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Yunus Press Release (23 October, 2018)
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus addressed an audience of 1800 young delegates from 193 countries at the Opening Ceremony of the One Young World at the Peace Palace at The Hague on October 17. He urged assembled audience especially the young people to imagine the world they would like to build and start working now to create that world as each young person has all the creativity and technology in their hands to achieve that.
He said ‘Start tackling the smallest part of a large problem, don’t get overwhelmed.’ He reminded that a new world cannot be created by going through old roads; that they needed to build the new roads. Social business is one tool to build a new road. He urged them to create social fictions of the world they would like to live in. Just as science follows science fiction, a new social order would follow social fiction that they create. If you do not imagine a new world, that world will not happen.
The event was opened by the Queen Maxima of the Netherlands and attended by Mayor of The Hague, the President of the International Court of Justice, Nobel Laureate Tawakkol Karman, Bob Geldof and others.
Later during the conference, Professor Yunus addressed a plenary session entitled "Three Zeros" and told the audience of young people that wealth concentration, climate change and the advent of artificial intelligence were a ticking time bomb that would lead to global disaster, and that they, had the ability creativity and energy to stop this combined disaster from happening and steer the world onto a safe path.
A special Q & A session on microfinance and social business with Professor Yunus with standing room only, was held on the sidelines of the conference before the plenary. Also he addressed a workshop of young entrepreneurs brought to the Summit by the Dutch Foreign Ministry consisting of people from Middle East and Maghreb countries who had designed social business start ups to address social problems in their country, and sought Professor Yunus advice on how these businesses may be designed and scaled up.
During his stay in Holland Professor Yunus was invited to visit the state-of- the- art headquarters of Dutch Post Code Lottery, the largest charity in Holland which is supporting a number global social business projects. The building, to which DPCL has not yet moved is 100% energy autonomous, made with recycled and innovative energy efficient materials and will be certified shortly as the most sustainable building in the Netherlands. Professor Yunus received a tour of the facility from the founder of DPCL Boudewijn Poelman himself, to see all the innovative features of the building. He was honored afterwards by DPCL to provide his hand print which will be cast in bronze to be displayed in a gallery of luminaries and individuals who serve as global ambassadors for DPCL including Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu, tennis start Rafael Nadal and President Bill Clinton.
Caption for Photo 1: Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus addressed an audience of 1800 young delegates from 193 countries at the Opening Ceremony of the One Young World at the Peace Palace at The Hague on October 17. He also address a plenary “A World of three Zeros: Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development.
Caption for Photo 2: Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus visited the new Headquarter of Dutch Post Code Lottery, a leading charity in the Netherlands supporting global development activities. His hand print will be cast in bronze to be displayed in a gallery of luminaries and individuals who serve as global ambassadors for DPCL including Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu, tennis start Rafael Nadal and President Bill Clinton.
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