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The End of 500 Years of Colonialism -For a Dialogue of CivilizationsThe Urgency of a New Global Security and Development Architecture

The End of 500 Years of Colonialism -For a Dialogue of CivilizationsThe Urgency of a New Global Security and Development Architecture

International Schiller Institute In-Person Conference, 30-31 May, 2026, Berlin, Germany

Panel 1: The Urgent Need for a New International Security and Development Architecture

  • Moderator: Stephan Ossenkopp
  • Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), Founder of the Schiller Institute: “We will not let European 0civilization go under!”
  • Professor Zhang Wei (China), Director of the China Institute at Fudan University: “Building a Profitable Multipolar World Order”
  • Pino Arlacchi (Italy), former UN Deputy Secretary-General: “Are we sure that the coming economic storm will be global?”
  • Chas Freeman (USA), former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia: “The Birth, Death, and Prospective Rebirth of the World Order” (via video)
  • Sanjay Tripathi (India), former senior official in Indian ministries: “The Urgent Need for a New Global Security”
  • Dr. Wolfgang Bittner (Germany, author: “Sovereignty, Neutrality, Culture”

Panel 2: Sovereignty and Consensus of the Governed

  • Jacques Cheminade (France), former presidential candidate, President of Solidarité et Progrès: “A New Beginning to Prevent the Extinction of Humanity”
  • Jürgen Schöttle (Germany), Engineer: “Economical Energy Supply and Sovereignty Are Inseparable”
  • Patrick Baab (Germany), German journalist and author
  • Retired Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Bosshard (Switzerland), former military advisor to the OSCE Secretary General
  • Dr. Jasminka Simić (Serbia), Editor, Radio-Television Serbia, Belgrade: “The China-inspired new form of cooperation among the states of the Global South from a Serbian perspective”
  • Dr. Theodore Postol (USA) , Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and National Security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (via video)

Concert and Dialogue of Civilizations – Artists from China, Russia, Germany, Albania, and others

  • Almira Emiri (Albania) – Albanian concert pianist
  • Irina Zhuravleva (Russia) – Soprano
  • Fan Xu (China) – Chinese baritone
  • Almishba (Bulgaria) and Bulgarian singer,
  • Martin Kaptein – Russian pianist and author; Mozart, Fantasy in C minor, K. 475
  • Gabriele Gysi – Actress and author
  • Andrea Röschke Video presentation (Iran)
  • Dr. Bittner (Germany), Autor, Poems
  • Dr. Mostafa Maleki (Iran) – Iranian diplomat and Germanist: “Hafiz and Goethe, a spiritual encounter between Persia and Germany”
  • Artists’ Association Europe and Asia in Germany e.V. (Germany/China): “The Song of Lotus Picking”
  • Poetry from Various Cultures

Sunday, May 31

Panel 3: The End of 500 Years of Colonialism – Part 1

  • Harley Schlanger (USA), 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution
  • H.E. Eskindir Yirga Asfaw (Ethiopia), Ambassador of Ethiopia
  • H.E. Majid Nili (Iran), Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran
  • Daud Azimi (Afghanistan), Board Member of the Afghan National Peace Front (PNF)
  • Video message from a group of young Ugandans

Panel 3: The End of 500 Years of Colonialism – Part 2

  • Charles Onana (France/Cameroon), political scientist and author
  • Purnima Anand (India), President of the BRICS Forum India
  • Abbey Makoe (South Africa), journalist, founder of the Global South Media Network (via video)
  • Jérôme Ravenet (France), Professor of Philosophy, Sinologist (via video)
  • Wolfgang Riess (Germany), “The Future of the Automotive Industry”
  • Mrutjuanjai Mishra (India), Journalist (Commentator for the Times of India)

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