Cuba to Participate in World Forum on Social Sciences in Norway

HAVANA, Cuba. Cuba will participate in the First World Forum on Social Sciences -"Separate Worlds?"- to be held in Bergen, Norway, from May 10 to 12.

The Paris-based United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO) will take part in the forum, which is sponsored by the International Council of Social Sciences, the University of Bergen, and the Stein Rokkan Center, reported the Prensa Latina news agency.

Participating in the meeting will be some 800 delegates from numerous countries, including Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Spain, the United States, Russia, France, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway and Palestine.

Among the experts invited are 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics Laureate Amartya Sen and the President of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Climate Change, Rajendra Kumar Pachauri.

The first day of discussions will center be called "Migration, the Missing Link of Globalization."

Scheduled for the third day of the event are several debates, with special emphasis on the Management of Social Transformation and reevaluating policies to respond to the international financial crisis.

(Cuba en Foro Mundial de Ciencias Sociales en Noruega)