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Some New Accomplishments

Some New Accomplishments. New Nodes in Helsinki, Paris, Sao Paulo, and soon Caracas, Silicon Valley, Canada, and maybe Stockholm New Sponsor: Applied Materials World Federation of UN Associations UNEP Global Scenarios Jose’s Club of Rome Presentation

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Some New Accomplishments

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  1. Some New Accomplishments • New Nodes in Helsinki, Paris, Sao Paulo, and soon Caracas, Silicon Valley, Canada, and maybe Stockholm • New Sponsor: Applied Materials • World Federation of UN Associations • UNEP Global Scenarios • Jose’s Club of Rome Presentation • Futures Matrix "nearly always used before staring a subject or project” -- Z_punkt

  2. Uses in China as reference for • Policy makers in long term thinking and global perspectives especially in their planning of model provinces and cities for sustainable development. • Researchers especially the methods of scenarios, questionnaires and interviews and future studies. • University teachers' lecture and training courses. • Graduate students in preparing their theses especially the methodological reviews. • NGO newsletter and capacity building activities (the Ecological Society of China, Chinese Association for sustainable Development and SCOPE/China).

  3. State of the Future acknowledged • Future Survey’s best books for 2001 • 900 sales to Applied Materials • Translations: China (3 years), Iran (3 years), Czech (in process). Italy (15 challenges for primary and secondary schools, and explorations for French and Arabic • Spanish version of the Methods C-ROM near completion

  4. Other accomplishments • UN policy update on Millennium Deceleration (transnational crime, others) • Technology Benefiting Humanity Awards in second year • UNDP-UNV tele-volunteers and cyber volunteers • SD Summit prep briefings • Senate Foreign Relations Committee (briefing given follows)

  5. Post-Bipolar World: Two Themes for Diplomacy • What is the next organizing principle for world affairs ? Human Security • How should diplomatic readiness be judged ? Ability to address the threats to human security

  6. Human Security is the combination of ... • Military security • Financial and Economic Security • Environmental Security • Freedom with responsibility

  7. Human Security is for ... • the individual • groups • nations • humanity as-a-whole.

  8. Human security has to be provided by ... • Nation-States • Corporations • International Organizations • NGOs

  9. The Challenges to Human Security are ... 1. Sustainable Development 2. Water 3. Population and Resources 4. Democratization 5. Global, Long-Term Policymaking 6. Globalization of Information Technology 7. Rich-Poor Gap

  10. Global Challenges (cont.) 8. Changing disease threats 9. Decision-Making Capacities 10. Peace & Conflict 11. Improving Women’s Status 12. Transnational Crime 13. Energy Demands 14. Science & Technology Development 15. Global Ethics

  11. Diplomatic Readiness • Basic knowledge of the situation in each challenge • Understanding of the range of potential solutions • Sensitivity to regional human security perspectives • On-going awareness of progress on the challenges • Ability to connect the resources of governments, corporations, international organizations, and NGOs to human security strategy in area of assignment

  12. How to Measure Progress on Human Security ? • Just as GDP is used to measure economic growth, a State of the Future Index (SOFI) has been created to measure progress on the 15 Global Challenges • Indicators for each of the Global Challenges have been aggregated into a single index • A global assessment was used to identify and weight the indicators • Policy could be judged on its ability to improve the index

  13. State of the Future Index

  14. UN Universities Organizations Governments Corporations NGOs Millennium Project …. May become a “TransInstitution”

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