The Center Leo Apostel in collaboration with the Doctoral Programme of 
the VUB and this time also in collaboration with UCOS, invites 
everybody to the 16th of its interdisciplinary seminars in the series 
Foundations. In this series CLEA invites scholars that are actively 
engaged in the research on the foundations of a particular discipline. 
Their lectures will always be directed  to an interdisciplinary 
audience, and the discussions aim at confronting the foundations of 
the different discipline.


        Managing Conflicts, Reconciling (human) Interests:
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                     a Must for Our Future?
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by

                         Louis Van Geyt
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                  (former president of CP-Belgium;
                     representative of UCOS)

(the lecture will be held in Dutch, but the discussion is open to 
English or French)

Thursday, 27 Februari 1997 at 5 p.m. in auditorium L210 (Building L)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Campus Oefenplein.

About the lecture: 
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Is it possible to avoid that the globalisation of economy, coinciding 
with the contemporary scientific-technological mutations and the 
elimination of the non-capitalistic world system (1917-1991), will 
lead to the (predictable) destruction of mankind? The speaker believes 
this can be avoided, on the condition that lessons are drawn from 
previous great conflicts that have occurred since the emergence of the 
labour- and liberty-movements, as well as from the ways in which these 
were managed (rather than eliminated). A specific reading of social 
capitalism of the years around 1900, of the New Deal and the Welfare 
State, of the East- and South-politics of Brandt and Harmel, and of 
the South-African miracle can be of major importance -to effectively 
question the lethal pensee unique -to successfully strive for a future 
of mankind, from the standpoint of a re-motivated civil society.

About the speaker: 
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Louis Van Geyt is the former president of the Communist Party of 
Belgium. He was a member of parliament until 1981. As an actor within 
the social field, he was actively involved in the international 
affairs and in societal games of power before and after the Wende. 
Presently he is coordinator of the Belgian Alert Committee for the 
European Councils. He represents UCOS (Universitary Council for 
Development) at the NCOS (National Council on Development), and at the 
two main structures of the labour movement in Flanders that are 
responsible for programming the Labour Campaign of the NCOS.

The presentation with questions will last about an hour. Afterwards, 
an hour or more is reserved for an in-depth, group discussion of the 
topic.

More info at the CLEA office: phone 02-644 26 77 or via the Web-page: 
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/CLEA/