Roots of Conflict in the Middle East

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/28/Niall_Ferguson_and_Peter_Schwartz_on_Human_Progress

Historian Niall Ferguson debates futurist author Peter Schwartz on the historical roots of modern-day conflicts in the Middle East.

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Niall Ferguson and Peter Schwartz present Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminars about Long-term Thinking.

Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

He is most recently the author of the books The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006) and Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (2004).

Peter Schwartz is cofounder and chairman of Global Business Network (GBN), a unique membership organization and worldwide network of strategists, business executives, scientists, and artists based in Emeryville, California. Established in 01988, GBN specializes in corporate scenario planning and research on the future of the business environment. From 01982 to 01986, Peter headed scenario planning for the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies in London. His team conducted comprehensive analyses of the global business and political environment and worked with senior management to create successful strategies.

Schwartz is the co-author of both the 01999 books The Long Boom, and When Good Companies Do Bad Things: Responsibility and Risk in an Age of Globalization, and is the author of the 01991 book, The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World. He is a member of the Long Now Foundation's Board of Directors.

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[newalbion2012]

@FREEMAN8522 And what is the truth? Zionist conspiracy perhaps? :)

[EnterTheTruth]

wow, Nial Ferguson was actually un biased....im shocked

[happinesson]

both of them have a point!

[betakappa19]

@futurahi Actually, the French made Lebanon a much better place. The Syrians, on the other hand, really screwed Lebanon by allowing the rise and continued arming of terrorist groups like Hezbollah.

[FREEMAN8522]

to hide the trueth , these blood sucker Amircan and Isrealies call it the clash of civilization..

[bozzeed]

@sokolel what is the reality and science that should be forward then?

[sokolel]

@bozzeed

If muslims and aljazeera continue to go forward with demagogy and religion, instead of reality and science the world will not find peace.

[bozzeed]

@sokolel what was the muslims fault? and what is the way to go forward?

[sokolel]

The biggest flaw of the middle east is cultural, and its medieval attachment to islam. Muslims must begin to look to their faults, not others, to go forward.