The Salzburg Global Seminar has a commitment to supporting a wide range of initiatives. Often, initiatives begun here will in due course become independent, as with the CEDAR and IHJR programs listed below. And often, as political and economic climates shift, the Seminar's programming adjusts to follow suit. Past programs and initiatives provide a solid foundation on which to continue pursuing the most effective methods for implementing change. We are proud to present below a selection of programs which began here, but have either run their course or continued elsewhere.

CEDAR – European Muslim Professionals Network
In November 2008, the Salzburg Global Seminar (SGS), in cooperation with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), conceived and implemented a special “European Muslim Professionals’ Action Incubator Workshop”. The Workshop resulted in the creation of CEDAR, Europe’s first Muslim Professionals’ Network. SGS and ISD jointly supported CEDAR in the first two years of the organization’s development (2009 – 2010).
For more information, see http://www.salzburgglobal.org/go/empn

Towards an African Green Revolution:
In 2008 and 2009, the Salzburg Global Seminar, in partnership with the Institute of Development Studies and the Future Agricultures Consortium, held a series of events under the title "Toward a 'Green Revolution' in Africa?". The recommendations from the first two events (held in Salzburg in 2008) are captured in a summary report, available in English, French and Portuguese. Consultations were held in Africa in 2009 as a follow-up to the Salzburg events and those recommendations were used to inform the 2010 Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD). In 2011, Salzburg continued work in this arena with a session on “Transforming Agricultural Development and Production in Africa: Closing Gender Gaps and Empowering Rural Women in Policy and Practice”.
For more information on the 2008 Salzburg events, please see http://www.salzburgglobal.org/current/aai.cfm

The Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation (IHJR)
Founded in 2004, the IHJR first operated as a project of the Salzburg Global Seminar, devoted to working with educational and public policy institutions in order to organize and sponsor historical discourse in pursuit of acknowledgement, and the resolution of historical disputes.
In October 2008, the IHJR was established as an independent institute in The Netherlands and is now a nonprofit foundation seated in The Hague. The IHJR is governed by an Executive Committee chaired by Judge Richard Goldstone of South Africa, and is advised on its program by an Advisory Board chaired by Judge Hisashi Owada, President of the International Court of Justice. The IHJR continues to work in partnership with the Salzburg Global Seminar.
For more information on the IHJR please visit www.historyandreconciliation.org, or send an email to info@ihjr.org

Strengthening Independent Media (SIM)
The Strengthening Independent Media Initiative (SIM) was a multi-year initiative of the Salzburg Global Seminar, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the Global Forum for Media Development, which aimed to: bring greater strategic focus and coordination to the field of independent media development around the world; to improve the flow of financial support from private as well as public sources and promising new technologies into the media development sector; and to improve coordination between funders, trainers, and media development implementers.

Between 2008 and 2011 the Salzburg Global Seminar, the Knight Foundation, and the Global Forum for Media Development convened a series of leadership meetings designed to consider the use of digital tools and techniques to both decrease the waste, and increase the flow, of money into projects that improve journalism and the free flow of news.
The participating donors have undertaken a range of specific collaborations as a result of the SIM meetings, and have agreed to continue annual donor meetings hosted by member organizations to sustain the information sharing and strategy work encouraged by the Salzburg meetings.
For more information, please visit the Strengthening Independent Media website

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