(openPR) - (CM, Berlin, 2008-02-06) The Academy for Intercultural Dialogue, founded December 2007 in Berlin, has established a new platform: cm-germany.org .
Beyond the political scene and exempt from economic incitement, the Academy is designated to provide a forum of dialogue between groups of different political, religious and ethnical backgrounds. With its name 'Civilisations Matter', underlining the need of an interdisciplinary and intercultural discussion, this academy is bound to be an international site of encounter for scientists, philosophers, artists, politicians and business representatives.
A badly needed contribution to intercultural peacekeeping is being made by this interdisciplinary activity, as has been affirmed by Peter Ruof, co-founder of the Carl-Duisberg Society in New York, Jochen Hippler, political scientist and Advisor, Robert Pitz-Paal, physicist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Wolfram R. Bauer, theologian and founder of the Civilisations Matter Group, on the occasion of the Academy’s meetings in Berlin.
In October 2008, the Academy plans its first international workshop and also a symposium about the current situation of intercultural dialogues in Europe.
From autumn 2010, the Academy is due to take up its public activities at a newly designed premises at a place on the outskirts of Berlin which is being designed an planned by Diebboll Architects, New York, the Architektenkontor, Magdeburg, Intelligent Houses, Berlin/Hamburg, SMV-Projektsteuerung, Berlin, with financing co-ordinated by Blackwood Capital Group, London.
Civilisations Matter -
Academy for Intercultural Dialogue gGmbH
Director Ulrich Wiese www.cm-germany.org .eu .com .de pr@cm-germany.org
fon +49 30 470 33418
fax +49 30 470 33419
Blumenstraße 49, 10243 Berlin
Germany
The purpose of this non-commercial incorporation is the facilitation of science and research, as well as art, culture and international understanding.
The Academy will organize symposia, conferences, workshops, conventions and cultural events. It goes out to host meetings where scientists as well as philosophers, artists and politicians -representatives of various cultures and religious denominations - may shape ideas about global and future-oriented thinking.
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