GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY FORUM CONFERENCE APRIL 18–20 · WASHINGTON, DC 2017 Global Philanthropy Forum Conference This book includes transcripts from the plenary sessions and keynote conversations of the 2017 Global Philanthropy Forum Conference. The statements made and views expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of GPF, its participants, World Affairs or any of its funders. Prior to publication, the authors were given the opportunity to review their remarks. Some have made minor adjustments. In general, we have sought to preserve the tone of these panels to give the reader a sense of the Conference. The Conference would not have been possible without the support of our partners and members listed below, as well as the dedication of the wonderful team at World Affairs. Special thanks go to the GPF team—Suzy Antounian, Bayanne Alrawi, Laura Beatty, Noelle Germone, Deidre Graham, Elizabeth Haffa, Mary Hanley, Olivia Heffernan, Tori Hirsch, Meghan Kennedy, DJ Latham, Jarrod Sport, Geena St. Andrew, Marla Stein, Carla Thorson and Anna Wirth—for their work and dedication to the GPF, its community and its mission. STRATEGIC PARTNERS Newman’s Own Foundation USAID The David & Lucile Packard The MasterCard Foundation Foundation Anonymous Skoll Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation Skoll Global Threats Fund Margaret A. Cargill Foundation The Walton Family Foundation Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation The World Bank IFC (International Finance SUPPORTING MEMBERS Corporation) The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust MEMBERS Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Anonymous Humanity United Felipe Medina IDB Omidyar Network Maja Kristin Sall Family Foundation MacArthur Foundation Qatar Foundation International Charles Stewart Mott Foundation The Global Philanthropy Forum is a project of World Affairs. This collection of transcripts is a publication of World Affairs. Copyright ©2017 World Affairs. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without the express permission of the authors is prohibited. Front Cover Photo Credit: Nicoleta Raftu | Shutterstock.com Back Cover Photo Credit: lazyllama | Shutterstock.com 2017 Global Philanthropy Forum Conference CONTENTS FOREWORD ........................................ X ADVISORY COUNCIL ................................ 7 STEERING GROUP................................... 9 2017 CONFERENCE AGENDA........................ 10 SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES ............................ 28 OPENING REMARKS: JANE WALES .................. 80 Jane Wales WHO IS US? PLURALISM, PROBLEM SOLVING AND CITIZEN POWER ................................... 82 James Goldston, Eric Liu, Jane Wales BUILDING THE CAPACITY FOR TRUST: THE CHILD.... 96 Randa Grob-Zakhary, Peter Laugharn, Carolyn Miles, Deogratias Niyonkiza SPECIAL ADDRESS: LUIS ALBERTO MORENO ........ 110 Peter Laugharn, Luis Alberto Moreno CITIZEN POWER, WAGING PEACE ................... 116 Nicola Benyahia, Alaa Murabit, Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini 2017 Global Philanthropy Forum Conference SPECIAL ADDRESS: AMBASSADOR CARLOS PINZÓN 132 Ambassador Juan Carlos Pinzón, Jane Wales TRUST, JUSTICE AND THE CONFLICT CONTINUUM .. 140 Robert Malley, David Miliband, John Prendergast, Yifat Susskind, David Tolbert, Robin Wright SPECIAL ADDRESS: RAJIV SHAH ................... 154 Rajiv Shah, Jane Wales PHILANTHROPY, LEGITIMACY AND VOICE: HERE AND ABROAD .............................. 162 Zia Khan, Patrick McCarthy, Adele Simmons, Julia Stasch, Cecilia Conrad ADVANCING TRUST: SECRETARY MADELEINE ALBRIGHT IN CONVERSATION WITH MCNULTY PRIZE LAUREATES ................................ 176 Lana Abu-Hijleh, Jordan Kassalow, Anne Welsh McNulty, Dele Olojede, Jane Wales, Madeleine Albright RACE, JUSTICE AND LEGITIMACY IN AMERICA ...... 194 Carroll Bogert, Adam Foss, Glenn E. Martin TRUST, IDENTITY POLITICS AND THE MEDIA ........ 208 Abdalaziz Alhamza, Uzodinma Iweala, Ben Rattray, Malika Saada Saar 2017 Global Philanthropy Forum Conference FOREWORD Events that have unfolded since our 2017 conference only reinforce our contention that trust is humanity’s most valuable asset. It provides the societal glue on which wellbeing relies. Without it, we cannot manage the dangers we face, nor steward the resources we share. Without it, we cannot solve large problems together. Yet trust is at an all-time low, with large percentages of the American public reporting to pollsters that they do not trust our government, and — perhaps more worrisome — that they do not trust one another. The trust deficit is not unique to our democracy. The Edelman Trust Barometer reveals that this is a global phenomenon. Nor is it the creation of a single leader or the consequence of one event. The decline has been decades in the making. It coincides with longer-term trends driven by the information revolution and economic globalization. Together they have decentralized decision-making and authority, reshaped communities and economies, and accelerated rapid and wrenching change. However, pervasive distrust was neither inevitable nor need it be a permanent condition. Working together, philanthropy, civil society and policymakers have the opportunity to help reverse that trend, by making Jane Wales common cause, modeling collaborative problem-solving, and rebuilding social capital in the process. That was and remains the commitment of the donors and other change- makers gathered at the Global Philanthropy Forum in 2017. They seek to build the capabilities, institutions and understandings that make societal trust — and shared success — possible. OUR CONVERSATIONS BEGAN WITH THE CHILD and the ways to invest in his or her capacity to adapt, rebound, and even thrive under the stresses of scarcity, poverty, dislocation and struggle. We focused on early childhood development (ECD), at the stage of life when self and “the other” are 1 2017 Global Philanthropy Forum Conference defined and the building blocks of resilience are put in place. We heard from whole. Helping to illuminate that process was President Luis Alberto Moreno leaders who have made ECD their priority, and seen results. They included of the Inter-American Development Bank; Colombian Ambassador Juan Peter Laugharn of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation; Randa Grob-Zakhary Carlos Pinzón; Fernando Cortés of Fundación Bolívar Davivienda; Alejandro of Porticus, Carolyn Miles, of Save the Children, Sherrie Westin of Sesame Eder, former Director General, Colombian Agency for Reintegration; Felipe Workshop, who was joined on stage by Big Bird to share their, and IRC’s, Medina of Transforming Philanthropy Initiative; and activist and advocate educational work with children in refugee camps. Sesame Street and IRC Laura Ulloa. have since been awarded the MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change prize to WE THEN TURNED TO THE ROLE OF THE STATE. If pluralism is essential continue this important initiative. The health needs of mother and child in to free and well-functioning societies, it is also the sine qua non of liberal the first thousand days from conception to the age of two, and the means democracy, and essential to the legitimacy — and sustainability — of the for delivering maternal and child care, were the focus of Deo Niyizonkiza state. But when states fail to meet the needs of their citizens and collapse of Village Health Works and Raj Panjabi, the inspiring Liberian physician into violent conflict, what is the role of the international community and who founded Last Mile Health — and has more recently won the TED prize global civil society? Where does responsibility lie? We explored interventions for his path-breaking work. We also heard from Ashish Karamchandani of along the conflict continuum — from prevention to reconciliation to FSG, who described the ways in which a parent’s best intentions can have reconstruction — as well as global norms that assign responsibility. We an unintended and traumatizing effect. His research shows that unethical asked whether citizen trust in their government can be maintained when private preschool representatives persuade poor Indian parents to enroll access to health, education, jobs and even justice is uneven. Helping us their two- and three- year-olds at an age when children should be home, to focus on governments and the governed were by of bonding with family, and learning by playing and doing, rather than by rote. David Miliband the International Rescue Committee (later selected as the winner of the Ashish is working with the Indian government to inform parents and regulate MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change grant); of the the pre-school industry, so as to remove this avoidable impediment to a John Prendergast Enough Project; of MADRE; of the International child’s socio-emotional development. His approach is to combine analysis, Yifat Susskind David Tolbert Center for Transitional Justice; of International Crisis Group; and advocacy, tenacity and caring. Rob Malley Robin Wright of the Woodrow Wilson Center and The New Yorker. Taking WE THEN MOVED TO SOCIETIES IN THE MIDST OF CHANGE, where on the case of access to justice in the US was Adam Foss of Prosecutor pluralism — the ability of multiple cultures to co-exist within a shared Impact, Carroll Bogert of The Marshall Project, and Glenn E Martin of society — may be the test of a state’s viability. Eric Liu of Citizen University JustLeadershipUSA. Equal access to justice and equal protection under the asked what it means to be an American, a German, a South African at a law are critical elements of our liberal democracy. Yet, in practice, in the time