Collegium International

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

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 April 2, 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.

Composition

Co-created by Michel Rocard, a former Prime Minister of France, Milan Kučan, who at the time of the Collegium's founding served as President of the Republic of Slovenia, and Stéphane Hessel, French diplomat, the group's members^[2] include:

• philosopher Edgar Morin, Honorary Président
• French "Défenseur des Droits", Jacques Toubon, Président
• Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Pascal Lamy, Vice-Président
• former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil
• former President Alpha Oumar Konaré of Mali
• Ruth Dreifuss, former Federal Counsellor of Switzerland
• philosopher Peter Sloterdijk
• philosopher Jürgen Habermas
• philosopher Jean-Pierre Dupuy
• international-law professor Mireille Delmas-Marty
• international relations professor Michael W. Doyle
• Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz
• Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen
• ambassador of France, Bernard Miyet
• former ambassador of the USA William vanden Heuvel

The film-producer Sacha Goldman serves as the Collegium's Secretary General.

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
• March 2007: Roundtable in Geneva on the realisation of economic, social and cultural rights^[4]
• September 2007: Roundtable in Paris about Science and Politics
• 2014: "Global Solidarity, Global Responsibility: An Appeal for World Governance"^[5]

External links

• Collegium International Official Website
• An Ethical Think-link By Sacha Goldman United Nations UN Chronicle 2004
• It's a Small Word After All by Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation, Sept.16, 2004
• Plenary Meeting of the International Ethical, Scientific and Political Collegium (13-14 October 2006)^{[permanent dead link]}