Executive Intelligence Review

Winning the Ecumenical Battle for the Common Good

Conference of the Schiller Institute
Bad Schwalbach, Germany, May 4-6, 2001


While Pope John Paul II spoke against globalization as ``the new colonialism,'' the Schiller Institute's May 4-6 conference at Bad Schwalbach, Germany, gathered representatives of 40 nations to set in motion the replacement of globalized stealing and speculation, with an order of reconstruction based on the principle of the General Welfare.

Overview:
40 Nations Represented at
Conference on Eurasian Land-Bridge


KEYNOTE

Winning the Ecumenical Battle for the Common Good


PANEL I

A Twenty-Five-Year Development Perspective for Eurasia:
Russia, China, and India


PANEL II

Peace Through Development in Africa:
The Moral Challenge for Europe


PANEL III

In Defense of the General Welfare:
The Crucial Fight to Save
D.C. General Hospital in Washington, D.C.


PANEL IV

From Bach's Chorales to Mozart's Grosse Messe:
Examples from the Music Work of the Schiller Institute


SECOND KEYNOTE

Celebrating Nicolaus of Cusa and Cervantes


PANEL VI

Revolution in the Science of Life:
The Crucial Contributions of Kepler and Vernadsky