Volume 7, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2008)

Second Transcultural Thematic Issue

“Transcultural Impacts and Perspectives on the Future”

Perspectives from Canada, Italy, South Africa, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia
(Middle East), the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.

In this issue

Articles

• The West and Islam: Back to the Future, by Samah Alrayyes Norquist, founder, Global Partners, LLC
• Global Agriculture 2020, by Timothy C. Mack, President, World Future Society
• Syria – an Inside Look, by Wendy Keslick, Executive Director, Children Creating Bridges
  • Children Creating Bridges, companion article to Syria – an Inside Look
• Organizational Culture – Preparing for Future Strategic Practices, by Robert Angel, president, The Gilford Group Ltd.
• Accommodating the Flow of People, by Stephen Aguilar-Millan, Director of Research at the European Futures Observatory
• Leading Social Adaptation (LSA) – An Empirical Approach, by David Day, founding partner, Incite Leadership
• South Africa’s Youth Bulge: Risk or Opportunity?, by Itha Taljaard, founder, Sense2Solve
• Contributions of Different Cultural-Religious Traditions to Different Aspects of Peace – Leading to a Holistic, Integrative View of Peace for a 21st Century Interdependent World, by Linda Groff, Director, Global Options Consulting, and Professor, Political Science and Future Studies, California State University
• Awakening to a Transformed Future, by Sohail Inayatullah, Professor, Tamkang University, and Adjunct Professor, University of the Sunshine Coast
• Group Discussion and Images of the Future: a Pilot Study of a Classroom Setting, by Simone Arnaldi, Director, Jacques Maritain Foundation, and lecturer of sociology, University of Trieste

Book Review / Futurist Book Group (FBG) Discussion Synopsis

• DOUBLE FEATURE! Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century, by Mark Leonard, and The Last Days of Europe, by Walter Laqueur, discussed jointly at Futurist Book Group meeting, synopsized by Ken Harris

Special Feature

• What if? Uncovering your hidden assumptions