Rebuilding the World in the BRICS Era
Program
International Schiller Institute Conference
June 13-14, 2015, Paris, France
SATURDAY JUNE 13
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Registration.
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Musical introduction.
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KEYNOTE SPEECH
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Dialogue with the audience (Q&A).
The speakers, who hold government or institutional positions, and some of whom have participated in the negotiation process leading to the BRICS, will all speak in a personal capacity.
PANEL I
THE NEW SILK ROAD AND THE BRICS : A NEW PARADIGM FOR CIVILIZATION
Moderator : Christine Bierre, Journalist, Paris.
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Leonid Kadyshev, Minister Councillor of the Russian Embassy in France.
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Prof. Shi Ze, Senior Research Fellow and Director of International Strategic Studies on Energy of the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS), a think tank of the Foreign Ministry, Beijing.
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H.E. Ambassador H.H.S. Viswanathan, Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation. Coordinator of all activities connected with BRICS and IBSA (India, Brazil, South Africa), New Delhi.
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H.E. Ali Ahani, Ambassador of Iran in France.
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Dialogue with the audience, Q&A.
Lunch break.
PANEL II
ERADICATING THE GEOPOLITICS OF WAR BY PURSUING THE COMMON AIMS OF MANKIND
Moderator : Elke Fimmen, Schiller Institute, Germany.
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Musical introduction.
- Denys Pluvinage, Consultant to the French-Russian Dialogue, Paris.
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Jayshree Sengupta, Economist, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, India.
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Colonel (Ret.) Alain Corvez. International Strategy Consultant. Former International Relations Consultant of the Defense and Interior Ministries, Paris.
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Stelios Kouloglou, Journalist, Writer, and Member of European Parliament, Syriza, Greece.
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Jean-François Di Meglio, President ASIA Centre, Paris.
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Dialogue with the audience, Q&A.
PANEL III
GREAT INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS ARE THE ONLY REAL ALTERNATIVE
These experts have all been personally involved in the design, feasibility studies and development of interna- tional infrastructure programs.
Moderator : Rainer Apel, Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), Wiesbaden.
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Christine Bierre, Journalist, Paris. “The Eurasian Land-Bridge of Leibniz.”
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Jean-Pierre Gérard, Economist, Entrepreneur, Former member of the Economic Council of the Bank of France, Paris.
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Hussein Askary, Middle East Director of the Schiller Institute, Stockholm.
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Prof. Safieeldin Mohamed Metwally, The National Center for Desert Research, Cairo, Egypt.
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Acheikh Ibn-Oumar, former Foreign Minister of Chad, Reims.
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Dialogue with the audience, Q&A.
Break.
MUSICAL EVENING
SUNDAY JUNE 14
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Registration.
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Musical introduction.
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Messages to the conference.
- INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Jacques Cheminade, President of Solidarité & Progrès, Paris.
PANEL IV
PUBLIC CREDIT AND DEBT CANCELLATION, THE POLITICAL CHALLENGE FOR EUROPE
The speakers are aware that European nations must join the BRICS dynamic, bringing with them the best of their respective cultures and historical achievements to expand the scope. The crucial issue is to put an end to monetarism and establish a public credit system both nationally and internationally to finance great infrastruc- ture projects.
Moderator : Karel Vereycken, Journalist, Paris.
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Karel Vereycken, “The precedent of the 1953 London debt conference.”
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Dean Andromidas, Executive Intelligence Review, “The greek fight, things seen from Greece.”
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Diogène Senny, Secretary General of the Pan-African League-UMOJA, Toulouse.
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Prof. Mohamed Ali Ibrahim, Dean of the Transport and Logistics Institute, Chairman of the Arab League Academy of Science and Technology, Port Said, Egypt.
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Messages from United States of America.
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Dialogue with the audience, Q&A.
Lunch break
PANEL V
A NEW SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL RENAISSANCE IS THE KEY TO OUR FUTURE
Countering the hypocrisy and the unrealistic vision of the Paris World Climate Summit (COP21), the speakers will develop the real reasons for climate change and how human society has to master the dynamics involved for their mutual benefit, starting from an overall solar and galactic perspective.
Moderator : Odile Mojon, Schiller Institute, Paris.
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Musical introduction.
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Maëlle Mercier, Schiller Institute, Paris. “Jean Jaurès : Nurturing politics with Art and Science”
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Benjamin Deniston, LPAC Scientific Research Team, Washington.
“Water, an unlimited resource provided we understand where it comes from”.
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Prof. François Gervais, Professor Emeritus of the François Rabelais University, Tours, Critical Rapporteur to the IPCC - ARS5 (International Panel on Climate Change), Tours.
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Prof. Carl-Otto Weiss, Advisor to the European Institute for Climate and Energy ; Former President of the National Metrology Institute of Germany, Braunschweig.
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Dialogue with the audience, Q&A.
CONCLUSION
Conclusion by the Schiller Institute on the need for detente, entente and cooperation among peoples, nations and regions of the world to launch a new human adventure beyond “conventional wisdom”.