To draw up a balance sheet and outline propositions for the future of the world was the wish of Elie Weisel and François Mitterand when they met in Paris in January 1988, at conference of Nobel prize laureates of all disciplines. Born of this historic meeting, this book makes heard the voices of our era's great intellectuals, writers and militants of humanitarian action as well as men and women of passion and intelligence who are revolted by injustice and invested with the will to build a better world.