SALON LUITPOLD | Frieden durch Föderalismus – nicht nur im Nahen Osten | Mit Michael Wolffsohn und Wilhelm Vossenkuhl

In the organizer's words:

For SALON Luitpold, historian Michael Wolffsohn and philosopher Wilhelm Vossenkuhl discuss an idea that is as uncomfortable as it is fascinating.

Wolffsohn argues for a federal state order as an alternative to the often deadlocked two-state solution between Israel, the Palestinians and their Arab neighbors. Hannah Arendt had already formulated a similar approach in the late 1940s. The SALON is about the concrete design of such a federal structure, its political, legal and cultural prerequisites - and about the crucial question of whether federalism can be more than a theoretical hope today: a realistically viable path to lasting peace, even beyond the Middle East.