World Public Forum "Dialogue of Civilizations"

Iranian philosopher Dr. Dariush Shayegan was – as the first person ever – awarded the Global Dialogue Prize, an international humanities award. The Award Ceremony was held in Århus Concert Hall, Århus (Denmark) on January 27, 2010.

The Prize, based in Denmark’s second largest city of Aarhus, is awarded to persons excelling in research and knowledge presentation within the field of intercultural dialogue and the promotion of peaceful co-existence. The nomination and selection of candidates for the award has been conducted by a group of internationally renowned researchers. Sponsoring the award are Grundfos, the Municipality of Aarhus, Central Denmark Region, VisitAarhus and Aarhus University.

The WPF Executive Committee has the honor to inform that the WPF “DoC” co-chairman, chairman founder of the Kapur Surya Foundation Jagdish Chandra Kapur has been nominated by the Government of India to receive one of the highest Indian civilian awards – Padma Bhushan. This was announced on the eve of India's 61st republic day January 26, 2010.

В ночь на 19 января на 66-ом году жизни скончался выдающийся историк и политолог, директор Центра международных исследований Института США и Канады Анатолий Уткин. Крупнейший специалист по истории и практике международных отношений, Анатолий Иванович был ученым и мыслителем поистине мирового масштаба, научное наследие которого невозможно переоценить. Организаторы и участники Родосского Форума благодарны за тот фундаментальный вклад, который он сделал для развития практики межцивилизационного диалога. Работа и труды Анатолия Ивановича, его большое личное обаяние, открытость в общении и последовательная гражданская позиция свидетельствуют о том насколько уникальной, многогранной и авторитетной была его личность. Исполнительный комитет Мирового общественного форума «Диалог цивилизаций» выражает глубокое соболезнование родным, друзьям и коллегам Анатолия Ивановича Уткина.

The World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” International Coordinating Committee meeting was held in the WPFDC European Headquarters, Vienna, January 29-30, 2010. The ICC members discussed the 2010 WPFDC activities plan and delivered comments and suggestions on the agenda of the forthcoming Rhodes Forum VIII Annual Session.

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Dear ladies and gentlemen!
We wish you a happy New Year!

In the year 2009 the World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” has traditionally developed its activities as one of the leading intercivilizational dialogue institutions and as an international network of world’s top public and educational organizations as well.

Together with our partners in the past year we have implemented conferences in Czech Republic, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. The World Public Forum International Coordinating Committee held its sessions in February and September at our European Headquarters in Austria. For the first time the World Public Forum convened the Educational Youth School in Armenia in August 2009. And traditionally the Seventh Session of the Rhodes Forum was held in Greece in October. We have worked and continue to work with the world’s top experts in dialogue fields of sciences and knowledge. The Possible Futures Research Group work is in progress, the edition of the “Rethinking Russia” book is being prepared in close collaboration with Carleton University. We have published various studies in the past year and the Russian edition of the “In Search of the Good Life” by Fred Dallmayer is among the most recent of them.

The World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” network organizations developed and continue to develop their work all over the world. We are glad that the ideas of the dialogue of civilizations are widely implemented in your activities and call everybody for closer cooperation and wish to involve in World Public Forum activities more new participants, organizations and institutions.

We are grateful to all our participants, friends and guests who actively join the work of the World Public Forum. Together we definitely will make world a better place to moderate and fulfill an open and fruitful dialogue for the sake of all civilizations. We wish you health, prosperity and new challenging events!

Presentation of the Russian Edition of the book In Search of the Good Life: A Pedagogy for Troubled Times by Fred Dallmayr, which took place at the Educational panel of the seventh Rhodes Forum held October 8 – 12, 2009.