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Main Theme of the Prague´s Forum 2000 Conference was
Freedom and Responsibility
The 11th annual Forum 2000 Conference was held under the auspices of Václav Havel in Prague on October 7 - 9, 2007. The overall theme of the Conference was Freedom and Responsibility. Different aspects of the main theme were discussed in four panels: Freedom and Responsibility in Politics, International Law, Media, and Business.
Among the delegates who confirmed their participation in the conference were Tahir Abbas - Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Culture, University of Birmingham; HRH Prince Turki Al Faisal - Chairman of the Board of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Saudi Arabia; Christiane Amanpour - Chief International Correspondent of CNN; Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; American Imam Mohamed Bashar Arafat - President of Islamic Affairs Council, Maryland; Shlomo Avineri - Professor of Political Science, Director of the Institute for European Studies, Israel; Miriam Balaban - Secretary General, European Desalination Society, Italy; Leszek Balcerowicz - Former President of the National Bank of Poland; Pavel Bém - Lord Mayor of Prague; Lajos Bokros - Former Minister of Finance of Hungary; Martin Bursík - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Environment of the Czech Republic; Martin Bútora - sociologist and Former Slovak ambassador to the U.S; Kim Campbell - Former Prime Minister, Canada; Yavuz Cubucku - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkey; Jirí Dienstbier - Former Czechoslovakian Minister of Foreign Affairs; Philip Dimitrov - Former Bulgarian Prime Minister; Jayantha Dhanapala - Sri Lankan Diplomat and Former Candidate for UN Secretary General; Doris Donnelly - Professor of Religious Studies, USA; Shirin Ebadi - Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Ronald E. Gerevas - Former President and CEO of Heidrick&Struggles; Wolfgang Gerhardt - President of the Board of Directors, Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, Germany; André Glucksmann - French philosopher; Faouzia Hariche - Councilor for Youth and Public Education, Brussels; Bambang Harymurti - Editor-in-Chief of TEMPO Group, Indonesia; Václav Havel – Former President of the Czech Republic; Joaquim Chissano - Former President of Mosambique; Robin Christopher - Secretary General, Global Leadership Foundation, UK; Michael Inacker - Deputy Editor in Chief of WirtschaftsWoche; Michaëlle Jean - Governor General of Canada; Mats Karlsson - country director for Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone at the World Bank; Jan Kasl - Former Lord Mayor of Prague; Afzal Khan - Former Lord Mayor of Manchester; Ján Kubis - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia; Ricardo Lagos - Former President of Chile; Frank Lampl - President of Bovis Lend Lease; Graham Mackay - CEO of SABMiller; Kishore Mahbubani - author, professor, and diplomat from Singapore; Raja Miah - Director of NGO PeaceMaker, UK; Adam Michnik - Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza; Alyaksandar Milinkevich - Opposition leader from Belarus; Bedřich Moldan – Senator of the Parliament of the Czech Republic and Former Minister of the Environment; Farish Noor - Researcher, Malaysia / Germany; Surin Pitsuwan - Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Thailand; Ségoléne Royal - Candidate for the 2007 French presidential election; Jacques Rupnik - French political scientist; Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas - Cuban dissident; Karel Schwarzenberg - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic; Trudy Stevenson - Opposition leader from Zimbabwe; Shimon Tal - CEO, Tal ConTent, Israel; Jean-Guillaume de Tocqueville - French attorney and philanthropist; Jan Urban - Journalist, Professor at New York University in Prague, Czech Republic; Magda Vášáryová - Honorary President, Slovak Foreign Association, Slovakia; Nicolas Winton - Guest of Honour, UK; Aaron T. Wolf - US researcher; Ghalymzhan Zhaqiyanov - Kazakh opposition leader; Michael Zantovsky - Czech ambassador in Izrael and James Zogby - President of the Arab American Institute, USA.
The conference took place over the course of three days. The opening ceremony took place on the evening of October 7 at Prague Crossroads, formerly St. Anne’s Church in Prague’s Old Town. The working program of the conference began the following day and took the format of a plenary session divided into four panels. This part of the conference took place at Žofin Palace. The overall theme of the Conference was Freedom and Responsibility. Different aspects of the main theme were discussed in four topical panels.
Among the delegates who confirmed their participation in the conference were Tahir Abbas - Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Culture, University of Birmingham; HRH Prince Turki Al Faisal - Chairman of the Board of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Saudi Arabia; Christiane Amanpour - Chief International Correspondent of CNN; Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; American Imam Mohamed Bashar Arafat - President of Islamic Affairs Council, Maryland; Shlomo Avineri - Professor of Political Science, Director of the Institute for European Studies, Israel; Miriam Balaban - Secretary General, European Desalination Society, Italy; Leszek Balcerowicz - Former President of the National Bank of Poland; Pavel Bém - Lord Mayor of Prague; Lajos Bokros - Former Minister of Finance of Hungary; Martin Bursík - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Environment of the Czech Republic; Martin Bútora - sociologist and Former Slovak ambassador to the U.S; Kim Campbell - Former Prime Minister, Canada; Yavuz Cubucku - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkey; Jirí Dienstbier - Former Czechoslovakian Minister of Foreign Affairs; Philip Dimitrov - Former Bulgarian Prime Minister; Jayantha Dhanapala - Sri Lankan Diplomat and Former Candidate for UN Secretary General; Doris Donnelly - Professor of Religious Studies, USA; Shirin Ebadi - Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Ronald E. Gerevas - Former President and CEO of Heidrick&Struggles; Wolfgang Gerhardt - President of the Board of Directors, Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, Germany; André Glucksmann - French philosopher; Faouzia Hariche - Councilor for Youth and Public Education, Brussels; Bambang Harymurti - Editor-in-Chief of TEMPO Group, Indonesia; Václav Havel – Former President of the Czech Republic; Joaquim Chissano - Former President of Mosambique; Robin Christopher - Secretary General, Global Leadership Foundation, UK; Michael Inacker - Deputy Editor in Chief of WirtschaftsWoche; Michaëlle Jean - Governor General of Canada; Mats Karlsson - country director for Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone at the World Bank; Jan Kasl - Former Lord Mayor of Prague; Afzal Khan - Former Lord Mayor of Manchester; Ján Kubis - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia; Ricardo Lagos - Former President of Chile; Frank Lampl - President of Bovis Lend Lease; Graham Mackay - CEO of SABMiller; Kishore Mahbubani - author, professor, and diplomat from Singapore; Raja Miah - Director of NGO PeaceMaker, UK; Adam Michnik - Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza; Alyaksandar Milinkevich - Opposition leader from Belarus; Bedřich Moldan – Senator of the Parliament of the Czech Republic and Former Minister of the Environment; Farish Noor - Researcher, Malaysia / Germany; Surin Pitsuwan - Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Thailand; Ségoléne Royal - Candidate for the 2007 French presidential election; Jacques Rupnik - French political scientist; Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas - Cuban dissident; Karel Schwarzenberg - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic; Trudy Stevenson - Opposition leader from Zimbabwe; Shimon Tal - CEO, Tal ConTent, Israel; Jean-Guillaume de Tocqueville - French attorney and philanthropist; Jan Urban - Journalist, Professor at New York University in Prague, Czech Republic; Magda Vášáryová - Honorary President, Slovak Foreign Association, Slovakia; Nicolas Winton - Guest of Honour, UK; Aaron T. Wolf - US researcher; Ghalymzhan Zhaqiyanov - Kazakh opposition leader; Michael Zantovsky - Czech ambassador in Izrael and James Zogby - President of the Arab American Institute, USA.
The conference took place over the course of three days. The opening ceremony took place on the evening of October 7 at Prague Crossroads, formerly St. Anne’s Church in Prague’s Old Town. The working program of the conference began the following day and took the format of a plenary session divided into four panels. This part of the conference took place at Žofin Palace. The overall theme of the Conference was Freedom and Responsibility. Different aspects of the main theme were discussed in four topical panels.
On Tuesday October 9, a roundtable discussion between distinguished philosophical and spiritual leaders took place in the framework of the Forum 2000 Interfaith Dialogue Project. The roundtable discussed freedom and responsibility from the interfaith perspective. The goal was to examine current problems and significant changes amongst contemporary religions through the academic perspective and through the eyes of those who dealt with the issue in practice - the representatives of the world's religions, religious thinkers and experienced politicians. How was the relationship between "religious" and "secular" in the public sphere changing? Was there a danger of a “cultural war” between religious radicalism and radical secularism? What shall be expected in the future?
The interfaith panels of the Forum 2000 conference were followed by the Interfaith Meditation, which took place in the academic church of St. Salvator in Prague.
Along with the plenary session, a series of parallel events – roundtables, seminars, workshops, and exhibitions – were also held, among them conference roundtables entitled Youth and Minority Radicalization in Global Cities and Securing Water Supplies in the Middle East – Policy and Funding Alternatives.
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