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 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 include:

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, George W. Bush and John Kerry, published in The Nation, US-based weekly magazine
  • March 2007: Roundtable in Geneva on the realisation of economic, social and cultural rights
  • September 2007: Roundtable in Paris about
  • 2014: "Global Solidarity, Global Responsibility: An Appeal for World Governance"

External links

  • Official Website
  • United Nations UN Chronicle 2004
  • by Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation, Sept.16, 2004
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