The Global Insight Program

Jackson Hole Film Festival

Jackson, Wyoming

The Humpty Dumpty Institute (HDI) joined with the Jackson Hole Film Festival to create the Global Insight Program during the Festival which ran from June 8-10, 2007. The program was designed to allow international policy makers and opinion leaders to meet with leaders of the entertainment and media community with the goal of using media to address international social problems.

The Global Insight Program had three components:

1. Mine Action
2. "U.N. Across America"
3. Panels on "Human Trafficking" and "The Importance of Education for Girls in the Developing World"

Mine Action

HDI is well known for its work battling the international landmine epidemic by working with a wide network of partners to support mine-clearance projects around the globe. The Festival screened Bombhunters, the story of Cambodians surrounded by the remnants of war. The screenings were followed by a discussion with the Director, Skye Fitzgerald and the Director of Partnership Programs from the Bureau of Political/Military Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, James Lawrence. A mock minefield was also created by the U.S. Department of Defense, with a demonstration by a bomb sniffing dog who works with HDI partner, the Marshall Legacy Institute.

U.N. Across America

HDI took one of its signature programs "U.N. Across America" to the Jackson Hole Film Festival. The U.N. Permanent Representatives of Nepal and Sri Lanka, and senior U.N. diplomats from Bangladesh, Korea, and Pakistan viewed films, attended the HDI panels and discovered Wyoming.

Panels

The Humpty Dumpty Institute, with the collaboration of the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNDOC), organized two panels. The first panel on "The Importance of Education for Girls in the Developing World" moderated by the President of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Patricia Harrison addressed how even the most basic education of young girls greatly improves their lives and that of the entire community. The panel on "Human Trafficking" moderated by noted CNN international anchor focused on the growing scourge of human sexual slavery and how the international community must respond. We were fortunate to have participating on the panel as a featured speaker the Director of UNDOC, Antonio Maria Costa.