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Articles of Volume 3, Issue 1 – Click here to download full issue

• The King is Dead…Long Live the King: A Theory Concerning the Current Wave of Authoritarianism — David Norris
• COVID-19 and the Global Problem of Human Security — Yury Sayamov
• Epicurus, Death and the Need for Power — Gerald A. Gutenschwager
• The Future Cannot Be Withheld — Momir Djurovic
• Blockchain Platform for the Organization of a Political Party, Social Movement, International Organizations, Public Companies, etc. — Mariana Todorova
• Accessing the Untapped Resource of Humankind through Critical Cultural Action & Embodied Arts Praxis — Julene Siddique & Rae Johnson
• The Heartbeat of our Global Responses — Edy Korthals Altes
• Biology and Society: A Holistic View — Gerald A. Gutenschwager
• Can Lack of Leadership Become Transformative? — Fadwa El Guindi
• The Art and Science of Innovative Collaboration: The Future of Democracy and Humanity — Charles Smith

Articles of Volume 2, Issue 6 – Click here to download full issue

• Understanding Society: The Interplay of Reason & Emotion — Gerald Gutenschwager
• Physics and Cognition — João Caraça
• The Philosophy of International Relations — Yury Sayamov
• A Slightly Contrarian Perspective on a Nuclear-Free World — John F. Gaski
• Future Possible Scenarios of World Governance: A Discussion on Keith Suter’s Ideas — Daniel Rueda Garrido
• On the Limits to Development in Technology and Knowledge — Jüri Engelbrecht
• Information Asymmetry and the Coase Theorem Fallacy — Radmilo Pešić
• A Note Reconsidering ‘A Theory of Wealth Distribution and Accumulation’: Perspective on Uncertainty — Joanilio R. Teixeira & João G. de Araujo Oliveira
• Economy and Employment: Trends to 2040 — Gill Ringland & Patricia Lustig
• Heart of Darkness for Mind, Thinking & Creativity Conference — Winston P. Nagan
• Fourth Industrial Revolution: Challenges, Risks & Opportunities — Valeriy V. Goncharov
• Our Endangered World Needs a New Paradigm — Edy Korthals Altes
• The Space Between Us: An Approach to Collaborative Innovation — David Norris
• The Art & Science of Collaborative Innovation: A General Theory — Charles E. Smith

Articles of Volume 2, Issue 5 – December 2018. Click here to download full issue

• Revisiting The Arab Spring — Fadwa El Guindi
• Institutional Challenges to the Labor Market and the Fourth Industrial Revolution — Juliano Vargas & Joanilio Rodolpho Teixeira
• Managing Uncertainty – A Challenge for Contemporary Society — Emil Constantinescu
• Big Government and Global Governance: Managing Complexity for the New Society — Rodolfo A. Fiorini
• Planning as the Art of Collective Anticipation — Gerald Gutenschwager
• Social Power and Stabilization Strategies: A Case Study of Brazilian Troops Deployment in Haiti — Juliana Sandi Pinheiro & Danielle Sandi Pinheiro
• Self-determination versus Techno-economic Determinism: Managing the Cultural Challenge of Techno-economic Determinism — Leon Miller
• Inspirational Thinking: A Manifesto — Shlomo Yishai
• A Paradigm Shift in Public Service Delivery: The Malaysian PEMANDU — Ajay Tejasvi Narasimhan & Anand Pillai
• Mastering What Transforms: Dream the Impossible Dream and Go for It — Charles E. Smith

Volume 2, Issue 4 – July 2018 (Special Edition on Education). Click here to download full issue

Papers presented at the Rome Conference, 2017

SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION

• Introductory Remarks by the President of WAAS — Heitor Gurgulino de Souza
• Introductory Report on the 2nd International Conference on Future Education — Garry Jacobs & Alberto Zucconi
• Contextual, Relational, Human-Centered Knowledge — Edgar Morin
• Education to Meet Societal Needs — Peter Senge

SECTION 2: UNIVERSITIES REFLECTING THE CURRENT STATE OF THE SYSTEM

• The European University in Crisis: A Vision From Spain — Juan Cayón Peña
• To Cope with Present and Future Catastrophic Risks, Higher Education must Train Future Decision Makers to Think Critically, Ethically and in System — Lennart Levi & Bo Rothstein
• The Knowledge of Complexity should be a part of Contemporary Education — Jüri Engelbrecht

SECTION 3: THE NEED FOR A NEW PARADIGM

• Some Reflections on the Future of Education — J. Martin Ramirez & Tina Lindhard
• Higher Education and the New Society of Third Millennium — Emil Constantinescu
• Future Education: A New Paradigm — Federico Mayor Zaragoza
• The Challenges for Future Education: A Global Perspective — Marco Vitiello

SECTION 4: WHERE TO BEGIN? CHANGE NEEDED AT THE PRIMARY LEVEL

• Start Early, End Strong — George Halvorson & Robert J. Berg
• Breaking Barriers with Building Blocks: Attitudes towards Learning Technologies & Curriculum Design in ABC Curriculum Design Workshop — Kristy Evers
• Young Children, Digital Technology and the School of Tomorrow — Marion Voillot
• The Impact of Exogenous Urban Factors on Absenteeism & Dropout Rates — Davor Bernardić

SECTION 5: MIND, THINKING AND CREATIVITY

• Insights on Creativity — Vani Senthil

SECTION 6: TRANSDISCIPLINARITY: BREAKING THE SILOS

• UNIVERSITIES: Enhancing the Education, Research and Innovation Base — Marcel van de Voorde
• Transdisciplinary Education for Deep Learning, Creativity and Innovation — Rodolfo Fiorini

SECTION 7: TOOLS/CATALYSTS IN THE TRANSFORMATION PROCESS

• The Teacher as Catalyst: Skills Development & Self-Discovery in Group Contexts — Ullica Segerstrale
• The Future of Higher Education: The Role of Basic Values — Winston P. Nagan & Megan E. Weeren
• Online and Hybrid Learning — Janani Ramanathan
• Lifelong Learning: A Necessity in the Knowledge Society — Raoul Weiler
• Higher Education and Small Countries — Momir Djurovic
• Teaching Assistants (TAs) as Secondary Facilitators in an Academic Support Unit in a South African University — Makhanya-Nontsikelelo Lynette Buyisiwe

SECTION 8: THE RESULT – PEACE, BETTER GOVERNANCE AND NEW ECONOMICS

• Education, Democracy and Peace — Siro Polo Padolecchia
• Education: An Essential Tool for Reaching the UN SDGs by 2030 — Yehuda Kahane

SECTION 9: AGILE LEADERSHIP AND DECISION MAKING – THE ROAD AHEAD

• Change Leadership: Leading by Empowering and Innovation — Tatjana Mitrovic
• Agile Management Education for the Future: The Role of Social Capital & Trust — Grażyna Leśniak-Łebkowska
• Sustainable Business as the Base for Sustainable Entrepreneurs: Some Theoretical and Practical Reflections — Zbigniew Bochniarz

Papers presented at the Primrose Conference, Pondicherry, 2018

SECTION 10: ROLE OF EDUCATION

• Education as a Civilizing Experience — Ashok Natarajan
• Essence of Educational Inspiration — Vidya Rangan
• Beauty of Mathematics and Overcoming the Agony of Math Education — Vani Senthil
• Student Leadership Skill: A Sustainability Paradigm to Harness Demographic Dividend in India — Malathy Iyer

Volume 2, Issue 3 – April-May 2018. Click here to download full issue

• Saving Humanity from Itself — Yehezkel Dror
• Building up European Solidarity, a view from the East — Emil Constantinescu
• The Deep Blue Sea — Roseann O’Reilly Runte
• Biopolicy—Creating Positive Momentum to Save Bios — Agni Vlavianos-Arvanitis
• In Search of Islands of Sanity — Charles E. Smith
• Green Economy and Sustainable Development — Ione do Santos Velame & Joanilio Rodolpho Teixeira
• Declaration on the Right to Peace — Christian Guillermet-Fernández & David Fernández Puyana
• A Pragmatic view on the Evolution of Life — Robert van Harten
• World Context and Implications for Higher Education Systems and Institutions — Federico Mayor Zaragoza
• Predation, Gender and our Anthropological Oxymoron — Gerald Gutenschwager
• Social Power, Social Responsibility & Science — Momir Đurović
• Memory of Suffering and the Pedagogy of Freedom — Emil Constantinescu
• Book Review: New Earth Politics: Essays from the Anthropocene (Eds. Simon Nicholson and Sikina Jinnah) — Michael Marien

Volume 2, Issue 2 – July-August 2016. Click here to download full issue

• Science and Progress — Alexander Likhotal
• Addressing Sustainable Development Goals & Tackling Climate Change — Rajendra K. Pachauri
• Complex Society and Values — Jüri Engelbrecht
• Things are changing after all — F. J. Radermacher
• History has knocked very loudly on our door: Will We Answer? — Jakob von Uexkull
• The Mind of the Leader — Winston P. Nagan & Megan E. Weeren
• The Future of Higher Education — Winston P. Nagan & Megan E. Weeren
• Towards a Society of Living — Carlos Alvarez-Pereira
• Concluding remarks at the recent Podgorica Conference — Ivo Šlaus
• Beyond Perspective — David Norris
• Conversations that Matter — Charles E. Smith
• Human Mutuality System — Shlomo Yishai
• Book Review: The Art of Leading Collectively: Co-Creating a Sustainable, Socially Just Future — Petra Kuenkel (Reviewed by Michael Marien & Michael Sales)

Volume 2, Issue 1 – November 2015-January2016. Click here to download full issue

• Determinism and Reification: The Twin Pillars of the Amoral Society — Gerald Gutenschwager
• Breaking Free: Bringing the Overview Effect to Work and Life — Charles E. Smith
• Higher Education: Cornerstone of the New Era — Federico Mayor
• The Future of International Law — John Scales Avery
• EU between Monetarism and Keynesianism — Mladen Staničić & Josip Sapunar
• New Paradigm of Political Economic Theory — Winston P. Nagan
• Collabocracy: Collaborative Intelligence & Governance of Globalised Society — Dimitar Tchurovsky
• Reforming Electronic Markets and Trading — Hazel Henderson
• Visions of Sustainable Development: Theory & Action — Robert J. Berg
• Analysis and assessment of the right to peace in light of the latest developments at the Human Rights Council — C. Guillermet-Fernández & D. Fernández Puyana
• Sustainability, Past and Future — Michael Marien
• Book Review — Michael Marien

Volume 2, Issue 1 – February–April 2015. Click here to download full issue

• The Role of Academies — Ivo Šlaus
• The Struggle for Justice in the Civil Rights March — Winston P. Nagan
• Institutional and Cultural Inertia — John Scales Avery
• A People-centered, Preventive Approach to Disaster Risk — Donato Kiniger-Passigli & Anna Biondi
• Priming Political Leaders for Fateful Choices — Yehezkel Dror
• Social Capital and the New Paradigm Thinking — Winston P. Nagan
• Value Creation: Role of Values in Improving Organizational Performance — Leon Miller
• St. Catherine & the Free Market System: Roots of the Current Crisis — Gerald Gutenschwager
• Challenges and Opportunities — Janani Harish
• Urgent: A New Era, New Solutions — Federico Mayor
• Book Review – What Could Change Everything? — Michael Marien
• Relevance of Infodynamics: from the Biosphere to the Psychosphere — Antonio Machado
• Remember Your Humanity — John Scales Avery
• Integrating Ideas & Organizations toward a New Paradigm — Thaddeus C. (Ted) Trzyna
• Peace on Earth at Last — Federico Mayor
• Institutional Dealing with Scientific Misconduct — Pieter J. D. Drenth
• Book Briefs — Michael Marien

Volume 1, Issue 5 – September-October 2014. Click here to download full issue

• Toward a Comprehensive Approach to Paradigm Change — Jakob von Uexkull
• To Care for the Future of the Human Race — Joseph Agassi
• The Psychology of Warmaking — Roberto Vacca
• Simulated Judgment on Campaign Finance in the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Azania — Winston P. Nagan & Madison E. Hayes
• The Greatest Adventure on Earth — Carlos Alvarez Pereira
• Futuristic Scenarios and Human Nature — Ullica Segerstrale
• Civilizational Paradigm Change: The Modern/Industrial Case — Ruben Nelson
• The Urgent Need for Renewable Energy — John Scales Avery
• Book Review – Climate Concerns Expanding in 2014: The CNA/MAB Report and Six Others — Michael Marien
• Book Review – Nature’s Trust: Environmental Law for a New Environmental Age — Robert Hoffman
• Golden Fleece: Higher Education and the New Society of Third Millennium — Emil Constantinescu
• The Power of Values — Janani Harish

Volume 1, Issue 4 – March-April 2014. Click here to download full issue

• Security Reflections: A Holistic Approach without Nuclear Weapons — Jonathan Granoff
• Ways of Knowing: Life Beyond Chaos — Garry Jacobs
• Hubris Versus Wisdom — David Krieger
• Being in Superposition: Migrant Women, Modern Subjectivity, and the New Collectivity — Ljudmila Popovich
• To Touch Eternity… — Richard Hames
• Need for a New Economic Theory — Orio Giarini
• Quo Vadis? Cultural Reorientation – Our Shared Journey Four Key Words – One Direction — Edy Korthals Altes
• Privacy is Not Dead, it is Just Resting — Graeme Maxton
• Something America and China Could Do Together — Robert W Fuller
• Limits to Nature — Graeme Maxton & Octavian Ksenzhek
• Creativity and Education — David Peat
• Book Reviews — Reviews by Michael Marien

Volume 1, Issue 3 – September 2013. Click here to download full issue

• For a Universal Declaration of Democracy — Federico Mayor Zaragoza
• World University: Global Strategy for Higher Education — Jüri Engelbrecht
• Human Needs Approach: A New Foundation for Knowledge Organisation in the 21st Century — Jayasree Ahuja
• Aggressiveness can be Psychobiologically Milded: How to Achieve Peace — J. Martin Ramirez
• Science and Spirituality: Observations from the Battlefields — Jakob von Uexkull
• The Future of the Pacific & its Relevance for Geo-economic Interests — Francesco Stipo et al
• Break Downs & Break Throughs: Empires through Crises & Transformations — Ljudmila Popović
• Panem et Informationem: Toward Inspired Responsibility — Ljudmila Popović
• The Dialectic of Change — Gerald Gutenschwager
• The Dignitarian University — Robert W Fuller
• Corruption of the Scientific Method — Nancy Flournoy
• The Evolution of Sovereignty — Winston P Nagan & Garry Jacobs
• Book Reviews: Megachange: The World in 2050 & Futurevision: Scenarios for the World in 2040 — Reviews by Michael Marien

Volume 1, Issue 2 – February-March 2013. Click here to download full issue

• Reflections on Individuality, Human & Social Capital — Zbigniew Bochniarz
• Rationality in a Complex World: Pushing Back the Frontiers — Simeon Anguelov
• A Civilized Society: Preparing the World-System for Redesign — Richard David Hames
• The World as Web — Garry Jacobs
• Bridging Political, Cultural & Religious Divides — Pieter J. D. Drenth
• Social Evolution — Janani Harish
• European Integration & the End of the Cold War — Ashok Natarajan
• Book Review – Bankrupting Nature: Denying our Planetary Boundaries — Review by Michael Marien
• Values Quest — Martin Palmer & Karl Wagner
• Is Economics a Value Free Science? — Gerald Gutenschwager
• Limits to Rationality & Boundaries of Perception — Garry Jacobs
• Book Review – Dancing at the Edge: Competence, Culture & Organization in the 21^st Century — Review by Michael Marien
• Adelaide’s Lament — Ruben F. W. Nelson

Volume 1, Issue 1 – September 2012. Click here to download full issue

• Human Capital, Its Self-Augmenting Growth and Individuality — Ivo Šlaus
• The Emerging Individual — Garry Jacobs
• Abdus Salam (1926–1996) – more than a Nobel Laureate — Olof Tandberg
• Evolution of Individuality — Ashok Natarajan
• Study of Individuality and Social Evolution in Literature — Janani Harish
• A History of the Individual in European Culture — Augusto Forti
• Individuality, Humanism & Human Rights — Winston Nagan and Aitza Haddad
• Secretariat of the Soul and Certainty — Orio Giarini
• Looking for a New Alchemy: from the Lead of Information to the Gold of Knowledge — Emil Constantinescu
• A New Model of Education: Development of Individuality through the Freedom of Learning — Mirjana Radovic-Markovic and Dusan Markovic
• The Evolution of Cooperation — John Scales Avery
• The New Morality — Yehudi Menuhin
• The Global Values Discourse — Garry Jacobs and Winston Nagan
• Economics of Dignity: Growing People from Consumers to Members — Saša Popović and Ljudmila Mila Popovich
• Returning to Vico: The Role of the Individual in the Investigation of the Social Sciences — Saulo José Casali Bahia and Craig Hammer
• The Heart of the Humanities — Ullica Segerstrale