The World Academy of Art and Science was established in 1960 as a non-official network of individual Fellows from diverse cultures, nationalities, and intellectual disciplines, “chosen for eminence in art, the natural and social sciences, and the humanities. Its activities focus on “the social consequences and policy implications of knowledge.” The Academy serves as a forum for reflective scientists, artists, and scholars to discuss the vital problems of humankind independent of political boundaries or limits, whether spiritual or physical — a forum where these problems can be discussed objectively, scientifically, globally, and free from vested interests or regional attachments.
Over the past 20 years, MSS has collaborated with WAAS on a number of international conferences and research projects on issues related to development theory, peace and global security, employment and the future of science. Click here for a complete list of joint conferences.
For an overview of MSS projects in this field, please see WAAS Research Projects
Human Choice – The Genetic Code for Social Development
by Harlan Cleveland, Garry Jacobs, Robert Macfarlane, Robert van Harten, Ashok Natrajan Social development is the product of the application of the powers of mind to organize the physical materials, social activities and mental ideas of humanity to achieve greater material, social, mental and spiritual experience. Whether we look backward or forward, we face the same puzzling questions: What is the essential nature of human development? By what process does it occur? What factors speed it up and slow it down? What conditions are essential or detrimental to it? Through what stages or phases does it pass? What are the sources of its problems and its failures? And, probably most important, what is the role of the individual human being in human development? The approach outlined in this book gives central importance to the role of organization in development, organization as defined in the widest sense as the orderly arrangement of human activities to achieve greater productivity, efficiency, innovation and creativity.
- Employment, Individuality and Development, By Garry Jacobs, Presented to the World Academy of Art and Science’s e conference on Global Employment Challenge, Feb 14, 2010
- Fully Utilizing Social Resources can Eliminate Unemployment, By Ashok Natarajan, Presented at the World Academy of Art & Science’s e conference on Global Employment Challenge, Feb 11, 2010
- Development & Environment: Myths & Realities, By Garry Jacobs, Presented to World Academy of Art & Science General Assembly, at the Workshop on Development & Environment, Hyderabad, October 19, 2008
- America as an Evolutionary Pioneer, By Ashok Natarajan, Presented at the World Academy of Art & Science General Assembly at the Workshop on Development and Environment, Hyderabad, October 19, 2008
- International Financial Crisis & Single World Currency, By Garry Jacobs, Presented to World Academy of Art & Science General Assembly, at the Workshop on Money & Global Governance: Financing Sustainable Development, Hyderabad, October 19, 2008
- Towards a World Currency, By Garry Jacobs, Presented to World Academy of Art & Science General Assembly, at the Workshop on Money & Global Governance: Financing Sustainable Development, Hyderabad, October 19, 2008
- Limits to Rationality, By Garry Jacobs, Presented to World Academy of Art & Science General Assembly, at the Workshop on Limits to Rationality, Hyderabad, October 19, 2008
- Rationality, Science & the Human Mind, By Garry Jacobs, Presented to World Academy of Art & Science General Assembly, at the Workshop on Limits to Rationality, Hyderabad, October 19, 2008
- Ecology and Development Theory, By Garry Jacobs, Presented to World Academy of Art & Science General Assembly, at the Session on Development Theory – Dynamics of Social Change, Hyderabad, October 19, 2008
- Parallels between Biology and Social Development, By Garry Jacobs, Presented to World Academy of Art & Science General Assembly, at the Session on Development Theory – Dynamics of Social Change, Hyderabad, October 19, 2008
- Eliminating Nuclear Weapons | PDF File, Presented at a WAAS workshop during the World Futures Society annual conference in Toronto, July 2006.
- Employment in the Global Knowledge Society, Presented at the General Assembly of the World Academy of Art & Science in Zagreb, Croatia, November 19, 2005
- Population, Rising Expectations, Aging, Mobility & Employment, Presented at the General Assembly of the World Academy of Art & Science, Zagreb, Croatia, November 18-20, 2005
- Strategies for Full Employment in India, presented at the Intl. Symposium on Uncommon Opportunities: Roadmap for Employment, Food and Global Security in New Delhi, Nov 19-22, 2004
- Employable Skills for Full Employment, presented at the Intl. Symposium on Uncommon Opportunities: Roadmap for Employment, Food and Global Security in New Delhi, Nov 19-22, 2004
- Economic Development in the Global Century, a discussion paper for workshops on Economic Development at the 1998 Assembly of the World Academy of Art and Science, Vancouver, Canada, Nov. 5-7, 1998
- Employment Strategy for Pondicherry, India, January 14, 1997, paper prepared for the World Academy of Art & Science
- Future of Work, presented at the WAAS Seminar, Minneapolis, May 21, 1996
- New Foundations of Knowledge for Science, paper presented at the 1994 Assembly of World Academy of Art and Science, Minneapolis, October, 1994
- Theory of Social Development presented by Robert Macfarlane at World Academy conference on Development Theory in Chennai 1999.
- Musings on Money and Development Theory presentation at World Academy conference on Development Theory in Chennai 1999