Collegium International
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
International Ethical, Scientific and Political Collegium, also called Collegium International, is a high-level group created in 2002.
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.