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PRESIDENT’S REPORT • ANNIVERSARY EDITION SALZBURG GLOBAL CHRONICLE 70 YEARS OF CHANGE- MAKING AND BRIDGING DIVIDES 1947 – 61 1962 – 89 1990 – 2004 2005 ONWARDS A MARSHALL PLAN COLD WAR A GLOBALIZING PEOPLE AND FOR THE MIND CROSSROADS WORLD POWER After the devastation of In the heart of Europe, where A globalizing world called for In an increasingly interconnected World War II, three visionaries East met West, the Seminar with a globalizing Salzburg Seminar. and volatile world, citizens seek believed that Europe needed more played an important role No longer focused on American leaders with answers as well as than just economic reconstruction. in bridging Cold War divides. studies, the Seminar moved opportunities to take greater control To aid the continent’s intellectual Geographic expansion beyond eastwards and southwards, over their lives. The work of Salzburg renewal, they founded the Europe and thematic expansion tackling common concerns from Global Seminar and of our Fellows Salzburg Seminar in beyond American studies gave the economics and education, to the remains at the forefront of American Studies. Seminar even greater purpose. environment and peace-building. leading global solutions. CONTENTS LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT SALZBURG GLOBAL CHRONICLE PRESIDENT'S REPORT 2017 TABLE OF LETTER FROM CONTENTS THE PRESIDENT Letter from the President 70 Years of Change-making 03 01 02 03 04 A Marshall Plan Cold War A Globalizing People and for the Mind Crossroads World Power Salzburg Global Seminar was born in the aftermath of a devastating war. The first session in summer 1947 sought to heal divisions among previous enemies and to imagine how a peaceful Europe might be built and sustained. Intellectual Bridging Divides Supporting Transitions Thoughtful, Committed Schloss Leopoldskron became the crossroads at which young Europeans with disparate loyalties and ideologies Reconstruction and Expanding Horizons and Transformations and Courageous Citizens 08 16 22 28 could search for common ground. Among them were former Austrian Luftwaffe officers, a young Czech Communist, and a Romanian Jew who had survived Auschwitz. From Idealist Experiment Profiles: Profiles: Profiles: to Eminent Institution The Risers The Globalizers The Innovators Over successive years, our Fellows drove government reforms in Eastern Europe, helped bring peace 10 18 24 30 to Northern Ireland, and improved health care systems in Africa. What began as the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies expanded geographically and programmatically to become Salzburg Global Seminar. Profiles: Looking The Founders Forward Today, the international order is in flux. Political tension, cultural division, and economic disparity have 12 32 fractured societies and reduced faith in the ability of local, national and global institutions to find solutions. All Sessions Just as in 1947, Salzburg Global Seminar continues to gather together remarkable people to bridge 34 divides and tackle the most complex global challenges. These individuals join a global network of Salzburg Staff and Supporters; Finances and Fellows Global Fellows and partner institutions driving transformative change across the world. 38 What happens in Salzburg has always mattered because of the insights and ideas the experience kindles in our Fellows and for what they make happen later on the ground. The going out of our gates is more Chair’s Last Word 42 important than the coming in. The following pages offer examples of thoughtful, committed and courageous citizens – thinkers, innovators, organizers – who have leveraged their experience and relationships gained at Schloss Leopoldskron to make the world a better place. In this 70th Anniversary year, we salute the power of their ideas, the strength of their resolve and the impact of their lives. Salzburg Global Chronicle Editorial Team [email protected] President & CEO Editor & Lead Writer Art Director Photographers Salzburg, Austria Washington, DC, USA Stephen L. Salyer Louise Hallman Dominik Langegger Rob Fish, Ela Grieshaber, Schloss Leopoldskron, 1250 H Street NW, Suite 1150, Director of Marketing & Contributors Sub Editors Andrea Lopez-Portillo, Leopoldskronstrasse 56–58, Washington, DC 20005 Communications Nicole Bogart, Edwin Cruz, Bernadette Hallman & Anna Mader, Anneliese Scope, 5020 Salzburg Tel. +1 (202) 637-7683 Thomas Biebl Allison Kingery & Oscar Tollast Cheryl Van Emburg Herman Seidl & Tel. +43 (662) 839830 Watsamon Triyasakda STEPHEN L. SALYER, The testimonials of Salzburg Global Fellows on the front cover are featured in our 70th Anniversary video. To view the video, please visit: 70.SalzburgGlobal.org PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER 02 03 TIMELINE 70 YEARS Olin C. Robison Peace Symposium: Rule of Law Defining Peace in the former president of Middlebury Contemporary World Lloyd N. Cutler Center for the Rule College, is elected president and of Law established to honor the OF CHANGE- introduces a strong programmatic Seminar’s longtime chairman and emphasis on European integration, The Meierhof is renovated. to provide an ongoing platform for higher education and non- lectures and programs on law and governmental organizations. After the first phase was completed justice. in 1988, which saw the addition of a MAKING second floor and 55 bedrooms, the second phase is finally completed, New multi-year Fellows arrive from overhauling the public areas. From a summer project called the the former USSR. series are launched 2010 sees the launch of Health The first Fellows come from the The Salzburg Seminar and Health Care Innovation in former Soviet Union states, starting “Salzburg Seminar in American the 21st Century and Holocaust The Sound of Music with Lithuania and Russia in 1991, American Studies Education and Genocide Estonia, Latvia and Ukraine in 1992, Civilization” to a well-established Twentieth Century Fox offer $10,000 Association (SSASA) Prevention with the Salzburg Armenia, Belarus, Georgia and for use of the Schloss for filming of Global Forum on Finance in a Kyrgyzstan in 1993, and Kazakhstan, is founded. The Sound of Music. The Seminar Changing World launching the and internationally-renowned NGO, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and declines fearing disruption of its following year. programs and tax-exempt status. Uzbekistan in 1994. Salzburg Global Seminar has fostered Publishing company, Bertelsmann, The International then owners of the Meierhof, offer Study Program use of their grounds for filming. Celebrating partnerships change-makers for 70 years. The Asia is established. Initiative launches. In celebration of 25 years of Operated by Salzburg partnership, Salzburg Global Paul M. Herzog The program brings more Global Seminar until 2015, Seminar and The Nippon than 350 Asian Fellows to the Global Citizenship Foundation convene in Kyoto is elected the first full-time The Seminar buys the the Schloss by 1999. Program (as it became the first full-fledged Salzburg president and adopts in 2013) successfully Seminar to be held in Asia. a “common problems” neighboring Meierhof developed into an approach to sessions, moving building. independent organization, the Seminar away from its the Global Citizenship First Fellow from “American studies” origins. Alliance. Hotel Schloss Mexico comes to First Fellows come Leopoldskron opens. the Schloss. from Palestine, Stephen L. The Meierhof undergoes another attending sessions significant renovation, including guest S. 32 – American Legal S. 58 – Race and Alumni Associations Salyer rooms, café and reception, culminating Thought and Institutions Minorities alongside Israelis. in the opening of Hotel Schloss Alumni from an urban planning former head of Public marks the beginning of Leopoldskron – a boutique hotel of 55 session establish SCUPAD – Radio International the Rule of Law series that bedrooms and 12 Schloss suites. the Salzburg Congress on Urban The American and the first Salzburg continues today with the Planning and Development. Fellow to lead the annual Cutler Lecture on Studies Center organization, is the Rule of Law (est. 2009) First Session The Seminar Bradford Morse is established. elected the eighth and the Cutler Fellows Law former US Congressman president, stressing The Salzburg Seminar in American Program (est. 2012). buys Schloss Fellows return from a problem-solving Civilization brings 97 students and UN Under-Secretary- Leopoldskron. General, is elected and social innovation from 18 European countries with “behind the Iron S. 321 – Transitioning After two years president, and sets his orientation. an American faculty to Schloss Curtain.” Economies: Comparative of protracted sights on expanding the Leopoldskron for six weeks. Models European negotiations, Two years of diplomacy leads to the Seminar’s outreach to the Seminar buys first Fellows from “Behind the Iron Asia. A large grant from Fellows from emerging Asian A new name YCI Forum is launched Association Schloss Leopoldskron Curtain” since 1949 being able to the Nippon Foundation economies and post-USSR countries share learning. for a new era for American from the City of come to Schloss Leopoldskron: helps bring Fellows from The Young Cultural Innovators Forum is launched with 10 “hub” Salzburg for $92,350 four Czechs came for Session 102, the Far East. After adoption of a new Studies is city partners on five continents (equivalent to $1m in The American Economy and Strategic Plan – including Dexter Perkins (expanding to 19 hubs by 2017). founded at 2017) and commits International Economic Affairs. John “Jack”