The seminar "Sapere aude: Freedom, Legal Consciousness, Ethics" organised by the Association of Schools of Political Studies, in co-operation with the Valsaín Foundation for Promotion and Defense of Democratic Values was held in Segovia, Spain, on 27-31 May 2019.

The seminar was attended by 22 prominent speakers from the Argentina, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, the UK, Ukraine and the USA and 69 young decision-makers and opinion-formers from Armenia, Belarus, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Spain and Ukraine.

Among the topics discussed were Multilateralism, Globalization, Rule of Law, Global World, Ethics, Civics, Freedom, Responsibility and many others.

Programme

Videos:

Alvaro Gil-Robles: Can We Get Democracy Without Values?

Francis Martin O’Donnell: The Ecology of Multilateralism

Tomás de la Quadra-Salcedo: Democracy, Rule of Law and Values in the Digital Society

Lord Robert Skidelsky: The Impossible Political Trilemma: Sovereignty, Globalization, and Democracy

Leon Aron: Self-restraint of the power as a moral and personal choice

Gunnar Wetterberg: The Welfare State and Globalisation: The Swedish Experience

Gleb Pavlovsky: Chances and alternatives of the Russian opposition

Ana Maria Perona-Fjeldstad: Building a Culture of Democracy Through Education