- Sunday, 12. October 2014 – Wednesday, 15. October 2014 Save in my calendar
Forum 2000
Democracy and Its Discontents - A Quarter-Century After the Iron Curtain and Tiananmen
The 18th annual Forum 2000 Conference will offer a critical reflection on the last 20–30 years of democratic transitions, assess the current state of democracy, and explore aspirations for the future of democracy across regions, topics and generations. The participants will include more than 150 global leaders from the areas of politics, academia, civil society, media, business and religion.
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What kind of democracy did we expect, when the Iron Curtain crumbled? When demonstrations at the Tiananmen Square in China were forcefully suppressed? When the Chileans voted in their 1988 referendum? What type of democracy do we have today? And perhaps most importantly, what do we aspire to? These will be the central questions of this year’s conference. These questions are directly connected to the worries of Václav Havel, who grew increasingly concerned about the quality of democracy evolving in our societies.
Discussions will compare the developments in different parts of the world, from Central and Eastern Europe and traditional Western democracies to Latin America, Africa and East Asia. Other issues, including the role of religion, the growth in extremism and fundamentalism, declining trust in democratic processes, as well as the varying views on such issues among different generations are also part of the program.
The conference will be held October 12–15, 2014 in Prague, Brno, České Budějovice, Kutná Hora, Liberec, Litomyšl, Opava, Ostrava, Pilsen, Bratislava, Banská Bystrica, and Budapest.
Registration is open until midnight, 30 September.
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