A Tale of Three Cities

Between June 1992 and September 1993 three important world conferences that became a symbol of the world's worries and aspirations were celebrated: the Earth Meeting, in Rio de Janeiro; the Human Rights World Conference, in Vienna; and the World Religions Parliament Meeting, in Chicago. Each of these conferences had different results, the history of these three cities is different, although there is a notable coherence in shared worries, in human basic values. Although different, the history of each one of these three cities is, therefore, also the history of the three of them.

Rede Lecture, delivered in the Senate House of the University of Cambridge, on November 30, 1993.