The Courage to Take Responsibility

20th Forum 2000 Conference
October 16–19, 2016, Prague and other Central European cities

The life and work of Václav Havel, an intellectual, an author, a political prisoner, a human rights defender and a president of a country, is an amazing example of democratic leadership and of taking personal responsibility for the state of public affairs and the world as a whole. Nevertheless, today´s democratic leadership seems to be in crisis, contending with a lack of vision, responsibility, and perhaps even courage to lead. Are the current democratic systems unable to generate true leaders? Is the growing authoritarianism in the world a result of the weakness of democratic leadership? Where are the Havels, Churchills, or Mandelas of today?

A selection of photographs from the 20th Forum 2000 Conference

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Forum 2000 Opening Ceremony
Jakub Klepal, Andrej Kiska, Annette Lu, Ivan M. Havel

Public Talk - Secular Ethics
His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Thematic Areas

Democratic Leadership Deficit
Challenges to Democracy
Havel
20 Years of Forum 2000: The World and Its Current Challenges
Interfaith Dialogue

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Jürgen and Helena Hoffmeister | Jan Barta | Jiří Czaban | Marek Lehečka | Jan Žůrek

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