24 October 2008
Mikhail Gorbachev takes part in two international conferences organized by the International Institute of Global DevelopmentMikhail Gorbachev, who is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the recently launched International Institute of Global Development (IIGD), took part in two international conferences held by this independent think-tank in The first of the conferences, themed “Post-unipolar World: What Does It Look Like?”, was held on 12th-13th October. It looked into the question of “Will the Unipolar World Survive until 2020?” and discussed, among others, the following topics: “The World after the Cold War: 1990s”; “The World Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (2000-2020)”; “Modernity Project”; “Possible Strategies of the Main Players: A View from Washington/Beijing/Moscow/Brussels”; “Where is the World Heading? The Future Structure of the International System”; “An Internationalists Agenda for the Coming Decades”; “BRIC- More than 90 experts, journalists, scholars, government officials, and political scientists from Both conferences were opened with welcome speeches by the IIGD Chairman of the Board of Trustees Mikhail Gorbachev and the Institute’s President Alexander Lebedev. Proceedings of the conferences will be posted later on the IIGD’s official Web site at http://www.misipk.org/. The International Institute of Global Development (IIGD) was launched in December 2007. Its international presentation took place in Chateau de Forget near |
The XXI century will be a сentury either of total all-embracing crisis or of moral and spiritual healing that will reinvigorate humankind. It is my conviction that all of us - all reasonable political leaders, all spiritual and ideological movements, all faiths - must help in this transition to a triumph of humanism and justice, in making the XXI century a century of a new human renaissance.
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