Kosmos Mission Statement-Serbian

Mission - Serbian Kosmos warmly thanks Stanimirka Milovanovic for her translation work.  Kosmos izraıava iskrenu zahvalnost Stanimirki Milovanović za njen prevodilački rad.  Naša misija KOSMOS je starogrčka reč koja opisuje harmoniju i lepotu univerzuma u kojem svaki njegov delić ima svoje mesto u njegovoj Sveobihvatnosti. To je reč koja označava i mesto koje čovek zauzima u…

Kosmos Global Ambassador Program

Kosmos is pleased to announce our Global Ambassador program, a new outreach to educate and empower people to become socially engaged for the global common good. This small but growing group of volunteers—all international travelers in their careers—use our journal to start conversations and inspire others to contribute to the global commons movement. Much more than magazine…

Building Bridges as a Kosmos Global Ambassador

When you authentically connect with someone or deeply resonate with an idea, you touch in the center, like a bridge has newly formed. Sometimes these are external bridges—connections that others can see. At other times, they are internal rewiring, a revolution of thought. As a Kosmos Global Ambassador, in my own small way, I build bridges. Our current institutions are crumbling and we stand…

Being a Kosmos Global Ambassador

When the call came out to represent Kosmos globally, I was quick to respond. Probably the immediate draw was the opportunity to support the work of Nancy Roof, Kosmos’ Founding Editor, Art Director and Chief Inspiration Officer. Nancy and I first met in Toronto around 2005 at the World Wisdom Council meetings. I was immediately attracted to her presence, her natural dignity and her vision.…

Values in the Contemporary World

At the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development in Copenhagen in 1995, (UNWSSD), daily experiential workshops and seminars that framed global issues around underlying values were conducted by the Values Caucus on such topics as the new visionary leadership and humane values—to standing room only crowds. In addition, the Values Caucus organized an extensive and intensive…

Peter Senge on Science, Spirituality & Worldviews

Nancy Roof: Shifts in mental models of thinking will be required to build our global future. You suggest that the important Worldviews today are naturalism, rationalism and humanism. Would you explain? Peter Senge: Those are basically three ways of saying who we are as human beings — head, heart, and hands. People have said it in many different ways. Chinese culture has three…

Salons and the Practice of Conversation

The critical challenges we face today are increasingly understood as interrelated and as global, spiritual and material in nature. Climate change and related human activities, including development and human migrations, have created a planetary crisis that no nation or region can solve on its own. We are an Earth community. However, making sense of all this in a time when more powerful tools for…

A New World Political Architecture

Mikhail Gorbachev delivers the closing presentation on A New World Political Architecture (1) Introduction by Nancy Roof It was a dedicated and globally diverse group of leaders who gathered together at the beautiful old monastery in Bosco Marengo, Italy on October 27-28, 2006. These leaders had been invited by Mikhail Gorbachev and The World Political Forum to participate in the…

Fall | Winter 2010

in this issue Go to: "in this issue" page 2 kosmos galleries Joydeep Mukherjee Drew Cameron and Drew Luan Matott Remi Benali Remi Benali…

Fall | Winter 2005

Global Citizenship WHAT IS A GLOBAL CITIZEN? AN INTERVIEW WITH GILLIAN SORENSEN Interviewed by Nancy Roof An extraordinary woman who rose to the highest levels of governance at the United Nations shares the story of how she did it. Experienced in all levels of planetary civilization from governments to civil society, she offers compelling reasons for why it is imperative to act now. Read now……