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Volume 4, Issue 2 - May - July 2020

Leadership for a New Paradigm: Planetary Moment and Momentum

Garry Jacobs, Donato Kiniger-Passigli, Ivo Šlaus, Alberto Zucconi, Stefan Brunnhuber
This is a unique moment in human history. It is a unique opportunity to generate the momentum needed for rapid transformation of national and global policies and institutions. Read more
Garry Jacobs, Donato Kiniger-Passigli, Hazel Henderson, Janani Ramanathan
Transformative leadership is the process of consciously accelerating the evolution of global society. This paper provides an overview of initial research findings of the project on Global Leadership in the 21st century (GL21) initiated by WAAS Read more
Ketan Patel, Christian Hansmeyer
Finance is one of the fundamental tools that has underpinned and shaped global civilisation, alongside agriculture and writing systems. During the past 5,000 years finance has adapted Read more
Rodolfo Fiorini, Carlos Alvarez Pereira, Garry Jacobs, Donato Kiniger-Passigli, Alberto Zucconi, Nebojša Nešković, Herwig Schopper, Vojislav Mitic, Hazel Henderson, Mariana Todorova, Witold Kinsner, Luigi Cocchiarella
The goal of this paper is to focus on the Global Leadership Challenge in the 21st Century with an integrated and strategic perspective in science, engineering and technology (SET). Read more
Thomas Reuter, Michael Marien, David Harries
This discussion paper looks at the current historical momentum and potential future development of civil society and youth leadership for a systemic transformation to a sustainable new civilization. Read more
Alberto Zucconi, Isabelle Wachsmuth
Individual health, social health and planetary health are under attack and not effectively protected and promoted and the root causes are socially construed realities, narratives and cultures that still use and teach new generations obsolete mechanistic reductionist Read more
Juri Engelbrecht, Momir Djurovic, Thomas Reuter
The present article is written as an issue paper on academies for the GL-21 Project. It traces activities of academies and their associations in the present information-rich society. Read more
David Chikvaidze
The narrative ‘sweeps through’ history, starting with the Treaties of Westphalia in 1648, on to the Congress of Vienna of 1814-15, to the current terminology of ‘modern multilateralism’ Read more
Alexander Likhotal
This generation has grown in the belief that history has ended before them, that now we live in an era of comfort and stability. Indeed, the post-Cold War context has given birth to beliefs Read more
Stefan Brunnhuber, Garry Jacobs
Development needs have primarily been financed through private sector financing, conventional public sector funding and philanthropic commitment. These traditional sources Read more
Dragan Djuricin
Structural crises of the past have had a significant impact on the world economy even before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in 2020. The ongoing medical crisis exacerbates the Read more
Mariana Bozesan, Thomas Kehler, Thomas Schulz
The COVID-19 pandemic has vividly demonstrated that humanity is not well prepared to address global challenges, particularly existential threats. This paper shows us how to restart the economy and ensure employment Read more
Yehuda Kahane
In these past two centuries, capitalism has driven substantial economic growth. However, this growth has not been responsible for the “thrivability” of our planet in terms of society and the environment. Read more
Pavel Luksha, Witold Kinsner, Joshua Cubista, Jessica Spencer-Keyse
The Education subgroup of the GL-21 project recognizes that education plays a triple role in regard to the new model of leadership. First, we need education to serve leadership, Read more
Emil Constantinescu
In order to understand “What the world will look like after the pandemic”, we must first understand the present we inhabit and learn from the lessons of the recent past. Read more
Winston P. Nagan, Samantha R. Manausa
This article introduces the twin themes of leadership and global constitutionalism. Today, we have a global constitution: the UN Charter. It has evolved into a weak instrument of Read more
Garry Jacobs, Ivo Šlaus
Editors’ Note: In remembrance of Orio Giarini, founding Editor-in-Chief of Cadmus, we reproduce key ideas from an article by Garry Jacobs and Ivo Šlaus about his seminal contribution to economic thought Read more
Frank Dixon
COVID-19 is a tragedy and opportunity for humanity. Reductionistic thinking and resulting flawed systems put human society in conflict with nature. Read more
Joaquim Vergés-Jaime
The aim of this article is to underline that the core paradigm of mainstream economics, economics’ standard model (ESM), rests upon an explanatory theory that draws on deductive assumptions which are not supported by what observations of the reality of market Read more
Ashok Natarajan
The world has yet to evolve a coherent theory of peace. As health is commonly understood as the absence of disease, peace is broadly conceived as the absence of war Read more
Marcel Van de Voorde
The modern approach to University education and research cuts across traditional boundaries. In order to obtain maximum benefit from research effort globally, universities need to adapt Read more
Fadwa El Guindi
A rapid change in technology is creating pressure on education to meet employment needs. Two overarching points are discussed in this article: first, rather than fearing the robotization Read more
Marco Vitiello
In a rapidly changing world, school systems need to adapt themselves rapidly in order to be able to prepare their students for the upcoming challenges that are threatening the world Read more
Hazel Henderson
Traces human societies’ organizing and leadership modalities, from early nomadic tribes to settled agricultural villages, towns, companies and today’s mega-cities, multi-national Read more
Robert Cavey
The main goal of the present paper is to make a suggestion about global leadership in the 21st century from a perspective somewhat removed from the most (and justly) dominant one. Read more
Hans d’Orville
The article discusses the interrelated issues of urbanisation, innovation and governance in the quest for sustainable development. Given present trends in urbanisation, cities are playing Read more
Ivo Šlaus
A novel global governance and leadership paradigm is proposed. Read more
Volume 4 Issue 2
Garry Jacobs, Donato Kiniger-Passigli, Ivo Šlaus, Alberto Zucconi, Stefan Brunnhuber
Garry Jacobs, Donato Kiniger-Passigli, Hazel Henderson, Janani Ramanathan
Rodolfo Fiorini, Carlos Alvarez Pereira, Garry Jacobs, Donato Kiniger-Passigli, Alberto Zucconi, Nebojša Nešković, Herwig Schopper, Vojislav Mitic, Hazel Henderson, Mariana Todorova, Witold Kinsner, Luigi Cocchiarella
Thomas Reuter, Michael Marien, David Harries
Juri Engelbrecht, Momir Djurovic, Thomas Reuter
Pavel Luksha, Witold Kinsner, Joshua Cubista, Jessica Spencer-Keyse