Delegates
Oscar Arias Sánchez
Nobel Prize Laureate, former President
Costa Rica
Patricio Aylwin Azocar
Former President of Chile
Chile
Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1996)
East Timor
Prince 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
Joseph Chan
Sociology Professor at the University of Hong Kong
China
Tze-Chi Chao
President of World League for Freedom and Democracy
Taiwan
Lord Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf
Political scientist and sociologist
Germany
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
India/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
Futurist, Founder and President, Ethical Markets Media
USA
Thor Heyerdahl
Norwegian ocean traveler and author
Norway
Takeaki Hori
Antropologist and advisor to the President of the Nippon Foundation
Japan
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, Political Scientist
USA
Raimon Panikkar
Professor at the University of California
USA
Shimon Peres
President, 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
Helmut Schmidt
Former German Chancellor
Germany
Leila Shahid
Former journalist and Palestinian diplomat
Palestine
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
