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Prospects for Peace in a Borderless Age: Shimon Peres on Israel
From: Columbia University
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Shimon Peres |
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION |
As long as a nation's strength and wealth came from the land, borders were marked and nations went to war to defend their land, argued Shimon Peres, former prime minister of Israel, in a lecture at Columbia University in September 2000. But the new economy is a borderless one, in which brainpower and culture determine a country's wealth and progress.
In this talk, Peres assesses prospects for cultural harmony in Israel and evaluates the three kinds of peace that he believes need to be achieved so that Israel, and the Middle East as a whole, can enter into a new era: peace within each citizen, peace with neighbors and peace with the new economic age that values thought over material possessions. |
Shimon Peres talks about the Middle East peace process and peace prospects in the new-economy era.
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Audience members challenge Shimon Peres's views in the question-and-answer period.
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