- Club of Budapest
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The Club of Budapest is an international organization founded in 1993 by Ervin Laszlo to expand beyond the exclusively scientific purpose of The General Evolution Research Group to try to mobilize the full cultural resources of humanity to meet the challenges we face.
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Club's mission
“The Club of Budapest is an informal association of creative people in diverse fields of art, literature, and the spiritual domains of culture. It is dedicated to the proposition that only by changing ourselves we can change the world—and that to change ourselves we need the kind of insight and perception that art, literature, and the domains of the spirit can best provide,” says Laszlo of the Club’s mission.
“The philosophy of the Club of Budapest is based on the realization that the enormous challenges that humanity is currently facing can only be overcome through the development of a global cultural consciousness. Like Greenpeace fights for ecological issues, UNICEF for children, and Amnesty International for human rights, the Club of Budapest stands for global consciousness. Its mission is to be a catalyst for the transformation to a sustainable world.”[who?]
Honorary members
Honorary members include: Oscar Arias, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, Riane Eisler, Emma Bryan, Peter Gabriel, Vaclav Havel, Hazel Henderson, Hans Küng, Zubin Mehta, Mary Robinson, Mstislav Rostropovich, Desmond Tutu, Liv Ullman, Eli Wiesel, Betty Williams, and Princess Irene of the Netherlands.
National branches
The Club of Budapest currently has national branches in Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hawaii, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Samoa, Switzerland, Turkey, the United States, and Venezuela.
External links
- Club of Budapest - Official website
Categories:- Anticipatory thinking
- Futurology
- Political and economic think tanks based in Europe
- Globalism
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