The World Forum Programme 2024

Sunday 18th February 2024

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Main hall: Liberty Hall Taiwan, Ukraine and nations under threat – Why protect democracy? Israel/Palestine The role of dissidents - Navalny, Ai Weiwei, Pussy Riot, Joshu Wong & others Lunch break Inauguration Female leadership: Less conflict and more prosperity? Book signing: SG Ban Ki-moon Film Screening: The Quiet Diplomat
Room 1: Justice room How to stop the rise of the far right and when does the quest for cultural homogeneity turn into discrimination/racism/nationalism?   Lunch break How to protect the division of powers as the basis of democracy How to end extreme poverty by 2030?
Room 2: Peace room Crime against democracy Crime of aggression   Lunch break Afghanistan under Taliban rule: A threat to democracy, women and international security
Room 3: HAL room   Lunch break A global bill to end digital fake news, fake reviews, slander, hate speech and bots HAL says ‘hello’: a charter for governments on how to regulate AI
Room 4: Survival room How to stop climate change for real     Lunch break The next agricultural revolution: Toward a food system that is good for people and planet Methuselah and Lazarus: The end of sickness and death

Monday 19th February 2024

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Main hall: Liberty Hall   Lunch break How can we protect the freedom of Taiwan?  
Room 1: Justice room State secularism as a basis for democracy and human rights Lunch break Conflict resolution formulas for/by the EU, NATO and UN – from Kosovo to Yemen, from Tigray to Sudan North Korea – How to maintain peace
Room 2: Peace room The UN’s responsibility to protect and reform of the UN Security Council Political Correctness in Open Societies - new rules for language, humor, science and behavior in the 21st century Lunch break The borderline between legitimate self-determination and separatism Russia after Putin Donald Trump 1/6/2021 & 2024: US Constitution, NATO and Ukraine
Room 3: HAL room Digital democracy and bureaucracy on a chip: participation and pluralism with citizens’ apps Lunch break Big Tech: Accountability, regulation, democracy, rules and opportunities A global job agency for remote work – The end of unemployment?  
Room 4: Survival room Homo digital: being human in an age of AI Lunch break The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: A future on the Moon, Mars and beyond? How to stop the slide into authoritarianism – Hungary, Slovakia, Turkey, Russia, China and India