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The View from Prague : The Expectations of World Leaders at the Dawn of the 21st Century /

This work is the result of the Forum 2000 conferences initiated by Václav Havel and Elie Wiesel. The book is based mainly on the first five conferences which were held in Prague from 1997. The first essay written by Václav Havel deals with spiritual preconditions of the global survival of humankin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Vrba, Tomáš, 1947-, Musil, Jiří, 1928-, Havel, Václav
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Central European University Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: How the idea of Forum 2000 emerged / Jifi Musil / Takeaki Hori
  • pt. I Our world
  • Spiritual preconditions for our common global survival / Vaclav Havel
  • world we have inherited, our world today, and hopes for the future / Vaclav Havel
  • pt. II Confronting international discourse on globalization : problems and visions of our world today as seen by the participiants of the Forum 2000 conferences
  • importance of context / Jiri Musil
  • How to react to a plurality of cultures
  • Globalization, society and culture / Jifi Musil
  • Two examples of socio-cultural disintegration caused by globalization / Takeaki Hori
  • importance of religion
  • transformations of religion in the process of globalization / Tomas Halik
  • Awareness of the relations between economics, politics, knowledge and ethics as a starting point for global governance
  • Political globalization / Jiri Pehe
  • Economy in the background of many discussions on social and ethical problems
  • economic view of the world / Jana Markova
  • global environmental situation and human responsibility
  • Global environmental problems / Vaclav Mezricky
  • view of an observer
  • Both the rationality of precise analysis and the naivety of ideals are needed / Vladimir Karfik
  • Why Forum 2000? / Vaclav Havel
  • App. Prague declaration.