Weegy: Who we are: The Caux Round Table (CRT) is an international network of experienced business leaders, who work with business and political leaders to design the intellectual strategies, [ management tools and practices to strengthen private enterprise and public governance to improve our global community. Southeast Asian Contributions to a New Global Ethic: Qur'anic Guidance for Good Governance and Sufficiency Economy Principles for Business The Caux Round Table proposes to demonstrate that Southeast Asian ethical philosophies can make important contributions to the global community in the 21st Century. Two approaches familiar to the Caux Round Table have been selected for review and discussion at the first CRT Regional Dialogue in Southeast Asia. They are, first, understandings of Qur’anic Guidance for good governance evolving from workshops and study at the International Islamic University Malaysia, and second, the principles of a Sufficiency Economy articulated in a Theravada Buddhist context initially by His Majesty the King of Thailand. The Round Table is co-sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thailand; the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, and Banyan Tree Global Foundation, Singapore. The Dialogue will be held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangkok. Tunku Abdul Aziz, CRT Coordinator for Southeast Asia, will chair the dialogue. Southeast Asia, throughout history a crossroads of people, cultures, trade and political influences, has a unique intellectual and moral relationship to decision-making. Southeast Asian cultures, communities and nations stand apart from the more hierarchical traditions and highly structured social patterns of Northeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent. In Southeast Asia, a deeply personal sense for the individual in the context of cosmic movement is paramount. Southeast Asian perspectives center on fluidity, the flow of time and the changing currents of circumstance. Southeast Asians, ... (More)