Archive for 10th World Summit
Speech on poverty for Berlin
In 1945, with the smoke still clearing after the worst war in human history, the founders of the United Nations wrote Article 26 in the UN Charter which says and I quote “In order to promote the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion for armaments of the world’s human [...]
Speech for Berlin on breaking down cultural walls
It is a pleasure for me to represent the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Dr. Schweitzer remains familiar to many of you here in Germany and throughout Europe as he was a very famous theologian, philosopher, and musician at the turn of the 20th century. He was famed for his lectures and [...]
Talk on nuclear weapons for Berlin
It is my pleasure and honor to represent the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Many people in Europe and especially in France and Germany will know that he comes from what is now the French province of Alsace. He was known as a prominent theologian, philosopher, and an expert on the organ [...]
Speech of Wim Wenders
Message to tenth Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates
United Nations Nations Unies, The Secretary General
MESSAGE TO TENTH SUMMIT OF NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES
Berlin, 9 November 2009
Twenty years ago today a wall fell and the world watched in awe and in hope. The Berlin Wall had stood for decades as a graphic physical reminder of how mistrust and hatred can dominate relations between [...]
Peace Summit Award 2009
The Prize: The “Peace Summit Award 2009″, is a bronze sculpture created by the artist Massimo Liberti especially for this occasion.
This bronze sculpture represents the crossroads that humanity has to face. A human being covering his face from the burning sun that blinds the sight, or the explosion of a bomb searing the skin.
Only those [...]
Albert Schweitzer Institute
Gorbachev Foundation
