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Volume 4, Issue 2 May-July 2020 ISSN 2038-5242 Behaviour CADMUS THE WEALTH OF NATIONS REVISITED Inside This Issue Gl-21 seeks to increase our understanding of the process of conscious social transformation and to enhance our perception of unrealized possibilities. CADMUS – Garry Jacobs et al., Catalytic Strategies for Socially PROMOTING LEADERSHIP IN THOUGHT Transformative Leadership THAT LEADS TO ACTION NEW PERSPECTIVES ON MAJOR GLOBAL ISSUES In today’s interconnected world, governments and IGOs alone cannot effectively address complex global challenges. They require our collective response. – David Chikvaidze, Multilateralism: Its Past, Present and Future The current crisis will be a catalyst that brutally reveals and intensifies the transformation of the world and human Volume 4, Issue 2 May-July 2020 ISSN 2038-5242 behaviour. – Alexander Likhotal, Global leadership in the 21st century Inside This Issue The internet is democratizing finance by making it digital, The Russell-Einstein Manifesto global, and distributed, and this will transform it into Leadership for a New Paradigm — G. Jacobs et al. something radically different from what it is today. Catalytic Strategies for Socially – Ketan Patel & Christian Hansmeyer, Transformative Leadership — G. Jacobs et al. The Role of Finance in Solving Global Issues Role of Finance in Solving Global Issues — K. Patel & C. Hansmeyer Radical change cannot be achieved solely on the initiative Global Transformative Leadership of superpowers or by a few outstanding individuals. It will in the 21st century — R. Fiorini et al. require the active involvement of all major stakeholders. Civil Society & Youth Leadership — T. Reuter et al. – Garry Jacobs et al., Leadership for a New Paradigm Protecting and Promoting Health — A. Zucconi & I. Wachsmuth A better understanding of what is happening at the global Current Tasks of Academies & Academia — J. Engelbrecht et al. level necessitates a deep, shared perspective change. Multilateralism: Its Past, Present & Future — D. Chikvaidze – Rodolfo Fiorini et al., Global leadership in the 21st century — A. Likhotal st Global Transformative Leadership in the 21 Century Financial Engineering to Fund the SDGs — S. Brunnhuber & G. Jacobs The global coronavirus pandemic crisis is an opportunity New Growth Model & Economic Policy — D. Djuricin for humanity because it certainly creates palpable Job Creation through Sustainable adaptive pressure. Investing — M. Bozesan et al. – Thomas Reuter et al., The New Economy — Y. Kahane Civil Society and Youth Leadership for Transformation New Education Paradigm — P. Luksha & W. Kinsner The focus needs to be on the right to health, commitment New Global Political Project — E. Constantinescu to universality, solidarity and equal access as the guiding Leadership, Human Needs & Values — W. Nagan & S. Manausa values for organizing and funding health systems. From Limits to Growth to Unlimited – Alberto Zucconi & Isabelle Wachsmuth, Protecting Wellbeing — G. Jacobs & I. Šlaus and Promoting Individual, Social and Planetary Health Global System Change — F. Dixon Lessons concerning the weaknesses of social systems Economics as a Science — J. Vergés must be studied and analyzed to understand why and Quest for Peace — A. Natarajan how conventional thinking has led to global crises. University Education in Crisis? — M. Van de Voorde – Jüri Engelbrecht et al., Current Tasks of Academies and Academia Reflections on Future Education — F. El Guindi Future Education and Its Challenges — M. Vitiello Continued… Steering Our Powers of Persuasion — H. Henderson Global leadership in the 21st century — R. Cavey €10 Urbanization, Innovation & Governance — H. d'Orville Nation-states & Global Leadership — I. Šlaus EDITORIAL BOARD Executive Editor: Garry Jacobs, President & CEO, World Academy of Art & Science; CEO, World A parallel monetary system is a “game changer” and can be started in less than 6 University Consortium; Member, Club of Rome; Vice-President, The Mother’s Service Society, India. months from now. – Stefan Brunnhuber & Garry Jacobs, Innovative Financial Engineering Associate Editor: Ranjani Ravi, Research Associate, The Mother's Service Society, India; Associate to Fund the SDGs Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science Chairman: Ivo Š laus, Honorary President, World Academy of Art & Science; Member, Club of Rome, A new performance measurement system is needed to achieve the SDGs. European Leadership Network and Pugwash Council. – Dragan Djuricin, The New Growth Model and Economic Policy Platform Founding Editor-in-Chief: Orio Giarini (1936-2020), Director, The Risk Institute, Geneva and Trieste; Integral Investing contends that all investment activity must be rooted in the essence of Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science; Honorary Member, Club of Rome. all existence, the consciousness aspects and the material world. Members: – Mariana Bozesan et al., Job Creation through Sustainable Investing Zbigniew Bochniarz, Professor, Kozminski University, Warsaw, University of Washington and Harvard We must replace the current focus on the “maximization of economic values” with a Business School, USA; Member of the Board of Trustees, World Academy of Art & Science. multidimensional framework that includes consideration of ESEC factors. Erich Hoedl, Vice-President, European Academy of Sciences & Arts; Former Rector, Wuppertal – Yehuda Kahane, The New Economy University and Graz University of Technology; Member, Austrian Chapter of Club of Rome; Member of the Board of Trustees, World Academy of Art & Science. The new paradigm required must transform human learning and encourage leadership Michael Marien, Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science; Director, Global Foresight Books; Senior that fosters lifelong learning. – Pavel Luksha & Witold Kinsner, Transformation for a New Principal, Security & Sustainability Guide. Education Paradigm Winston P. Nagan, Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science; Editor of Eruditio Journal; Professor of Law Politics must be crafted as a complex vision of the future, based on a new dialogue Emeritus, University of Florida, USA. centred on fundamental human values. Ashok Natarajan, Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science; Secretary & Senior Research Fellow, The – Emil Constantinescu, A Historic Chance For a New Global Political Project Mother’s Service Society, India. Thomas Reuter, Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia; Member of the Board of Trustees, The values scientific consciousness seeks to promote must sustain a responsible culture World Academy of Art & Science; Senior Vice-President, International Union of Anthropological and as the foundation for a better world order based on human rights and human dignity. Ethnological Sciences. – Winston Nagan and Samantha Manausa, Leadership, Human Needs, and Values Alberto Zucconi, Secretary General, World University Consortium; Chairman of the Board of Trustees, World Academy of Art & Science; President, Person-Centered Approach Institute, Italy. A whole system perspective shows our innate ability to be nearly infinitely more prosperous and successful than we are now. – Frank Dixon, Global System Change Editorial & Technical Staff: Vasugi Balaji, Latha Chandrasekaran, Shashini Kumar, Hariny Narayan, Subiksha Senthil, Vani Senthil & Ranganayaki Somaskandan A formal explanatory scheme on how market economies work will never be perfect as we are dealing with a changing reality. – Joachim Vergés, Economics as a Science The acronym of the South-East European Division of The World Academy of Art & Science— Humanity’s evolution toward a peaceful world is a movement from physical animality to SEED—prompted us to initiate a journal devoted to seed ideas—to leadership in thought that rational human mentality. – Ashok Natarajan, Quest for Peace leads to action. Cadmus (or Kadmos in Greek and Phoenician mythology) was a son of King Agenor and Queen Telephassa of Tyre, and brother of Cilix, Phoenix and Europa. Cadmus is A concerted effort needs to start early to create the very conditions that engineer credited with introducing the original alphabet—the Phoenician alphabet, with “the invention” transdisciplinarity. – Marcel Van de Voorde, University Education in Crisis? of agriculture, and with founding the city of Thebes. His marriage to Harmonia represents We seek a dynamic interconnectedness in culture in a paradigm for future education the symbolic coupling of Eastern learning and Western love of beauty. The youngest son of with insights drawn from history. – Fadwa El Guindi, Reflections on Future Education Cadmus and Harmonia was Illyrius. The city of Zagreb, which is the formal seat of SEED, was Rather than fitting students into certain social models, universities and schools should once part of Illyria, a region in what is today referred to as the Western Balkans. Cadmus will learn to recognize their individuality. – Marco Vitiello, Future Education & Its Challenges be a journal for fresh thinking and new perspectives that integrates knowledge from all fields of science, arts and humanities to address real-life issues, inform policy and decision-making, and Proliferating global crises have brought human societies to accept the necessities of enhance our collective response to the challenges and opportunities facing the world today. transitioning to new forms of culture and behavior. – Hazel Henderson, Steering Our Powers of Persuasion Copyrighted to & Published under Open Access policy guidelines by The Mother's Service Society, What is of concern is the question of the leadership required to overcome the multiple 16192,
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