About Us

Our Vision is to see a world connected to the global marketplace through personal, trusting, cross-cultural relationships.

 

A growing number of visionary, non-military Americans and Western friends are rising to go into welcoming nations, or to act from within them, in order to “wage peace.” We want to honor in our own lives the courageous sacrifices that others, from the West and the East, are making to build a better world.
We yearn to do something meaningful and productive – even if it puts our own sense of comfort and insulated, suburban security at risk. Individually, we are driven by a variety of motives: duty, profit, humanitarianism, adventure, altruism, ambition, charity, etc. Yet, diverse as we are, we’re uniting through CGS to embrace the dual aims of connecting the world to the global marketplace, while developing the personal, trusting, cross-cultural relationships crucial to that task. We are Americans and Westerners ready to do our part. We are ready to do something real, something right now, to build a future worth creating for coming generations.


The Center for Global Strategies exists:
  • To connect and integrate emerging populations worldwide into the global economy,
  • To dry-up the spawning grounds of violent conflict between societies,
  • To establish cross-cultural ties of trade, capital investment, intellectual exchange, friendship, and understanding between peoples,
  • To build a future worth creating for our own, and coming, generations worldwide.

We do so by bringing capable Americans and Westerners of goodwill into productive contact and interaction with welcoming elites and their nations. We aim to work with such nations – if they are willing to commit themselves to the process – to expose them to, and to help them exploit, opportunities in world markets, direct capital investment, and sustained infrastructural development, all the while fostering the trusting, personal relationships essential to strong business and economic growth.

 



Our Approach

In partnering with the leadership of countries for economic change and growth, we at CGS see our counterparts, on the whole, simply as fellow human beings who desire a better future for their children and grandchildren. That transcending motive -- a better, brighter world for our offspring -- likewise animates us as we pursue our peaceful strategy of connecting isolated Islamic nations to the core of the global economy.

In executing that strategy, the tactics of CGS are multi-fold in utilizing, among other strategies, Economic Growth Conferences, as follows:

  • First, before launching a new conference, we require buy-in from governing elites for top-level time and interaction on what we at CGS know to be the essential foundations for a vibrant market economy and national prosperity:
    • property rights
    • rule of law
    • attractive investment climate
    • broad business freedom
  • Next, we offer to help these national leaders begin shoring-up these capitalist fundamentals by legal means.
  • Concurrently, we recruit American leaders (business principals, healthcare professionals, agents and academic/professionals, plus those with government experience) who are willing to give of their time and expertise to CGS Economic Growth Conferences in the host nations. These experts address:
    • The legal infrastructure for economic growth
    • direct foreign investment (inbound)
    • manufacturing
    • mutually-beneficial trade
    • exchange of business and technical knowledge
    • physical infrastructure development
    • telecommunications
    • technology
    • health care policy
    • macroeconomic policy
    • international tourism
    • the importance of popular trade-language literacy and competency

In the planning, execution, and wake of the conference, we connect 1) these American or Western elites to 2) their welcoming hosts, and both groups to 3) any identifiable, cooperative expatriate Americans or Westerners already living and working in-country thus building the business relationships, communications channels, and ?on the ground knowledge upon which trade, investment, and economic growth are predicated.

Finally, CGS leverages such triangular relations (between visitors, hosts, and in-country expatriates) to foster the basic goodwill, interpersonal bonds, cross-cultural ties, mutual understanding, and long-lasting friendships upon which human hopes for peace hinge.

Widely experienced in business, law, international conferences, and government administration, CGS adds value as an ongoing catalyst to bring together all of these otherwise fallow assets for effective, productive action.