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Dr. Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, 2004
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Participants

Oscar Arias Sanchez

Former President of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1987)

Costa Rica

Patricio Aylwin Azocar

Former President of Chile

Chile

Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1996)

East Timor

Prince El Hassan bin Talal

Chairman, West Asia-North Africa Forum

Jordan

Ignatz Bubis

Chairman of the Central Council of Jewish Organizations

Germany

Fritjof Capra

Physicist and systems theorist

USA

Cornelius Castoriadis

Philosopher

France

Lord Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf

Political scientist and sociologist

Germany

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Spiritual Leader, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Tibet

Frederik Willem de Klerk

Former President, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Republic of South Africa

Gareth Evans

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chancellor, Australian National University

Australia

Timothy Garton Ash

Historian and Political Writer

United Kingdom

Henry Louis Gates

Director of Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research

USA

Bronislaw Geremek

former Minister of Foreign Affairs

Poland

Václav Havel

In Memoriam

Hazel Henderson

Futurologist

USA

Thor Heyerdahl

Norwegian ocean traveler and author

Norway

Takeaki Hori

Antropologist and advisor to the President of the Nippon Foundation

Japan

Joseph Chan

Sociology Professor at the University of Hong Kong

China

Tze-Chi Chao

President of World League for Freedom and Democracy

Taiwan

Vyaceslav Vsevolodovic Ivanov

Professor of Linguistics at the University of California

USA

Claude Jasmin

Professor of Oncology

France

Ted Koppel

Anchor and Managing Editor of ABC News´ "Nightline"

USA

Serguey Kovalyov

Deputy Russia´s State Duma and human rights activist

Russia

Jack Lang

Former French Minister of Culture

France

Marguerite S. Lederberg

Professor of Psychiatry at Cornell University

USA

Joshua Lederberg

Nobel Prize Laureate for Medicine (1958)

USA

Nikolaus Lobkowicz

Philosopher and former Rector of Munich University

Germany

James Lovelock

Scientist and writer

United Kingdom

Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger

Archbishop of Paris

France

Khotso Makhulu

South African-born Archbishop of Central Africa

Michael Mann

British historian, living in the USA

USA

Hans-Heinrich Nolte

Professor of Eastern European History in Hannover

Germany

Michael Novak

Theologian and Political Scientist

USA

Raimon Panikkar

Professor at the University of California

USA

Shimon Peres

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Israel

John Polanyi

Professor of Chemistry at Toronto University

Canada

José Ramos-Horta

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, President

Timor-Leste

Jacques Rupnik

Political Scientist

France

Yohei Sasakawa

Chairman, The Nippon Foundation

Japan

Seizaburo Sato

Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo

Japan

Leila Shahid

Former journalist and Palestinian diplomat

Palestine

Helmut Schmidt

Former German Chancellor

Germany

Haris Silajdžic

Co-Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina

John Silber

Chancellor of Boston University

USA

René-Samuel Sirat

Grand Rabbi of French Consistory and President of the Council Conference of European Rabbis

France

Sulak Sivaraksa

Buddhist thinker

Thailand

Wole Soyinka

Author and first African Nobel Laureate in Literature

Nigeria

Magdaléna Vášáryová

Politician, Diplomat

Slovakia

Richard von Weizsäcker

Former President

Germany

Abdurrahman Wahid

Indonesian intellectual and supporter of democratic reforms

Indonesia

Imanuel Wallerstein

President of the International Sociological Association

USA

Cornel West

Afro-American writer and Professor at Harward University

USA

Elie Wiesel

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

USA

Masakazu Yamazaki

Playwright and critic

Japan

Zheluy Zhelev

Former President

Bulgaria

1997

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