CADMUS THE WEALTH OF NATIONS REVISITED Inside This Issue Democratization is an evolutionary trend that can neither be artificially stepped up nor imposed. CADMUS Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Ten Points on New Paradigms PROMOTING LEADERSHIP IN THOUGHT THAT LEADS TO ACTION NEW PERSPECTIVES ON MAJOR GLOBAL ISSUES It is time to oppose neoliberalism and reestablish social justice; to eliminate groups of oligarchs and re-found a strong United Nations. Federico Mayor, A New Beginning For global problems affecting peace and stability, Volume 2, Issue 4 May 2015 ISSN 2038-5242 we need global solutions based on cooperation and multilateralism. Christian Guillermet-Fernández & David F. Puyana, Inside This Issue The 70th Anniversary of the Creation of the United Nations: Giving Peace a Chance ARTICLES Ten Points on New Paradigms — K. J. Tokayev The world is not in a healthy state. It needs some help in A New Beginning — F. Mayor healing itself, in revitalizing its values of freedom, dignity of the individual, supremacy of law, social justice (rather 70th Anniversary of Creation of — C. Guillermet-Fernández than focusing just on money). the UN: Giving Peace a Chance & D. F. Puyana Bohdan Hawrylyshyn, The World is Helping Ukraine: The World is Helping Ukraine: Can Ukraine Can Ukraine Help the World? — B. Hawrylyshyn Help the World? New Paradigm Quest — A. Likhotal Achieving the required level of global, systemic change Is the World Floundering or Has She a Vision? — A. Natarajan will require true political leadership, prophetic vision and courage. Preventing Hell on Earth — Y. Dror Alexander Likhotal, Uncorking the Future: Transitions New Paradigm Quest to a New Paradigm — G. Jacobs From Reset to Reboot? — A. Likhotal The world’s vision is founded on universal values that often appear as unrealizable, utopian ideals, but their Leadership for a New Paradigm power to move events is real and their progressive in Human Development — J. Harish realization is inevitable. Employment & the Unity of Ashok Natarajan, Social Sciences — I. Šlaus Is the World Floundering or Has She a Vision? Double Helix of Learning & Work — O. Giarini & M. Malitza The prime responsibility for being a high-quality political Contours of New Economic Theory — G. Jacobs leader and developing necessary qualities is yours, not that of your genes and environment. Can we Finance the Energy Yehezkel Dror, Transition? — I. Johnson Preventing Hell on Earth The New Paradigm of Social Evolution — D. Tchurovsky Continued . BOOK REVIEW 2013-14 State of the Future by €10 Jerome C. Glenn, et al. — M. Marien EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman: Ivo Šlaus, Honorary President, World Academy of Art & Science; Member, Club of Rome, European Leadership Network and Pugwash Council; Dean, Dag Hammarskjöld University College of International Relations & Diplomacy, Zagreb, Croatia. The critical task before us today is to transform the ominous challenges confronting Editor-in-Chief: Orio Giarini, Director, The Risk Institute, Geneva and Trieste; Member of the Board of humanity into positive catalytic forces for rapid evolution to a new paradigm. Trustees, World Academy of Art & Science; Honorary Member, Club of Rome. Garry Jacobs, Uncorking the Future: Transitions to a New Paradigm Managing Editor: Garry Jacobs, Chief Executive Officer, World Academy of Art & Science; Chief Executive Officer, World University Consortium; Vice-President, The Mother’s Service Society, Pondicherry, India. Current governance and international institutions should be upgraded fast enough to Members: harness and channel change, instead of being overwhelmed by it. Walter Truett Anderson, President Emeritus, World Academy of Art & Science; Fellow, Western Alexander Likhotal, From Reset to Reboot? Behavioral Sciences Institute; Founding Fellow, Meridian International Institute (USA). Ian Johnson, Former Secretary General, Club of Rome; Former Vice President, The World Bank; To give expression to the subconscious aspirations of society that are striving to Member of the Board of Trustees, World Academy of Art & Science. awaken and act as a catalyst for their realization is the essence of transformational Michael Marien, Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science; Director, Global Foresight Books. leadership. Winston Nagan, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Chair of Program Committee, World Academy of Art & Science; Editor of Eruditio Journal; Professor of Law & Director, Institute for Human Rights, Peace Janani Harish, Leadership for a New Paradigm in Human Development & Development, University of Florida. Francesco Stipo, Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science; Former President of the US Association, Einstein stressed that the most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is Club of Rome. comprehensible. Editorial & Technical Staff: Vasugi Balaji, Latha Chandrasekaran, Janani Harish, Shweta Rangan, Ivo Šlaus, Employment & Unity of Social Sciences Ranjani Ravi, Vani Senthil and Ranganayaki Somaskandan. The effectiveness of knowledge is given by its movement. It does not produce anything The CADMUS Journal when it lies still; it yields everything when it is intensively used. The acronym of the South-East European Division of The World Academy of Art and Orio Giarini & Mircea Malitza, The Double Helix of Learning and Work 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 Effective economic theory must shift its basis from an inordinate reliance on financial son of King Agenor and Queen Telephassa of Tyre, and brother of Cilix, Phoenix and Europa. and technological capital to recognition of the central role of Human Capital – Cadmus is credited with introducing the original alphabet – the Phoenician alphabet, with individual and social – as the ultimate source and motive power of all wealth creation, welfare and well-being. “the invention” of agriculture, and with founding the city of Thebes. His marriage to Harmonia represents the symbolic coupling of Eastern learning and Western love of beauty. The young- Garry Jacobs, Contours of New Economic Theory est son of Cadmus and Harmonia is Illyrius. The city of Zagreb, which is the formal seat of SEED, was once a part of Illyria, a region including what is today referred to as the Western We have a financial sector out of control, divorced from the real economy and incapable of providing the liquidity at the scale needed to address key sectors of the Balkans and even more. Cadmus will be a journal for fresh thinking and new perspectives that real economy. integrates knowledge from all fields of science, arts and humanities to address real-life issues, inform policy and decision-making, and enhance our collective response to the challenges Ian Johnson, Can we Finance the Energy Transition? and opportunities facing the world today. Social problems appear as contradictions. Eventually, the development of society is a Copyright: The Risk Institute – Istituto del Rischio result of resolving contradictions. Via della Torretta 10, 34121, Trieste – Italy / Rue le Corbusier 12, 1208 Geneva – Switzerland Dimitar Tchurovsky, The New Paradigm of Social Evolution: Editorial Office: The Mother's Service Society Modern Society between Hope and Tragedy 5, Puduvai Sivam Street, Venkata Nagar – Pondicherry 605011 – India There is virtually no futures education in schools and colleges. Far better education Published under Open Access policy guidelines. See the last page for Editorial Policy. about Global Challenges is greatly needed. Websites: www.cadmusjournal.org – www.worldacademy.org – www.newwelfare.org Michael Marien, Book Review 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 4 May 2015 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. No longer able to afford the luxury of competition and strife based primarily on national, ethnic or religious interests and prejudices, we need urgently to acquire the knowledge and fashion the institutions required for free, fair and effective global governance. In recent centuries the world has been propelled by the battle cry of revolutionary ideas — freedom, equality, fraternity, universal education, workers of the world unite. Past revolutions have always brought vast upheaval and destruction in their wake, tumultuous and violent change that has torn societies asunder and precipitated devastating wars. Today the world needs evolutionary ideas that can spur our collective progress without the wake of destructive violence