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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 …
HOW TO DONATE TO THE ACADEMY The World Academy is incorporated in the State of California and Fellows elected from 86 different countries. WAAS is a registered non-profit and recognized by the US Internal Revenue Service as a tax exempt Public Charity under section 501(c)(3) and contributions are deductible under section 170 of this code. …
Retrospective and Reflections on WAAS@60 | WAAS Manifesto | Charter Members | Past Presidents | Other prominent past Fellows of the Academy | The Need of a World Academy of Art & Science | The World University Retrospective and Reflections on WAAS@60 Solution to the complex nexus of problems confronting humanity exceeds the capacity of …
Webinar on Anticipation and Complexity Foreseeing a New Paradigm of Human Development July 21, 2015 In preparation for the First International Conference on Anticipation, co-organized by the UNESCO Chair of Anticipatory Systems and WAAS, a second webinar on “Anticipation and Complexity: Foreseeing a New Paradigm of Human Development” was conducted on July 21, 2015. This …
Our mission: Enlightened leadership in thought that leads to action. To impact leadership thinking, values perspectives and actions as the word spreads. The World Academy of Art and Science is an association of committed individuals drawn from diverse cultures, nationalities, occupations and intellectual pursuits spanning the arts, humanities and sciences, conscious of the profound social …
The World Academy of Art & Science (WAAS) was founded in 1960 by eminent intellectuals including Albert Einstein; Robert Oppenheimer, Father of Manhattan Project; Bertrand Russell, Joseph Needham, co-Founder of UNESCO; Lord Boyd Orr, first Director General of FAO; Brock Chisholm, first Director General of WHO and many others. The Academy serves as a forum …
Education is the most sophisticated technology evolved by human beings for conscious social evolution. Yet the slow incremental development of education in recent decades has not kept pace with the very rapid evolution of society. Closing the gap between educational needs and capacities is essential for addressing pressing challenges confronting humanity today. There is urgent …