Some New Accomplishments

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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
• Joses Club of Rome Presentation
• Futures Matrix "nearly always used before staring
  a subject or project -- Z_punkt

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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).

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State of the Future acknowledged

• Future Surveys 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

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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)

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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

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Human Security is the combination of ...

• Military security
• Financial and Economic Security
• Environmental Security
• Freedom with responsibility

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Human Security is for ...

• the individual
• groups
• nations
• humanity as-a-whole.

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Human security has to be provided by ...

• Nation-States
• Corporations
• International Organizations
• NGOs

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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

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Global Challenges (cont.)

• 8. Changing disease threats
• 9. Decision-Making Capacities
• 10. Peace Conflict
• 11. Improving Womens Status
• 12. Transnational Crime
• 13. Energy Demands
• 14. Science Technology Development
• 15. Global Ethics

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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

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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

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State of the Future Index
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Millennium Project
. May become a TransInstitution