The organizers see in the forum the prospects and potential for the formation of a high-quality platform of "people's diplomacy" of a dialogue of experts, scholars and public figures both in Belarus and abroad on issues of security, tolerance, intercultural and interregional dialogue, assistance in overcoming regional conflicts and global confrontation, dissemination of the values of equality and social justice. The conference participants will focus on the values of humanism, tolerance, equality, social justice and transcontinental integration in the light of the prospects of unification "from Lisbon to Vladivostok". The conference will also provide an expert assessment of overcoming the crisis in the Donbas within the framework of the Minsk peace process, as well as philosophical, theoretical and practical opportunities for the implementation of the Belarusian Helsinki-2 peace initiative. Considerable attention will be paid to the experience of detente, created by the German Chancellor Willy Brandt and a native of Belarus, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Gromyko. The event is aimed to identify ways and methods of establishing a dialogue between different geopolitical communities to achieve regional integration in Eastern Europe, as well as to define the contours of a possible new security system using the positive and negative aspects of the Helsinki process and the Belarusian Helsinki-2 peacekeeping initiative in Eastern Europe and the Eurasian continent as a whole.
For the Institute of Philosophy of the NAS of Belarus, the scientific and practical conference "Cooperation in Eastern Europe in the context of regional and global challenges and threats" is a continuation of the intellectual tradition of the research institution in the field of philosophy and methodology of international relations.
Work of the media - 09:40 (second floor).