The Symposium concluded with a Memorandum that was signed by Literature Laureate Wole Soyinka and Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai, as well as by Laureates in Chemistry, Physics and Economics.

Since the Symposium, many other Nobel Laureates with Prizes have supported this initiative, including many scientists and economists and three recent winners of the Nobel Peace Prize: Dr Mohamed ElBaradei, Mikhail Gorbachev, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and three winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: John Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Doris Lessing.