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11 July 2010 | Draft Conference-, Organization- and Publication-related Initiatives of Anthony Judge (bio details separate) Organizations and meetings are included only if there was some special involvement, or if it elicited a written reflection before or after the event, or as a contribution. Publications in periodicals, possibly independent of any institutional association, are also included here. See also separate checklist of UIA-related Publication and Meeting Initiatives Separate publication details, if any, are provided in the linked item. [J=Journal/Periodical; U=Transnational Associations (UIA); P=Proceedings/Book; C=Collection of author's papers; M=Also non-English versions] All documents for years: 2010+ | 2000-09 | 1990-99 | 1980-89 | 1970-79 | 1962-69 | ALL years [NB: all papers, including those identified here, are listed and accessible from http://www.laetusinpraesens.org] Academy of Management (Case Western Reserve University) [1995] Conference on "Organization Dimensions of Global Change: No Limits to Cooperation": Sustainable Dialogue as a Necessary Template for Sustainable Global Community [P?] Agence pour la Francophonie / ACCT: [1995-1996]: Production of CD-ROM Agenda: News and views on sustainable development in Scotland [1998] The Challenge of Cyber-Parliaments and Statutory Virtual Assemblies [JU] American Association for the Advancement of Science [1971] Philadelphia, USA: Symposium on value and knowledge requirements for peace: Computer-aided visualization of psychosocial structures; peace as an evolving balance of conceptual and organizational relationships. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science [1971] Information systems and inter-organizational space [J] Anspach Institute for Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs (University of Pennsylvania). [1976] Philadelphia, USA: Conference on International Scientific and Professional Associations (ISPAs) and the International System Networks of International Associations, occupational categories and world problems Assessing the Impact of International Associations [UP] Association Internationale Futuribles [1977] Arc-et-Senans, France: Workshop on Lifestyles and Social Change in Western Europe Lifestyle interdependence, context and design Incapacité de l'individu a entreprendre dans son mode de vie personnel. Belgium, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et du Commerce Exterieur [1970] Textes et Documents: Union of International Associations 1910-1970: Past, Present, Future Visualization of the International Organization Network: the UIA as an international data bank [UPM] Bridging Worlds [1991] Aesthetics of Meaning [J] [1992] Potential and Dilemma of the Earth Summit [J] Center for Interdisciplinary Creativity (Southern Connecticut State College) [1970] Project proposal (with Jere M. Clark): Development of transdisciplinary conceptual aids: simple techniques for education, research, pre-crisis management, and program administration highlighting patterns of information transaction and sub-system interdependence [M] Centre for Alternative Technology (Wales) [2005] Machynlleth, Wales: Trajectories Conference: Playfully Changing the Prevailing Climate of Opinion: climate change as focal metaphor of effective global governance Club of Budapest: Members Meeting [1996] Budapest, Hungary: Cultivating the Songlines of the Noosphere: from presentations by representatives to embodying presence in transformation Club of Rome [1980] Societal Learning and the Erosion of Collective Memory: a critique of the Club of Rome Report: No Limits to Learning [UP] [1989] Hannover, Germany (Stiftung Niedersachsen): Inaugural meeting of The Hannover Project: Cooperation and its Failures (from the 1960s through the 1980s): 12 metaphors towards understanding the dilemma of the 1990s [TA] [1991] Punta del Este, Uruguay: Annual conference [1996] Sustainable Lifestyles and the Future of Work: learnings from "The Employment Dilemma and the Future of Work" (draft report to the Club of Rome by Orio Giarini and Patrick Liedtke) Colloque "Vers une symbolique unitaire universelle? Les voies de la trans-connaissance" [1995] Locarno, Switzerland: L’Esthétique du Paradoxe: essentiel de la compréhension unitaire Commission of the European Communities European Commission [1996] Proposal: Coherent Organization of a Navigable Problem-Solution-Learning Space [1999] Proposal: Intelli-work Procedural Framework for the Interoperability of Decentralized Knowledge Management Processes Based on a Diversity of Partners, Commitments and Competences Committee for Information on Science and Technology (CIDSI) [1977] Luxembourg: Ad Hoc Meeting on Conference Information Systems: A meeting-related information exchange facility within a computer conferencing environment [M] Cellule de Prospective / FAST [1992] Brussels, Belgium: Working meeting on the concept of networking [1993] The Challenge of Civilization as a Challenge of Conceptual Scaffolding [1993] Brussels, Belgium: Colloquium on the future of employment [1994] La méthode européenne: un problème de spectacle? Fifth Framework [1999] Lake Balaton, Hungary: East-West Collaboration in the Development of Interactive Media Products: Union of International Associations (UIA) Comité pour la suivie de la Langue Française dans les Organisations Internationales [1994] Paris, France: Presentation Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation [1978] Enhancement of communication between Commonwealth organizations using computer conferencing techniques [1978] Mapping Possibilities in Response to Information Needs of Science Policy-Making for Development Computer-Mediated Communications Magazine [1997] Sacralization of Hyperlink Geometry [J] Conference at 3220 Gallery (San Francisco) [1988] San Francisco, USA: World Problems and Human Potential: the role of global telecommunications (video) Conference on "Knowledge and East-West Traditions" [2000] Bangalore: Enhancing the Quality of Knowing through Integration of East-West metaphors Conference on "Redesigning Europe in the Third Millennium: a New Sustainable Vision of Democracy" (Eurovisioning.org) [2004] Budapest, Hungary Animating the Representation of Europe Visualizing the coherence of international institutions using dynamic animal-like structures [P] Using Research in the Participative Orchestration of Europe Conference on Realities and Relationships [1993] Taos NM, USA: Comments on Social Constructionism and Postmodernism Conference on Social Innovation in Global Management (Weatherhead School of Management) [1989] Cleveland, USA: Innovative Global Management through Metaphor [P?] Conference on the Futures of Europeans in the Global Knowledge Society [2005]: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: Workshop on Networking the Future: Meta-challenges of the Future for Networking through Think-tanks (with Nadia McLaren) "Tank-thoughts" from "Think-tanks": metaphors constraining development of global governance Congrex Annual Review [2000] Hybrid International Meetings for Participants on the Move: from face-to-face to virtual interaction [J] Council of Europe / Russian Public Policy Center [1994] Moscow, Russia: Seminar on State and Society: NGOs and Civil Society: Some Realities and Distortions the challenge of "Necessary-to-Governance Organizations" (NGOs) [U] Misapplication of International Legal Norms in Socially Abnormal Situations Policy Options for Civil Society -- through complementary contrasts [J] Creative Education Foundation (USA) [1994] Buffalo, NY, USA: Keynote speech on social architecture Ditchley Foundation (UK) [2000] Ditchley Park, UK: Conference on the International Impact and Accountability of NGOs Dropping Knowledge: Table of Free Volices [2006] Berlin, Germany Enabling a Living Library reconciling "free voices" and "intellectual propriety" Complementary Knowledge Analysis / Mapping Process (with Nadia McLaren) Eagles Conference [1986] Pecos River NM, USA Ecodecision (Montreal) [1993] La métaphore: une ressource mal-explorée pour l'éco-développement viable [J] Electronic Networking Association [1990] San Francisco, USA: 5th Conference: Transformative Conferencing: the re-enchantment of networking through conceptware Energy Technology Foresight Network (EFONET) [2006] Brussels, Belgium: Group meeting: Reframing Sustainable Sources of Energy for the Future: the vital role of psychosocial variants Etudes et Expansion [1978] De la difficulté de saisir la problématique mondiale European Conference on Hypertext Technology [1994] Edinburgh, UK: Design Considerations for Spatial Metaphors: reflections on the evolution of viewpoint transportation systems European Cultural Foyer / Diplomatic Club of Geneva [1990] Geneva, Switzerland: Round Table (on the occasion of the 45th Anniversary of the United Nations): Tomorrow's United Nations European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management. [1979] Brussels, Belgium: Groupware Configurations of Challenge and Harmony; an alternative approach to "alternative organizations" [UP] Federation of Damanhur (Italy) [2003] Renaissance Zones experimenting with the intentional significance of the Damanhur community Federation of International Associations established in Belgium (FAIB) [1968] Brussels, Belgium: General Assembly Possible Use of Computers and Data Processing Equipment by International Non-governmental Organizations [UM] Findhorn Foundation [1976] Findhorn, Scotland: Annual Conference: World Crisis and the Wholeness of Life [1979] Findhorn, Scotland: Annual Conference: Participant Interaction Bulletin [1980] Findhorn, Scotland: Annual Conference: PIP (Participant Interaction Bulletin) [1991] Findhorn, Scotland: Minton House gathering on "What Next?" in the light of the Gulf War Fondation pour le Progrès de l'Homme / Europe 99 [1995] Paris, France: European Continental Forum on Citizenship and Ways out of Social Apartheid: Social Exclusion: a metaphoric trap? Fondation pour les Etudes de Defense Nationale (France) [1973] Paris, France: Colloque internationale sur la perception nouvelles des menaces: La Carte des Menaces [J] Foundation for the Future (Seattle) [2000] Seattle, USA: Humanity 3000 Symposium: Critical Factors for the Long-term Survival of Humanity [P] Dialogue Challenges towards the Year 3000 Futures: the journal of forecasting and planning [1975] World Problems and Human Potential: a data interlinkage and display process [J] [1991] The Aesthetics of Governance...in the year 2491 [J] [1993] Metaphor and the Language of Futures [JP] [1993] The Quest for the Socio-Economics of Non-Action [J] [1994] The Future of Leadership: reframing the unknown [J] [1996] Richer Metaphors for Our Future Survival [J] [1998] From Information Highways to Songlines of the Noosphere: global configuration of hypertext pathways as a prerequisite for meaningful collective transformation [J] [2010] Self-reflexive Challenges of Integrative Futures [J] Global Brain Workshop: from intelligent networks to the global brain [2000] Brussels, Belgium: Simulating a Global Brain -- using networks of international organizations, world problems, strategies, and values (with Nadia McLaren, Joel Fischer and Tomáš J. Fülöpp) Global Conference on the Future [1980] Toronto, Canada: The Future of Comprehension: conceptual birdcages and functional basket-weaving [U] Global Governance Group of the New School of Athens (NSOA): [2008] Athens, Greece: 3rd Annual Conference: Governing Civilization through Civilizing Governance: global challenge for a turbulent future Configuring Global Governance Groups: experimental visualization of possible integrative relationships Towards Polyhedral Global Governance: complexifying oversimplistic strategic metaphors Green Peace Chronicle [1979] Beyond Childishness through Symbol-empowered Tensegrities Hague Academy of International Law / United Nations University [1985] The Hague, Netherlands: Workshop: Alternation between Variable Geometries: a brokership style for the United Nations as a guarantee of requisite variety [P] Humanitad Foundation [2007] Union of Intelligible Associations: keystones vs keynotes? Challenges to presentation, communication and comprehension of knowledge Institute of Cultural Affairs International [1984] Chicago, USA: Global Conference Inter-University Centre of Post-graduate Studies (Dubrovnik) [1975] World Problems and Human Potential a data interlinkage and display process [JM] Interactive Health Ecology Access Links (IHEAL) [1999] London, UK: Founding meeting International Association of Professional Congress Organisers (IAPCO) [1999] Brussels, Belgium: 5th IAPCO Forum: Deciding on the Future: Beyond Sun, Sea and Sex: Conference marketing and communication issues of the future (ppt) International Association of Students of Business and Economics (AIESEC) [1969] Turin, Italy: World Conference on the International Transfer of Management Skills: Case Studies in Planetary Management International Association "Peace through Culture" (Moscow) [1992] Alma Ata, Kazakhstan: World Congress towards Spiritual Concord: Towards Spiritual Concord [U] A Conference towards Spiritual Concord as a Metaphor of Spiritual Concord [C] Towards an Ecology of Spiritual Traditions as Articulated by a Dynamic System of Metaphors International Conference on "Eco-villages and Sustainable Communities: models for 21st Century living" [1995] Findhorn, Scotland: Gardening Sustainable Psycommunities: recognizing the psycho-social integrities of the future International Conference on "Engaging The Other": the Power of Compassion [2006] Kalamazoo, USA: Snoring of The Other: a politically relevant psycho-spiritual metaphor? International Conference on Social Science Information Technology [1994] Amsterdam, Netherlands: 2nd Conference (chairperson) International Conference on Demography Issues and Sustainable Development (Development Alternatives) [1990] New Delhi, India: Recontextualizing Social Problems through Metaphor: transcending the "switch" metaphor. [UJ] International Conference "The World We Choose" [1991] Paris, France: Da Zi Bao (with Robert Pollard) International Congress Centre (Berlin) [1979] Computer-enhanced Communication Environment for an International Conference Centre International Congress on Congress Organization. [1975] Kyoto, Japan: 6th Congress: Technical Facilitation of Meeting Dynamics and Participant Inter-action: from conference organization for well-behaved participants to conference organization for the satisfaction of participants [UP] International Symposium "How to do things with Metaphor" organized by the Revue Belge de Philogie et d'Histoire [1990[ Brussels, Belgium: Recontextualizing Social Problems through Metaphor: transcending the "switch" metaphor [UJ] International Conference on Demography Issues and Sustainable Development (Development Alternatives) [1990] New Delhi, India: Recontextualizing Social Problems through Metaphor [UJ] International Foundation for Social Innovation / Continuing Committee of the World Forum for Social Innovation [1975] Paris, France: Study Meeting: An Information Centre on Social Innovation. [1977] Paris, France: Journées d'études: Complexity: its constraints on social innovation [UPM] International Political Science Association: Committee on Conceptual and Technological Analysis [1971] Bellagio, Italy: Relationship between Elements of Knowledge; use of computer systems to facilitate construction, comprehension and comparison of the concept thesauri of different schools of thought. [1973] Montreal, Canada: 9th Congress: Toward a Concept Inventory: suggestions for a computerized procedure International School of Ignorance: International School of Ignorance ? -- an ongoing experiment in dialogue meeting design [1992] London, UK [1993] Brussels, Belgium [1993] Druidstone, Wales: [1994] Findhorn, Scotland [1995] Brussels, Belgium [1996] Brussels, Belgium [1996] Findhorn: [1997] Brussels, Belgium: [1997] Reigoldswil, Switzerland International Sociological Association [1978] Uppsala, Sweden: 9th Congress International Society for Knowledge Organization (International Classification / Knowledge Organization) [1977] Knowledge-representation in a computer-supported environment [J] [1978] Representation, comprehension and communication of sets; the role of number [J] [1981] Bielefeld, Germany: Conference on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis: Anti-developmental Biases in Thesaurus Design [P] [1994] Bratislava, Slovakia: lst European Conference: Spherical Configuration of Categories to Reflect Systemic Patterns of Environmental Checks and Balances [JP] [1995] Transdisciplinarity through Structured Dialogue: beyond sterile dualities in meetings to the challenge of participant impotence [1995] Darmstadt, Germany: Tagung über Begriffliche Wissensverarbeitung: Envisaging the Art of Navigating Conceptual Complexity: in search of software combining artistic and conceptual insights [J] [1996] Strategic Correspondences: computer-aided insight scaffolding [J] International Society for the Systems Sciences [1995] Amsterdam, Netherlands: Annual Meeting: Clarification of a Mathematical Challenge for Systems Science [1995] Universal Knowledge Tools Conference: Configuring Relationships between World Problems and Cognitive Resources International Studies Association [1971] San Juan, Puerto Rico: Workshop on International Organization Data (UIA/UNITAR): Inter-organizational Data and Data Bank Design. [1972] Dallas, USA: 13th Annual Convention: Nature of Organization in Transnational Networks. [J] [1973] New York, USA: 14th Annual Convention: Symposium on the Alternative Futures for the UN System: Alternative Futures for the United Nations Memorandum [1977] St Louis, USA: 18th Annual Convention: Practical problems in using the potential of INGO networks [PUM] Problems hindering action of international nongovernmental organizations [PUM] [1979] Toronto, Canada: 20th Annual Convention: The Associative Society of the Future [U] International Symposium on Models of Meaning (Institute of Bulgarian Language of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) [1988] Varna, Bulgaria: Reordering of Networks of Incommensurable Concepts in Phased Cycles -- and their comprehension through metaphor [J?] International Symposium on the Environment: "The Dilemma Facing Humanity" [1974] Spokane WA, USA: The Harmony of Interaction and the Facilitation of Network Processes: and the facilitation of network processes [UP] International Transpersonal Conference [1972] Reykjavik, Iceland: 1st Conference [1976] Inari, Finland: 3rd Conference [1996] Manaus, Brazil: Therapists without Borders International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN): Commission on Sustainable Development [1989] Claremont CA, USA: International Workshop: Through Metaphor to a Sustainable Ecology of Development Policies [P] Internationale Konferenz Bedingungen des Lebens in der Zukunft und ihre Folgen für die Erziehung [1978] Berlin, Germany: Organization and Lifestyle Design: characteristics of a nonverbal structural language Internationales Institut für Umwelt und Gesellschaft [1978] Berlin, Germany: Workshop on human needs: Needs Communication: viable need patterns and their identification [P] Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) [2002] Bucharest, Romania: Presentation *** John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation. [1992] Project proposal to the Collaborative Studies Competition: Catalyzation of New Patterns of Collaboration using a PC-based Structural Outliner as an Imaging Scaffold Journal of Futures Studies: epistemology, methods, applied and alternative futures [2003] America as Eve-ill Empire and the Evocation of Authenticity Elsewhere: global emergence of transcendental meaning in a world of monopolar materialism [J] [2004] Engaging Macrohistory through the Present Moment [J] [2006] Guidelines for Critical Dialogue between Worldviews as exemplified by the need for non-antisemitic dialogue with Israelis? [J] [2007] Potential Misuse of the Conveyor Metaphor Recognition of the circular dynamic essential to its appropriate operation [J] [2009] Stepping into, or through, the Mirror: embodying alternative scenario patterns [2010] Remedies to Global Crisis: "Allopathic" or "Homeopathic"? Metaphorical complementarity of "conventional" and "alternative" models [J] [2010] Burkha as Metaphorical Mirror for Imperious Culture? [J] Journal of the Interdisciplinary Crossroads [2005] Thinking in Terror: refocusing the interreligious challenge from "Thinking after Terror" [J] [2006] Ensuring Strategic Resilience through Haiku Patterns: reframing the scope of the "martial arts" in response to strategic threats [J] [2006] Cyclopean Vision vs Poly-sensual Engagement [J] Journal of Voluntary Action Research [1972] The Nature of Organization in Transnational Networks [J] La Casa Intentional [1994] Santa Barbara, USA: The Big Picture Summit London School of Economics [2000] London: Brainstorm Meeting on a "Global Civil Society Alamanac" Mankind 2000 / Union of International Associations [1974] Description of social transmutation conference by Société internationale des Conseillers de Synthèse [1975] Facilitative Environments for Personal Development *** Mershon Center (Ohio State University) [1976] Columbus, OH, USA: Seminar Millennium Leaders Summit for the International Meetings Industry [2000] Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Meeting Industrialization and Package-Processing of Participants Multilingua [1989] Ordering the Undefinable: identifying meaningful patterns of "world problems" National Science Foundation (USA) [1963] Bibliography of Proceedings of International Meetings: 1957. 388 p. (co-editor, under contract on behalf of UIA) [1964] Bibliography of Proceedings of International Meetings: 1958. 400 p. (editor, under contract on behalf of UIA) National Intelligence Council (USA) [2000] Washington DC: Center for International and Security Studies (University of Maryland): Cnference on "The Evolution of the Nation-State through 2015: Identifying, Counting and Categorizing Intergovernmental Organization Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development / World Affairs Council [1999] San Francisco, USA: Workshop on Information in the Policy Process / Internet and International Systems: Coherent Policy-making Beyond the Information Barrier: circumventing dependence on access, classification, penetration, dissemination, property, surveillance, interpretation, disinformation, and credibility New Age Congress [1978] Florence: A congress that dared the unthinkable; Meeting thoughts, visions and speculations. New Thinking for a New Millenium: the knowledge base for future studies (London, Routledge, edited by Richard Slaughter. [1995] Developing a Metaphorical Language for the Future Nouvelles Clefs (Paris) [2005] Provocations libératrices: Du bon usage des stratégies paradoxales Parliament of the World's Religions [1993] Chicago: Learnings for the Future of Inter-Faith Dialogue [TA] Envisioning the Dynamics of a World Parliament of Religions Your Voice: Participant Interaction Messaging ( with Nadia McLaren and Robert Pollard) 'Partnerships for Change' Conference [1993] Manchester, UK: Envisioning the Dynamics Planetary Initiative for the World We Choose [1983] Toronto, Canada: Collective Learning from Calls for Global Action Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing (University of Ulm) [1993] Ulm, Germany: Presentation: UIA Software Concerns (pdf) Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire [1990] Brussels, Belgium: Symposium "How to do things with metaphor": Recontextualizing social problems through metaphor Round table discussion on the distinction between "system" and "network". [1976] Montreal, Canada. Organizational Systems versus Network Organization *** The Network Alternative Schule für Dichtung in Wien / School of Poetry in Vienna [1993] Vienna, Austria: Poetry-making and Policy-making: Arranging a Marriage between Beauty and the Beast Scientific and Medical Network: Network Review [J] [1996] Musing on Information of a Higher Quality [2008] End of Science Society for General Systems Research [1969] Boston, USA: Annual meeting: Symposium of the Task Force on Systems Education: General systems, education and the relevance of world system data banks and the Inter-Contact technique [1971] Connecticut: 4th Conference on General Systems Education: Proposal for the development of a "World game" as a long-term educational technique. Criteria for a meta-model. [1976] Boston, USA: Annual meeting: Panel on modelling and analysis of critical global problems (North American meeting): World problem networks as perceived by international organization networks. Comments published in Behavioral Science (?) [1979] London, UK: Conference: Metaconferencing; discovering people/viewpoint networks in conferences [U] Groupware Configurations of Challenge and Harmony; an alternative approach to "alternative organizations". [PU] Sanskruti Vistarak Sangh [1994] Bombay, India: Challenges to Learning from the Swadhyaya Movement [P] [1998] Proposal for a Learning Exchange between the Swadhyaya community (Western India) and the Pitjantjatjara community (Central Australia) Synthèses [1970] Textes et Documents: Union of International Associations 1910-1970: Past, Present, Future Visualization of the International Organization Network: the UIA as an international data bank [UJP] Technological Forecasting and Social Change [1999] And When the Bombing Stops? Territorial conflict as a challenge to mathematicians [J] Union des Ingénieurs et des Techniciens utilisant la langue Française (UITF) [1992] Rennes, France: Congrès international régional. La transdisciplinarité et les volumes: l'articulation des relations entre les disciplines à l'aide des propriétés des polyèdres [P] Union of International Associations (see separate checklist UIA-related Publication and Meeting Initiatives) UNiS Journal (Dramatic University): [1994] Values as Strange Human Attractors [J] [1995] Learnings for the Future of Inter-Faith Dialogue [J] United Nations [1974] Fredensborg, Denmark: conference of experts on the role of non-governmental organization: Comments on the UN Secretary-General's Unofficial Draft Report on improving coordination and liaison with nongovernmental organizations [2004] Future of United Nations - Civil Society Relations: 257 questions in assessing the Report of the Panel of Eminent Persons in relation to the challenges of the 21st Century United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) [1997] Dhaka, Bangladesh: Consultancy on Transformative Meetings [1997] Convention on the Rights of the Child Within United Nations Conference for Environment and Development (UNCED) / Earth Summit / Global Forum [1992] Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: : International Faciliating Committee for the Independent Sector in the UNCED Process: Configuring Globally and Contending Locally; shaping the global network of local bargains by decoding and mapping Earth Summit inter-sectoral issues Participant Interaction Messaging: proposal for a low-cost, on-site conference communication medium Da Zi Bao (with Robert Pollard and Nadia McLaren) United Nations: Department of Technical Cooperation for Development: Development Administration Division [1991] Commissioned paper: Guiding Metaphors and Configuring Choices United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) [1970] Study of the Capacity of the UN Development System ("Jackson Report") United Nations: ECOSOC [1969] Geneva: Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council: Communication and international organizations / Impact of the Computer / Communication / Information Revolution on Non-governmental Organizations United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) [1969] Contribution of the Union of International Associations to UNESCO programmes for peace [U] [1972] Paris: Meeting of Consultants for the Study Project on International Organizations (Expert Meeting on International Organization Studies): Note on the comparative evaluation of different types of international organizations [1976] Geneva: Expert meeting on the role of international organizations in the contemporary world): Future Perspectives of International Organizations [1970] Paris: Conference of international Nongovernmental Organizations Approved for Consultative Status with UNESCO: Use of Multi-Meetings Proposal for Improvement to NGO / UN Relationships [1991] Paris: Conference on Science and Tradition: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on the way to the 21st Century Metaphors as Transdisciplinary Vehicles of the Future Les Métaphores comme Véhicules Transdisciplinaires de l'Avenir [P] [1995] Evaluation of the Cooperation between UNESCO and Non-Governmental Organizations [2000] Reflections on the Strategy of UNESCO United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) [1972] Preparatory Committee: A Human Environment Ombudsman [1973] UN Environment Programme Wastes NGO Resources: how to butcher the "Spirit of Stockholm" [U] International Referral Service [1973] Heidelerg, Germany: Conference on the Networking Concept: Notes on the Networking Concept as Applied to Information systems. [1979] Moscow, Russia: 2nd Infoterra Network Management Meeting: Interaction Bulletin [1993] HEMIS project: Insight Storage and Retrieval in a Computer-supported Environment United Nations: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) European Commission on Agriculture: Conference of International Organizations for the Joint Study of Programmes and Activities in the Field of Agriculture in Europe [1968] Paris, France: 14th Conference: Organization of a Seminar for the Officers of International Non-governmental Organizations [1969] Paris, France: 15th Organization Manual for International Non-profit Associations. Manuel Administratif des Organizsations Internationales Non-gouvernementales [1969] Paris, France: 16th: Management and assessment of financial resources United Nations: Global Compact [2001] "Globalization": the UN’s "Safe Haven" for the World’s Marginalized -- the Global Compact with Multinational Corporations as the UN’s "Final Solution" [U] [2003] Framing NGOs in the Market for Change: comment on a report by SustainAbility, the United Nations Global Compact and the UN Environment Programme United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) [1971] San Juan, Puerto Rico: Workshop on International Organization Data (UIA/ISA): Inter-organizational Data and Data Bank Design. [1972] New York, USA: Symposium on the Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in the United Nations System (panelist): *** [1972] Geneva, Switzerland: International Symposium on the Documentation of the United Nations. 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