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The World We Want to Live In

 

The World We Live In

October 11, 2010, Žofín Palace
Moderator: Karel Kovanda
Panelists: Roger Scruton, Zygmunt Bauman, Karel Schwarzenberg, Richard Sennett

 

The Future of Freedom and Democracy

October 11, 2010, Žofín Palace
Moderator: Jacques Rupnik
Panelists: Fareed Zakaria, Shirin Ebadi, Saskia Sassen, Colin Crouch, Grigory Yavlinsky, Alison Smale

 

The World We Want To Live In: The Asian Perspective

October 11, 2010, Žofín Palace
Moderator: Surendra Munshi
Panelists: Yohei Sasakawa, Dewi Fortuna Anwar, Martin Davidson, Keizo Takemi, Daud Khattak, Tain-Jy Chen

 

Planetary Environmental Boundaries

October 11, 2010, Žofín Palace
Moderator: Bedřich Moldan
Panelists: George Monbiot, Stefan Behnisch, Ladislav Miko, Peter Thum

 

Poverty and Social Exclusion: Challenges for Developed and Developing Countries

October 11, 2010, Žofín Palace
Moderator: Jan Urban
Panelists: Olusegun Obasanjo, Ján Kubiš, Tain-Jy Chen, Salil Shetty, Beatrice Mtetwa

 

Aesthetics: The Search for Harmony and Beauty

October 12, 2010, Žofín Palace
Moderator: Adam Gebrian
Panelists: Juhani Pallasmaa, Willem Jan Neutelings, Gábor Demszky, Fumihiko Maki

 

What Are the Limits of Urbanization?

October 12, 2010, Žofín Palace
Moderator: Jiří Musil
Panelists: Richard Burdett, Willem Jan Neutelings, Lieven De Cauter, Deyan Sudjic, Elia Zenghelis


Business and Economy

 

Going Green? What’s In It for Your Business and How Can It Be Done?

October 11, 2010, Goethe Institut
Moderator: Ján Kubiš
Panelists: Martin Bursík, Radek Špicar, Ladislav Miko, Andrzej Blach, Tomáš Víšek

 

Healthcare: Whose Responsibility Is It Anyway?

October 11, 2010, Goethe Institut
Moderator: Pavel Hroboň
Panelists: James A. Rice, Rudolf Zajac, Jana M. Petrenko, Octavian Purcarea, Marek Vácha

 

Economy as a Tool, Not an Objective

October 12, 2010, Žofín Palace
Moderator: Hana Lešenarová
Panelists: Tomas Sedláček, Mirek Topolánek, Peter Eigen, Peter Thum

 

Hard Choices: The Cost of Saying No

October 12, 2010, Goethe Institut
Moderator: Jan Macháček
Panelists: Peter Eigen, Misha Glenny, Miroslav Zamečník, William Echikson

 

The Business World We Want To Live In

October 12, 2010, Academy of Sciences
Moderator: Pepper de Callier
Panelists: Zdeněk Bakala, James Cusumano, Vladimíra Josefiová, Sergio Schuler, Petra Kolouchová, Jakub Mikolášek, Lei Ba

 

 

Interfaith Dialogue

 

Between Religious Xenophobia, Tolerance and Dialogue

October 11, 2010, Academy of Sciences
Moderator: Surendra Munshi
Guests: Michael Melchior, José Casanova, Joseph Maïla, Hasan Abu Nimah, Grace Davie

 

Religion and Foreign Policy

October 11, 2010, Institut Francais
Moderator: Pierre Lévy
Panelists: Jiří Schneider, Joseph Maïla, Michael Melchior, William Cook

 

Territory and Religion

October 12, 2010, Žofín Palace
Moderator: Vartan Gregorian
Panelists: David Rosen, Shirin Ebadi, Satish Kumar, Fyodor Lukyanov, Hasan Abu Nimah

 

Religion, Globalization and Secularization

October 12, 2010, Žofín Palace
Moderator: Doris Donnelly
Panelists: José Casanova, Gilles Kepel, Tomáš Halík, Grace Davie

 

Religion: An Element of Democratic Change?

October 12, 2010, Academy of Sciences
Moderator: Anna Teresa Arco
Panelists: Shirin Ebadi, Tomáš Halík, Gilles Kepel, José Luis García Paneque

 

 

In Focus

 

Climate Change and Water Resources in the Middle East: Socioeconomic Impact

October 11, 2010, Academy of Sciences
Moderator: Eva van de Rakt
Panelists: Václav Cílek, Peter Thum, Hamed Asaf

 

Nuclear Arms in Today’s World

October 11, 2010, Žofín Palace
Moderator: Josef Jařab
Panelists: Dana Drábová, Masashi Nishihara, Charles D. Ferguson, Dewi Fortuna Anwar, Paul Wolfowitz

 

Will The Elections In Burma Bring Change?

October 11, 2010, Academy of Sciences
Moderator: Kristina Prunerová
Panelists: Jiří Šitler, Marek Benda, Cheery Zahau, Sabe Soe

 

The Potential for Environmental Peace-building: Water as a Bridge or Obstacle to Peace in the Middle East

October 12, 2010, Žofín Palace
Moderator: Irena Kalhousová
Panelists: Hasan Abu Nimah, Natasha Carmi-Hanna, Oded Fixler

 

EU – Russia Relations: Is A Strategic Partnership Possible?

October 12, 2010, Žofín Palace
Moderator: Misha Glenny
Panelists: Grigory Yavlinsky, Mirek Topolánek, Fyodor Lukyanov, Gesine Schwan, Gregory Feifer
 

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