| Strategic Foresight Group is a think tank that conducts research and launches policy change initiatives to help decision makers to anticipate and influence the future in uncertain times. |
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| Strategic Foresight Group specializes in Global Security, counter -terrorism, West-Islam relations, religious extremism,
socio-economic development, conflicts, energy, international relations, emerging world order, in the areas of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan, Iran, South Asia, Central Asia, Gulf, United States, through Scenario planning, track two diplomacy, conflict resolution and in long term perspectives. |
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| Strategic Foresight Group had correctly projected momentous changes in several countries before they happened. |
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| Managing Global Challenges |
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Urban Forum, in partnership with the Malaysian Institute of Management organised a workshop on Managing Global Challenges, conceptualised by Strategic Foresight Group. The programme was led by Frank Jurgen Richter and Sundeep Waslekar, along with a distinguished panel consisting of:
Jenny Shipley, former Prime Minister of New Zealand;
J P Huang of JPI Group China;
David Lim, President and CEO of Neptune Oriental Lines of Singapore;
Dr Michael Nobel, Chairman of the Nobel Family Foundation of Sweden; Dato' Dr Munir Majid, Chairman of Malaysia Airlines.
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| Cost of Conflict in Sri Lanka |
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| This report by the Strategic Foresight Group enumerates the past, present and the future costs associated with the conflict that has plagued Sri Lanka for the last two decades. The report presents three different scenarios and the costs and benefits associated with them; “Struggling on Earth”, “Hell Let Loose” and “Paradise Regained” respectively and analyses the factors leading up to each scenario. |
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| The Final Settlement: Restructuring India Pakistan Relations |
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| The Cost of Conflict between India and Pakistan |
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A weekly in Europe, Ekaitza, was fined in France in February 2002 for publishing a cartoon in the week after 9/11, showing the two collapsed towers with the caption that said “We dreamt of it – Hamas did it” and the publisher tendered an apology for publishing the cartoon. (This episode is mentioned in Globalised Islam by Olivier Roy, eminent French scholar, published in 2004 in UK.) |
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The Arab world is the founder of the modern thought, particularly in science and technology. Al Khwarizmi is the founder of modern algebra (circa 9th century). Al Kindi wrote 250 books on philosophy, physics, medicine and metallurgy. Ibn Haiyan founded chemistry. Ibn Haytham discovered the science of optics and also explored momentum and gravity of the earth 600 years before Galileo. Al Biruni determined the earth's circumference. Ibn Sina wrote 450 books on medicine and philosophy, mathematics and astronomy |
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About 400 million people have been killed in all the wars of the last 2000 years. Out of them more than 100 million were killed in the 20th century alone. |
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About 100 million children die every decade because of hunger, malnutrition and preventable diseases; at this rate 500 million children will die in the first half of the 21st century. |
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According to a UN report, there are 88 million unemployed young people in the age group of 15-25 years. As the UN methodology is liberal, the actual number of unemployed youth might be more than 100 million. |
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The Gulf Cooperation Council states are likely to accumulate a surplus of more than $1500 billion from oil revenue during 2006-2010, if the price of oil is around $55-60 per barrel. The surplus of all oil exporting countries is expected to be over $2500 billion by 2010. |
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Lashkar-e-Taiba, based in Pakistan, is the new leader of Islamic International Front created by Al Qaeda. |
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Lord’s Resistance Army, based in Uganda, is probably the most brutal terrorist organisation in the world; it forces its new recruits to kill their own siblings. Yet this group has drawn hardly any punitive action from the international community as compared to some of the other groups. |
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In the first Crusade, the French and German Christians first killed Jews in large numbers in their areas before they marched to the East. |
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| Book Review |
What’s Right with Islam IS What’s Right with America
- by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf |
| Reviewed by Devika Mistry |
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| What’s Right with Islam is What’s Right with America is a text that has a lot that is right with it. In a world, where public discourse is dominated by terrorism and extremism, Islamic fundamentalism and Western state counter terrorism measures, here is a text that attempts to not only explain and offer explanations for the dismal state of affairs between the West and Islam but effectively demonstrates that religion is not one of the reasons for the same. Devika Mistry, reviews this months book. |
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Colossus
- by Prof Niall Ferguson |
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| Reviewed by Sundeep Waslekar |
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