Hiroo Saionji
Hiroo Saionji is the president of the Goi Peace Foundation and the World Peace Prayer Society. Together with his wife, Masami Saionji, he travels around the world promoting dialogues on peace and leading World Peace Prayer Ceremonies at the United Nations and at other international organizations.
Mr. Masahisa Goi, who initiated this movement, believed that progressively making human thoughts…
Jacqueline Furtado
Jacqueline Furtado was one of fifteen youth who attended the World
Spirit Forum in 2005. She returned in 2006 as the Youth Coordinator. A
university student from Sydney, Australia, Jacqueline is involved in a
variety of leadership and peace-related projects. She is one of two
coordinators for her church youth group.
James Quilligan
James Quilligan has been a senior analyst and administrator in the field of international development since 1975. He was an adviser and public relations director for the Independent Commission on International Development Issues (1978-1984). Quilligan has served as an economic consultant for many governments and political leaders, including Pierre Trudeau, François Mitterrand, Julius Nyerere,…
James O’Dea
James is currently Co- Director of The Social Healing Project funded by the Kalliopeia Foundation. He is a member of the extended faculty of The Institute of Noetic Sciences and its immediate past President. He was Executive Director of The Seva Foundation, an international health and development organization and, for ten years, was the Washington Office Director of Amnesty International. The…
Jan Lee Martin
Jan Lee Martin has been an advocate for the future
for nearly 20 years. She has worked with many organizations and
communities to help them create new futures for themselves. Her
preferred approach combines skills from her early business career in
corporate communication with the concepts and methodologies of futures
studies.
She interprets many futures-related
topics for management,…
Janis Roze
Janis Roze Ph.D., born in Latvia, is Professor of Biology Emeritus of
City College and Graduate School of the City University of New York. He
was professionally associated with the American Museum of Natural
History and the United Nations. A founder of the International Center
for Integrative Studies he published six books and narrated several
videos on Creative Evolution. He co-edited What it…
Jason Bender
Jason Bender is a policy analyst at the Global Commons Trust, a
nonprofit that provides consultative services for social charters and
commons trusts. A global commons advocate for many years, he previously
worked in international negotiations at the United Nations Commission
for Sustainable Development.
www.globalhumancommons.org
Jay Walljasper
Jay Walljasper is an award-winning writer
who has reported on a wide range of topics from urban issues and
sustainability to music and travel. He is the author of the What We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons (2010), The Great Neighborhood Book (2007), and Visionaries: People and Ideas to Change Your Life (2001). His freelance writing can be read in publications such as Shambhala Sun, Ode,…
Jean Houston
“In our time we have come to the stage where the real work of
humanity begins. It is the time where we partner with Creation in the
creation of ourselves, in the restoration of the biosphere, the
regenesis of society, and in the assuming of a new type of culture: the
culture of Kindness. Herein, we live daily life reconnected and
recharged by the Source, so as to become liberated and…
John D. Schmidt
John D. Schmidt is the founder and CEO of Avastone Consulting, an
international consultancy committed to the vitality and sustainability
of client organizations and the larger global community. He serves as
advisor to global corporations and non-governmental enterprises, and is a
thinker, designer, and practitioner in integral approaches to complex
challenges and human development. He…