Talks in English: Crossed lines – do we really understand one another?
- Kde: Knihovna Václava Havla, Ostrovní 13, Praha 110 00
- Kdy: 30. březen 2015, 19:00 – 21:00
The next in a series of talks in English with colleagues and friends of Václav Havel. Discussion with Pavel Fischer and Jiří Šitler, both diplomats and colleagues of Václav Havel, chaired by David Vaughan. One of the challenges of the diplomat is to try to understand the way others think. But is this really possible?
Recent experiences of international diplomacy seem to suggest that we spend much of our time talking at cross purposes. Whether we’re talking about Ukraine, China or even Greece, the international community seems to be as deeply divided as in the days of the Cold War. Even our shared horror at the recent tragedy in Paris seems to have brought little in the way of real international understanding. But are things really as bad as they might seem at first sight?