Professor Henry L. Gates, Jr.,  Member of the Honorary Presidential Committee, City for the Cultures of Peace;  Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University; Professor  Amy-Diana Colin, Founder of the international research network, City for the Cultures of Peace;  Professor Nina Scribanu, Co-founder, Co-President of the City for the Cultures of Peace; Georgetown University Medical Center, USA; Professor Patrick Imbert, Co-founder and Vice-President of the City for the Cultures of Peace; Canada Chair at the University of Ottawa;  Robert Zinn, Esq., Partner, K & L Gates, USA; senior legal advisor of the organization.

Acknowledgements for legal advice:

 
Maître Bernard Bontoux et Maître Josseline Loir, Bontoux et Associés, Paris, France; Maître Anne-Florence Monassier, Maître Laurent Cassignard, Maître Sylvie Burthe-Mique, Monassier et Associés, Paris, France; Maître Bergeron, Strasbourg, France;  Avv. Verena Fontana, Lugano, Switzerland; Avv. Giorgio Foppa, Lugano, Switzerland;  Dr. Gunter Gorhan, Vienna, Austrian and Paris, France; Maître Charles Herscovici, Avocat, Bruxelles, Belgique; Susan M. Mussman, Esq., K & L Gates, USA; Dr. George Ragovis, Washington DC, USA; Hans Arno Rheingans, M.B.A., Düsseldorf, Germany;  Robert Zinn, Esq., Partner, K & L Gates, USA.

ADMINISTRATION

Assistants to the Director

Stéphanie Dupuy-Cereda

Paola Loponte

 Administrative Advisors:

Joseph von Radowitz, administrative advisor and conference manager (Berlin); L. B. Oren, administrative advisor (Brussels);  Arthur Udler, IT specialist and technical advisor (Pittsburgh).

CITY FOR THE CULTURES OF PEACE
CITÉ DES CULTURES DE LA PAIX
CITÉ DER FRIEDENSKULTUREN

Honorary Presidential Committee

Arch. Dipl. ETH Giorgio Giudici,
Mayor of Lugano, Switzerland

Professor Dr. Marcel Reich-Ranicki 
Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Françoise de Monpezat Bardin
Cahors, France

Henry L. Gates 
Alphonse Fletcher University Professor,
Harvard University, USA

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ALL HONORARY MEMBERS
LISTE ALPHABETIQUE DES MEMBRES D'HONNEUR
ALPHABETISCHE LISTE ALLER EHRENMITGLIEDER

This list also includes the names of the international advisors; cette liste comprend aussi les noms des conseillers interationals;  diese Liste beinhaltet auch die Namen der internationalen Berater.

Professor Michael Abramovici, Computer Technology Design, Direktor des  Instituts für Konstruktionstechnik, Universität Bochum, BRD; Françoise de Monpezat Bardin, Member of the Pro Europa Patronage Committee  and the Honorary Presidential Committee, Cahors, France; Dr. Vitasta Bazas, President of the Sehgal Foundation at the Pittsburgh Foundation (USA);  Dr. Darlene Berkovitz, musicology, Pittsburgh, USA; Comtesse de Bourbon Busset, sauvegarde des monuments historiques,  présidente de Gallia Nostra, France; Peter Bugot, architecture, Jerusalem, Israel; Professore Dario Calimani, literatura inglese, Università de Venezia, Italia; Dr. Riccardo Calimani, scritore, Ingegneria e Filosofia della Scienza, Venezia, Schweizer Honorarkonsul in Venedig, Italia; Giampiero Casagrande, Editor, Casagrande - Fidia - Sapiens, Lugano, Switzerland;  Professor Michel Chaouli, Comparative Literature, Indiana University, USA; Alain Chastagnol, Médias, Hachette Filipacchi, France; Professor Houchang Chehabi, International Relations, Boston University, USA; Director Erica Claus, Minister-Counselor, Embassy of Canada in Berlin;  Professor Nancy Condee, Russian Literature, Cultural Studies, and Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh, USA; Andrei Corbea-Hoisie, Alexandru-Ioan-Cuza University of Jasi, Romania;  Peter Demetz, Comparative Literature, Sterling Professor of Comparative and German Literature, Yale University, USA; Dr. Marina Dmitrieva, Art History, Leipzig University, Germany; Dr. Professor Daniel Castillo-Durante, Latin American Studies, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada; Professor Michael Finkenthal (Physics, The Johns Hopkins University, USA); Robert Fischer, sculptor, USA; Avv. Giorgio Foppa (Lugano, Switzerland); Dr. Paola Gambarota, German and Italian Literature, University of Connecticut, USA; Henry L. Gates,  Honorary President, African and African American Studies, Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, USA; Arch. Dipl. ETH Giorgio Giudici, Mayor of Lugano, Switzerland; Professor Herb Golder, Classics, Boston University; Film Production, USA; Renée Gross Hartman, writer, New Haen, USA; Adolf Grünbaum, History and Philosophy of Science, Andrew W. Mellon Profesor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, USA; Dr. Gasan Gusejnov, Bonn, Germany/Moskow, Russian Federation; Dr. Friedrich Hamburger, Ambassador - Head of Delegation of the European Commission to Thailand; Geoffrey Hartman, English and Comparative Literature, Sterling Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Yale University, USA; Clemens Heilmann, Intercultural Management, Dynargie, Paris, France;  Marianne Hirsch, French and Italian, Columbia University, USA; Professor Stanley Hoffmann, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor, Harvard University; Burkart Holzner, Applied Sociology, Distinguished Service Professor of International Studies, University of Pittsburgh, USA; Jochen Hoock, History, Jean Monnet Professor, Paris VII, France; Marie-Claire Hoock-Demarle, German Studies, Paris VII, France; Professor Patrick Imbert, Canada Chair, French, American, and Canadian Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada; Senator Louis Jung, Honorary President of the Council of Europe, France; Dennis Kennedy, Theater Studies, Samuel Beckett Professor of Drama, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland;  Cosma Koroneos, écrivain, Paris, France; Helmut Kusdat, Geschichtswissenschaft, Universität Wien, Österreich; Professor Andreina Lavagetto, literatura tedesca, Università de Venezia, Italia; Professor Wolfgang Leonhard, History, Manderscheid, Germany; Dr. Elke Leonhard, Ehrenpräsidentin der deutschen Parlamentarischen Gesellschaft, ehem. Bundestagsabgeordnete und Vorsitzende des Ausschusses für Kultur und Medien, BRD; Professor Eduard Lipinski, Altertumsforschung und jüdische Studien, University of Leuven and Martin Buber Institute, Brussels, Belgium; Dr. Roberto Martinez, Director, Fundacion L. M. Marin, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Gerald J. Massey, Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh; Patrick Mauboussin, artiste joaillier, President of Mauboussin, France;  Professor Robert McChesney, Near Eastern Studies, New York University, USA; Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, President of the Foundation Projeto UERÊ, Rio de Janeiro, Brésil; Dominique Menu, directeur, BNP Belgrade-Paris; Dr. Marko Musulin, law, Director of Dale Investment Advisors, former Executive Director of the Austrian Creditanstalt, Vienna, Austria; Susan M. Mussman, Esq., K & L Gates, USA; Hans Noe, architecture, New York, USA; L. B. Oren, Bruxelles, Belgique; George Ragovis, Esq., Washington DC, USA; Dr. Günter Rebing (Rheinbach, Germany); Hans Arno Rheingans, M.B.A. (Düsseldorf, Germany), Professor Dr. Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt am Main, Honorary President of the City for the Cultures of Peace, Germany; Monique Rousselle, patrimoine musical, CNRS, Paris, France; Professor Peter Rychlo, German and Russian Literature, University of Czernowitz, Ukraine; Sylvie Pelissier, Conseiller Chargé de la Communication, La Poste, Paris, France; Christian Prevost-Marcilhacy, inspecteur général des monuments historiques, Historical Monuments Commission, Paris, France;  Professor Alberta Sbragia, Jean Monnet Professor, Political Science and European Studies, Director of the Center for Western European Studies and EU Center, University of Pittsburgh, USA; Thomas Lesch Schmidt, composer, Frankfurt am Main; Inge Schneier Hoffmann, Psyhology, Harvard Medical School; Professor Dr. Julius Schoeps, Jüdische Studien, Direktor des Moses Mendelssohn Zentrums für europäische-jüdische Studien, Universität Potsdam, BRD; dR: Dr. Anna Sciancalepore, History and Conflic Resolution, Lugano, Switzerland; Professor Nina Scribanu, Child Development, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA; Dr. Ernst Seidel, President of Pro Europa and the Fördergemeinschaft der europäischen Wirtschaft, Freiburg, Germany; Dr. Peter Sipos, Managing Director, SPM Consulting, Gmbh, Essen, Germany; Professor Svetlana Slapsak, Women's Studies, Director of the Ancient Anthropology Program and Gender Studies Program, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Leo Spitzer, History, Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor of History, Dartmouth College, USA; Dr. Rüdiger Stephan, former Secretary General of the European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Oliver Stümann, Writer and Curator, Bielefeld; Erika Tophoven, Translation, Straelen, BRD; Jonas Tophoven, Journalism, Paris, France; Philippe Tophoven, Chinese Studies, Paris, France;  Marleen van Waeyenberge, Brussels, Belgium; Dr. Rubin Udler, Corresponding Member of the Moldavian Academy of Science; Moldavia/USA;  Robert Zinn, Esq., Partner, K & L Gates, USA. 

In Memory of our late Honorary Members:

Professor Dr. Giuliano Baioni, 
Università de Venezia, Italia. 

Professor Jean-François Bergier,  
History, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, Vice-President of the Foundation Board, Foundation for the Cultures of Peace.

Professeur Jean Cazeneuve, philosophie, ancien ambassadeur de la France auprès du Conseil de l'Europe, Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, Institut de France, Paris, France.

Professor Dr. Manfred Schiedermair, 
Schiedermair Rechtsanwälte, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

Professor Dr. Harry Zohn, 
Brandeis University, USA.