6 June 3 October The century is approaching its conclusion in a climate of growing tension. Conflict springs up between individual rights and collective duties, between local roots and cosmopolitism. It is present in the tension between economic development and the safeguard of the environment, the aggression of global markets and the desire to protect fragile economies, the pressures of emigration from poor countries and unemployment in the more advanced nations. There is renewed bloodshed between ethnic, religious, cultural and economic groups, and between nations. However, as the International Commission on Peace and Food reminds us, "the perspective the world seeks must be based on a greater understanding of the inextricable linkages between peace, democratization, development, equity and the environment. None of these great goals can be achieved, without corresponding progress towards the others. [...] What are the foundations of this new intellectual perspective and what sort of strategies, actions and results will it lead to? It requires a change in the way we look at and think of familiar things like war, developing countries, democracy, agriculture, industrialization. First, we have to awaken from the millennia-old nightmare that war is a natural and inevitable part of human existence, which can perhaps be mitigated or kept far from our shores, but never really mastered or eliminated. [...] Most of all, the new perspective the world seeks should be based on a recognition that humankind is the master of its own destiny, that the external limits are not binding on us if we tap the unlimited creative potential of our own inner human resourcefulness". These recommendations are the starting point of the debate among the Nobel Laureates and international experts gathering in Milan, to discuss how to transform conflict into an occasion for dialogue, growth and innovation.

The programme 5 December 6 December 7 December Chairperson RENATO UGO President, Italian Association for Industrial Research 14,30 Welcoming addresses MARCO FORMENTINI Mayor of Milan LIVIO TAMBERI President, Province of Milan 15,00 Opening remarks RITA LEVI MONTALCINI Nobel Laureate in Medicine, 1986 President, Fondazione Levi Montalcini 15,30 Peace and justice as driving forces of development ADOLFO PÉREZ ESQUIVEL Nobel Laureate for Peace, 1980 President, Fondación Servicio Paz y Justicia, Buenos Aires Hunger: The Silent Bomb JOSEPH ROTBLAT Nobel Laureate for Peace, 1995 President, Pugwash Conferences, London A War-free World: A Utopian Dream or a Dire Necessity? 5 December 6 December 7 December Chairperson RENATO UGO President, Italian Association for Industrial Research 9,30 Cultural diversity: from conflict to dialogue ELIE WIESEL Nobel Laureate for Peace, 1986 Professor in the Humanities, Boston University The Urgency of Tolerance DEREK WALCOTT Nobel Laureate in Literature, 1992 Poet and Playwright Wending One's Way through the Archipelago of Cultures 11,00 Human rules and natural laws JEAN DAUSSET Nobel Laureate in Medicine, 1980 Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France, Paris Ethics of Predictive Medicine CHRISTIAN DE DUVE Nobel Laureate in Medicine, 1974 Professor of Biochemical Cytology Emeritus, The Rockefeller University, New York Lessons of Evolution Chairperson SALVATORE CARRUBBA Editor, Il Sole-24 Ore 14,30 Panel: The global market and new technologies GIOVANNI DE GUZZIS Managing Director, Ericsson Telecomunicazioni ENORE DEOTTO President, Smau GIANFRANCO DIOGUARDI Professor of Economics and Business Management, Politecnico of Bari EDWIN FALKMAN President, Waste Management International ALFREDO GIANETTI President, Sea ALDO IACONO Managing Director, Rank Xerox UMBERTO SILVESTRI President, Telecom Italia RENZO TANI Managing Director, Siemens 16.15 Closing remarks ADRIANO DE MAIO Rector, Politecnico of Milan ANTONIO MACCANICO Italian Minister for Post and Telecommunications 5 December 6 December 7 December Chairperson MARK MALLOCH BROWN Vice President, The World Bank 9,30 Progress, development and their opponents F. SHERWOOD ROWLAND Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1995 Professor of Chemistry and Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine Environmental Problems during the 21st Century STEVEN WEINBERG Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1979 Professor of Science, University of Texas, Austin Science and its Adversaries 11,00 Individual interests and collective choices KENNETH J. ARROW Nobel Laureate in Economics, 1972 Professor of Economics and Operations Research, Emeritus, Stanford University, California Individual Responsibility: For Self, for Others JAMES M. BUCHANAN Nobel Laureate in Economics, 1986 Advisory General Director, Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, Fairfaxx Economic Freedom and Competitive Federalism: Prospects for the New Century Chairperson CLAUDIO CARLONE Director, Hypothesis 14,30 Panel: Privatization, competition, competitiveness PIERO BASSETTI President, Milan Chamber of Commerce ENRICO CERRAI President, Aem FEDELE CONFALONIERI President, Mediaset UMBERTO DI CAPUA President, Asea Brown Boveri ERNESTO PASCALE Managing Director, Stet RICCARDO PERISSICH Director of Public Affairs, Pirelli SERGIO SIGLIENTI President, Ina MARIO TALAMONA Vice President, Cariplo FRANCO TATÒ Managing Director, Enel Closing remarks MARIO MONTI Member of the European Commission GIORGIO FOSSA President, Confindustria