Dr. David Schwerin, Director of Social Responsibility in Business (SRB), has had continuing success in promoting SRB in China. Working with his Chinese counterpart Zhihe Wang, Dr. Schwering has given over a dozen lectures to business and political leaders as well as academic audiences in eight Chinese cities over the past two years. He has been interviewed for a variety of publications and his book Conscious Capitalism: Principles for Prosperity, is frequently referred to on the Chinese Internet. SRB will continue to advocate for corporate social responsibility in China and elsewhere. Dr. Schwerin is now writing his second book. It will look at the effect of globalization on business and society.

GEM is working in close collaboration with the Association to Unite the Democracies (AUD) and its educational outreach arm to Euro-Atlantic Institute (EAI). In a videoconference format, GEM moderated a two day videoconference from Moscow, Russia on "Euro-Atlantic Integration and Russia after September 11", May 30-31, 2002. Participants included university students in Russia, Italy and the US as well as high level officials such as Strobe Talbot, Director of the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC and Robert Hunter, former US Ambassador to NATO. The Moscow Conference was under the direction of Dr. Tiziana Stella.

In 2003 a conference on European Union Expansion will be held in Prague, Czech Republic. It will include the involvement of young people from different countries giving them the opportunity to communicate directly with world leaders through videoconferencing and on-site interactions.

GEM anticipates offering distance learning undergraduate classes on related topics under Chestnut Hill College's new Global Studies Institute.

To learn more about AUD go to www.unionnow.org