The View from Prague : : The Expectations of World Leaders at the Dawn of the 21st Century / / ed. by Tomas Vrba, Jiří Musil.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• MitwirkendeR: Halík, Tomáš,; Havel, Václav,; Hori, Takeaki,; Karfík, Vladimír,; Marková, Jana,; Mezřický, Václav,; Musil, Jiří,; Pehe, Jiří,
• HerausgeberIn: Musil, Jiří,; Vrba, Tomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

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 humankind, and the second one is the quintessence of Havel's views on the world which we have inherited as well as his views on our hopes for the future. The book closes with Havel's personal reflection on the deeper meaning and aim of the Forum 2000 meetings. Subsequent chapters analyze and interpret the ideas that were expressed by the speakers and interlocutors of the first five conferences in which they tried to identify and understand the primary issues facing mankind globally. Reflections deal with the main dimensions of globalization and with their synchronicities as well as asynchronicities based on the quintessences of the annual conference reports.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editorial Note -- List of Contributors -- How the Idea of Forum 2000 Emerged -- Part I. Our World -- Spiritual Preconditions for Our Common Global Survival -- The World We Have Inherited, Our World Today, and Hopes for the Future -- Part II. Confronting International Discourse on Globalization: Problems and Visions of Our World Today as Seen by the Participiants of the Forum 2000 Conferences -- The Importance of Context -- How to React to a Plurality of Cultures -- Globalization, Society and Culture -- Two Examples of Socio-Cultural Disintegration Caused by Globalization -- The Importance of Religion -- The Transformations of Religion in the Process of Globalization -- Awareness of the Relations Between Economics, Politics, Knowledge and Ethics as a Starting Point for Global Governance -- Political Globalization -- Economy in the Background of Many Discussions on Social and Ethical Problems -- An Economic View of the World -- The Global Environmental Situation and Human Responsibility -- Global Environmental Problems -- The View of an Observer -- Both the Rationality of Precise Analysis and the Naivety of Ideals Are Needed -- Why Forum 2000? -- Appendixes -- The Prague Declaration -- Participants of the Forum 2000 Conferences (1997–2001) -- Illustrations