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Web Seminar - Global Rule of Law II, May 20, 2013


In Spring 2012 WAAS conducted the first in a series of e-seminars on Global Rule of Law to mark the launching of a new World Academy program. Several papers contributed to the seminar have been subsequently published in WAAS Journals. Those pertaining to the issue of nuclear threats and security were discussed at the Academy's conference in Dubrovnik held in collaboration with the European Leadership Network last September. Other aspects of this important subject will be explored at a conference organized by the Club of Rome in Ottawa this coming September.

We are now pleased to issue a call for speakers for the second in the e-seminar series on Global Rule of Law to be conducted on May 20, 2013. The seminar seeks to address legal issues from a transdisciplinary perspective encompassing insights from the social sciences, philosophy and the humanities.

For more information, contact programs@worldacademy.org

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Opportunities & Challenges for the 21st Century:Search for a New Paradigm, Geneva, June 3, 2013


A conference at the Palais des Nations, Geneva will be conducted on June 3, 2013 with participation from major international organizations and NGOs.

The objective of the conference is to identify elements of a comprehensive approach for dealing with the major challenges facing humanity today.

The conference will address the following fundamental questions in an interrelated manner:

  1. Economy & Employment: How can global food security, full employment and abolition of poverty be achieved within a decade?
  2. Energy & Ecology: How can global living standards be raised to middle class levels without depleting or destroying the environment or depriving future generations of the capacity to sustain these achievements?
  3. Human Capital – Education, Health & Welfare: How can global levels of education and public health be raised to OECD level?
  4. Money & Finance: How can the necessary financial resources be generated and mobilized to achieve the goals described in the first three questions?
  5. Security: How can we permanently eliminate war and WMD that threaten to destroy all other development achievements?
  6. Global Governance: How can we design and implement systems of global governance capable of implementing necessary measures to achieve the other five goals for the welfare and well-being of all?
For more information, contact programs@worldacademy.org

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Opportunities and Challenges for the 21st Century, Alexandria, June 5 & 6, 2013


Search for an Alternative Paradigm to address the Multi-dimensional Global Crisis

 International workshop organized by 
the World Academy of Art and Science and the Library of Alexandria

Alexandria, Egypt  -- June 5 & 6, 2013

The objective of the workshop is to frame the outlines of a comprehensive approach for dealing with the major challenges facing humanity today.

The workshop will address the following broad issues:

  •     Common root causes of the multiple global crises
  •     Ideas, principles and values on which comprehensive solutions need to be based
  •     Strategies, policies, proposals, legal and institutional mechanisms
  •     Actionable steps

For more information, contact programs@worldacademy.org

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Web Seminar on the New Sciences II, June 18, 2013


"The Science of Complexity"
A transdisciplinary exploration of Theory and Applications,June 18, 2013
CALL FOR SPEAKERS AND PARTICIPANTS

Topics Include
  • Armed Conflicts
  • Biology
  • Climate Change & Ecology
  • Financial Crisis & Economy
  • Governance
  • Social Organization
For more information, contact programs@worldacademy.org

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Earlier Events

Web Seminar on Global Challenges & Opportunities, May 13, 2013


"The Role of Crises in Social Evolution: Lessons from History"
Preparatory to the WAAS meetings in Geneva & Alexandria, May 13, 2013

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Actions to Enhance Global Security, Zagreb, May 3, 2013


The aim of the conference is to formulate actions to:

  1. Assure non-proliferation of WMD and their constant reduction,
  2. Lead toward disarmament also through establishment of NWFZ and WMD Free Zones, and
  3. Reduce and finally to eliminate violent intra- and inter-state conflicts, to abolish war.

This conference is a continuation of several conferences organized in 2012 (e.g. Pugwash, Astana, Dubrovnik, London and Amman) and the plan of action will be based on many ideas exposed at these conferences. A particular attention is devoted to a unique role of NATO in helping a realization of some of these ideas.

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Impact of Science and Technology on Society and Economy in Trieste, Italy


Humanity is at a crossroads. Present social science theory and public policy are no longer adequate to meet the multi-dimensional challenges posed by rising social aspirations, unemployment and inequality, wasteful patterns of production and consumption, globalization of markets, technological advances, demographic changes, and ecological constraints. Incremental changes in public policy based on the present conceptual framework will only aggravate problems that are already acute. At the same time, the resources and capabilities of global society have never been greater than they are today. Scientific knowledge, technological developments, infrastructure and productive capabilities, educated and skilled human resources, entrepreneurial skills, commercial organization and a rapidly expanding global social network offer unprecedented opportunities for rapid social progress.

Our problems arise from a mismatch between resources and opportunities: social science theory that is divorced from real world functioning, financial markets that siphon off funds from investment in the real economy, capital and technology-intensive manufacturing strategies that eliminate labor resulting in higher levels of unemployment and falling consumer purchasing power, educational systems that fail to impart the knowledge and skills required by the labor market, energy production technologies that threaten the ecosystem, mispricing of natural resources leading to overexploitation and waste, national level institutions incapable and unwilling of coping with global level problems.

A solution can be found to every one of these problems, if only we are willing to think outside conventional boundaries. There is no dearth of opportunity. The limits we confront are limits to our thought. What is needed is to approach the challenges and the opportunities comprehensively and evolve an integrated package of solutions. The concept of efficient market theory to maximize return to investors has to be replaced by a theoretical framework that maximizes the efficiency of society as a whole by the full utilization of all available social resources to improve human welfare and well-being.

This Forum seeks to formulate a comprehensive package of solutions to mobilize the enormous untapped potentials of human and social capital based on far-sighted, ecologically sustainable economic policies; advanced delivery systems for higher education and vocational training; innovations in the application of science and technology; and new types of social networks and industrial clusters; together with strategies to release and direct social aspirations and energies into new fields of creativity.

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E-Workshop on Network of Sciences


A new initiative on a series of e-seminars on the ‘New Sciences’, the first being on the subject of ‘The Science of Networks'. This new science addresses a large variety of domains such as metabolism in bacteria, social networks, Internet, etc. Its application extends to governance of large institutions as well as to societal phenomena. Our intention is to introduce a text document for each workshop and to indicate research topics, either initiated by WAAS or WAAS acting in partnership with research labs or institutions.

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WAAS-ELN International Conference on Nuclear Threats and Security in Dubrovnik, Croatia


International Conference organised by the World Academy, European Leadership Network and Inter-University Center at Dubrovnik, Croatia on September 14-17, 2012.
The conference examined important issues related to nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, the legality of nuclear weapons and their use, illicit trade in nuclear materials, the dangers of nuclear terrorism, nuclear and cyber-security. Papers and video recordings of the major presentations and session summaries are given below.

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The Dream of a Global Knowledge Society : International Conference


On September 8, 2012, International Conference on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of IUC (Inter-University Centre) Dubrovnik, Don Frana Bulića 4, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

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Humanities and Contemporary World : International Conference in Montenegro


The Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts hosted an international conference, “Humanities and Contemporary World”, on June 7-9, 2012 at Podgorico, Montenegro. The conference aims to discuss how humanities can contribute to a better future by striving to understand the relationship between science, technology and other broader social fields. WAAS conducted special sessions of its programs on Emerging Individuality and Limits to Rationality as part of the conference.

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New Delhi General Assembly : November 9-11, 2011


New Delhi General Assembly : November 9-11, 2011

Crisis to Opportunity


 WAAS conducted a session at the 6th SDEWES2011 Conference on Sustainable Development in Dubrovnik, Croatia on September 27, 2011 to launch its Project From Crisis to Prosperity. 

Revolution of Rising Expectations


 On February 9, 2011 WAAS and the Center for Air Power Strategy, New Delhi conducted an international symposium on the linkage social unrest, terrorism, rising expectations, employment and economic opportunity for the poorest sections of the population, a phenomenon related to Naxal activity in India and Islamic fundamentalism in other countries.


Abolition of Nuclear Weapons


On February 7-8, 2011 the Center for Air Power Strategy, New Delhi and WAAS conducted a two day international symposium in New Delhi on strategies to abolish nuclear weapons. The meeting included delegates from USA, Europe and India.

e-Conference on Evolution of Individuality (CEI)


e-Conference on the Evolution of Individuality (CEI) was opened February 2010. Individuality is the crown of human evolution and the catalyst for social progress, yet there are very different conceptions of what constitutes true individuality, the relationship between the individual and society, and whether humanity is inevitably evolving toward higher levels of individuality. This project will explore the essential nature of individuality, the social and cultural factors that foster it, its role in social development, its myriad expressions in the original thinker, creative artist, political leader, entrepreneur, inventor and social innovator, and the means available to society to foster it.

This e-conference utilizes a variety of methods for interaction, including papers, presentations, panel discussions, audio and video webcasts and open forums.

CEI Home 

CEI Forums

GEC Webcasts


As part of our continuing effort to increasing the reach, frequency, range and effectiveness of programming and interaction among our Fellows, the Academy has developed an e-conferencing and video-conferencing platform for live virtual meetings, presentations and panel discussions of up to 30 participants, which are recorded and hosted on our website for viewing and discussion by Fellows and the general public. The first three webcasts were conducted in November as part of the Global Employment Challenge e-conference. See all recent GEC Webcasts.

GEC e-Conference


The e-Conference on Global Employment Challenge was opened in October 2009. This interdisciplinary dialogue explores theoretical and practical aspects of the global employment challenge, including its demographic, economic, legal, political, psychological dimensions as well as linkages with the international financial crisis, social stability, and terrorism.

 

This e-conference utilizes a variety of methods to explore creative solutions to the problem of global employment, including presentations, panel discussions, audio and video webcasts and open forums.

GEC Home 

GEC Forums

GEC Webcasts

Climate System Management


Organizer: Bob Berg & Walter Anderson

Participants: Jeffrey H. Schwartz, José Ireneu dos Remedios Furtado, John Cox, Daniel Coates, Geoffrey Hamer, Garry Jacobs, Ivo Slaus, Guy Stevens, Alberto Zucconi, Raoul Weiler.

The Academy conducted a symposium on Climate System Management in Palo Alto, California on July 30, 2009.

The symposium included presentations by three eminent experts on geoengineering followed by discussion. Speakers included Ken Caldeira, Chair, US National Academy of Science inquiry into geoengineering; Prof. Granger Morgan, Carnegie Mellon University (and chair of a recent international conference on risk management and geoengineering; and Jason Blackstock, Senior Analyst, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (Vienna). Read more on the event.

 

Students for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World


The World Academy has been instrumental in helping the World Federation of United Nations Associations run a contest in 2008 among students from around the world to write essays, create videos and create posters on the theme of working to eliminate nuclear weapons.

Large number of other organizations have helped publicize this effort. Students from 49 countries responded with original essays, posters and videos. The President of the World Federation, Hans Blix, and Academy Trustees Bob Berg and John Cox, participated in the award ceremonies and symposium in Geneva, July 14-18, 2008. Bob presented a paper on the World Academy's history of work on nuclear disarmament that also raised a number of policy issues for discussion by the youth leaders with senior UN officials. The 15 student leaders who were given awards set their course for further work on nuclear disarmament.
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Bob Berg's Address at the conference

Final report on the conference

International Conference in New Delhi calls for Nuclear Disarmament


Organizer: Jasjit Singh

Host: Centre for Strategic & International Studies (India)

Participants:  Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, India's Foreign Minister, Pranab Mukherjee; the Vice President of India, Mohamad Hamid Ansari; Minister Mani Shankar Iyer; Canadian Senator Douglas Roche; Australian Ambassador Richard Butler; senior Indian diplomats and military officers; as well as Fellows Jonathan Granoff , Garry Jacobs and Ivo Slaus.

The Academy's initiative on nuclear abolition has acquired greater strength and momentum with the convening of a two-day international conference on Toward a Nuclear Weapons Free World in New Delhi on June 9-10, 2008 at the initiative of WAAS Fellow Jasjit Singh. In his inaugural address, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh fully endorsed the Academy’s call for total elimination of nuclear weapons, a position that was reaffirmed by the Vice-President of India and the Foreign as well as leading Indian and international security and military experts. For More on the event, click here

Beyond Global Warming


Organizer: Jeffrey Schwartz

Participants: José Ireneu dos Remedios Furtado, John Cox, Walter Truett Anderson, Pushpa Mittra Bhargava, Daniel Coates, Geoffrey Hamer, Garry Jacobs, Alberto Zucconi, Tariq Banuri, Joseph Alter, Agni Vlavianos Arvanitis, Bruno Maresca, Ismail Serageldin, Colin MacCabe and Juliana Spahr.

On February 28, 2008, WAAS conducted an international conference on Global Warming in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh. The conference was inaugurated by Mark A. Nordenberg, the University Chancellor and included sessions on Global Challenges of the Future and Can the Arts and Sciences Collaborate on Global Issues?

Installation of Prof. Jeffrey Schwartz as New President


Jeffrey Schwartz, PhD, Professor of Anthropology and History and Philosophy of Science and Fellow in the University’s Center for Philosophy of Science, was inducted as the New WAAS President on February 28, 2008, at Pittsburgh, by outgoing president Dr.Walter Truett Anderson. For More on the event with pictures click here


Weaponization of Space


Organizer: Jonathan Granoff -- Global Security Institute (USA)

Participants: Jonathan Granoff, Walter Anderson, Garry Jacobs, Ivo Slaus, Ashok Natarajan

On February 26, 2008, WAAS conducted a high level workshop on the threats arising from the weaponization of space, in collaboration with the Global Security Institute at the GSI's offices in New York City. Expert presentations were made by Jonathan Granoff, President of GSI, Ambassador Robert Gray, Director, Bipartisan Security Group and Canadian legal expert Lucy Stojak.

Program on Nuclear Disarmament (October - 2006)


Organizers: Jonathan Granoff & Garry Jacobs -- Global Security Institute (USA) & Mother's Service Society (India)

Speakers: Jonathan Granoff, Douglas Roche, Harlan Cleveland, Lincoln Bloomfield, Walter Anderson,  John Cox, Garry Jacobs, Bob Berg,  Robert van Harten, Ashok Natarajan

 


SCPD convened a two-day meeting in New York with the leadership of the Global Security Institute and its Middle Powers Initiative program, to explore the potential for cooperative effort.

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World Futures Society Conference (July - 2006)


Organizer: Walter Anderson

Participants: Jasjit Singh, Garry Jacobs, Walter Anderson

WAAS organized a special workshop on nuclear disarmament at the World Future’s Society Annual Conference in Toronto on July 30, 2006.

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Security in Knowledge-based Society (Nov 2005)


NATO Advanced Research Workshop at Zagreb, Croatia, began immediately prior to the opening of the 2005 General Assembly, and then ran concurrently with it.

Co-directors: Harlan Cleveland, former US Ambassador to NATO; Lincoln Bloomfield, former Director of Global Issues, US National Security Council; Ivo Slaus, Director, South Eastern Europe Division, WAAS; Milan Stanicic, Institute for International Relations, Zagreb.

The Future of Knowledge - GA at Zagreb (2005)


The 2005 General Assembly, held in the Westin Zagreb Hotel in the hospitable country of Croatia, was one of the most successful in the history of the Academy. Click to Read More

Peace & Security -- Washington Sept 17, 2005


Organizers: Harlan Cleveland & Garry Jacobs -- International Center for Peace & Development (USA) & The Mother's Service Society (India)

Participants: Robert McNamara, Harlan Cleveland, Jasjit Singh, Walter Anderson, Bob Berg, Garry Jacobs, Jon Peterson, Robert van Harten, Ashok Natarajan

Uncommon Opportunities: Roadmap for Employment, Food & Global Security (2004)


Organizers: M. S. Swaminathan & Garry Jacobs -- UN World Food Program, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Mother's Service Society &  National Farmers Commission (India), International Centre for Peace & Development (USA).

WAAS Fellow Participants: Harlan Cleveland, M. S. Swaminathan, Pushpa Bhargava, Jasjit Singh, Walter Anderson, Garry Jacobs, Ivo Slaus,  Robert van Harten, Ashok Natarajan

The Academy conducted an international symposium was conducted in New Delhi on November 19-22, 2004 in collaboration with UN World Food Program, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Mother's Service Society & National Farmers Commission (India), International Centre for Peace & Development (USA) to examine the relevance in today's world of recommendations contained in the report of the International Commission on Peace & Food, Uncommon Opportunities: Agenda for Peace & Equitable Development, which was submitted to the UN in 1994, and to explore the inextricable mutual interdependence between peace, social stability, democracy, employment and food security. The conference was inaugurated by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, President of India.

Power and Property in the Information Society


Computer conference: April 2004 Organizer: Richard Farson, International Leadership Forum. Participants included Douglass Carmichael, Arthur Cordell, Andrew Peter Fenton, Frederick Turner, Donald Straus.

The Future of Higher Education in the Global Information Society


San Diego, California, March 2004 Organizer: Maureen O’Hara, Meridian International Institute. This was the first of the preparatory conferences leading up to the 2005 General Assembly on “The Future of Knowledge.” Participants included Katherine Clarke, Napier Collyns, June Delano, Bob Horn, Ruben Nelson, Elsa Porter, Paul Silverman, Ralph Wolff.

Microbial Biotechnology: For Better or for Worse?


Biopolicy Seminar: Stockholm, September 2003 Organized by Carl-Göran Hedén and the World Academy’s Biofocus Foundation under the auspices of the Biotechnology Division of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. Featured speaker: Edgar daSilva. Participants included Harlan Cleveland, Lena Torell, Anders Wijkman.

Timing and Perseverance: Entrepreneurship for Eco-Efficiency


Biopolicy Seminar: Stockholm, October 2002 Organized by Carl-Göran Hedén and the World Academy’s Biofocus Foundation under the auspices of the Engineering Division of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Featured Speaker: Rita Colwell. Participants included Geoffrey Hamer, Gunter Pauli, Christer Salén, Anders Wijkman.

The Future of Knowledge in the World of the Internet


Pari, Italy, May 2002 Organized by David Peat, Pari Center for New Learning, sponsored and co-hosted by The Knowledge Forum, with the participation of Associazione Sette Colli, Pari. Participants: David Alsmeyer, Walt Anderson, Lina Bussian, Virginia Del Re, Andrew Fenton, Warwick Fox, Divina Frau-Meigs, Jean-Claude Guedon, Katherine Heath, Basil Hiley, Roy McWeeny, Christine Maxwell, Neil Maroni, Salvatore Santoli, Shalini Venturelli, Kim Williams.

The Future of the Academy


Pari, Italy, September 2000 Organized by David Peat, Pari Center for New Learning. Sponsored by the World Academy and the Gulbenkian Foundation in partnership with the University of Siena and the Associazione Sette Coli of Pari. Participants: Dennise Albrecht, William Bricken, João Caraça, John P. Coleman, Arthur Cordell, Ruth Dempsey, Chris Drane, Maurizio Franzini, Francesca Farabollini, Basil Hiley, Deborah Klimburg-Slater, Rita Lauria, Elena Liotta, Roger Malina, Roy McWeeny, Virginia McWeeny, Jayne Persch, Chris Philippidis, Paavo Pylkkanen, Elina Pylkkanen.

The Psychology of Globalization


San Francisco, California, February 2000 Organizer: Walt Anderson. Keynote speaker: John Gardner. Participants included Mary Catherine Bateson, Harlan Cleveland, Sandy Close, Leonard Duhl, Percy Hintzen, Mohamed Kassas, Roberto Lovato, Donald Michael, Maureen O’Hara, Nancy Palmer, Richard Palmer, Ana Maria Sandi, Stephen Toulmin, Ling-Chi Wang.

International Symposium on Development Theory


Chennai (Madras), India, September 1999 Hosted by the International Center for Peace and Development (USA), the Mother's Service Society and the M. S. Swaminathan Foundation. Co-chairs: M. S. Swaminathan, Harlan Cleveland. Participants included Robert Berg, Pushpa Bhargava, John P. Craven, Jose Ireneu dos Remedios Furtado, Robert van Harten, Garry Jacobs, Bernard Lietaer, B. S. Raghavan, Ana Maria Sandi, Ivo Slaus, C. Subramanian.

Governance and Civilizations


Brussels, Belgium, May 1998 Organized by Marc Luyckx, Forward Studies Unit, European Commission, and Harlan Cleveland, World Academy. Participants included Lincoln Bloomfield, Robert Cooper, Arthur Cordell, Jim Dator, Susantha Goonatilake, Rabbi Albert Guigui, Sohail Inayatullah, Tae-Chang Kim, Ziauddin Sardar, Bishop William Swing, Patrick Viveret.

The Global Century - GA at Vancouver (1998)


The theme of the conference was the proposition that, whereas publisher Henry Luce had once pronounced the 20th century to be “The American Century,” the 21st would be the century of globalization. Click to Read More

From Biological Identity to Social Behavior (two-part symposium)


Curia, Portugal & Lisbon, Portugal, September 1997 Organizers: Horacio Menano, Joao Caraca, thbr Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Speakers included Alexandre Castro Caldas, Jean-Pierre Changeaux, Nicole LeDouarin, Tod Machover, John Maynard Smith, Matthew Wilson, Lewis Wolpert.

Between Cultural Chaos and Uniformity: Perspectives for Integration of Civil Societies


Jachranka, Poland May 1997 Organizer: Andrzej Sicinski, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Co-sponsored by the Stefan Batory Foundation (Warsaw) and the European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam). Participants included Lincoln Bloomfield, Harlan Cleveland, Magda McHale, Alina Mungiu, Jirí Musil.

Religion and Governance


San Francisco, California, February 1997 Organizer: Harlan Cleveland. Participants included Knute Buttedahl, Paz Buttedahl, Andrew Lam, Durwood Foster, Robert Ross, Huston Smith.

The Future of Work


Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 1996 Organizer: Harlan Cleveland. Participants included A. T. Ariyaratne, Sujit Chowdhury, Arthur Cordell, Garry Jacobs, Bruce LaRue, Patrick Mendis, Rem Petrov, John Rollwagen, Keith Vargo.

Biological Globalization


Lisbon, Portugal, November 1995 Organizers: Walt Anderson, World Academy, and Horacio Menano, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Participants included Jeffrey McNeely, Harold Mooney, Alexandre Quintanilha, Paul Silverman, Phyllis Windle.

Who Is Designing the 21st Century?


Buffalo, New York, September 1995 Organizer: Magda McHale, Center for Integrative Studies, SUNY Buffalo. Participants included John Bis, Sam Cole, Kate Foster, Bruno Freschi, Hirotoshi Komoda, Himmi Jammal, Anthony Judge, Horacio Menano, Andrezej Sicinski, Ernest Sternberg.

Mapping the “Third Vision”


(Third Meridian Conference on Global Governance) Bolinas, California, March 1995 Organizer: Walt Anderson, Meridian International Institute. Participants: John H. Barton, Paz Buttedahl, Michael Clague, Mary Catherine Bateson, Harlan Cleveland, John Fobes, Robert Horn, Michael Lerner, Donald Michael, Steven Rosell, Steven T. Walther. (Supported by a grant from the Jenifer Altman Foundation.)

Cultural Identity and the Requirements of Civilization


Mangalia, Romania, June 1994 Organizer: Mircea Malitza, Black Sea University. Participants included Harlan Cleveland, Bob Horn, Jonko Jotov, Magda Cordell McHale, Yuri Poluneev, Andrzej Sicinski, Ivo Slaus, Julia Zahoruiko.

Global Governance in a Turbulent World


(Second Meridian Conference on Global Governance) Bolinas, California, February 1994 Organizer: Walt Anderson, Meridian International Institute. Participants: Janice Brodman, Paz Buttedahl, Joao Caraca, Michael Clough, Harlan Cleveland, Jim Dator, Yehezkel Dror, John Fobes, John Gardner, Bob Horn, Pierre-Marc Johnson, Michael Lerner, James MacNeill, Donald Michael, Henry Miller, Motumbo Mpanya, Maureen O’Hara, Steven Rosell, James Rosenau, Edgar H. Schein, Paul Silverman, Paul von Ward. (Supported by a grant from the Jenifer Altman Foundation. For full conference report see Meridian website.

The Governance of Diversity - GA at Minneapolis (1994)


The object of the 1994 General Assembly, as set forth in a preliminary planning document by Academy President Harlan Cleveland, was “to develop and disseminate a fresh vision of the kinds of human cooperation that will be possible in the 2020 world, and the steps governments and nongovernments will need to take, starting soon, to make such peaceful change possible.” Click to Read More

The Global Surprise: Reframing Governance and Citizenship


(First Meridian Conference on Global Governance) Bolinas, California, April – May 1993 Organizer: Walt Anderson, Meridian International Institute. Participants included Michael Clague, Harlan Cleveland, John Fobes, Bob Horn, Michael Lerner, Donald Michael, Mutombo Mpanya, Michael Real, Steven Rosell, James Rosenau, Franz Schurmann. Support provided by grants from the Jenifer Altman Foundation and the Max and Anna Levinson Foundation.

Art and Science


Vinci, Italy, December 1992 Organized by Eleonora Masini Barbieri under the auspices of the Italian Ministry for Culture, with the support of the Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, ENEA, ALITALIA, UNESCO and the Commission of the European Communities, in cooperation with the Municipality of Vinci. Participants: Walt Anderson, Umberto Baldini, Omar Calabrese, Giorgio Careri, Harlan Cleveland, Gianluigi Colalucci, Umberto Colombo, Paola Coppola Pignatelli, Maurizio Diana, Gillo Dorfles, Michele Emmer, Gideon Engler, Richard Gregory, Vladimir Kouzminov, Ervin Laszlo, Irving Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, Carlo Lizzani, Mochtar Lubis, Manfredo Macioti, Luigi Massoni, Magda McHale, Horacio Menano, Kinhide Mushakoji, Ilya Prigogine, John H. Proctor, Lilian Schwartz, Pierre Spitz, Tatyana Tchuvilyova, Giorgio Torraca.