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The '''World Academy of Art and Science''' ('''WAAS''') is an international non-governmental scientific organization, a global [[Social network|network]] of about 800 individual fellows from more than 90 [[countries]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=WAAS Newsletter|url=http://www.worldacademy.org/files/Newsletters/November_2013.pdf|website=www.worldacademy.org|date = November 2013}}</ref> Fellows are elected for distinguished accomplishments in the [[sciences]], [[arts]] and the [[humanities]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=XI International Colloquium|url=http://www.internationalcolloquium.org/sponsors.html|website=www.internationalcolloquium.org}}</ref>
The World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS), founded in 1960, is an international non-governmental scientific organization and global network of more than 800 notable scientists, artists, and scholars in more than 90 countries.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Boyko |first1=Hugo |title=The World Academy of Art and Science and the Creation of the World University |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-6269-4_23 |website=Springer Link |publisher=Springer, Dordrecht}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=World Academy of Art and Science records |url=https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/12/resources/3677 |website=Archives at Yale |publisher=Yale University Library}}</ref>

It serves as a forum for scientists, artists, thinkers, political and social leaders to address the pressing challenges confronting humanity from a transnational, transdisciplinary perspective independent of political boundaries and prevailing orthodoxies.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Boyko |first1=Hugo |title=Science and the Future of Mankind |date=1961 |publisher=Indiana University Press |pages=7}}</ref> Fellows are elected for distinguished accomplishments in the sciences, arts and the humanities.<ref>{{cite web |title=Noam Lior Elected to World Academy of Art and Science |url=https://news.seas.upenn.edu/noam-lior-elected-to-world-academy-of-art-and-science/ |website=Penn Engineering News |publisher=University of Pennsylvania}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Assie-Lumumba named to World Academy of Art and Science |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2006/04/assie-lumumba-named-world-academy-art-and-science |website=Cornell Chronicle |publisher=Cornell University}}</ref>

The Academy was founded by eminent intellectuals<ref>{{cite journal |title=The World Academy of Art and Science: History and Manifesto |journal=Cadmus Journal |url=http://www.cadmusjournal.org/content/world-academy-art-and-science-history-and-manifesto}}</ref> including [[Albert Einstein]]; [[Robert Oppenheimer]]<ref>{{cite web |title=J. Robert Oppenheimer |url=https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/j-robert-oppenheimer |website=Atomic Heritage Foundation |publisher=Atomic Heritage Foundation}}</ref>, father of the [[Manhattan Project]]; [[Bertrand Russell]], [[Joseph Needham]], co-Founder of [[UNESCO]]; [[John Boyd Orr]], first Director General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); [[Brock Chisholm]], first Director General of [[The World Health Organization]](WHO) and many others.

It has been granted special consultative status by the [[UN Economic and Social Council]]<ref>{{cite web |title=List of non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council as at 1 September 2019 - Page 124 |url=http://csonet.org/content/documents/INF_List_lastest.pdf |website=UN - Department of Economic and Social Affairs |publisher=United Nations Economic and Social Council}}</ref> and consultative status by [[UNESCO]] <ref>{{cite web |title=Committee on Non-Governmental Partners, Relations with non-governmental partners - Page 3 |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000369941 |website=UNESDOC Digital Library |publisher=UNESCO}}</ref>. Originally established in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1960, in 2011 WAAS was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) public benefit charitable organization in the State of California, USA. The Academy maintains offices in Napa, USA; Bucharest, Romania; and Pondicherry, India.



==History==
==History==

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The World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS), founded in 1960, is an international non-governmental scientific organization and global network of more than 800 notable scientists, artists, and scholars in more than 90 countries.[1][2]

It serves as a forum for scientists, artists, thinkers, political and social leaders to address the pressing challenges confronting humanity from a transnational, transdisciplinary perspective independent of political boundaries and prevailing orthodoxies.[3] Fellows are elected for distinguished accomplishments in the sciences, arts and the humanities.[4][5]

The Academy was founded by eminent intellectuals[6] including Albert Einstein; Robert Oppenheimer[7], father of the Manhattan Project; Bertrand Russell, Joseph Needham, co-Founder of UNESCO; John Boyd Orr, first Director General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); Brock Chisholm, first Director General of The World Health Organization(WHO) and many others.

It has been granted special consultative status by the UN Economic and Social Council[8] and consultative status by UNESCO [9]. Originally established in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1960, in 2011 WAAS was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) public benefit charitable organization in the State of California, USA. The Academy maintains offices in Napa, USA; Bucharest, Romania; and Pondicherry, India.


History

The idea of founding the Academy and a set of world scientific and youth scientist and science journalist associations was proposed in an article in Time magazine on 1/10/1938 by philosopher a Etienne Gilson in the 1940s.

The idea was echoed in the 1950s by leading scientists who were concerned about the potential for misuse of scientific discoveries. The Academy was organized in December 1960 with the aim of creating an informal world association of the highest scientific and ethical norms and standards.[10]

Originally established in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1960,[11] in 2011 WAAS incorporated as a non-profit organization in the State of California, USA. The Academy maintains offices in Napa, California; Zagreb, Croatia; Bucharest, Romania; and Pondicherry, India. It has a special division for South Eastern Europe.

Notable past fellows

Programs

Current programs of the Academy include initiatives focusing on:

  • Abolition of Nuclear Weapons—formulation of legal, public policy and social strategies for complete elimination of nuclear weapons.
  • Global Employment Challenge—strategies to achieve full employment and to evolve a theory and global model for employment.
  • New Economic Theory—formulation of a human-centered theory of economics
  • Global Higher Education–conceptualization and design of a truly global, world-class system of higher education accessible and affordable to people everywhere.
  • Evolution of Individuality—the role of formed individuals in guiding the development of creative intellectual and social processes as evidenced by creative artists, original thinkers, business and social entrepreneurs, discoverers, inventors and political leaders.
  • Revolution in Human Affairs—inquiry into the relationship between rising expectations and rising levels of social unrest, violence, fundamentalism and terrorism.
  • Limits to Rationality—analysis of limitations in the application of rationality to solve human problems and in the inherent limitations commonly associated with mind's quest for knowledge.
  • Ways of Knowing—analysis of the inherent limitations and blindspots implicit in the prevailing fragmentary, rationalist, materialistic, mechanistic approach to understanding and solving human problems, including an exploration of new ways of knowing generated by the emerging sciences of systems theory, complexity, autopoiesis and recent discoveries in the physical, biological and social sciences.

World University Consortium

Following an international conference on Global Higher Education organized by the Academy at the University of California at Berkeley in October 2013, the World University Consortium was incorporated in California in collaboration with nine charter members.

Publications

  • Cadmus Journal: a twice yearly print and electronic journal focusing on issues related to economy, security and global governance.[12]
  • Eruditio Journal: a twice yearly electronic journal for examination of ideas and perspectives that fall beyond the purview of traditional academic publications.[13]
  • WAAS Papers: Articles, papers and presentations by Fellows of the Academy.[14]
  • Reports to the World Academy of Art & Science: Books by WAAS Fellows accepted by the Board of Trustees as official reports to the Academy[15]

Management

The Academy is managed by a 22-member board of trustees and a nine-member Executive Committee. The principal officers are Garry Jacobs, President & Chief Executive Officer, Alberto Zucconi, Chairman of the Board

Past presidents of the World Academy

  1. Lord John Boyd Orr
  2. Hugo Boyko
  3. Stuart Mudd
  4. Marion Mushkat
  5. Detlev Bronk
  6. Harold Lasswell
  7. Walter Isard
  8. Ronald St. John Macdonald
  9. Carl-Göran Hedén
  10. Harlan Cleveland
  11. Walter Truett Anderson
  12. Jeffrey Schwartz
  13. Ivo Slaus[16]
  14. Heitor Gurgulino de Souza

References

  1. ^ Boyko, Hugo. "The World Academy of Art and Science and the Creation of the World University". Springer Link. Springer, Dordrecht.
  2. ^ "World Academy of Art and Science records". Archives at Yale. Yale University Library.
  3. ^ Boyko, Hugo (1961). Science and the Future of Mankind. Indiana University Press. p. 7.
  4. ^ "Noam Lior Elected to World Academy of Art and Science". Penn Engineering News. University of Pennsylvania.
  5. ^ "Assie-Lumumba named to World Academy of Art and Science". Cornell Chronicle. Cornell University.
  6. ^ "The World Academy of Art and Science: History and Manifesto". Cadmus Journal.
  7. ^ "J. Robert Oppenheimer". Atomic Heritage Foundation. Atomic Heritage Foundation.
  8. ^ "List of non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council as at 1 September 2019 - Page 124" (PDF). UN - Department of Economic and Social Affairs. United Nations Economic and Social Council.
  9. ^ "Committee on Non-Governmental Partners, Relations with non-governmental partners - Page 3". UNESDOC Digital Library. UNESCO.
  10. ^ "Ivo Slaus president of the world academy of art & science". English.republika.mk. 24 December 2013.
  11. ^ "World Academy of Art & Science". www.mssresearch.org.
  12. ^ "Cadmus Journal". Cadmus Journal. Retrieved 2012-07-01.
  13. ^ "Eruditio | World Academy of Art & Science". Eruditio.worldacademy.org. Retrieved 2012-07-01.
  14. ^ "Index of Monographs & Papers by Fellows | World Academy of Art & Science". Worldacademy.org. Retrieved 2012-07-01.
  15. ^ "Books | World Academy of Art & Science". Worldacademy.org. Retrieved 2012-07-01.
  16. ^ "Presentation of the World Academy of Art & Science". www.icdhouse.org. 15 April 2013.
  • The World Academy of Art and Science: History and Manifesto.- J. "CADMUS", Vol. I, Issue 2, 2011, pp. 151–152. [1]

External links

  • [2] Official website
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