In 1988 the Center for Soviet American Dialogue sponsored a weeklong Summit in Washington D.C. It brought together 300 American innovators and over 100 of their Soviet counterparts to create joint projects. They met in task forces in many areas including health, education, economics, national security, environment, media and peace. The resulting projects were published in a daily newspaper and were fed into a Convergence Center where they were openly mapped to promote the integration and cross-fertilization of projects.

The Summit organizers included Rama Vernon, Henri Borovik, Barbara Marx Hubbard and Paul Temple. Several American notables such as Ted Turner and Robert Muller, former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, spoke from the podium. Henri Borovik read a letter from Mikhail Gorbachev expressing greetings and wishes for success, recognizing the Summit as a significant contribution to Soviet American relations.

American and Russian performers provided entertainment throughout. The Summit concluded with the reading of an open letter addressed to Secretary General Mikhail Gorbachev, President Ronald Reagan and the next President of the United States. The letter, entitled “The Alexandria Appeal,” is included in this collection. This inspirational, the video, which is available in chapters, documents the Convergence Center process that showcases the mindset and values many 1980s visionaries.