN Sanctions on Iraq. She also gives a short presentation discussing the possible role of the Netherlands vis à vis the Bush Administration.
	25 January		Forum: Sport and Globalisation, TNI, Amsterdam. Ian Ritchie, a Canadian researcher and lecturer at Queen's University (Kingston Ontario) speaks on the Globalisation of Sport and sport industries with a particular focus on the corporatisation of sport, drugs in sport and the Olympic Games as a conduit for transnational corporations.
	16-21 April		Second People's Summit of the Americas organised under the banner of the Hemispheric Social Alliance. Quebec, Canada. The Alternative Regionalisms websection is launched to coincide with the Summit.
	19-22 April		Seminar on Media and Conflict, TNI, Amsterdam. Organised in cooperation with HumanitarianNet (Thematic Network on Humanitarian Development Studies), and resulting in the book The Emotion and the Truth.
	15-27 May		Asia Europe People's Forum (AEPF): Information and Advocacy Initiative in Europe, Lisbon, Portugal
	18-19 May		Civil Society Meeting on ENMOD and Related Agreements on Hostile Modification of the Environment. TNI, Amsterdam
	27 May		The Netherlands and Colombia: Discussion on the FOLs (Forward Operating Locations) Treaty, Rode Hoed, Amsterdam. Organised by TNI and XminY. Speakers: TNI Fellows Ricardo Vargas and Martin Jelsma, Piedad Córdoba (Colombia), Joy Olson (Washington), Arno Ambrosius (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Paul Rosenmöller (GreenLeft), Stanley Inderson (Curaçao).
	May		TNI and the University of Amsterdam's Research Centre for International Political Economy (RECIPE) co-organise a seminar on New Regionalisms. Brid Brennan, Kees Biekart and Fiona Dove participate.
	13-14 August		International Conference Korean Reconciliation and Reunification for Global Peace: The People's Agenda Seoul, Korea
	15-25 August		Asia Europe People's Forum (AEPF): Information and Advocacy Initiative in Asia
	2-6 October		Renewable Energy Workshop: Bringing Renewable Energy Down to Earth: An Energy for Community Skillshare Indonesia
	October		In preparation for TNI's participation in WSF2, Brid Brennan attends the WSF International Council meeting held in Dakar, Senegal
	17 November		Shortly after the WTO Ministerial Meeting in Doha, two TNI Fellows speak at the Transactions 2001 Symposium of the Royal Society of Canada in Ottawa. Walden Bello gives an assessment of WTO from the point of view of developing countries while Susan George concludes "Rules Yes, These Rules No" for the WTO
	29 November		TNI Public Forum Missile Defence and Security after September 11 Felix Meritus, Amsterdam. Organised in cooperation with the Project on European Nuclear Non-Proliferation (PENN-NL), XminY, Attac-Nederland and the Campaign against the Arms Trade. Main speakers: Dan Plesch, The Royal United Service Institute, England, and Tom Reifer, Focus on the Global South, Thailand
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