Forum 2000
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Forum 2000 is an international organization and conference in Prague. Its main purpose is to identify the key issues facing civilization and to explore ways in which to prevent escalation of conflicts that have religion, culture or ethnicity as their primary components.
[edit] History
The Forum 2000 was founded in 1996 as a joint initiative of the Czech President Václav Havel, Japanese philanthropist Yohei Sasakawa, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel.
A number of prominent thought leaders, Nobel laureates, former and acting politicians, business leaders and other individuals, whose common denominative is experience with bearing responsibility. Between them H.R.H. Prince Hassan bin Talal, Yohei Sasakawa, Frederik Willem de Klerk, Bill Clinton, Oscar Arias Sánchez, H.H. Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, Hans Küng, Shimon Peres, Mario Soares, Hanna Suchocka, Sergey Kovalyov, Jorge Castaneda, Madeleine Albright, and Wole Soyinka.
[edit] Projects
- Forum 2000 Annual Conference Series
- Interfaith Dialogue
- Shared Concern Initiative
- Students´ Forum 2000
- Roundtables on current issues
