In September 2002, AFPC was pleased to host the Washington meeting of the World Anticrime and Antiterrorism Forum

The central theme of the “Peaceful Road to Democracy” conference, sponsored in Prague by Resistance International and the American Foreign Policy Council, addressed the difficult task of transition: How do we build a free-market economy and a democratic society “from under the rubble” (in Solzhenitsyn’s phrase)?  “Mr. Gorbachev is turning the Soviet Union into one giant Beirut,” said Vladimir Bukovsky in his opening remarks at the conference.  “State structures remain the greatest obstacle to human freedom, and…socialism cannot be restructured or reformed: it can only be eliminated.”

The American Foreign Policy Council traveled to Prague, Czechoslovakia this past July to co-sponsor the “Peaceful Road to Democracy” conference.  The three day event was initiated at the request of President Vaclav Havel, in coordination with his group, Charter 77, and was directed by the American Foundation for Resistance International.

Commencing on the 4^th of July, Resistance International, along with co-sponsors American Foreign Policy Council and the Center For Democracy in the USSR, will conduct a three-day conference to be held in Prague, Czechoslovakia.  Under the guidance of Albert Jolis, The Peaceful Road to Democracy conference will involve democratic leaders from the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and the West.