The panel focuses on the complex issues of political crisis. It explores ways of fostering new entrepreneurial spirits and encourages human understanding, dialogue and cooperation. It seeks to identifies common ethical values that promotes equity, peace, justice and prosperity in an increasingly globalize, but multicultural world.

This panel explores the nature of institutions and their consequences on economic performances and (societal) development. The main function of institutions- offering reliable expectations about the behavior of others and thus being a basis for mutual trust- depends on the commitment of the parties involved and the appropriate mechanisms of monitoring and -if necessary- sanctions.

In this respect, one of the most important institutional developments of the past years is NEPAD - New Partnership for African Development. Therefore the second panel examines the vision and strategic framework of NEPAD with the view of strengthening its capacity and relevancy to the new world economic order. Nepad needs and deserves attention as a fundamental asset of building global cooperation and contributing to the necessary prerequisites for Entrepreneurial spirit.

Corporations nowadays learn the the public expects a demonstration of their corporate responsibility. When taken seriously, this has to be more than just good deeds; corporate responsibility demands a kind of profit seeking that simultaneously contributes to the common good. We are convinced that numerous opportunities in Africa exist, if one accepts to invest in the conditions of their realizations.