Collegium International

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International Ethical, Scientific and Political Collegium, also called Collegium International is a high-level group created in 2002.

1 Origin
2 Composition
3 Open letters, Public meetings, conferences, etc.
4 Links
5 Notes

[edit] Origin

The International Ethical, Political and Scientific Collegium is committed, according to its founders "to respond intelligently and forcefully to the decisive challenges facing humankind". An appeal^[1] calling for the Collegium's establishment was made public in February 2002 in New York and its membership was officially presented on 2 April 2003 in Brussels before the European Parliament.

Collegium members and associate members, signatories of the Appeal, are scientists, philosophers and present and former Heads of State and Government.

[edit] Composition

Co-chaired by Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France, and Milan Kucan, who at the time of the Collegium's founding was President of the Republic of Slovenia, the group's members^[2] include: former Presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil and Alpha Oumar Konaré of Mali; Ruth Dreifuss, former Federal Counsellor of Switzerland; philosophers Edgar Morin, Jürgen Habermas and Jean-Pierre Dupuy; political analyst Benjamin Barber; international law professor Mireille Delmas-Marty; Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Nobel Prize winners Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen; as well as former Ambassador of France to the United Nations Stéphane Hessel, who was also present at the creation of the United Nations itself, former ambassador of the USA William vanden Heuvel.

His Secretary General is Sacha Goldman, journalist and film producer.

[edit] Open letters, Public meetings, conferences, etc.

September 2004 : Open letter to the Candidates of the 2004 United States Presidential Election, President [[George W. Bush)] and Senator John Kerry, published ^[3] in The Nation, US-based weekly magazine