September 27, 2007 (LPAC)--Professor Ahmed Al-Kedidi of the University of Doha, Qatar, reported to the Arab world on the Schiller Institutes conference in Kiedrich Germany in an article published in Qatar's Asharq daily and several other Arabic newspapers simultaneously on September 27. Under the title building the foundations of a just world, Dr. Kedidi wrote: On Saturday and Sunday, 15-16 September, I participated in the international conference held in the German Rhine town Kiedrich where 30 nations from 5 continents were represented. 500 thinkers, policy makers and labor unionists attended this event which was organized by the Schiller Institute, and was focused on one major issue: how to build the world on the basis of the principles of solidarity, joint development, justice, equality, freedom and peace, in our time which is threatened by wars and catastrophes.

Kedidi emphasized that the conference was held while the drumbeat for a war against Iran was increasing and Israeli attempts to strangle the Palestinian people in Gaza are getting harsher. He also noted: As I expected, the high level and quality of the participants placed the current international crisis today in its right framework that this is not simply a political crisis but a crisis of civilization, and the solution should be on that level.

Dr. Kedidi reports on the discussions in the conference on the origin of the crisis, especially in the post-WWII period and the return to the imperial policies of the pre-war world.

In conclusion of his report, Dr. Kedidi stated: The participants of the conference adopted the idea of the American economist and former presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche for the development and building of development and trade corridors through the construction of a giant international network of railways, highways, bridges and tunnels to connect the continents. This is a project, which is possible to accomplish, because it already existed under the name of the Silk Road. As one of the American thinkers said in the conference, if the American resources lost in the Vietnam War were invested in the right way, we would have eliminated poverty and hunger in the world then, and that the resources wasted in the Iraq war since 2003 were enough to build this giant network of infrastructure and achieving just development and avoiding war and famine. This simply means laying the foundations of a just world through peace and development and the collaboration of civilizations instead of a clash of civilizations. Thus, even though this conference is dreaming of a better world at a time of conflict, there is no other way than visionary thinking, because all the great achievements of mankind started with a dream and ended with becoming reality.