View from Prague

Tomáš Vrba is an editor, translator, journalist, and Professor at the New York University in Prague.Jirí Musil is Professor of Sociology at the Central European University in Budapest and Warsaw and at Charles University in Prague. He was the first Academic Director of the Prague College of CEU. He is a member of the “Academia Europea” and “Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea” and a founding member of the Czech Learned Society. His main professional fields are urban and regional sociology and sociology of culture.

• Editorial Note, List of Contributors, How the Idea of Forum 2000 Emerged Jirí Musil and Takeaki Hori, Part I. Our World Spiritual Preconditions for Our Common Global Survival Václav Havel The World We Have Inherited, Our World Today, and Hopes for the Future Václav Havel Part II. Problems and Visions of Our World Today as Seen by the Participants of Forum 2000 Conferences. Confrontation of Forum 2000 with Contemporary International Discourse on Globalization Importance of the Context Jirí Musil How to React to a Plurality of Cultures Globalization, Society and Culture Jirí Musil Two Examples of Socio-Cultural Disintegration Caused by Globalization Takeaki Hori The Importance of Religion The Transformations of Religion in the Process of Globalization Tomáš Halík Awareness of the Relations Between Economics, Politics, Knowledge and Ethics as a Starting Point for Global Governance Political Globalization Jirí Pehe Economy Was in the Background of Many Discussions on Social and Ethical Problems An Economic View of the World Jana Marková The Global Environmental Situation and Human Responsibility Global Environmental Problems Václav Mezrický The View of an Observer Both the Rationality of Precise Analysis and the Naivety of Ideals Are Needed Vladimír Karfík Why Forum 2000? Václav Havel Appendixes Prague Declaration Participants of the Forum 2000 Conferences (1997–2005).