Friedensnobelpreisträger in der Frauenkirche Dresden März | 18. 2014 FRAUENKIRCHE DRESDEN FOUNDATION Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in the Frauenkirche Dresden Dr Mohamed ElBaradei 18 March 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in the Frauenkirche Dresden March | 18 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in the Frauenkirche Dresden 18 March 2014 MOHAMED ELBARADEI | 18.03.2014 | FRAUENKIRCHE DRESDEN | 1 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in the Frauenkirche Dresden 18 March 2014 MOHAMED ELBARADEI | 18.03.2014 | FRAUENKIRCHE DRESDEN | 1 Contents 05 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in the Frauenkirche Reverend Sebastian Feydt 06 Welcome address Bishop Jochen Bohl of the Saxon Regional Lutheran Church 07 Opening Saxon premier Stanislaw Tillich 08 Lecture by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate: “Durable peace is not just wishful thinking” Dr Mohamed ElBaradei 22 Schools competition Reverend Holger Treutmann 24 The winning entries for the schools competition 27 Young people experience the Frauenkirche Dr Anja Häse 28 Impressions of the young people 30 Additional incentives to the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate's lecture Secretary of State David Gill Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger Prof Dr Volker Perthes 37 Dr Mohamed ElBaradei – Biography 38 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates 2014 – 1970 2 | MOHAMED ELBARADEI | 18.03.2014 | FRAUENKIRCHE DRESDEN MOHAMED ELBARADEI | 18.03.2014 | FRAUENKIRCHE DRESDEN | 3 Contents 05 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in the Frauenkirche Reverend Sebastian Feydt 06 Welcome address Bishop Jochen Bohl of the Saxon Regional Lutheran Church 07 Opening Saxon premier Stanislaw Tillich 08 Lecture by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate: “Durable peace is not just wishful thinking” Dr Mohamed ElBaradei 22 Schools competition Reverend Holger Treutmann 24 The winning entries for the schools competition 27 Young people experience the Frauenkirche Dr Anja Häse 28 Impressions of the young people 30 Additional incentives to the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate's lecture Secretary of State David Gill Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger Prof Dr Volker Perthes 37 Dr Mohamed ElBaradei – Biography 38 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates 2014 – 1970 2 | MOHAMED ELBARADEI | 18.03.2014 | FRAUENKIRCHE DRESDEN MOHAMED ELBARADEI | 18.03.2014 | FRAUENKIRCHE DRESDEN | 3 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in the Frauenkirche They are builders of peace. Often also the driving force behind peace. Sometimes, with their commitment to peace, they are far ahead of their time and only count among those who have shaped history much later. Because they do not give up in their efforts to give the world a more peaceful face and to awaken hope wherever peoples do not live in peace with ElBaradei, was invited to one such event. Alongside his public one another. There, committed men and women are always speech in the Frauenkirche and an evening meal with guests of needed to take action and promote understanding among honour and experts, particular emphasis was laid on meeting the nations. They are the ones for whom Alfred Nobel once the next generation. This involved the winners of a schools dreamt up a prize. The ones who play a key, lasting role in competition run jointly with the Free State of Saxony being encouraging the peoples of this world to understand one given the opportunity to discuss their ideas and refl ections another, and who promote peace forums, are to be honoured on the subject of nuclear weapons in detail during a private with the Nobel Peace Prize. You could almost think that the meeting with Dr ElBaradei and Minister President Tillich. founding mothers and fathers behind the reconstruction of Dresden's Frauenkirche had that noble aim in mind when, in It is a pleasure and important for Dresden's Frauenkirche 1994, shortly after the Peaceful Revolution and the fall of the Foundation to use this publication to record how the Nobel Berlin Wall, they wrote in the Charter of Dresden's Frauenkirche Peace Prize Laureate, key guests and the young people who Foundation: “The reconstruction of the Frauenkirche is to took part answered the central question in this series of events: create a symbol calling for tolerance and peace between the peoples and religions, (…) a place where symposia, lectures What must we do today can be held …” Thus, what could be more natural than to to make the world more peaceful in twenty years’ time? invite Nobel Peace Prize Laureates to the Frauenkirche to share their experiences working towards world peace? Inspired by the speech by the former Finnish prime minister, Martti Ahtisaari, in December 2010 in the Frauenkirche, the Dresden Frauenkirche Foundation set up a series of events involving Sebastian Feydt Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. In 2014 the former head of the Reverend of the Frauenkirche International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Dr Mohamed 4 | MOHAMED ELBARADEI | 18.03.2014 | FRAUENKIRCHE DRESDEN MOHAMED ELBARADEI | 18.03.2014 | FRAUENKIRCHE DRESDEN | 5 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in the Frauenkirche They are builders of peace. Often also the driving force behind peace. Sometimes, with their commitment to peace, they are far ahead of their time and only count among those who have shaped history much later. Because they do not give up in their efforts to give the world a more peaceful face and to awaken hope wherever peoples do not live in peace with ElBaradei, was invited to one such event. Alongside his public one another. There, committed men and women are always speech in the Frauenkirche and an evening meal with guests of needed to take action and promote understanding among honour and experts, particular emphasis was laid on meeting the nations. They are the ones for whom Alfred Nobel once the next generation. This involved the winners of a schools dreamt up a prize. The ones who play a key, lasting role in competition run jointly with the Free State of Saxony being encouraging the peoples of this world to understand one given the opportunity to discuss their ideas and refl ections another, and who promote peace forums, are to be honoured on the subject of nuclear weapons in detail during a private with the Nobel Peace Prize. You could almost think that the meeting with Dr ElBaradei and Minister President Tillich. founding mothers and fathers behind the reconstruction of Dresden's Frauenkirche had that noble aim in mind when, in It is a pleasure and important for Dresden's Frauenkirche 1994, shortly after the Peaceful Revolution and the fall of the Foundation to use this publication to record how the Nobel Berlin Wall, they wrote in the Charter of Dresden's Frauenkirche Peace Prize Laureate, key guests and the young people who Foundation: “The reconstruction of the Frauenkirche is to took part answered the central question in this series of events: create a symbol calling for tolerance and peace between the peoples and religions, (…) a place where symposia, lectures What must we do today can be held …” Thus, what could be more natural than to to make the world more peaceful in twenty years’ time? invite Nobel Peace Prize Laureates to the Frauenkirche to share their experiences working towards world peace? Inspired by the speech by the former Finnish prime minister, Martti Ahtisaari, in December 2010 in the Frauenkirche, the Dresden Frauenkirche Foundation set up a series of events involving Sebastian Feydt Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. In 2014 the former head of the Reverend of the Frauenkirche International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Dr Mohamed 4 | MOHAMED ELBARADEI | 18.03.2014 | FRAUENKIRCHE DRESDEN MOHAMED ELBARADEI | 18.03.2014 | FRAUENKIRCHE DRESDEN | 5 Welcome address Opening Dr ElBaradei, Prime Minister Tillich, Dr Rößler, Ms Munz, “Anyone who has no fear has no imagination.” The man who Mr Gill, Mayor Orosz, children, ladies and gentlemen, said that was from Dresden: Erich Kästner. Following Kästner's line of thinking, it could be said that our guest today has This church is linked to the memory of the events that took made it his life's task to govern the space between “fear” and place on the 13th of February 1945, when Dresden was literally “imagination”. Nuclear crises and incidents have always shown obliterated by an aerial bombardment. In the 1980s, the ruins how serious and how real the risk is. The Cold War could just of the Frauenkirche themselves became a memorial for peace. as easily have become a “Hot War”. During the Cold War, the Young people, especially, drew inspiration from this place to world teetered several times on the brink of an atomic abyss. voice their opposition to nuclear armament and the nuclear That was made clear again once more last year, when Stanislav arms race. Here they prayed for peace. It was a ‘convention- Petrov was awarded the Dresden Prize. He was the man who, al’ war that laid the city to waste, but in the day and age of in 1983, working as a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air nuclear arms, we all know that things are conceivable and Defence Forces, decided that a US “attack” reported by the possible on a much grander scale in terms of destruction. and it speaks to your integrity that you sent out a very clear warning system was a false alarm, preventing a nuclear war. with nuclear warheads – each with the explosive force of message by resigning from your post as vice-president. 25 Hiroshima bombs. Dr ElBaradei, this brief introduction offers an insight into how Dear Dr EIBaradei, as Director of the International Atomic important your activity as Director General of the Interna- For all of these aforementioned reasons and as chairman of Energy Agency, you persistently warned of the dangers I tell you this story because it helps grasp the destructive tional Atomic Energy Agency has been for peace in the world. the Board of Trustees of the foundation for the Church of and made repeated calls for action.