Leading minds address Prague conference

Former Czech President Václav Havel addresses the 13th Forum 2000 Conference last year in Prague. Courtesy photo.

By Cassidy Havens

Former Czech President Václav Havel launched the 14th annual Forum 2000 Conference in Prague with a dire warning. “Unless our civilization grapples with its short-sightedness, its stupid conviction of its omniscience and its pride, I am certain it is heading for catastrophe,” Havel said in his remarks at the opening ceremony at the Prague Crossroads Centre.

The three-day event offers members of the public opportunity to hear how prominent thinkers from around the globe view key issues facing society. Among the 51 guests invited to address this year’s theme, The World We Want to Live In, are Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi, Czech journalist and NYU lecturer Jan Macháček, Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, former World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, and American journalist Fareed Zakaria.

Havel, a co-founder of the Forum 2000 Foundation which organizes the annual conference, alluded to the current global economic crisis in his opening remarks. “It is a warning against the disproportionate self-assurance and pride of modern civilization. Human behavior is not totally explicable and predictable as many believed,“ he said. “Wonder and an awareness that things are not self-evident are the only way out of this dangerous world of civilization of pride.”

Presentations are taking place at Žofín Palace, the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague Crossroads Centre, The Goethe Institute, The French Institute, and New Town Hall.

Most presentations held on October 11 and 12 are open to the public. Individuals wishing to attend presentations at Žofín Palace and the business and economy panels at the Goethe Institute and the Academy of Sciences must register with conference organizers.

The first Forum 2000 conference took place in 1997 at the initiative of the Forum 2000 Foundation, which aims to identify 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.

Forum 2000 was founded in 1996 as a joint initiative of Havel, Japanese philanthropist Yohei Sasakawa, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel. The foundation organizes the annual conference as a platform to enhance global dialogue.

Previous conferences have featured such prominent speakders as Madeleine Albright, Bill Clinton, Jorge Castaneda, the Dalai Lama, Frederik Willem de Klerk, Shimon Peres, Prince Hassan bin Talal, and Wole Soyinka.

Portions of the conference will be streamed live on the Forum 2000 website at www.forum2000.cz. To register for the conference, email registration@forum2000.cz or call +420 233 310 536.

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