Issue 6

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Volume 1
FEBRUARY-MARCH 2015
Issue 6

Ivo Šlaus

The Role of Academies

Brief history of academies is presented, and the current role of academies is outlined. Contemporary world is global, interdependent and rapidly changing. These features are occurring for the first time in human history. All of these features are science and technology generated. Present time can be best described by Charles Dickens’ opening sentence of his novel ...

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Lead Articles

Ivo Šlaus

The Role of Academies

Brief history of academies is presented, and the current role of academies is outlined. Contemporary world is global, interdependent and rapidly changing. These features are occurring for the first time in human history. All of these features are science and technology generated. ...

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John Scales Avery

Institutional and Cultural Inertia

Today we are faced with multiple interrelated crises, for example the threat of catastrophic climate change or equally catastrophic thermonuclear war, and the threat of widespread famine ...

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Yehezkel Dror

Priming Political Leaders for Fateful Choices

This paper presents nine propositions: (1) humanity is cascading through a rupture in its history into an epoch of “anthropo-transmutation”; ...

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Leon Miller

Value Creation: the role of values in improving organizational performance

It can be argued that the various institutions of society (law, education, media, etc.) all attempt to maximize the experience of values considered important ...

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Janani Harish

Challenges and Opportunities

Out of the depths of the problems that challenged humanity in the past have surfaced great opportunities. Famine, war, depression and subjugation have all left one ...

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Michael Marien

Book Review — What Could Change Everything?

Naomi Klein is a deep thinker who generates profound insights and unsettling contributions to the state of well-being on a planetary basis ...

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John Scales Avery

Remember your Humanity

2015 marks the 60th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto. This document resulted from the great concern of both scientists and ...

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Federico Mayor

Peace on Earth at Last

Thanks to citizen power the dictum“Si vis pacem, para bellum” can now be replaced by the motto that will mark a new era: “Si vis pacem, para verbum”. Multiple factors will gradually produce a “change of attitude” ...

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Winston Nagan

The Struggle for Justice in the Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery: The Legal of the Magna Carta and the Common Law Tradition

This article is based on a keynote address that the author gave in Montgomery, Alabama, last year, celebrating the anniversary of the famous Civil rights ...

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Donato Kiniger-Passigli & Anna Biondi

A people-centred, preventive approach to disaster risk

As natural disasters increase and intensify around the world, their consequences are felt most acutely in those countries less equipped to cope with them ...

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Winston P. Nagan

Social Capital and the New Paradigm Thinking

This article is based on a presentation the author gave in Kazakhstan late last year. The article seeks to clarify the empirical foundations of human ...

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Gerald Gutenschwager

Saint Catherine and the Free Market System; The (Historic) Roots of the Current Crisis

The current crisis is rooted in the past, and is related to the ability of empires to ground their ...

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Federico Mayor

Urgent: A New Era, New Solutions

We have to invent our future. Never before have so many things changed so quickly. In the digital era, human beings are no longer invisible, silent and obedient ...

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Antonio Machado

The Relevance of Infodynamics: From the Biosphere to the Psychosphere

Living matter is considered an emerging property of inert matter, and thinking matter (the mind) is considered as an emerging property of inert matter ...

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Ted Trzyna

Integrating Ideas and Organizations Toward a New Paradigm

Global strategies and agendas commonly emphasize a need to "integrate" ideas and organizations ...

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Pieter Drenth

Institutional Dealing with Scientific Misconduct

Living matter is considered an emerging property of inert matter, and thinking matter (the mind) is considered as an emerging property of inert matter ...

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