Released on: December 17, 2007, 11:48 am

Press Release Author: Wolfram R. Bauer

Industry: Non Profit

Press Release Summary: After one year of preparation, the Civilisations Matter
Academy was founded today in Berlin. 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.

Press Release Body: (CM, Berlin, 2007-12-18) After one year of preparation, the
Civilisations Matter Academy was founded today in Berlin. 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
counsellor of the German Federal Foreign Office, 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 first configuration
meeting in Berlin. By 2010 the Academy for Intercultural Dialogue is due to take up
its public activities on a site and with a program, both designed especially for
this purpose.

The Greek Wassilia Fotiadou was elected first administrator. At the Technical
University of Darmstadt she had initiated and built up the field of
interdisciplinary gender studies. Together with the scientific director to be
appointed yet, she will support the co-operation with initiatives standing for a
common global future.

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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 organise 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.

Web Site: http://www.civilisations-matter.org

Contact Details: Civilisations Matter -
Academy for Intercultural Dialogue gGmbH i.G.
Director Wassilia Fotiadou
President Advisory Board Wolfram R. Bauer
www.civilisations-matter.org
info@civilisations-matter.org
fon +49 30 7022 1231
fax +49 30 6549 7219
Ostendorfstraße 36, 12557 Berlin
Germany