July 12 2025, 4 am EDT
Panel I: Cooperation between the BRICS and Europe to Implement the Oasis Plan and theAgenda 2063 for Africa
● Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), Founder and Chair of the Schiller Institute:
World War III or a New Global Security and Development Architecture?
● Dr. Naledi Pandor (South Africa), former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of the Republic of South Africa: The Voice of the Global Majority
● Prof. Zhang Weiwei (China), Fudan University: A Harmonious Development of All Nations
● Hans-Christof von Sponeck (Germany), former UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq: The Strategic Challenges and the Emerging New Order
● Prof. Dmitri Trenin (Russia), Academic Director of the Institute for Military World Economy and Strategy at the Higher School of Economics University in Moscow,
Russia: A New Global Security System
● Daqi Fan (China), Vice President of the Academy of Contemporary China and World Studies (ACCWS)
● Ray McGovern (USA), former senior CIA analyst, co-founder of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
● Prof. PLO Lumumba (Kenya), former Director and Executive Director of the Kenya School of Law,
Former Secretary of the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission and Former Director of the
Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC)
● Abbey Makoe (South Africa), Founder & Editor of the Global South Media Network:
The Spectre of Embedded Media in a Unipolar World
July 12 2025, 8.30 am EDT
Panel 2: Strategic Challenges and the Emerging New Order from an International Perspective
● Jacques Cheminade (France), former presidential candidate, President of Solidarity and Progress, A New Beginning to Prevent the Extinction of Humanity
● Elisabeth Murray (USA), former Deputy National Intelligence Officer
of the CIA for the Middle East, “From Intelligence Officer to Peace Activist”
● Ali Rastbeen (France), President of the Académie de Géopolitique, Paris: A World in Transition
● Donald Ramotar (Guyana), former President of Guyana
● Diane Sare (USA), President of the LaRouche Organization (TLO), former independent
candidate for the US Senate in New York: Will the Children of Gaza Save America? – The Power of “Weak Forces”
● Dr. Jérôme Ravenet (France), Professor of Philosophy, Sinologist:
● Achim Bonatz (Germany), OKV: 5% of GDP for the arms companies – a
redistribution of national wealth – an overburdening of society?
● Cornelia Pretorius (Germany), Mothers Against War Berlin-Brandenburg:
A look back at THE events in German history that should make us proud, and
a look ahead to the future
● Wolfgang Effenberger (Germany), retired Bundeswehr officer, author of
International Law and the so-called “values-based order” of the USA
● Major Florian D. Pfaff (Germany), spokesperson, “Darmstadt Signal” working group:
Peace and Security – Why we need a different policy
● Colonel Jacques Hogard (France), former officer in the Foreign Legion and the
French Special Forces (paratroopers): Words of a concerned soldier
Discussion
Sunday, July 13, 4:00 am EDT
Panel 3: The Scientific Challenges in the New Paradigm
● Jason Ross (USA), Scientific Advisor to the Schiller Institute
● Prof. Franco Battaglia (Italy), Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Modena:
There Is No Energy Transition and There Will Be None
● Prof. Dr. Carl-Otto Weiss (Germany), Director and Professor (ret.) of the
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Federal Institute of Physics and Technology) in Braunschweig: The Cyclical Climate and the False Concepts of Climate Change Representation
● Robert Lechner-Schobel (Austria), Management Consultant: From Nuclear Fusion to Transmutation
● Dennis Small (USA), Head of Latin America News, EIR:
Why LaRouche’s Economic Predictions Are Correct
Sunday, July 13, 7:30 am EDT
Panel 4: The Beauty of the Diversity of Cultures and the Role of Young People in Shaping the Earth’s Next 50 Years
● Harley Schlanger (USA), Vice Chairman of the Schiller Institute
● Helena Chang (China), SINOPress
● Maurizio Abbate (Italy), Chairman of the National Institute for Cultural Activities (ENAC)
● Jens Jørgen Nielsen (Denmark), historian, journalist, author, head of the Russian-Danish Dialogue organization
● Martin Kaptein (Netherlands), Dutch pianist with Dutch and Russian roots
● Anastasia Battle (USA), co-founder of the International Peace Coalition (IPC),
editor-in-chief of Leonore Magazine, Schiller Institute: On Educating Moral Citizens
● Carolina Dominguez (Mexico), Schiller Institute, Changing the World May Not Be as
difficult as You Think.
● Kynan Thistlethwaite (USA), Schiller Institute, United States. Shakespeare and
Sensory Perception: It’s what you don’t see that counts.
● Ashley Tran (USA), Schiller Institute, United States
● Chérine Sultan (France), Schiller Institute, Schiller, a non-academic professor
● Daniel Burke, Schiller Institute, Your Enemy, Vox Populi
Conference Invitation
The world is now in an unprecedented crisis: wars and civil wars are raging on several fronts — in Ukraine, Israel/Palestine, Sudan, Myanmar, Yemen, the Democratic Republic of Congo, with outbreaks of violence in many other crisis areas. At least two of these conflicts – in Ukraine and in Southwest Asia – have the potential to escalate into a world war that destroys civilization. The tariff and trade war initiated by President Trump could lead to the collapse of the already fragile global financial system. The world has come unhinged.
We are in the midst of an epochal change that is no less dramatic than the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern era, when there was a fundamental redefinition of the image of man and of the notions of the state and the universe. In a similar way today, the idea of the order that should prevail among nations is changing. The crucial difference is that while the nations of the Global South are increasingly aware of the dimensions of this upheaval, the Western establishment continues to cling to long-outdated ideas about its privileged position in the world.
The idea of the dominance of one nation, as it emerged after the Second World War, or even the idea of a unipolar world, as advocated by some after the end of the Cold War, has given way to a multipolar world, but one which is not yet supported by any structure or stability.
The economic rise of China and the emergence of the BRICS states are enabling the nations of the Global South to take their economic development into their own hands, leaving behind 500 years of colonialism, including in its modern form of IMF conditionalities, in order to achieve a decent standard of living in the foreseeable future. Everyone who cares about a positive future for mankind should welcome this development
Instead of that, part of Europe is committed to a massive militarization of the continent and a continuation of geopolitical confrontation. European Union member states are hesitant to admit failure in Ukraine, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán. The entire West waged a “proxy war” against Russia and lost it, he said, and losing a war is a very serious thing, that will have a huge impact on the entire West.
As a result of the denial of this reality, Europe to want to continue the war, while President Trump is attempting to once again normalize relations with Russia.
In such a complex strategic situation, with ever more crises arising, a way out must be found at a higher level than that on which the crises arose – at the level of reason. Mankind is the only known species in the universe that is endowed with creative reason. And this reason dictates that we define a solution that takes into account the interests of mankind as a whole. We should and therefore we can create a new security and development architecture that fulfills the interests of every nation on this planet. If the West had responded to Russia’s legitimate demands for legally binding security guarantees, the war in Ukraine would never have occurred. We in Europe will always remain neighbors to Russia and we need to urgently normalize relations.
The greater part of humanity is already striving in this direction. The BRICS member and partner states already represent 53 percent of the world’s population, and they are in the process of creating a new form of cooperation on the basis of the UN Charter and the Five Principles of Peaceful Cooperation, which is not based on geopolitical confrontation but on friendship and cooperation for mutual benefit.
The way out for us in Europe is actually very simple. The Trump shock should have the effect of freeing us, finally, from our existence as vassals, and above all, we must reject the oligarchical dictum that “man is a wolf to man”, as well as the philosophy of all empires which this conviction underlies. Rather, we must introduce a new chapter of peace in the history of mankind. As soon as we express our willingness to cooperate with the BRICS and the Global Majority, we will be welcomed with open arms by the majority of the world’s population. This will be all the easier if we return to the classical culture of Europe and revive the great concept of mankind on which this culture is based, which sees man as inherently good and capable of unlimited perfection. We only need to revive our classical culture, and then our great poets and composers such as Dante, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Schiller, Heine, Pushkin, Petöfi, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, to name but a few, will form the basis for a dialogue of cultures with the nations of the Global Majority.
The bestial conception of the ideologue of the English Enlightenment, Thomas Hobbes, that man is a wolf to man, must be rejected once and for all, as must all forms of empire and colonialism for which he was the ideologue. We must write a new chapter in the history of mankind that reflects the dignity and creative potential of the human individual.
To discuss this perspective and to promote a dialogue with the Global South, an international conference will take place in Berlin, Germany, on July 12-13, 2025, to which you are cordially invited.
High-ranking speakers from Europe and the nations of the Global South will participate and be available for an intensive discussion.
Main topics:
- The strategic challenges and the emerging new order
- The LaRouche program for rebuilding the global economy and overcoming poverty
- The beauty of cultural diversity
- The industrial revolution 4.0: space, fusion and AI
- The relevance of LaRouche’s ideas and the role of youth in shaping the next 50 years of the planet