The idea for the Forum 2000 Conference originated in 1997, when President Havel and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel invited world leaders to Prague to discuss the challenges humanity was facing on the threshold of the new millennium. Since then, Forum 2000 has evolved into a successful and widely recognized conference series, where distinguished guests address a diverse international community on topics ranging from the situation of human rights to the state of democracy and challenges to the international rules-based order.