This edition of CADMUS explores how converging crises—conflict, climate, and disruptive technology—can be transformed into opportunities through systemic reform, ethical innovation, and inclusive collaboration. It presents bold proposals for strengthening global institutions, advancing green and digital transitions, and fostering a values-based renaissance.
The intellectual challenge before us is to fully understand the circumstances and factors that have brought us to the present situation, the root causes and deeper processes governing global social evolution, and the opportunities and catalytic strategies for effective action.
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We are more than our nations, more than our myths, and need a globalisation of compassion and conscience, not a debasing instrumentalization of the person.
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The Peace Offensive fundamentally seeks to redefine our approach to conflict, transforming seemingly intractable crises into opportunities for building durable peace.
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Now is the time to be courageous, to choose action over complacency, and to reclaim the future by prioritizing human centered values in every facet of society.
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In the future, the evolution of AI can bring about the ‘Fifth Paradigm,’ in which data driven science will enter loops of self accelerated learning driven by AI.
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Citizen engagement is recognised as a cornerstone of democratic governance, yet many public participation methods fail to foster meaningful dialogue and promote inclusive decision-making.
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Ketan Patel, Christian Hansmeyer, Nandan Desai, Aditya Ajit
The vast majority of SDG funding is not structured to generate the required risk-adjusted returns, nor is it packaged in traditional asset classes that match the mandates granted to the finance industry.
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Any transformation presupposes a change of mindset—reflecting the highly influential emotional, spiritual, psychosocial, and cultural factors—that must evolve to enable transformation toward sustainability.
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Sri Aurobindo once wrote that ‘history teaches us nothing.’ Perhaps he was referring to the troubling pattern of recurring errors in human history and humanity’s unwillingness or incapacity to learn from the valuable lessons of our collective past.
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The fundamental solution lies in harnessing market forces to organically integrate the goals of green transformation and corporate profitability.
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The future of business education stands at a critical intersection of technological disruption, ethical leadership, and sustainability. While AI can revolutionize learning, only human values can ensure ethical progress.
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