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1. The Conference on World Affairs (CWA) strives to be the preeminent venue for open, multifaceted and balanced discussion of today’s challenging issues, characterized by cross-disciplinary synergy among top-tier speakers, in events collaboratively planned by CU Boulder students, faculty, staff and Boulder community members for academic and nonacademic audiences.

2. CWA creates a forum for interdisciplinary discussion that honors intellectual diversity in the belief that robust solutions arise from a broad range of perspectives. CWA seeks to educate, engage and inspire attendees to become local, national and global leaders. 

a. CWA educates by presenting complex issues in multiple contexts, creating a more informed electorate and striving to strengthen our democracy. 

b. CWA speakers inspire by exploring society’s most pressing issues at personal, local, national and global levels.  

c. CWA’s interactive format encourages engagement in the practice of freedom of expression that is central to CU Boulder’s public mission and essential to the democratic process.