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CADMUS THE WEALTH OF NATIONS REVISITED Inside This Issue Our future lies in evolving an educational system capable of bringing out the full latent potentials of each individual. CADMUS Heitor Gurgulino de Souza et al, A Revolution and a New Paradigm in Education PROMOTING LEADERSHIP IN THOUGHT THAT LEADS TO ACTION NEW PERSPECTIVES ON MAJOR GLOBAL ISSUES Every forward step of human progress over the past five cen turies has been a step toward greater freedom and greater human unity. Garry Jacobs, Freedom and Unity Development is what happens after sufficient growth. It includes culture, spirituality and the quality of being human. Volume 2, Issue 1 October 2013 ISSN 2038-5242 Jonathan Granoff, Musings on a New Paradigm Inside This Issue The creativity of society accumulated as the achievements of SEED-IDEAS a succession of creative moments over millennia is civilization. The distilled essence of civilization is culture. A Revolution and a New Paradigm in Education Ashok Natarajan, Freedom and Unity Creative Consciousness Musings on a New Paradigm ARTICLES [In the future] Continuous learning will be more than a slogan; it will be an economic necessity. Creative Consciousness — A.Natarajan Ismail Serageldin, Tomorrow's Universities & Seven Tomorrow’s Universities & 7 Pillars of Knowledge Revolution Pillars of Knowledge Revolution — I. Serageldin Online Education — J. Harish The World Academy is perfectly poised to assume leadership by creating a World University Consortium. Double Helix of Learning & Work — O. Giarini & M.Malitza Janani Harish Reflections on the Future of Online Education: A Revolution in the Making Global Higher Education — H. de Souza et al The Future of Water — A. Likhotal As in the case of education, what has blocked its coming to fruition has come from the watertight separation of disciplines Climate Policy after Doha — F. J. Radermacher or fields of knowledge. Biopolis — A. Arvanitis Orio Giarini & Mircea Malitza, The Climate Bonus—Book Review — M. Marien The Double Helix of Learning and Work New Paradigm in Human Social reality is not divided into courses and disciplines – it is Development — I. Šlaus & G. Jacobs an indivisible whole. Seeking Alternatives in a Global Heitor Gurgulino de Souza et al, Crisis — F. Mayor Reflections on the Future of Global Higher Education Networks and Complexity — R. Weiler & J. Engelbrecht Addressing the threat of water crisis requires a coherent strat Complicated & Complex Social egy in which the economic, social, water and environmental Systems — R. Poli aspects of policy must be properly coordinated. Making Central Banks Serve Alexander Likhotal, the Real Economy — S. Reiners The Future of Water: Strategies to Meet the Challenge Secretariat of the Soul — O. Giarini Global Governance — W. Nagan Continued . Cooperative Security — M. Finaud Actions to Enhance Global Security — D. Browne et al 10.00 € EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman: Ivo Šlaus, President, World Academy of Art & Science; Member, Club of Rome, European Leadership Network and Pugwash Council; Dean, Dag Hammarskjold University College for The world needs a new negotiation approach and a strong wildcard combined with an International Relations & Diplomacy, Zagreb. understand ing that insisting on the present approach will bring about the ultimate climate risk. Editor-in-Chief: Orio Giarini, Director, The Risk Institute, Geneva and Trieste; Member of the Board of F J Radermacher, Climate Policy after Doha: Turning Obstacles into Solutions Trustees, World Academy of Art & Science; Honorary Member, Club of Rome. Managing Editor: Garry Jacobs, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, World Academy of Art & Science; Sustainability can become established only when the mentality throughout the entire develop VicePresident, The Mother’s Service Society, Pondicherry, India; International Fellow, Club of Rome. mental process changes. Members: Agni Arvanitis, “Biopolis”: Biopolicy for Greener and More Livable Cities Walter Truett Anderson, President Emeritus, World Academy of Art & Science; Fellow, Western Behavioral Sciences Institute; Founding Fellow, Meridian International Institute (USA). Diversity is often a strength, but too many fragmented approaches to promoting sustainability Ian Johnson, Secretary General, Club of Rome; former Vice President, The World Bank; Fellow, World may weaken progress in realizing this necessary and desirable transition. Academy of Art & Science. Michael Marien, The Climate Bonus – Book Review Michael Marien, Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science; Director, Global Foresight Books. The endeavor to define, develop and formulate a new paradigm demands, on one side, research, Winston Nagan, Member of the Board of Trustees, Chair of Program Committee & Editor of Eruditio, education and creativity and, on the other side, an integrated activity by a network of committed ejournal of the World Academy of Art & Science; Professor of Law & Director, Institute for Human global organizations. Rights, Peace & Development, University of Florida. Ivo Šlaus & Garry Jacobs, New Paradigm in Human Development Francesco Stipo, Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science; President of the US Association, Club of Rome. The possible solutions – that may render many of today’s impossibilities as realities of tomorrow Editorial & Technical Staff: Latha Chandrasekaran, Janani Harish, Hariny Narayanan, Vidya Rangan, – must inevitably be based on equal dignity for all human beings and on social justice. Ranjani Ravi and Ranganayaki Somaskandan. Federico Mayor, Seeking Alternatives in a Global Crisis The CADMUS Journal How can systems as fundamentally different as the cell and the Internet have the same architec ture and obey the same laws? The acronym of the South-East European Division of The World Academy of Art and Raoul Weiler & Jüri Engelbrecht, The New Sciences of Networks and Complexity Science – SEED – prompted us to initiate a journal devoted to seed ideas – to leadership in thought that leads to action. Cadmus (or Kadmos in Greek and Phoenician mythology) was a Science is for the most part a set of techniques for closing open systems in order to scrutinize them. son of King Agenor and Queen Telephassa of Tyre, and brother of Cilix, Phoenix and Europa. Roberto Poli, A Note on the Difference between Complicated and Complex Social Systems Cadmus is credited with introducing the original alphabet – the Phoenician alphabet, with “the invention” of agriculture, and with founding the city of Thebes. His marriage with Harmonia Central banks should use their ability to create new money and channel it into meaningful represents the symbolic coupling of Eastern learning and Western love of beauty. The young- investments. est son of Cadmus and Harmonia is Illyrius. The city of Zagreb, which is the formal seat of Suleika Reiners, Making Central Banks Serve the Real Economy SEED, was once a part of Illyria, a region including what is today referred to as the Western Uncertainty constitutes the true possibility of progress. Balkans and even more. Cadmus will be a journal for fresh thinking and new perspectives that Orio Giarini, Secretariat of the Soul integrate knowledge from all fields of science, art and humanities to address real-life issues, inform policy and decision-making, and enhance our collective response to the challenges The concept of security has dramatically evolved. It moved away from the sole protection of states (meaning often regimes or governments) against external threats by military means to and opportunities facing the world today. ensuring the safety and wellbeing of individuals. Marc Finaud, Cooperative Security Copyright: The Risk Institute – Istituto del Rischio Via di Campo Marzio 4, 34123, Trieste – Italy / Rue le Corbusier 14, 1208 Geneva – Switzerland An unadulterated recognition of the individual is recognition of the human capital inherent in all Editorial Office: The Mother's Service Society human beings. 5, Puduvai Sivam Street, Venkata Nagar – Pondicherry 605011 – India Winston Nagan, Global Governance: A New Paradigm for the Rule of Law Published under Open Access policy guidelines. We need a new paradigm for the 21st century which is not dependent on what worked in the See the last page for Editorial Policy. 20th century. Websites: www.cadmusjournal.org – www.worldacademy.org – www.newwelfare.org Des Browne, Garry Jacobs & Ivo Šlaus, Actions to Enhance Global Security E-mail: [email protected] Printed by: Akaram, Plot No.1, Nirmala Nagar, Thanjavur, India PROMOTING LEADERSHIP IN THOUGHT THAT LEADS TO ACTION THE WEALTH OF NATIONS REVISITED CADMUS NEW PERSPECTIVES ON MAJOR GLOBAL ISSUES Volume 2, Issue 1 October 2013 Published by THE RISK INSTITUTE GENEVA - PONDICHERRY - TRIESTE - ZAGREB 1 CADMUS VISION The world is in need of guiding ideas, a vision, to more effectively direct our intellectual, moral and scientific capabilities for world peace, global security, human dignity and social justice. Today we face myriad challenges. Unprecedented material and technological achievements co-exist with unconscionable and in some cases increasing poverty, inequality and injustice. Advances in science have unleashed remarkable powers, yet these very powers as presently wielded threaten to undermine the very future of our planet. Rapidly rising expectations have increased frustrations and tensions that threaten the fabric of global society. Prosperity itself has become a source of instability and destruction when wantonly pursued without organizational safeguards for our collective well-being.