Robert Berg Robert J. Berg co-chairs the Fundraising Committee of the Academy’s Board of Trustees. He is Chairman of the Board of the Alliance for Peacebuilding, an association of 106 organizations in the US and around the world working on conflict prevention and conflict resolution. He is also Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center, a …

World Resources Forum 2015, Davos, Switzerland, October 11 – 14, 2015 Transformative Future Education workshop organized by World Academy of Art and Science – WAAS World University Consortium – WUC in partnership with Center for Complex Systems in Transition – CST (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) Workshop Chair: Garry Jacobs, CEO World Academy of Art and …

International Conference for a Green and Inclusive Economy VIDEOS | REPORTS Green Cross International organized a meeting in Geneva on October 6-7, 2015 in preparation for the COP21 meeting on Climate Change in Paris in December 2015. Nine Fellows of WAAS made presentations at the conference on issues related to a global strategy for addressing …

SPECIAL SESSION: Security and Sustainable Development http://www.dubrovnik2015.sdewes.org/ The twentieth century was a century of oil, not only that oil enabled the most fascinating period of growth in human history, fuelling international trade and bringing pision of labour to really global levels. Meanwhile oil, being abundant only in some regions has created dependence of trading nations …

Catalytic Strategies for Conscious Social Transformation: Leadership in Thought Edited by Garry Jacobs, Ivo Šlaus, Juri Engelbrecht, and Alberto Zucconi HUMAN CHOICE – The Genetic Code for Social Development by Harlan Cleveland, Garry Jacobs, Robert Macfarlane, Robert van Harten, Ashok Natarajan Published in 1999 New Paradigm: The World 300 Years After Newton Edited by Sam Nilsson Published …

The World Academy of Art & Science and World University Consortium conducted a webinar on The Greek Crisis: Need for a Human-centered Theoretical Framework on September 15, 2015. Our main speaker was Zoltán Pogátsa, a renowned Hungarian political economist, who has recently published an authoritative, insightful and highly readable book entitled The Political Economy of the Greek Crisis. …

4th International Scientific Forum, ISF 2015 Education, Climate Change and Economic Development University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Sept 2-4, 2015 European Scientific Institute, ESI – Interdisciplinary science on 5 continents The European Scientific Institute, ESI is a global academic platform, connecting thousands of researchers from around the globe. ESI cooperates with universities and academic centres …