WINNING
ALTERNATIVES
Work
– Culture – Human Dignity
On
the occasion of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Alternative
Nobel Prize (Right Livelihood Award, RLA) all
recipients will meet in Salzburg in June of 2005.
After
our 20th anniversary, we managed once more to invite all laureates to an
international jubilee conference from June 8th
till June 13th 2005 taking place in the city of Salzburg. Once again
Salzburg presents its self as a place of inspiration for
new ideas, as a cultural scene, as a meeting place for perspective
discussions of central topics of the future.
With
numerous projects – often realized under the most difficult
circumstances – the RLA recipients have impressed the world
and offered proof that it is possible to implement visions and ideas into
real initiatives. According to the founder Jakob
von Uexküll, „the Right Livelihood Award aims to help the North find a
wisdom to match its science, and the South to
find a science to match its ancient wisdom.“
The
conference in Salzburg will address important issues of the future and
emphasize the effort to realize “winning alternatives“ :
Work – culture – human dignity. The conference will focus on the
following challenges for our future in particular:
-
the
necessity to support a new living quality regarding work, research and
management
-
the
(further) development of multifarious cultures and regions where
people are able to build and secure their livelihood
in dignity and in an ecological and socially acceptable way
-
justice
among and the equal treatment of regions, generations and gender.
The
dealing with these problems provides an essential basis for the struggle
against poverty and for a peaceful cooperation
in this One World.
The
Alternative Nobel Prize recipients from all over the world will meet in
St. Virgil, an education and conference center of
Salzburg’s archdiocese. This conference will provide the setting for
various platforms:
-
An
intensive contact, exchange of experience, and a discussion between
the Alternative Nobel Prize laureates (on the 9th and
12th of June),
-
The
meeting and inspiring discussions with institutions, groups and
initiatives in the city as well as in the state of Salzburg: with
students and professors from three Salzburg universities and colleges
of higher education, with students and teachers
from institutions of adult education, NGOs, communities, companies,
organic farmers etc. All those who are interested
will have the opportunity to invite a laureate to participate in their
field of activity (on the 10th of June),
-
For
all interested institutions and people there will be an international
presentation open to the public where in addition to
the RLA recipients a maximum of 350 people may take part (on the 11th
of June).
The
part of the conference open to the public will provide a great opportunity
to establish various contacts, to learn about alternative
initiatives and projects and benefit from their experience, may it be in
the social or cultural sphere or in labour and
economics.
„As
long as we are able to think about alternatives, we are not lost.
As
long as we are able to discuss with each other and make plans together, we
may hope.“
(Erich Fromm)
Preparatory
Committee
Prof.
Alfred Winter 2005
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