visionGFIC envisions a network of global citizens who are committed to international cooperation and responsibility. Working together will mutually empower people in the developing and developed world to eectively confront global challenges. GFIC is driven by a commitment to improving quality of...
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visionGFIC envisions a network of global citizens who are committed to international cooperation and responsibility. Working together will mutually empower people in the developing and developed world to eectively confront global challenges. GFIC is driven by a commitment to improving quality of life, especially in less developed countries. We aim to impact lives in a meaningful and sustainable way. To achieve this objective, GFIC is guided by the central values of human equality and mutual respect. GFIC and its affliates are a network of autonomous organizations sharing common values and a unique vision. We seek to continuously (evolve and) improve the effectiveness of our programs through constant monitoring and feedback from our stakeholders. Financial accountability and the free flow of information characterize our management style and ensure credibility. Communication amongst people in target countries, participants in our programs, sta, governments and corporate donors is vital to achieving success. To accomplish our goals, GFIC must promote global awareness and foster individual initiative by providing opportunities GFIC will continuously evolve; we will continue to promote global awareness, foster individual initiatives and provide opportunities that will encourage global citizens to take action, and assume responsibility for addressing pressing world issues.

Mission
"To promote social, economic and political Global Responsibility as a strategy for Universal development."
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The Forum on International Cooperation (FIC) was founded in 2004 as a student organization at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. An outstanding professor inspired the idea behind FIC by constantly challenging his students to adopt greater concern for their world; he urged his students to...
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The Forum on International Cooperation (FIC) was founded in 2004 as a student organization at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. An outstanding professor inspired the idea behind FIC by constantly challenging his students to adopt greater concern for their world; he urged his students to invest more personally and to engage their peers more completely in efforts to save fellow human beings from the devastation of conflict, hunger, disease and other trauma. The Professor was the Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Dr. Henry Habib. GFIC to date has six chapters two national and four university Chapters, Canada and Uganda, four university chapters at Concordia University, Makerere University, Makerere University Business school, and Uganda Christian University Mukono.

GFIC is concerned with the continued underdevelopment of many parts of the world, particularly Africa. Therefore, our efforts focus on furthering economic, political and social development in Africa by promoting the important concept we refer to as global responsibility, the responsibility to prevent human rights abuses, and to intervene when humanity is at stake, in situations of conflict, hunger and disease. This humanitarian responsibility also includes the need to protect our environment. We must look to alternative energy sources for communities in Africa and elsewhere in the world in an effort to conserve rare natural habitats and preserve natural resources for posterity. Finally, global responsibility means that we must accept the challenge of developing sustainable income-generating activities for rural communities, of preventing famine and of developing a manufacturing capacity with a population that can afford to purchase those manufactured products.

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We live in an age that has largely been able to breakdown cultural barriers, prejudice and discrimination that were common in previous international social relations. Due to growth in immigration from poorer to wealthier nations, the western world increasingly recognizes a responsibility to...
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We live in an age that has largely been able to breakdown cultural barriers, prejudice and discrimination that were common in previous international social relations. Due to growth in immigration from poorer to wealthier nations, the western world increasingly recognizes a responsibility to improve economic conditions and promote democratic governance in LDC's. Leaders in the developing world cannot ignore with impunity their responsibility to provide a conducive environment for outside investment and a stable political environment that would allow their citizens to realize their real potential. As young adults, that is our challenge.
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