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A Revolution and a New Paradigm in Education
Heitor Gurgulino de Souza, Garry Jacobs, Winston Nagan, Ivo Šlaus
& Alberto Zucconi
Knowledge is the sustenance of civilization and culture. Language is the instrument for mental comprehension and transmission of knowledge. Education is the means by which each generation passes on to the next in a concentrated, systematic manner the cumulative knowledge and wisdom acquired in the past. Of all the technologies developed by humanity, none is as powerful and sophisticated as the means ... Read More
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Creative Consciousness
Ashok Natarajan
Consciousness is creative. That creativity expresses in myriad ways – as moments in time in which decades of progress can be achieved overnight, as organizational innovations of immense power for social accomplishment; as creative social values that further the evolution of organizations and society; as the creativity of individuality in the leader, genius, artist and inventor; as social creativity that converts raw human experience into civilization ... Read More
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Tomorrow’s Universities and the Seven Pillars of the Knowledge Revolution
Ismail Serageldin
The emerging Knowledge Revolution goes beyond the changing technologies and the challenges and opportunities they create to include the structure of knowledge and how it is transmitted inter-generationally and across countries. There are seven major features of that profound transformation, which I call “The Seven Pillars of the New Knowledge Revolution” ... Read More
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Online Education: A Revolution in the Making
Janani Harish
Internet and Communication Technologies are transforming education, taking it out of the traditional classroom and making it open, affordable and dynamic. Universities, publishers, corporates and individual lecturers are creating online courses. A course consists of video lectures, electronic study notes, online tests and assignments. Anyone who wishes to learn may enroll for these courses, take the lessons ... Read More
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The Double Helix of Learning and Work
Orio Giarini & Mircea Malitza
The Double Helix of Learning and Work is a report to the Club of Rome first published by UNESCO in 2003. It advances fundamental paradigm-changing ideas in the field of education. Drawing inspiration from the double helix structure of DNA, the authors seek to strengthen the ... Read More
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Freedom and Unity
Garry Jacobs
America was founded by immigrants from many nations of diverse political ideals, disparate religious beliefs, social backgrounds (French aristocrats, Irish serfs, Chinese coolies), different races (white, black, oriental), and a multitude of linguistic groups ... Read More
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Reflections on the Future of Global Higher Education - WAAS Conference Report
Heitor Gurgulino de Souza, Janani Harish, Garry Jacobs, Winston Nagan, Ivo Šlaus & Alberto Zucconi
Education is the most important catalyst of social evolution. Today higher education is in the early stages of a revolutionary transition that will have immense impact on the future of global society. This article presents an overview of perspectives explored at the World
Academy's Forum on Global Higher Education conducted at the University of California at Berkeley on October 2-3, 2013 ... Read More
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The Future of Water: Strategies to Meet the Challenge
Alexander Likhotal
Despite the UN's adoption of a new economic and social right in 2010 - the Right to safe drinking water and sanitation - the deficit of fresh water is becoming increasingly severe and large-scale. The mounting water crisis and its geography make it clear that .... Read More
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Climate Policy after Doha: Turning Obstacles into Solutions
F.J.Radermacher
The international climate policy is in big trouble. The governments of the world cannot agree on a reasonable, enforceable cap on global CO2 emissions – not today and not in the future. Concerning a strict enough cap, this issue is politically not handleable today ... Read More
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“BIOPOLIS”: Biopolicy for Greener and More Livable Cities
Agni Vlavianos Arvanitis
Urban centers are the engines which must bear the brunt of required changes to meet climate change mitigation goals, whilst continuing to provide social and economic opportunities. Restoring nature to the city is not a luxury ... Read More
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The Climate Bonus: Co-benefits of Climate Policy by Alison Smith
Michael Marien
For several decades, we have heard, over and over, that climate change is a very bad development, and that addressing climate change and evolving to a sustainable or low-carbon society are a necessary response ... Read More
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Musings on a New Paradigm
Jonathan Granoff
We are the first civilization in which the pursuit of the real and the good has become separated. The current predominant worldview adopts the scientific method as the singular legitimate method of discovering the truth ... Read More
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New Paradigm in Human Development: A Progress Report
Ivo Šlaus & Garry Jacobs
The current socio-economic-political paradigm is destroying our most precious capital – natural, human and social. The current paradigm is non-sustainable. It has to be changed! The required paradigmatic change ... Read More
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Seeking Alternatives in a Global Crisis
Federico Mayor
Replacing the United Nations system and large international institutions with plutocratic groups (G-7, G-8, G-20) and universal principles with the laws of the market has led to multiple crises that require immediate reaction to prevent them from becoming irreversible .... Read More
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The New Sciences of Networks & Complexity: A Short Introduction
Raoul Weiler & Jüri Engelbrecht
This paper is the result of two recent e-workshops organized by The World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS), one on the Science of Networks, the other on Complexity. These Sciences have emerged in the last few decades ... Read More
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A Note on the Difference Between Complicated and Complex Social Systems
Roberto Poli
The distinction between complicated and complex systems is of immense importance, yet it is often overlooked. Decision-makers commonly mistake complex systems for simply complicated ones and look for solutions without ... Read More
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Making Central Banks Serve The Real Economy
Suleika Reiners
The challenge is to redirect central bank money into the real economy and to the needs of society. If new money is issued to expand the productive capacity, there is no reason for inflation. Long-term financing could become available at an affordable price ... Read More
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Secretariat of the Soul
Orio Giarini
Exactly 100 years ago, Austrian writer Robert Musil’s book “The Man Without Qualities” foresaw the cultural challenge that Relativity and Quantum Theory would pose to the Newtonian mechanistic worldview of the 19th century .... Read More
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Global Governance: A New Paradigm for the Rule of Law
Winston Nagan
This article seeks to appraise the Rule of Law in the context of international sovereignty and the growth of international non-governmental organizations. The article explores the meaning of the Rule of Law and suggests that it is better understood ... Read More
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Cooperative Security: A New Paradigm For A World Without Nuclear Weapons?
Marc Finaud
If there is a loose consensus on aiming at a world free of nuclear weapons in the future, there are clear oppositions as to the timeframe as well as the means for achieving this goal. The approach to nuclear disarmament followed to date has only yielded limited success ... Read More
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Actions to Enhance Global Security*: Focus on WMD and Terrorism
Desmond Browne, Garry Jacobs & Ivo Šlaus
The challenge is to redirect central bank money into the real economy and to the needs of society. If new money is issued to expand the productive capacity, there is no reason for inflation. Long-term financing could become available at an affordable price ... Read More
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