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Nobel Centennial Symposia

The Conflicts of the 20th Century and the Solutions for the 21st Century

(2001, NCS 2001-5)
The Norwegian Nobel Committee
December 6-8
Holmenkollen Park Hotel, Oslo, Norway
Proceedings: Lundestad-Njølstad: War and Peace in the 20th Century and Beyond, 2002, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore.

 

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December 6

Opening of the Nobel Symposium

Speech by Gunnar Berge, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee

 

Session I: War and Peace in the 20th Century: The Overall Balance - How Can We Do Better?

Scholar:
Speech by Dr. Eric Hobsbawm, University of London, United Kingdom:
War and Peace in the 20th Century

 

Statement by Nobel Laureate:
Speech by Kim Dae-jung

 

Nobel Commentators:
Speech by Jacques Forster, Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross

 

Speech by Mairead Corrigan Maguire

 

Discussion

 

Session II: War and Peace in the 20th Century: The Overall Balance – How Can We Do Better?

Scholar:
Speech by Dr. Michael Doyle, Princeton University, USA:
Ideologies and Polities: Liberal Democracy and National Dictatorship in Peace and War

 

Statement by Nobel Laureate:
Speech by Colm Ó Cuanacháin, Chairman of Amnesty International

 

Nobel Commentators:
Speech by Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

 

Speech by Lech Walesa

 

Speech by Juan Somavia, Director General of International Labour Organisation

 

Speech by Morten Rostrup, President of Médecins Sans Frontières

 

Session III: Ethnic Conflict, Racism and Hatred – End Discrimination and Protect Minority Rights?

Scholar:
Speech by Dr. Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University, USA:
Making Sense of Violence in Postcolonial Africa

 

Statement by Nobel Laureate:
Speech by Rigoberta Menchú Tum

 

Nobel Commentator:
Speech by David Trimble

 

Discussion

 

Session IV: Economic Exploitation and Inequalities – Fight Famine, Promote Sustainable Development?

Scholar/Laureate(Economics):
Speech by Amartya Sen, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom:
Global Inequality and Persistent Conflicts

 

Statement by Nobel Laureate:
Speech by Juan Manuel Súarez del Toro Rivero, President of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

 

Nobel Commentators:
Speech by Norman E. Borlaug

 

Speech by Ruud Lubbers, High Commissioner, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

 

Speech by Carol Bellamy, Executive Director, United Nations Children's Fund

 

December 7

Session V: The Rise and Fall of Great Powers – Build Institutions to Promote Peaceful Change?

Scholar:
Speech by Dr. Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Harvard University, USA:
The Rise and Fall of Great Powers

 

Statement by Nobel Laureate:
Speech by Elie Wiesel

 

Nobel Commentator:
Speech by Cora Weiss, President of the International Peace Bureau

 

Discussion

 

Session VI: Militarism and Arms Races – Strengthen Arms Control and Disarmament?

Scholar:
Speech by Dr. Mary H. Kaldor, London School of Economics, United Kingdom:
Beyond Militarism, Arms Races and Arms Control

 

Statement by Nobel Laureate:
Speech by Joseph Rotblat

 

Nobel Commentators:
Speech by Dr Bernard Lown, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

 

Speech by Stephen Goose, International Campaign to Ban Landmines

 

Speech by Jody Williams

 

Speech by Francesco Calogero, Chairman of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

 

Discussion

 

Session VII: Rivalry Over Territory and Resources – Promote Economic Integration and Free Trade?

Scholar:
Speech by Dr. Louise Fawcett, Oxford University, United Kingdom:
Rivalry over Territory and Resources and the Balance of Peace and War: The Twentieth Century

 

Nobel Commentator:
Speech by John Hume

 

Discussion

 

Session VIII: Misperception, Mistrust, Fear – Combat Stereotypes, Strengthen Peaceful Norms?

Scholar:
Speech by Dr. Akira Iriye, Harvard University, USA:
Misperception, Mistrust, Fear

 

Statement by Nobel Laureate:
Speech by Dalai Lama

 

Nobel Commentators:
Speech by Arnold Kohen, speaking on behalf of Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

 

Speech by Mary Ellen McNish, General Secretary of the American Friends Service Committee

 

Speech by Christian Dominicé, General Secretary, Institute of International Law

 

Discussion

 

December 8

Session IX: The World and the Nobel Peace Prize in the 21st century – Old and New Dimensions

Scholar:
Speech by Dr. Geir Lundestad, Norwegian Nobel Institute:
The Nobel Peace Prize in its Next Century: Old and New Dimensions

 

Statement by Nobel Laureate:
Speech by Oscar Arias Sánchez

 

Nobel Commentator:
Speech by José Ramos-Horta

 

Discussion

 

Closing Speeches:
Speech by Desmond Mpilo Tutu

 

Speech by Gunnar Stålsett, Deputy Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee

 

Interpreters' note: This is a live recording of members of AIIC, the International Association of Conference Interpreters, interpreting simultaneously at the Nobel Prize Centennial Symposium. It is not intended to be a literal or definitive translation of the proceedings.

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