Norway’s future King is one of the speakers at this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Crown Prince Haakon was there to talk about his involvement with Global Dignity, a non-for-profit organization which is aimed at helping to solve world problems, while connecting with every person’s common need for respect and dignity. 
Other world leaders involved in Global Dignity include Professor Pekka Himanen, a leading philosopher and author, and “silver rights” entrepreneur John Bryant. Also getting into the organization is South African Nobel Laureate, Bishop Desmond Tutu.
The group has been speaking not only at the Forum, but also at schools in the surrounding area. There, they have been discussing with students on the importance of people living their lives with dignity.
Desmond Tutu appears to enjoy the company of Haakon.
“I and many more leaders were like him. He is fantastic, is he not?” Desmond Tutu said on his way out from school Aulaen where the two, a few hundred students and celebrities such as Richard Branson and Peter Gabriel had told each other stories about human dignity.
The starting point was an initiative that the Crown Prince has to lead, how he travels around and asks young people to formulate what they believe the world is and how they can help others.
“I am very fond of him, and I think many are. He could only be new to be a prince. It is nothing other than the heart that drives him, “said Tutu, before he adds:
“What kind of water you have in Norway which makes that he be like that?”
Inside the hall, a stone from the security zone around the center to meet the world economic forum, the Crown Prince was introduced as “not only a Prince, but also a nice and cool guy.”
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