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The “State of the Future” is a comprehensive annual overview of the present global situation and prospects for humanity. It integrates forecasts, trends, and judgments of thought leaders and scholars from around the world, sharing important future possibilities to improve strategies today. Led by Jerome Glenn, the Millenium Project sponsors this collective intelligence endeavor. Good …
Good step, this is. Master of Tri-Sector Collaboration (MTSC) The innovative Master of Tri-Sector Collaboration provides rigorous interdisciplinary training in effective problem solving for the 21st century’s complex environment. It is applicable to business, government, and civil society organisations, and to the interactions among them. It will: Develop leaders able to flourish in a complex, …
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It’s time to reassess the goals of humanitarian aid Those caught in conflict and natural disasters are part of growing trend exemplified by Syria, South Sudan and the Philippines David Miliband The Guardian, 28 February 2014 For the first time the UN has declared three simultaneous crises – in South Sudan, Syria and the Philippines …
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Top 10 emerging technologies for 2014 Technology has become perhaps the greatest agent of change in the modern world. While never without risk, positive technological breakthroughs promise innovative solutions to the most pressing global challenges of our time, from resource scarcity to global environmental change. However, a lack of appropriate investment, outdated regulatory frameworks and …
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The age of dissent Why are people resorting to street politics across the globe? John Bell Al Jazeera, 11 February 2014 John Bell is Director of the Middle East Programme at the Toledo International Centre for Peace in Madrid. In 2012, after the beginnings of the Arab revolutions, Paul Mason, editor at BBC’s Newsnight programme, …
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Jerome C. Glenn co-founded and directs the Millennium Project, a leading global participatory think tank supported by international organizations, governments, corporations, and NGOs, which produces the internationally recognized State of the Future annual reports for the past 14 years. State of the Future Executive Summary A review of the trends of the 28 variables used …
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BOOK: America’s Great Game: The CIA’s Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East From the 9/11 attacks to waterboarding to drone strikes, relations between the United States and the Middle East seem caught in a downward spiral. And all too often, the Central Intelligence Agency has made the situation worse. But this …
