8th WORLD SUMMIT OF NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES
Rome – 13-15 December, 2007
“THE NEXT GENERATION”
The World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates is one of the most prestigious events to be held in Italy each year.
In the past some of the most eminent personalities in the world have met at the summit: not just those who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, but many prominent men and women of culture, historians and scientists who are working together in the hope of dispersing the dark clouds that still loom over the new millennium.
The event is organized by the Municipality of Rome and the International Gorbachev Foundation with the collaboration of the Permanent Secretariat of the Nobel Peace Prize and will be held, as every year, in Rome.
The Summit is set to begin on 13th December at 10 am and it will end with a press conference on 15th December.
In a world in which peace is constantly prevented by violence, poverty and injustice, all people, especially the young, have a vitally important role today in furthering the peaceful coexistence of the peoples of the earth and in ensuring their very future.
That is why the Nobel Peace Laureates have chosen “THE NEXT GENERATION” as the main theme of the eighth edition of the Summit. What kind of legacy will we leave to an increasingly interdependent world? Can we still hope for the peaceful progress of humanity and how can we create a culture to sustain and support our highest aspirations? In order to deal with the new challenges of the future we will all have to answer these and many other crucial questions.
Participants and Guests
Mikhail Gorbachev, His Holiness Il Dalai Lama, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Mohammed Yunus, Lech Walesa, Betty Williams, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), International Peace Bureau (IPB), American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Institut de Droit International (IDI), Pugwash Conferences, Red Cross, UNICEF, United Nations (UN), International Labour Organizatio (ILO), Medecins sence Frontieres (MSF), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Amnesty International, The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL).
Mr Fausto Bertinotti, President of the Chamber of Deputies; Mrs Giovanna Melandri, Minister of Youth Policies and Sports Activities; Mrs Emma Bonino, Minister of International Trade and European Policies; Rita Levi Montalcini, President of the Fondation Rita Levi Montalcini; George Clooney, Actor; Don Cheadle, Actor; Bob Geldof, Singer; David Steward; The FW de Klerk Foundation; Kerry Kennedy, President of the Foundation of Robert F. Kennedy for Europe; Nobuaki Tanaka, Ambassador of Japan in Turkey, former Under Secretary General UN; Green Cross Italy; Anna Cataldi, Journalist; Christie Brinkley, Actress; Om Prakash, 2007 Children’s Peace Prize Winner; David T. Ives, Albert Schweitzer Institute; Luis Alberto Cordero, Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress; Prof. Johan Galtung, Founder and Director of Transcend Nordic.
8th WORLD SUMMIT OF NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES
Rome – 13-15 December, 2007
“THE NEXT GENERATION”
Thursday, 13 December – Rome, Campidoglio
11.00 am – Giulio Cesare Hall
“Peace Summit Award 2007”
Nobel Peace Laureates and the Mayor of Rome W. Veltroni award Mr George Clooney and Mr Don Cheadle with “Peace Summit Award 2007″ (a unique statuette especially created on this occasion by the internationally known sculptor Oliviero Rainaldi), as to the Personalities selected for defence of human rights and dissemination of the principles of Peace and solidarity in the world.
Speeches by George Clooney and Don Cheadle
11.45 am – Giulio Cesare Hall
– Speech by Honourable, Mr Fausto Bertinotti President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic.
Ore 12.00 am
Opening of the VIII Summit
– Introductory statements by the joint chairmen of the Assembly Mr Walter Veltroni and Mr Mikhail Gorbachev.
The Next Generation: is a world without violence possible?
First Sitting
– Opening statement by H.H. The Dalai Lama
– Lech Walesa
– Mairead Corrigan Maguire
– Betty Williams
– Speech by the Honourable, Mr Agazio Loiero, President of Calabria Region
– Speech by Mr Lorenzo Tallarigo, Partner of the Summit.
1.30 – 3 pm
Lunch at the Campidoglio.
3 pm – Piccola Protomoteca Hall
Press Conference on “The Darfur Emergency”
With Mr George Clooney and Mr Don Cheadle.
3.30 – 4.30 pm – Protomoteca Hall
The Next Generation: from the Greenhouse Effect to the compatible Bioenergies
Second Sitting
Format: Round Table with participation of public
– Chaired by: Betty Williams.
– Participants: Nobel Peace Laureates and Organizations, guests, scientists and academics attending the Summit.
4.30 – 6.30 pm – Protomoteca Hall
The Next Generation: an interdependent development and the action towards disarmament
Format: Round Table with participation of public
– Chaired by: Lech Walesa.
– Participants: Nobel Peace Laureates and Organizations, guests of the Summit.
8 pm – Palazzo Pallavicini – Via XXIV Maggio, 43
Reception offered by ‘Kids Rights’ in honour of the Nobel Peace Prizes arrived in Rome (upon invitation).
Friday, 14 December – Rome
With the aim to make the City of Rome live the Summit and to create a dialogue amongst the distinguished personalities participating and the young, lectures by Nobel Peace Laureates and Organizations with discussions of subjects generated from the main theme of the Summit “THE NEXT GENERATION” will be held in different locations of the city.
10 am- Auditorium Parco della Musica, Petrassi Hall – Upon invitation
The Next Generation: new ethics for the new Millenium
– Greeting by Honourable, Mrs. Giovanna Melandri, Minister of Youth and Sports activity
– Introductions by President Mikhail Gorbachev and the Mayor of Rome Mr Walter Veltroni
– Lecture by H.H. the Dalai Lama.
10.30 am – Institute “Leonardo da Vinci”, Via Cavour 258
The Next G eneration: from the fight for freedom to the cease of war
– Discussions with: Lech Walesa, Betty Williams, AFSC, IPB, IDI, IAEA, UN.
10.30 am – Aula Magna Fatebenefratelli, Isola Tiberina
The Next Generation: equal rights in a world of differences
– Discussions with: Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Red Cross, MSF, IPPNW, Pugwash Conferences, UNICEF, ILO
– In collaboration with Kid’s Rights/Athenaeum
Rome, Campidoglio
1.30 – 2.50 pm
Lunch.
3 – 4 pm – Protomoteca Hall
Africa Generation: Struggling for life. From the fight against AIDS to the multi-resistant tuberculosis
– Chaired by: Betty Williams.
– Participants: Nobel Peace Laureates and Organizations, Nobel Laureate Rita Levi Montalcini (President of Rita Levi Montalcini Foundation Onlus), Kerry Kennedy, Anna Cataldi and testimonials of the international campaign on the fight against multi-resistant tuberculosis.
4 – 6 pm- Protomoteca Hall
Session reserved to the Nobel Laureates and Organizations for finalizing and the approval of the “Charter for a World without Violence”
– Chaired by: Mairead Corrigan Maguire.
– Participants: Nobel Peace Laureates.
Rome
6.30 pm- Città dell’Altra Economia – Sala Incontri, Largo Dino Frisullo (Testaccio)
The Next Generation: against the poverty, another economy?
– Lecture by Prof. Mohammed Yunus, Nobel Peace Laureate
– Participants: Honourable, Mrs Patrizia Sentinelli, Minister of Cooperation, President of ‘Consorzio Città dell’Altraeconomia’, President of the Micro-credit International Observatory representatives of national and local institutions.
Saturday, 15 December - Campidoglio
9.30 – 12 am- Protomoteca Hall
The next generation: no poverty for a world with no violence
– Chaired by: Prof. Mohammed Yunus.
– Participants: Nobel Peace Laureates and Organizations, guests of the Summit.
Conclusions. Approval of the “Charter for the World without violence”
– Chaired by: Mairead Corrigan Maguire.
12.30 am – Protomoteca Hall
Press conference for the presentation of the “Charter for a World without violence”
