What was outstanding was that these were people from groups that traditionally distrust one another, a fact made all the more striking by the theme of the meeting.
The theme of the meeting for 2010 is to explore the inter-relationship between the Culture of Peace and Human Dignity, in the last year of the United Nations Decade of the Culture of Peace.
Disaster risk reduction on the oceans and in coastal zones is another main theme of the meeting.
It is in this challenging context that the World Economic Forum will highlight The Power of Collaborative Innovation as the principal theme for the Annual Meeting 2008 in Davos.
But with most countries emerging slowly from the gloom, the theme at this year's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) -- Shared Norms for the New Reality -- is intended to move the agenda away from collective navel-gazing, towards a post-crisis mindset based on pragmatic realism.
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The year after the fund scandals broke, it devoted its annual meeting to the theme of restoring investor confidence.
Player safety was the theme of the committee's three-day meeting in Indianapolis, with the ejection for targeting the most noticeable change fans will notice in 2013 across all NCAA divisions.
That was the theme of first post-debate debate and affected the second meeting, when Mr Gore, overcompensating, pulled his punches.
Celtic are also having to cut their cloth according to the relative decline of Scottish football, which will be a theme you might see running through the annual meeting on 14 October.
The meeting will develop the theme of earth resources across three sessions.
This theme is proposed as main focus for the meeting of the International Working Group, convened on 24 October and formed by experts in representation of the participating ministries of culture.
The need to avoid complacency is a regular theme at every Davos meeting - but this was the first in five years that there seemed a genuine risk of it breaking out.
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The findings and conclusions of the expert group meeting will also provide the basis for a report of the UN Secretary-General on this theme early in 2003.
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