Orientation in our Complex International Environment – WORLD SALON The West and…
At the first WORLD SALON World Religion Football in November 2013 we discussed pioneering perspectives how the world religions can be reconciled with the exciting phenomenon Football. At the WORLD SALON Relaunch Europe, we developed encouraging perspectives to inspire all Europeans for future European cooperation. Orientation in our complex international Environment We experience in our turbulent […]
Perspective Daily – Werden Sie Mitglied! – Join it!
Perspective Daily will konstruktive und lösungsorientierte Berichterstattung im deutschsprachigen Raum bieten. Ich bin überzeugt, dass ihre Ausrichtung hilft, um das vorbehaltlose Verbinden von Welten in unserer Gesellschaft auf großartige Weise voranzubringen. Perspective Daily – Werden Sie Mitglied! – Join it! Diese neue Organisation will weg von einem Journalismus, der von Skandalen und Katastrophen regiert wird, […]
Wael Ghonim: Let´s design Social Media for Social Change
Wael Ghonim helped touch off the Arab Spring in his home of Egypt … by setting up a simple Facebook page. As he reveals, once the revolution spilled onto the streets, it turned from hopeful to messy, then ugly and heartbreaking. And social media followed suit. What was once a place for crowdsourcing, engaging and […]
Digital Revolution – Europe needs Willingness to Take Risks and Fault Tolerance
Steve Jobs had it easier than the Swiss entrepreneur Alfred Escher – said Lino Guzzella, President of ETH Zurich. The larger the market and the more optimistic attitude towards innovation in the US result in the local world successes with the digital revolution. Lino Guzzella formulated a farsighted, encouraging focus on the future for Switzerland […]
UN Human Development Report 2015
European countries have hit the jackpot: Six of them are at the top ten of the UN Human Development Report 2015 – as for many years in a row: Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Germany, Ireland. The leading group also includes North American and Australian countries. We can be so happy and grateful about living […]
Bahman Nirumand’s latest Iran Report
WORLD SALON speaker Bahman Nirumand reports about the execution of two minors, Steinmeiers visit in Teheran and a photo exhibition on Iran in Berlin. This and other news from politics, culture and economy in the November issue of the Iran report. With the election Hassan Rohanis to the Iranian president and his assumption of office […]
German Archeologists Return in Iraq
WORLD SALON speaker Margarete van Ess continues her heart project and is honored as „excellent ambassador for Germany“. Wars, conflicts and the iconoclasm of the Islamic state threaten cultural assets in the Arabian world. For the first time since 2002 German archeologists pursued again fieldwork in Southern Iraq – under big safety measures. … […]
Should the West Limit Itself?
Heinz Theisen opens us a wide historic and inspiring perspective: „The West believed that his values would pacify the world. However, the unipolar Western world order was a utopia. Instead of the end of history, we now have endless conflicts.“ (Guest commentary – in German – in NZZ, 4.11.15). Should the West limit itself? How […]
Income and Happiness – Nobel Prize for Economics and Happiness Research
Angus Deaton will be honored with the Nobel Prize in Economic Science 2015. His outstanding research combines economic theory and measurable behaviour of all day live in a inspiring way. His main field is the econmic context of happiness. He found out together with Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman the surprising: money is important for our […]
Nobel Peace Prize for Tunisian Civil Society Organizations
The National Dialogue Quartet of Tunisia receives the Nobel Peace Prize 2015 for its outstanding contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011. What a great inspiration for promoting and spreading peace and democracy! In December 2013, a deal was concluded to ask the […]
