Nobel Laureates and Eminent Persons to lecture at AIT
AIT will host once again the 'Bridges - Dialogues Towards a Culture of Peace' Nobel Laureates lecture series starting December 8, 2004. The first lecture series was first inaugurated on November 3, 2003 in Bangkok by International Peace Foundation (IPF), based in Vienna, under the unified patronage of 21 Nobel Peace prize Laureates. The event series ended on April 5, 2004 having 20 lecturers taken center stage and impart words and message of peace.
The second and final event series will be hosted in partnership with various national and international organizations, institutions and enterprises in Thailand. The series will be held between December 2004 and April 2005. Thailand has been chosen as the host country for the event for the second year consecutively because the country is noted as a leading contributor to 'The Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence', initiated and promoted by the United Nations' General Assembly.
IPF cooperates with the already existing organizations, institutions and enterprises in Thailand to promote the events. To address a variety of sectors in the society and to reach different target groups for the events, IPF is cooperating with the following Thai and international institutions: the Chemical Society of Thailand, the Education Society of Thailand, Forum Asia, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Peace and Culture Foundation, the Science Society of Thailand, the Thailand Research Fund and Unesco.
HE Mr. Anand Panyarachun, former Prime Minister and Honorary Chairman of the Thai Advisory Board for the events, in his words of welcome, acknowledges that the event series promotes peace within all parts of society by employing awareness and social responsibility of politicians, business community, scientists, artists and the media.
AIT is privileged to reap the benefits of peace and harmony not only within the campus living community but also within the working environment. What one may simply see here are people who have come from far and near under the common roof of AIT. The geographic orientation of students, staff and faculty alone depicts its multidisciplinary and multicultural nature. Where else would be better to sound the bells of peace?
Thus, 10 Nobel Laureates will give their lectures at AIT, starting from December 8, 2004 and will last till March 2005. The other final series of lectures by 18 Nobel Laureates for Peace, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and Economics will be held in venues as Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Kanchanaburi, Khon Kaen, Korat and Chonburi.
Schedule for lectures by 10 Nobel Laureates' and Eminent Person' to be held at AIT are as follows:
