Panel № 7 Cultural

Rhodes Forum 2011

Rhodes Forum 2011

6-10 October 2011
Rhodes (Greece)

THE FUTURE AND THE IDENTITY OF CIVILISATIONS

Plenary session #1

Primary topics of discussion:

- A system of ideals and values for existence and constant improvement of mankind as a basis for projecting and constructing the future
- Projecting each civilisation into the future
- Bases and principles for mapping scenarios of future development
- The main methods for constructively resolving world problems

Key speakers:

Vladimir Yakunin – Founding President, World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” (Russia) – Read the report  

Yannis Makhiridis – the Governor of the Southern Aegean Islands (Greece)

Ashis Nandy – Senior Honorary Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies; Chairperson, Committee for Cultural Choices and Global Futures (India)

Katerina Stenou – Director of Division of Cultural Policies and Intercultural Dialogue, UNESCO (France) – Complimentary address of Director of UNESCO Dr. Irina Bokova  

Alfred Gusenbauer – Federal Chancellor of Austria (2007-2008), Сo-chairman, World Public Forum "Dialogue of Civilizations" (Austria) 

Johann Galtung – Founder of Oslo Peace Research Institute and a scholar on the history and role of religions in building peace in a post-secular world (Norway)

Vladimir – Metropolitan of Omsk and Tars (Russia) – Complimentary address of Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia  

Michael Tay – Ambassador, Executive Director, Russia-Singapore Business Forum, Adjunct Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (Singapore) 

Li Xikui – Vice Secretary General of China Soong Ching Ling Foundation (China) – Develop Advantages for Dialogues of Civilizations  

Oleg Y. Atkov – General Secretary, World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” (Russia)  

Mikhail Bogdanov – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (Russia) – Complimentary address of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Mr. Sergey Lavrov

 
PRESENT-DAY ANSWERS TO THE CHALLENGES OF THE FUTURE

Plenary session #2 

Primary topics of discussion:

- Ecological, technological, political, social and mental challenges to mankind
- Society as a responsible entity for shaping models of future development
- Preserving traditional values in (re)constructing social development
- Response of public entities, NGO’s, and the upcoming generation to the challenges of the future

Key speakers:

Jomo Kwame Sundaram – United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development (UN)

Durre Sameen Ahmed – Chairperson and Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Gender and Culture Lahore (Pakistan)

Faisal bin Abdulrahman bin Muaammar – Professor, Deputy Minister of Education of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Secretary General of the King Abdulaziz Center for National Dialogue (Saudi Arabia)

Farid Mukhametshin – Head of the Russian Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation, Doctor of Politics (Russia) – Greeting messages  

M.R.E. Theodore Baehr – Chairman, Movieguide (r) / Christian Film & Television Commission (USA) – Economic Development Strategies  

Vladimir Popov – Interregional Adviser, DESA, UN (Russia)      

Philosophical Legacy of Jagdish Kapur

Roundtable discussion
 

Co-moderators:

Come Carpentier de Gourdon – Convener, Director of the Editorial Advisory Board, World Affairs Journal (France)

Narayanan Kumar – Vice-Chairman, Sanmar Group (India)

The roundtable discussion is dedicated to the memory of the eminent Indian philosopher, Co-chairman of the World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” Jagdish Chandra Kapur  who passed away in 2010. The main distinguishing feature of this philosopher was that he was not a dreamer but a doer. He contributed a lot to the transformation of the WPF “Dialogue of Civilizations” from a small seminar into a recognized international public organization that unite like-minded people from more than 60 countries. The ideas of Kapur about a dialogue of civilizations for the sake of a new globalization based on common human values laid the groundwork of themes for discussion. The Forum's “Cosmic humanism” – this was his vision of the future which is to come into being by merging science and spirituality.

New Social Reactions to Inequalities in the Present-day World

 Panel 1 (three roundtable discussions)

Round-table 1.1. Maintaining Family Values in 21st Century 

Co-moderators:

Natalia Yakunina – Chairman of the Board of Trustees, "Sanctity of Motherhood" Program; Vice-president, St. Andrew the First-Called Foundation (Russia)

Lawrence Jacobs – Vice-President and Managing Director of the World Congress of Families (USA)

Primary topics of discussion:

- Family and society
- Family, economy and development
- Family, life and bioethical issues
- Family and education

Read the resolution of the roundtable

Round-table 1.2. Recent Changes in Arab Countries

Co-moderators:

Brunson McKinley – co-chairman of the Association for International Mobility (USA)

Vladimir Isaev – Chief research fellow of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
 

Primary topics of discussion:

- Normative values and forms of interaction of the countries in Occidental and Oriental civilizations
- Turbulent social consequences of present economic development in the Arab world
- Problems of youth self-identification and self-realization the Arab countries

Round-table 1.3. The Impact of Civil Society on the Aftermath of the World Economic Crisis: Intercultural Commonality Models and the Purpose of Media

Co-moderators:

Adrian Pabst – Lecturer in Politics, School of Politics and International Relations, Rutherford College, University of Kent (UK)

Jens Wendland – Co-Director of the Free Russian Institute of Political Journalism (Germany), professor at the Berlin University of Arts

Dialogue Model of International Community Interaction
Panel 2

Co-moderators:

Hans Koechler – Professor of Philosophy at the University of Innsbruck, President of the International Progress Organisation (Austria)

Fred Dallmayr – Packey J. Dee Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame (USA)

Primary topics of discussion:

 - Projects for integrating civilizational mechanisms within systems and bodies responsible for social development (with a focus on the G20 and BRICS)
- Social infrastructure projects of a new world order
- Public dialogue as a mechanism for legitimizing a new world order
- World public dialogue for determining the subject, form, and objectives of economic development

Cross-Cultural International Institutions and Law

Panel 3

Co-moderators:

Piotr Dutkiewicz – Professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University (Canada)

Susantha Goonatilake – President of the Royal Asiatic Society (India)

Primary topics of discussion:

- International and regional  institutions  and  development of a new framework of social interaction
- Global governance – dialogue of civilizations and international institutions
- Political and legal aspects of democratic governance
- A common international legal culture: myth or reality?
- Unification of laws: limits and opportunities for international cooperation
- Vertical and horizontal power structures: law and legitimacy of power in different cultures and civilizations

 
The Contemporary Economy and Challenges of Social Development

Panel 4

Moderator:

Ruslan Grinberg – Director of the Institute of Economics of Russian Academy of Sciences

Primary topics of discussion:

 - Models of crisis management: the responses of different civilizations (USA, Europe, China, Latin America, Russia, CIS)
- Public requirements, standards and norms of economic development
- Regional mechanisms of innovative development: the quest for new solutions in conditions of multi-currency system
- Consumerism of human civilization: is there a limit to growth?

Round-table discussion "Post-crisis future of global economy"  

 The Significance of Self-Perfection, Moral Education and Renewing the Systems of Education

Panel 5 (to be held as three round tables)

Roundtable "The Value of Values in Economics, Business and Management Education"

Moderator: prof. Kamran Mofid, Founder of the Globalisation for the Common Good Initiative (Canada)

Roundtable "Crises of the Current Education Systems and Models"

Moderator: prof. Nur Kirabaev, Vice-rector of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

Roundtable "Challenges and Opportunities in the Educational Sector: a way forward"

Co-moderators: prof. Kamran Mofid, prof. Nur Kirabaev

Post-secular Dialogues: Religious and Civilizational Traditions for Peace

Panel 6

Co-moderators:

Very Rev. Antony Ilin – Acting Representative of the Moscow Patriarchate to the European Institutions (Russia - Belgium)

Fabio Petito – Senior lecturer in International Relations, University of Sussex (UK)

 Primary topics of discussion:

- The role of religious communities in conditions of public turmoil
- Social awakening and religious tradition
- Social anomy and mainstream religious conscience
- Secularism in the contemporary world

Youth Movements in Present-Day Conditions

Panel 7

Moderator: 

Paola Baccaglini – Board of advisors of Scholar Program at the Columbia University (USA)

Primary topics of discussion:

- Dialogue between generations during the period of crisis
- Young people’s perception of cultural and social traditions
- The socialization of young people in the contemporary community

 Media Communities and Cultural Development in Contemporary Conditions

Panel 8

Co-moderators:

Vladimir Mamontov – President of the “Izvestia” Newspaper (Russia)

Oleg Nalivayko – President of the “Glavred Media” holding (Ukraine)
 

Primary topics of discussion:

 - Social content in the mass-media and future global development
- “Moral qualification” in media. Dualism of Media: between social responsibility and business priorities
- The impact of media on the negative consequences of globalization in the present-day world

Contemporary Space of Intercultural Dialogue 

Panel 9

Co-moderators: 

Paul Yule – Professor of the Philosophical Faculty at Heidelberg University (Germany)

Zalina Medoeva – Vice-President of the Public Foundation “Centre of National Glory” (Russia)

Mikhail Piotrovsky – Director of the State Hermitage Museum (Russia)

 Primary topics of discussion:

- Historical impact of transcontinental trade and transport systems on the development of intercultural dialogue
- Prospects for multilateral intercultural cooperation in Africa (the role of African culture in the world heritage)
- Russian civilizational alternative as а practice of intercultural dialogue
- The role of the mass media in reflecting the scientific, museum, cinematographic and TV projects (the problem of artistic images and reality)
 

BRICS – Prospects and Dialogue collaboration Format

Moderator:

Sergey Glaziev – Executive Secretary of the Comission of the Customs Union of Belarus, Russia, and Kazakhstan (Russia)

Primary topics of discussion:

- BRICS as a supranational  structure of interests harmonization and integration projects
- Institutional forms of BRICS countries’ cooperation
- BRICS countries’ collaboration in the energy sphere
- BRICS countries and world financial system reformation
- BRICS parameters and limits

Civilization of Nomads Yesterday and Dialogue of Civilizations in the 21st Century

Roundtable discussion

Moderator:

Kusein Isaev – President of the Sociological Society of Kirghizia
 

Primary topics of discussion:

- The phenomenon of Nomad and Nomadism: types and forms of Nomad civilizations and cultures
- The contribution of Nomads to the development of world civilization: problems of the civilization dimension of traditional Nomadic societies’ development in different parts of the world
- Nomads and statehood
- Traditional world outlook of Altai, Turkic and Mongol nomads
- Dialogue among civilizations as a reliable instrument for building a new paradigm of global relations based on ideals of overall justice and freedoms

Prospect and Possibilities of Dialogue in Russian-Ukrainian Economic Cooperation

Roundtable discussion

Moderator: 

Sergey Glaziev – Executive Secretary of the Comission of the Customs Union of Belarus, Russia, and Kazakhstan (Russia)

Primary topics of discussion:

- Scenarios of the participance of Ukraine in the process of euroasian economic integration
- Possibility of the creation of Eurasian economic alliance. Interaction of the alliance with neighbouring civilizations in the project of creating common economic space at the territory from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean
- Ukraine in between the Eurasian and European Union: civilizational split or integration
- the impact of Russia-Ukraine relations on the prospects of Eurasian economic integration

“Russian World” as a civilizational project

Roundtable duscussion  

Co-moderators:

Vyacheslav Nikonov – Executive Director of the  “Russkiy Mir” Foundation (Russia)

Gabriel Gorodetsky – Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (UK)
 

Primary topics of discussion:

- Historical background and prospects of the “Russian World” development
- “Russian World”: cooperation and interaction potential
- The justice principle in the past and today of Russian civizational project
- Russia: “lost in translation” (presentation of the book “Russia: the challenges of transformation”)

A DECADE OF DIALOGUE OF CIVILISATIONS

Concluding Plenary session

Primary topics of discussion:

-  The initiatives undertaken by the World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilization” and the establishment of
   an international dialogue community
- “Dialogue of Civilizations” on the road to building a new, human, world order
-  Models for future civilization

Key speakers:

Natalia Yakunina – Chairman of the Board of Trustees, "Sanctity of Motherhood" Program; Vice-president, St. Andrew the First-Called Foundation (Russia)

Fred Dallmayr – Packey J. Dee Professor in the departments of philosophy and political science at the University of Notre Dame (USA)

Akeel Bilgrami – Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Humanities Centre, and Founding Member of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (India/USA)

Hendrik Strydom – Professor in Public International Law, University of Johannesburg (South Africa)

Shaikha Dheya Al-Khalifa – President, Riyada Group (Bahrain)

Jomo Kwame Sundaram – Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) (USA)

Manuel F. Montes – Chief of Development Strategy and Policy Analysis, Development Policy and Analysis Division, UNDESA (USA)

Hans-Joerg Rudloff – Chairman, Barclays Capital