EIR Emergency Roundtable Dialogue, ‘A Dialogue of Civilizations: Is There Still Time to Prevent the War Against Iran from Escalating into a Global Nuclear Conflict?’
April 6, 2026
10:00 a.m.—2:30 p.m. (EDT); 4:00 p.m.—8:30 p.m. (CET); with two panels
For English: YouTube, Panel 1 https://www.youtube.com/live/4RF38nwzZD0
Panel 2 https://www.youtube.com/live/b62RFlF3BnE
For Spanish, German and French simultaneous interpretation: Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86558216425?pwd=ba2EZRRxSaXuRZgshbgfaasspjsn5V1
A Dialogue of Civilizations: Is There Still Time to Prevent the War Against Iran from Escalating into a Global Nuclear Conflict?
Do not make the mistake of dismissing the dialogue about proposed solutions to the war now raging across Southwest Asia that will be aired during an April 6 EIR Emergency Roundtable Dialogue, as “impractical,” “unrealistic” or “out of reach.” There is nothing more “impractical” than allowing the current trajectory of the U.S.-Israeli war of aggression against Iran to escalate into a full-scale nuclear conflict, which would have a high probability of ending all recognizable human life on the planet.
On Monday, April 6, leading international strategic thinkers and representatives from Iran, the United States, Europe, China and various nations of the Global South will engage in a frank dialogue on the nature and origins of the current war against Iran—and its underlying historical and policy origins—and will seek solutions based on organizing a new security and development architecture to meet the legitimate needs of each and every nation in the region and across the planet.
We reject the geopolitics and religious warfare proposed by the likes of Samuel Huntington and his Clash of Civilizations, a doctrine which he intellectually plagiarized from the violently anti-Islamic leading British orientalist Bernard Lewis, an outlook that stems from the Hobbesian view of Man that we are as animals with each at war with all. We instead embrace the outlook stated by EIR Editor-in-Chief and Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche in a March 9 open letter to Pope Leo XIV, calling for a Dialogue of Cultures in the spirit of the 15th century Catholic Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, who has been cited as a model by the Pope, because we must “avoid a descent into an irreparable abyss… (We must instead) cause a change in world history and fulfill the will of God, who for sure did not create the world and gift humanity with reason, to have it destroyed by the lack of it.”
President Trump has announced a “postponement” until April 6 of his threat to bomb Iranian energy and industrial infrastructure, so long as Iran capitulates to America’s demands for unconditional surrender. There is of course no guarantee that Trump will hold off until April 6 on a new round of attacks, and in fact Israel has already continued bombing Iran’s steel plants, the Bushehr nuclear energy facility, and so on.
The policy required for the entire region—from India to the Mediterranean, from the Caucasus to the Gulf—is one of reconstruction and Dialogue of Civilizations, such as the Oasis Plan proposed in 1975 by the renowned American economist and statesman, Lyndon LaRouche, and today updated by Helga Zepp-LaRouche and the Schiller Institute.
