Canada's Kananaskis G8 Summit: what can and should be done?

Those close to the G8 summit claim that many moves in these directions have already been made.The 1999 Cologne summit set forth a new vision of socially sensitive and sustainable globalization in which the claims of the poor, socially excluded, and natural environment had a more equal place.As long ago as 1989 and especially since 1996, development concerns have dominated the G7/8 agenda and the leaders of major developing countries and the central multilateral organizations they populate have come to the summits to work together with G8 leaders to build a more prosperous and just world.And innovative steps have been taken to move beyond big business, labour and agricultural lobbing and outside protesting, to bring responsible civil society representatives into the summit preparations and processes in an influential way.Still, G8 governance, with the summit at its center, is now in crisis.The outburst of protest, violence, death and terrorist threats at the July 2001 Genoa summit has called into question the very legitimacy and value of the summit within its member democracies and indeed, among some of the leaders themselves.The September 11 terrorist attacks on America, from the same Al-Qaeda network that has been targeting the summits for many years, have reinforced these doubts and the desire to hold the 2002 summit as a closed retreat in a remote location, cut off from citizens and their cacophony of voices outside.At the same time, the continuing need to combat terrorism, generate global growth in the wake of the first synchronous global slowdown since the summit began in 1975, and respond to African leaders' pleads for a new partnership to reduce poverty has made Kananaskis one of the most high stakes, potentially productive, summit in several years.As the Kanansksis summit approaches, it is thus important to address several fundamental questions about G7/8 summitry: 1.Of what value has the G7/8 summit been in recent years?How best can one measure its success?How does its recent performance compare with that since its inception in 1975.2.What makes a summit successful?What are the key causes of effective G7/8 performance?3.How well has the G7/8 moved to meaningfully involve outside countries, international organizations, and civil society organizations in its summit in recent years?What further innovations are needed?To answer these questions, this roundtable has assembled several veteran observers and practitioners of the G7/G8.Robert Fauver, of Fauver Associates in the United States, has been involved in G7/8 summitry since its inception, served as President Clinton's first personal representative or "sherpa" for the G7 summit, and helped invent the sister summit of the APEC leaders meeting in 1993.Sir Nicholas Bayne, of the London School of Economics and Political Science, has equally long exposure to summitry, diplomatic experience in Africa, in Paris at the OECD and in Canada, is co-author of the master work on summitry-Hanging Together-and has coauthored its 1990's sequel-Hanging in There.Dr. Gordon Smith, one of Canada's most distinguished diplomats, was Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's sherpa at the first summit he hosted, served in this capacity for the 1996 and 1997 summits, and is now Director of the Centre for Global

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