John L. Petersen
President and Founder, The Arlington Institute
John L. Petersen is considered by many to be one of the most informed futurists in the world. He is best-known for writing and thinking about high impact surprises—wild cards—and the process of surprise anticipation. His current professional involvements include the development of sophisticated tools for anticipatory analysis and surprise…
Terms of Service
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Board of Directors
Nancy B. Roof, Chairman
Nancy Roof, Ph.D. is the founder of the award-winning Kosmos Journal: Global Transformation in Harmony with All Life, and President of Kosmos Associates, Inc. The mission of Kosmos is to identify and support systemic economic, political, social, environmental and personal transformation leading to the new planetary civilization. She is actively involved in the founding…
A Brief History of Kosmos Associates, Inc.
In a sunny garden in Manhattan close to the United Nations, a small group met to share a common commitment to enhance the quality of life and the humanization of global relations. Among those present were Reverend Chung OK Lee, Head Minister of the Manhattan Won-Buddhist Temple and Co-President of World Conference on Religions and Peace and Nancy Roof, Co-Founder of the Values Caucus at the…
High-Level Forum on the Culture of Peace
In his invitation to participate in the High-Level Forum on the Culture of Peace, UN General Assembly President Vuk Jeremić honored the work of Kosmos by saying: “Taking into consideration your extensive work and experience in a variety of fields, including the efforts towards shaping a new civilization for the common good… I believe that the membership of the General Assembly would benefit…
Transforming A Dysfunctional Legal System
I started law school in 1987. I was 29 years old and married with a blended family of seven kids at home. We were politically and socially active, making a difference in our community. My husband was sometimes arrested for civil disobedience and it seemed that there was always a family law issue.
As one of the first members of my extended family to go to college, I didn’t know much about law…
Carolyn Raffensperger
Carolyn Raffensperger, M.A., J.D. is executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network. In 1982 she left a career as an archaeologist in the desert Southwest to join the environmental movement. She first worked for the Sierra Club where she addressed an array of environmental issues, including forest management, river protection, pesticide pollutants, and disposal of radioactive…
Norie Huddle
Norie Huddle has written seven published books (three bestsellers) on environmental issues and on transforming humanity. Growing up in the woods of northern Virginia, Norie's background is eclectic and international. She was an exchange student in Italy, a Russian language graduate of Brown University, a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia, and spent four years in Japan working with the…
J. Kim Wright
J. Kim Wright is a pioneer, leader and change agent in the area of integrative law.
Kim has been a lawyer since 1989. Early in her career, she began to explore the transformational models of law practice. Her holistic and healing approach allowed her to facilitate some of life's most intimate moments, creating and dissolving important relationships, like marriages…
Jim Lobe
About Jim Lobe
Jim Lobe has served as Washington D.C. correspondent and chief of the Washington bureau of Inter Press Service (IPS), an international news agency specializing in coverage of issues and events of interest to developing countries, from 1980 to 1985, and again from 1989 to the present.
Since 9/11, Jim has focused much of his coverage on U.S. policy in the Middle East and the…