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Conference Berlin 2016 June 25-26

 

Press Release

„Creating A Common Future For Mankind And A Renaissance Of Classical Culture“

June 28, 2016 —The Schiller Institute’s international two-day conference gathered more than 300 guests from 24 nations and four continents for an intense and profound dialogue on how to stop the immediate danger of world war, by creating instead a new paradigm of global cooperation and development, based on a dialogue of civilizations and the unique creativity of mankind. Conference participants were extremely alerted about the escalation of western geopolitical confrontation against Russia and China and the danger of thermonuclear war and passed a resolution calling for an immediate end of sanctions against Russia and Syria. To end the war and to reconstruct war-torn Syria and the greater region of Southwest-Asia, was a key focus of the conference, during which Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban, Presidency of Syria, addressed the conference audience and engaged in a moving Q&A via live stream.

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Conference participants were also invited to attend a “Musical Dialogue of Cultures”, which was organized jointly by NICE e.V. and Schiller-Institut e.V. as public, admission-free concert in a community church. The Camerata Geminiani, the international chorus of the Schiller Institute and others performed classical European music in the Verdi tuning, along with choirs presented folk songs from Russia, Ukraine and China, before an excited audience of close to 500 guests and 150 musicians. It became clear, that only by creating a new paradigm of mankind, a renaissance of beauty, based on the sharing and promoting of each civilizations’ highpoints of their respective cultures, can humanity be saved from the abyss.

Conference panels

The first conference panel of five on “The strategic crisis is more dangerous than at the height of the Cold War” was addressed by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and president of the Schiller Institute, Chas Freeman, former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Col. (ret.) Alain Corvez, former advisor to the French Defense and Interior Ministries and Lt. Col. (ret.) Ulrich Scholz, former fighter pilot, NATO planner and lecturer on air warfare, and by American economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche.

On the second panel “The crisis of the transatlantic financial system and how to overcome it” spoke Jacques Cheminade, candidate to the French presidential elections, Marco Zanni, head of the M5S delegation in the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, Daisuke Kotegawa (Canon Institute Japan and former representative of Japan to the IMF) and Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos, former Greek ambassador to Poland, Canada and Armenia and former Secretary General of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (BSEC).

The third panel “The new paradigm represented by the “One Belt – One Road” Policy” heard Dr. Ren Lin, Researcher on the One Belt, One Road Policy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in China, H. E. Hamid Sidig, ambassador and extraordinary representative of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to Germany and Egbert Drews, board member of Marwiko AG/Berlin.

Sunday’s deliberations continued the “Silk Road – New Paradigm” panel, with a strong emphasis on Syria and the need to end geopolitical confrontation, foreign funded terrorism and to create peace and prosperity in the region. After hearing her prepared video speech on the situation in Syria, the audience had the extraordinary opportunity to engage in a moving 30 minute live video dialogue with H. E. Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban from the Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic, who asked everybody to bring about a new paradigm of creative human development (“an intellectual Silk Road”) instead of war and destruction.

Michel Raimbaud (former French Ambassador to Arab, African and Latin American countries and former director of the French Office of Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons, OFPRA) had opened the panel with a passionate plea to rebuild peace in accordance with international law – in Syria and everywhere else. Hussein Askary, E.I.R. Arabic editor presented a video on the reconstruction of Aleppo in the context of the New Silk Road, followed by a discussion from Prof. Talal Moualla, board of trustees, The Syria Trust for Development and Executive director of ”Syrian Cultural Heritage Transformation” project, Ministry of Culture in Syria. The panel was concluded by Bereket Simon, chairman of the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia and advisor to the Prime Minister and a video message from Fouad Al-Ghaffari, chairman of the Advisory Office for Coordination with the BRICS from the war-torn Republic of Yemen.

On the fourth panel “The frontiers of science: the new economic platform based on a fusion economy and man’s future in space” spoke Adeline Djeutie, formerly employed with the IAEA and now an independent consultant from Vienna, Alain Gachet, chairman of Radar Technologies International and Rainer Sandau, technical director of Satellites and Space Applications of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA).

After a classical musical introduction, violinist Gian Marco Sanna, founder and artist director of The Geminiani Project/London contributed a discussion on the importance of the scientific musical tuning of a=432 Hz (“Verdi tuning”), which the Schiller Institue has promoted for decades. Hussein Askary presented the “Elephant clock” as an example of the beauty of the Islamic Renaissance and its connection to the ancient Silk Road. The panelists then joined with Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche and Lyndon LaRouche for the concluding general discussion on how to secure a global collaboration for the common aims of mankind, by focusing on bringing forward the principle of creativity in each human individual, as the only way to stop the present mortal danger for civilization.

For more, contact: Mrs. Leona Meyer-Kasai, Schiller-Institute Berlin, konferenz2016@schiller-institut.de

Presentations

The Dialogue of Civilizations

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Panel 1 : The strategic crisis is “more dangerous than at the height of the Cold War” 

Panel 2 : The crisis of the transatlantic financial system and how to overcome it

Panel 3 : The new paradigm represented by the “One Belt, One Road” policy

Panel 4 : The frontiers of science: the new economic platform based on a fusion economy and man‘s future in space

Panel 5 : The positive historical traditions and Renaissance periods linking Europe to China, to Russia, to America, and to the Arab world 

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Resolution for Yemen

Schiller Institute Conference, 25-26 June 2016, Berlin, Germany

The conference of the Schiller Institute in Berlin on June 25-26 sends the most heartfelt greetings of support to the great nation of Yemen and the study group of Fouad Al-Ghaffari. Your courageous intellectual leadership, literally under the bombardment of satanic forces, has been an inspiration to thousands of people in the US, Latin America and Europe. We make a solemn oath to fight for the extension of the New Silk Road for the reconstruction of Yemen, so that the lives of the many men, women and children, who have been murdered, will be honored in a Renaissance of Yemen, which also will reconstruct the beautiful ancient cities and architecture. Yemen must and will become a pearl among the nations of Southwest Asia and the world very soon!

Resolution for Russia and Syria: Let’s lift the sanctions against Syria and Russia to regain peace

Schiller Institute Conference, 25-26 June 2016, Berlin, Germany

We, gathered at the Schiller Institute Conference on “Creating a common future for mankind and a renaissance of classical culture”, call for an immediate lifting of the sanctions against Syria and Russia, which are nothing but an aggressive instrument of pressure and escalation towards world war from the Western powers. Such sanctions are a reflection of the geopolitical tradition of the British Empire against the principle of national sovereignty and the advantage of the other defined by the Treaty of Westphalia. We call instead for an international conference for the reconstruction of Syria based on the win/win conception of Chna’s new Silk Road and demand that the European countries and the United States join the Chinese proposal to rebuild Syria from the destruction that their wars have brought onto the entire Middle East region.

We have of course first to eradicate terrorism and be inspired by the common commitment of religions, cultures and civilizations to build a better world for each and all of us. From its history of national unity based on the convergence of the best of different cultures, let Syria become a sign of beauty for the cause of world peace through our mutual development and common creativity.