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Web-based conference --

SOCIAL CAPITAL:  AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE BRIDGING DISCIPLINES, POLICIES
AND COMMUNITIES
April 20-22, 1998    Michigan State University, East Lansing MI, USA

Webpage:  http://www.jsri.msu.edu/soccap

        This conference is designed to bring together academics and
practitioners
from different disciplines and divergent practices who share an interest in
social capital and its consequences.  The goal is to define the essential
characteristics of social capital, measure its importance, and investigate
its practical uses.

SPEAKERS:  Amitai Etzioni, Robert Putnam, Francis Fukuyama

CONCURRENT SESSIONS addressing social capital in:
        -- Family
        -- Migration
        -- Nonprofit Sector (including interventions to CREATE/AUGMENT social
capital)
        -- Community & Rural Development
        -- Education
        -- Global Inequalities
        -- International Firm Development

FOR INFORMATION ON SESSIONS AND REGISTRATON, PLEASE SEE OUR WEBPAGE

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  The cabinet minister lies in his bath.  With one hand he tries
  To force the wooden brush below the glassy surface.
  This childish play hides a serious core.
       -Bertolt Brecht
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Dennis Raphael, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Acting Director,
Masters of Health Science Program in Health Promotion
Department of Public Health Sciences
Graduate Department of Community Health
University of Toronto
McMurrich Building, Room 101
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5S 1A8
voice:    (416) 978-7567
fax: (416) 978-2087
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