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The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the various pictures of color confinement and its consequences on the properties of hadrons.

We consider color confinement, chiral symmetry breaking, and the properties of QCD at finite temperature, as the fundamental subjects of QCD.

We include discussions on the roles of instantons to hadron physics.

We also provide ideas of critical experiments at medium to higher energies to identify the mechanism of color confinement and chiral symmetry breaking.Contents: Monopole Condensation in Lattice SU(2) QCD (T Suzuki)Monopole Condensation in Gauge Theory Vacuum (A Di Giacomo)Dual Abrikosov Vortices in Conflining Theories (R W Haymaker)Dual Ginzburg–Landau Theory for Nonperturbative QCD (H Suganuma et al.)On the Structure of the Yang–Mills Vacuum (G Schierholz & G T der Elementarteilchen)Extracting the Thermodynamics of SU(N) Gauge Theories in the Continuum Limit (F Karsch)Field Strength Approach to Yang–Mills Theory in Maximal Abelian Gauge (H Reinhardt)Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Improved Ladder Approximation (K Higashijima)Meson Properties from Improved Ladder Bethe–Salpeter Equations (T Kugo)Dual Ginzburg–Landau Theory and Chiral Symmetry Breaking (H Toki)QCD Monopoles and Chiral Symmetry Breaking on SU(2) Lattice (O Miyamura & S Origuchi)Gauge Fixing on the Lattice (Ph DeForcrand)A Class of Saddle–Point Configurations in Three-Dimensional SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory (R D Mawhinney)Quark–Hadron Phase Transition in the Early Universe (T Kajino)and other papersReadership: Researchers in high energy physics (theory) and nuclear physics.