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A group of eminent individuals selected by the Secretary-General is working with the Personal Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Giandomenico Picco, to prepare a publication about the dialogue among civilizations as a methodology to facilitate a new paradigm of international relations. The publication will be presented to the Secretary-General in the fall of 2001.

The School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, United States, is providing the secretariat for the work of the Group of Eminent Persons.

Following is the list of eminent persons engaged in this project:

Giandomenico Picco (Italy), Personal Representative of Secretary-General Kofi Annan

 

Dr. A. Kamal Aboulmagd (Egypt)

Professor Lourdes Arizpe (Mexico)

Dr. Hanan Ashrawi (Palestine)

Professor Ruth Cardoso (Brazil)

The Hon. Jacques Delors (France)

Dr. Leslie Gelb (United States of America)

Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)

HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal (Jordan)

Professor Sergey Kapitza (Russia)

Dr. Hayao Kawai (Japan)

Amb. Tommy Koh (Singapore)

Professor Dr. Hans Küng (Switzerland)

Dr. Graça Machel (Mozambique)

Professor Amartya Sen (India)

Dr. Song Jian (China)

Dick Spring, TD (Ireland)

Professor Tu Wei-Ming (China)

The Hon. Richard von Weizsäker (Germany)

Dr. Javad Zarif (Iran)

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Secretariat

Dr. Catherine Tinker

at
School of Diplomacy and International Relations,
Seton Hall University

Ambassador Clay Constantinou (Ret.), Dean
Marian G. Glenn, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Marilyn DiGiacobbe, Associate Dean for External Affairs
Dr. Catherine Tinker, Project Director