Editorial Note List of Contributors How the Idea of Forum 2000 Emerged Jirí Musil and Takeaki Hori Part I. Our World Spiritual Preconditions for Our Common Global Survival Václav Havel The World We Have Inherited, Our World Today, and Hopes for the Future Václav Havel Part II. Problems and Visions of Our World Today as Seen by the Participants of Forum 2000 Conferences. Confrontation of Forum 2000 with Contemporary International Discourse on Globalization Importance of the Context Jirí Musil How to React to a Plurality of Cultures Globalization, Society and Culture Jirí Musil Two Examples of Socio-Cultural Disintegration Caused by Globalization Takeaki Hori The Importance of Religion The Transformations of Religion in the Process of Globalization Tomáš Halík Awareness of the Relations Between Economics, Politics, Knowledge and Ethics as a Starting Point for Global Governance Political Globalization Jirí Pehe Economy Was in the Background of Many Discussions on Social and Ethical Problems An Economic View of the World Jana Marková The Global Environmental Situation and Human Responsibility Global Environmental Problems Václav Mezrický The View of an Observer Both the Rationality of Precise Analysis and the Naivety of Ideals Are Needed Vladimír Karfík Why Forum 2000? Václav Havel Appendixes Prague Declaration Participants of the Forum 2000 Conferences (1997–2005)