Waterloo Lecture on Social Innovation featuring Adam Kahane

Location: Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Date: January 27, 2010

A social innovator, once praised by South Africa's Nelson Mandela, we were pleased to have Adam Kahane join us to deliver the Waterloo Lecture on Social Innovation and to launch his new book, "Power & Love: A Theory & Practice of Social Change".

As a partner with Reos Partners, an international organization dedicated to supporting and building capacity for innovative collective action in complex social systems, Adam has worked with a diverse range of colleagues and organizations in more than fifty countries on a variety of challenges all over the world. Some of these challenges include addressing critical developmental issues in the transition from apartheid in South Africa; implementing the peace accords that ended the civil war in Guatemala; reducing child malnutrition in India; unblocking political stalemate in the Philippines; as well as accelerating the shift to a low-carbon economy in Canada.