The 14th Annual Session of the World Public Forum was held in Rhodes on September 30 – October 1, 2016. The overarching theme of the Forum was “The Clash of Multiplicity: an Urgent Call for Dialogue”. Together with former President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus and Jomo Sundaram, former UN assiatnt Secretary General for Economic development , Prof Richard Falk, Princeton University and Bagher Horamshad, Secretary General of the International Strategic Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Jean-Christophe Bas was a panelist in the session on “ East and West, North and South: Bridging the Gap”. He presented for the first time the project of Global Connecters Peace Initiative.