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<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The Policy Institute's (PI) foundation co-incided with the first election to the Scottish Parliament in 1999. It is institutionally independent from any political party. [[Bill Jamieson]], senior journalist at the right-leaning The [[Scotsman]] broadsheet (owned by the [[Barclay Brothers]], is the Director of the PI, which has no office, ‘only a desk at the Scotsman’, as its Executive Director [[Tom Miers]] phrased it. He is the only salaried member of the PI, joined the PI in May 2003 ‘to run the institute on a more full-time basis’. He formerly worked for the [[IEA]] in an administrative role. He described The Scotsman as very generous in allocating logistic re-sources to the PI and allowing a senior member of its staff to re-dedicate some of his time to the institute. Jamieson has been a frequent guest at the IEA and at the [[Bruges Group]] – a Thatcherite committed to a fight against deeper UK integration into the EU. The PI’s board of trustees is less impressive than that of other more established Scottish think-tanks such as the [[David Hume Institute]] and the [[Scottish Council Foundation]]. It is composed of The Scotsman pundit Katie Grant, a top manager of [[Scottish Friendly Assurance]] [[Colin McLean]], and [[Allan Massie]], a journalist-turned-writer.<br /> In the Scottish think-tank world, the [[David Hume Institute]] and the PI share a similar ideological background, but differ in their style. The DHI is more academic and more restrained than the polemic pro-market philosophy of the PI, which has likened the NHS to Soviet-style bureaucracy and generally demands that the forces of the free market are let loose on the public sector. This goal is fuelled by the PI’s &quot;mission and [its] purpose, which is broadly to research how the classical liberal ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment [...] can be applied to modern Scotland&quot;. The PI is a multi-issue think-tank that concentrates exclusively on Scotland’s economy, public services, environmental and agricultural policies, and modernisation of governance. As it has no in-house expertise, scholars from the relevant fields are commissioned to write papers and newspaper contributions, so that the PI faciliates policy learning processes. The PI belonges to the neo-liberal privatisation advocacy community. The PI also has some features of a vanity think-tank, as it is the brainchild and hobbyhorse of a conservative journalist at odds with the perceived leftist Scottish consensus. It certainly serves the Scotsman as a reliable source for neo-liberal leaders and opinion pieces and, in a reciprocal process, as a further outlet of broadsheet’s political views. <br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> Of the PI's sponsors since 2003 about half were trusts, such as the [[Tay Charitable Trust]] and the [[Binks Trust]]. Companies, e.g. [[Scottish Equitable]], [[Holyrood Holdings]] (Barclay Bros holding company for [[Telegraph Media Group]], The Scotsman, the [[Spectator Magazine]], Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News), and [[Stagecoach]], the trade association [[Federation of Small Business]] and individuals make up the other half.<br /> <br /> ==Contact details==<br /> Adress: 65 Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 4NA Tel: 07725 813 123 <br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> Website Policy Institute: [http://www.policyinstitute.info/]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Policy_Institute&diff=6338 2006-03-14T17:53:19Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The Policy Institute's (PI) foundation co-incided with the first election to the Scottish Parliament in 1999. It is institutionally independent from any political party. [[Bill Jamieson]], senior journalist at the right-leaning The [[Scotsman]] broadsheet (owned by the [[Barclay Brothers]], is the Director of the PI, which has no office, ‘only a desk at the Scotsman’, as its Executive Director [[Tom Miers]] phrased it. He is the only salaried member of the PI, joined the PI in May 2003 ‘to run the institute on a more full-time basis’. He formerly worked for the [[IEA]] in an administrative role. He described The Scotsman as very generous in allocating logistic re-sources to the PI and allowing a senior member of its staff to re-dedicate some of his time to the institute. Jamieson has been a frequent guest at the IEA and at the [[Bruges Group]] – a Thatcherite committed to a fight against deeper UK integration into the EU. The PI’s board of trustees is less impressive than that of other more established Scottish think-tanks such as the [[David Hume Institute]] and the [[Scottish Council Foundation]]. It is composed of The Scotsman pundit Katie Grant, a top manager of [[Scottish Friendly Assurance]] [[Colin McLean]], and [[Allan Massie]], a journalist-turned-writer.<br /> In the Scottish think-tank world, the [[David Hume Institute]] and the PI share a similar ideological background, but differ in their style. The DHI is more academic and more restrained than the polemic pro-market philosophy of the PI, which has likened the NHS to Soviet-style bureaucracy and generally demands that the forces of the free market are let loose on the public sector. This goal is fuelled by the PI’s &quot;mission and [its] purpose, which is broadly to research how the classical liberal ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment [...] can be applied to modern Scotland&quot;. The PI is a multi-issue think-tank that concentrates exclusively on Scotland’s economy, public services, environmental and agricultural policies, and modernisation of governance. As it has no in-house expertise, scholars from the relevant fields are commissioned to write papers and newspaper contributions, so that the PI faciliates policy learning processes. The PI belonges to the neo-liberal privatisation advocacy community. The PI also has some features of a vanity think-tank, as it is the brainchild and hobbyhorse of a conservative journalist at odds with the perceived leftist Scottish consensus. It certainly serves the Scotsman as a reliable source for neo-liberal leaders and opinion pieces and, in a reciprocal process, as a further outlet of broadsheet’s political views. <br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> The PI has had about 30 different sponsors over the last two years, of which about half<br /> were trusts, such as the [[Tay Charitable Trust]] and the [[Binks Trust]]. Companies,<br /> e.g. [[Scottish Equitable]], [[Holyrood Holdings]] (Barclay Bros holding company for [[Telegraph Media Group]], The Scotsman, the [[Spectator Magazine]], Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News), and [[Stagecoach]], the trade association [[Federation of Small Business]] and individuals make up the other half.<br /> <br /> ==Contact details==<br /> <br /> Adress: 65 Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 4NA Tel: 07725 813 123 <br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> Website Policy Institute: [http://www.policyinstitute.info/]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Policy_Institute&diff=6337 2006-03-14T17:52:55Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The Policy Institute's (PI) foundation co-incided with the first election to the Scottish Parliament in 1999. It is institutionally independent from any political party. [[Bill Jamieson]], senior journalist at the right-leaning The [[Scotsman]] broadsheet (owned by the [[Barclay Brothers]], is the Director of the PI, which has no office, ‘only a desk at the Scotsman’, as its Executive Director [[Tom Miers]] phrased it. He is the only salaried member of the PI, joined the PI in May 2003 ‘to run the institute on a more full-time basis’. He formerly worked for the [[IEA]] in an administrative role. He described The Scotsman as very generous in allocating logistic re-sources to the PI and allowing a senior member of its staff to re-dedicate some of his time to the institute. Jamieson has been a frequent guest at the IEA and at the [[Bruges Group]] – a Thatcherite committed to a fight against deeper UK integration into the EU. The PI’s board of trustees is less impressive than that of other more established Scottish think-tanks such as the [[David Hume Institute]] and the [[Scottish Council Foundation]]. It is composed of The Scotsman pundit Katie Grant, a top manager of [[Scottish Friendly Assurance]] [[Colin McLean]], and [[Allan Massie]], a journalist-turned-writer.<br /> In the Scottish think-tank world, the [[David Hume Institute]] and the PI share a similar ideological background, but differ in their style. The DHI is more academic and more restrained than the polemic pro-market philosophy of the PI, which has likened the NHS to Soviet-style bureaucracy and generally demands that the forces of the free market are let loose on the public sector. This goal is fuelled by the PI’s &quot;mission and [its] purpose, which is broadly to research how the classical liberal ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment [...] can be applied to modern Scotland&quot;. The PI is a multi-issue think-tank that concentrates exclusively on Scotland’s economy, public services, environmental and agricultural policies, and modernisation of governance. As it has no in-house expertise, scholars from the relevant fields are commissioned to write papers and newspaper contributions, so that the PI faciliates policy learning processes. The PI belonges to the neo-liberal privatisation advocacy community. The PI also has some features of a vanity think-tank, as it is the brainchild and hobbyhorse of a conservative journalist at odds with the perceived leftist Scottish consensus. It certainly serves the Scotsman as a reliable source for neo-liberal leaders and opinion pieces and, in a reciprocal process, as a further outlet of broadsheet’s political views. <br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> The PI has had about 30 different sponsors over the last two years, of which about half<br /> were trusts, such as the [[Tay Charitable Trust]] and the [[Binks Trust]]. Companies,<br /> e.g. [[Scottish Equitable]], [[Holyrood Holdings]] (Barclay Bros holding company for [[Telegraph Media Group]], The Scotsman, the [[Spectator Magazine]], Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News), and [[Stagecoach]], the trade association [[Federation of Small Business]] and individuals make up the other half.<br /> <br /> ==Contact details==<br /> Website Policy Institute: [http://www.policyinstitute.info/]<br /> <br /> Adress: 65 Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 4NA Tel: 07725 813 123 <br /> <br /> ==External links==</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Policy_Institute&diff=6336 2006-03-14T17:52:31Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The Policy Institute's (PI) foundation co-incided with the first election to the Scottish Parliament in 1999. It is institutionally independent from any political party. [[Bill Jamieson]], senior journalist at the right-leaning The [[Scotsman]] broadsheet (owned by the [[Barclay Brothers]], is the Director of the PI, which has no office, ‘only a desk at the Scotsman’, as its Executive Director [[Tom Miers]] phrased it. He is the only salaried member of the PI, joined the PI in May 2003 ‘to run the institute on a more full-time basis’. He formerly worked for the [[IEA]] in an administrative role. He described The Scotsman as very generous in allocating logistic re-sources to the PI and allowing a senior member of its staff to re-dedicate some of his time to the institute. Jamieson has been a frequent guest at the IEA and at the [[Bruges Group]] – a Thatcherite committed to a fight against deeper UK integration into the EU. The PI’s board of trustees is less impressive than that of other more established Scottish think-tanks such as the [[David Hume Institute]] and the [[Scottish Council Foundation]]. It is composed of The Scotsman pundit Katie Grant, a top manager of [[Scottish Friendly Assurance]] [[Colin McLean]], and [[Allan Massie]], a journalist-turned-writer.<br /> In the Scottish think-tank world, the [[David Hume Institute]] and the PI share a similar ideological background, but differ in their style. The DHI is more academic and more restrained than the polemic pro-market philosophy of the PI, which has likened the NHS to Soviet-style bureaucracy and generally demands that the forces of the free market are let loose on the public sector. This goal is fuelled by the PI’s &quot;mission and [its] purpose, which is broadly to research how the classical liberal ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment [...] can be applied to modern Scotland&quot;. The PI is a multi-issue think-tank that concentrates exclusively on Scotland’s economy, public services, environmental and agricultural policies, and modernisation of governance. As it has no in-house expertise, scholars from the relevant fields are commissioned to write papers and newspaper contributions, so that the PI faciliates policy learning processes. The PI belonges to the neo-liberal privatisation advocacy community. The PI also has some features of a vanity think-tank, as it is the brainchild and hobbyhorse of a conservative journalist at odds with the perceived leftist Scottish consensus. It certainly serves the Scotsman as a reliable source for neo-liberal leaders and opinion pieces and, in a reciprocal process, as a further outlet of broadsheet’s political views. <br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> The PI has had about 30 different sponsors over the last two years, of which about half<br /> were trusts, such as the [[Tay Charitable Trust]] and the [[Binks Trust]]. Companies,<br /> e.g. [[Scottish Equitable]], [[Holyrood Holdings]] (Barclay Bros holding company for [[Telegraph Media Group]], The Scotsman, the [[Spectator Magazine]], Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News), and [[Stagecoach]], the trade association [[Federation of Small Business]] and individuals make up the other half.<br /> <br /> ==Contact details==<br /> Website Policy Institute: [http://www.policyinstitute.info/]<br /> Adress: 65 Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 4NA Tel: 07725 813 123 <br /> <br /> ==External links==</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Policy_Institute&diff=6335 2006-03-14T17:52:06Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The Policy Institute's (PI) foundation co-incided with the first election to the Scottish Parliament in 1999. It is institutionally independent from any political party. [[Bill Jamieson]], senior journalist at the right-leaning The [[Scotsman]] broadsheet (owned by the [[Barclay Brothers]], is the Director of the PI, which has no office, ‘only a desk at the Scotsman’, as its Executive Director [[Tom Miers]] phrased it. He is the only salaried member of the PI, joined the PI in May 2003 ‘to run the institute on a more full-time basis’. He formerly worked for the [[IEA]] in an administrative role. He described The Scotsman as very generous in allocating logistic re-sources to the PI and allowing a senior member of its staff to re-dedicate some of his time to the institute. Jamieson has been a frequent guest at the IEA and at the [[Bruges Group]] – a Thatcherite committed to a fight against deeper UK integration into the EU. The PI’s board of trustees is less impressive than that of other more established Scottish think-tanks such as the [[David Hume Institute]] and the [[Scottish Council Foundation]]. It is composed of The Scotsman pundit Katie Grant, a top manager of [[Scottish Friendly Assurance]] [[Colin McLean]], and [[Allan Massie]], a journalist-turned-writer.<br /> In the Scottish think-tank world, the [[David Hume Institute]] and the PI share a similar ideological background, but differ in their style. The DHI is more academic and more restrained than the polemic pro-market philosophy of the PI, which has likened the NHS to Soviet-style bureaucracy and generally demands that the forces of the free market are let loose on the public sector. This goal is fuelled by the PI’s &quot;mission and [its] purpose, which is broadly to research how the classical liberal ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment [...] can be applied to modern Scotland&quot;. The PI is a multi-issue think-tank that concentrates exclusively on Scotland’s economy, public services, environmental and agricultural policies, and modernisation of governance. As it has no in-house expertise, scholars from the relevant fields are commissioned to write papers and newspaper contributions, so that the PI faciliates policy learning processes. The PI belonges to the neo-liberal privatisation advocacy community. The PI also has some features of a vanity think-tank, as it is the brainchild and hobbyhorse of a conservative journalist at odds with the perceived leftist Scottish consensus. It certainly serves the Scotsman as a reliable source for neo-liberal leaders and opinion pieces and, in a reciprocal process, as a further outlet of broadsheet’s political views. <br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> The PI has had about 30 different sponsors over the last two years, of which about half<br /> were trusts, such as the [[Tay Charitable Trust]] and the [[Binks Trust]]. Companies,<br /> e.g. [[Scottish Equitable]], [[Holyrood Holdings]] (Barclay Bros holding company for [[Telegraph Media Group]], The Scotsman, the [[Spectator Magazine]], Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News), and [[Stagecoach]], the trade association [[Federation of Small Business]] and individuals make up the other half.<br /> <br /> ==Contact details==<br /> Website Policy Institute: [[http://www.policyinstitute.info/]]<br /> 65 Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 4NA Tel: 07725 813 123 <br /> ==External links==</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Policy_Institute&diff=6334 2006-03-14T17:51:15Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The Policy Institute's (PI) foundation co-incided with the first election to the Scottish Parliament in 1999. It is institutionally independent from any political party. [[Bill Jamieson]], senior journalist at the right-leaning The [[Scotsman]] broadsheet (owned by the [[Barclay Brothers]], is the Director of the PI, which has no office, ‘only a desk at the Scotsman’, as its Executive Director [[Tom Miers]] phrased it. He is the only salaried member of the PI, joined the PI in May 2003 ‘to run the institute on a more full-time basis’. He formerly worked for the [[IEA]] in an administrative role. He described The Scotsman as very generous in allocating logistic re-sources to the PI and allowing a senior member of its staff to re-dedicate some of his time to the institute. Jamieson has been a frequent guest at the IEA and at the [[Bruges Group]] – a Thatcherite committed to a fight against deeper UK integration into the EU. The PI’s board of trustees is less impressive than that of other more established Scottish think-tanks such as the [[David Hume Institute]] and the [[Scottish Council Foundation]]. It is composed of The Scotsman pundit Katie Grant, a top manager of [[Scottish Friendly Assurance]] [[Colin McLean]], and [[Allan Massie]], a journalist-turned-writer.<br /> In the Scottish think-tank world, the [[David Hume Institute]] and the PI share a similar ideological background, but differ in their style. The DHI is more academic and more restrained than the polemic pro-market philosophy of the PI, which has likened the NHS to Soviet-style bureaucracy and generally demands that the forces of the free market are let loose on the public sector. This goal is fuelled by the PI’s &quot;mission and [its] purpose, which is broadly to research how the classical liberal ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment [...] can be applied to modern Scotland&quot;. The PI is a multi-issue think-tank that concentrates exclusively on Scotland’s economy, public services, environmental and agricultural policies, and modernisation of governance. As it has no in-house expertise, scholars from the relevant fields are commissioned to write papers and newspaper contributions, so that the PI faciliates policy learning processes. The PI belonges to the neo-liberal privatisation advocacy community. The PI also has some features of a vanity think-tank, as it is the brainchild and hobbyhorse of a conservative journalist at odds with the perceived leftist Scottish consensus. It certainly serves the Scotsman as a reliable source for neo-liberal leaders and opinion pieces and, in a reciprocal process, as a further outlet of broadsheet’s political views. <br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> The PI has had about 30 different sponsors over the last two years, of which about half<br /> were trusts, such as the [[Tay Charitable Trust]] and the [[Binks Trust]]. Companies,<br /> e.g. [[Scottish Equitable]], [[Holyrood Holdings]] (Barclay Bros holding company for [[Telegraph Media Group]], The Scotsman, the [[Spectator Magazine]], Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News), and [[Stagecoach]], the trade association [[Federation of Small Business]] and individuals make up the other half.<br /> <br /> Contact details<br /> [[http://www.policyinstitute.info/]]<br /> 65 Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 4NA Tel: 07725 813 123 <br /> ==External links==</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Policy_Institute&diff=6333 2006-03-14T17:49:36Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The Policy Institute's (PI) foundation co-incided with the first election to the Scottish Parliament in 1999. It is institutionally independent from any political party. [[Bill Jamieson]], senior journalist at the right-leaning The [[Scotsman]] broadsheet (owned by the [[Barclay Brothers]], is the Director of the PI, which has no office, ‘only a desk at the Scotsman’, as its Executive Director [[Tom Miers]] phrased it. He is the only salaried member of the PI, joined the PI in May 2003 ‘to run the institute on a more full-time basis’. He formerly worked for the [[IEA]] in an administrative role. He described The Scotsman as very generous in allocating logistic re-sources to the PI and allowing a senior member of its staff to re-dedicate some of his time to the institute. Jamieson has been a frequent guest at the IEA and at the [[Bruges Group]] – a Thatcherite committed to a fight against deeper UK integration into the EU. The PI’s board of trustees is less impressive than that of other more established Scottish think-tanks such as the [[David Hume Institute]] and the [[Scottish Council Foundation]]. It is composed of The Scotsman pundit Katie Grant, a top manager of [[Scottish Friendly Assurance]] [[Colin McLean]], and [[Allan Massie]], a journalist-turned-writer.<br /> In the Scottish think-tank world, the [[David Hume Institute]] and the PI share a similar ideological background, but differ in their style. The DHI is more academic and more restrained than the polemic pro-market philosophy of the PI, which has likened the NHS to Soviet-style bureaucracy and generally demands that the forces of the free market are let loose on the public sector. This goal is fuelled by the PI’s &quot;mission and [its] purpose, which is broadly to research how the classical liberal ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment [...] can be applied to modern Scotland&quot;. The PI is a multi-issue think-tank that concentrates exclusively on Scotland’s economy, public services, environmental and agricultural policies, and modernisation of governance. As it has no in-house expertise, scholars from the relevant fields are commissioned to write papers and newspaper contributions, so that the PI faciliates policy learning processes. The PI belonges to the neo-liberal privatisation advocacy community. The PI also has some features of a vanity think-tank, as it is the brainchild and hobbyhorse of a conservative journalist at odds with the perceived leftist Scottish consensus. It certainly serves the Scotsman as a reliable source for neo-liberal leaders and opinion pieces and, in a reciprocal process, as a further outlet of broadsheet’s political views. <br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> The PI has had about 30 different sponsors over the last two years, of which about half<br /> were trusts, such as the [[Tay Charitable Trust]] and the [[Binks Trust]]. Companies,<br /> e.g. [[Scottish Equitable]], [[Holyrood Holdings]] (Barclay Bros holding company for [[Telegraph Media Group]], The Scotsman, the [[Spectator Magazine]], Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News), and [[Stagecoach]], the trade association [[Federation of Small Business]] and individuals make up the other half.<br /> <br /> ==External links==</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Policy_Institute&diff=6332 2006-03-14T17:44:31Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The Policy Institute's (PI) foundation co-incided with the first election to the Scottish Parliament in 1999. It is institutionally independent from any political party. [[Bill Jamieson]], senior journalist at the right-leaning The [[Scotsman]] broadsheet (owned by the [[Barclay Brothers]], is the Director of the PI, which has no office, ‘only a desk at the Scotsman’, as its Executive Director [[Tom Miers]] phrased it. He is the only salaried member of the PI, joined the PI in May 2003 ‘to run the institute on a more full-time basis’. He formerly worked for the [[IEA]] in an administrative role. He described The Scotsman as very generous in allocating logistic re-sources to the PI and allowing a senior member of its staff to re-dedicate some of his time to the institute. Jamieson has been a frequent guest at the IEA and at the [[Bruges Group]] – a Thatcherite committed to a fight against deeper UK integration into the EU. The PI’s board of trustees is less impressive than that of other more established Scottish think-tanks such as the [[DHI]] and [[SCF]]. It is composed of The Scotsman pundit Katie Grant, a top manager of [[Scottish Friendly Assurance]] [[Colin McLean]], and [[Allan Massie]], a journalist-turned-writer.<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> The PI has had about 30 different sponsors over the last two years, of which about half<br /> were trusts, such as the [[Tay Charitable Trust]] and the [[Binks Trust]]. Companies,<br /> e.g. [[Scottish Equitable]], [[Holyrood Holdings]] (Barclay Bros holding company for [[Telegraph Media Group]], The Scotsman, the [[Spectator Magazine]], Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News), and [[Stagecoach]], the trade association [[Federation of Small Business]] and individuals make up the other half.<br /> <br /> ==External links==</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Scottish_Council_Foundation&diff=6330 2006-03-14T17:38:14Z

<p>Hartwig: /* External links */</p> <hr /> <div>The [[Scottish Council Foundation]] (SCF) is a neoliberal [[Sourcewatch:Think tanks|think tank]] that proclaims that it &quot;develops leading edge thinking and world class practice to address the strategic challenges facing Scotland and other modern economies and societies in an age of complexity and rapid change&quot; [http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/]. It was established by the [[Scottish Council for Development and Industry]] (SCDI) in 1999, which seeks to &quot;strengthen Scotland’s economic competitiveness and sustainable prosperity by influencing Government policy at all levels&quot;. The SCDI remains strongly involved, as three of the SCF’s five trustees are high-ranking members of the SCDI executive and its board and all of them are important members of Scotland’s business community. In 2004, the SCF employs five full-time research staff. Its present director, James McCormick, was appointed in 2002. Previously had worked for the Institute for Public Policy Research’s (IPPR) Social Justice Commission Report (1994), which was important for the Labour Party’s Third Way concepts of the welfare state. The SCF is the only Scottish-based and Scotland-focussed think-tanks that carries out original research and only occasionally draws from external expertise. Unnlike the [[David Hume Institute]] and [[Policy Institute]], the SCF has also cooperates with various organisatiosn, including the Washington D.C [[Centre for Excellence in Government]], the [[IPPR]], the [[Public Health Institute of Scotland]] and the [[Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health]]. The SCF emphasises the international and national relevance of its projects and therefore the ‘exportability’ of its products [http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/comm.php.] (accessed 1 June 2004). <br /> Non-aligned to any political party, the SCF’s language resembles (New) Labour-speech: the institute’s core aims are &quot;tackle[ing] inequalities in the marketplace&quot;, in public health and in the distribution of wealth [http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/news.php?id=4]. It demands action led by the Scottish Executive to &quot;promote cost-cutting partnerships between local shops and major retailers, and offer incentives for new businesses to set up in low-income neighbourhoods&quot; in order to allow poor households to get more value for their money. In order to &quot;enjoy the benefits of competition&quot; more commitment from government to functioning markets and a clearer challenge to private service providers is demanded[http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/news2.php#inscf]. In the SCF's policy research work, equality does not feature very highly on the agenda as an aim in itself; at best marked disparities are seen as economically undesirable for all members of society: &quot;a pronounced set of inequalities is bad for everyone, for the economy, for the people in the middle, for the people at the bottom&quot;, said its director James McCormick in January 2004. In January 2006 it published a report with the [[Fraser of Allander Institute]] proposing that Scottish Water be privatised.[http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/54799.html] In the same month it organised a conference with pharma giant [[Pfizer]], one of the most active pharma lobbyists in Scotland on binge drinking. [[Andrew Harris]], from the Foundation, said: &quot;Education, improved housing, employment and environmental changes can all address problems such as binge-drinking far more effectively than trying to tackle the problem in isolation&quot; [http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=144382006].<br /> The SCF, though its director says he sees it in a &quot;social-democratic&quot; epistemic community, pushes market friendly policies. It rejects what its director called the alleged “Scottish consensus�. What this means is the following: &quot;to say that you’re a left think-tank would not really say anything, it would say you’re part of the consensus, because Scotland is so heavily centre-left, and you want to challenge the consensus [...] so we’re not really interested in being aligned in a partisan sense&quot;. Challenging the consensus here means introducing pro-market ideas into the public sphere and advising decision-makers into that direction. <br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> The SCF is funded by big business . <br /> The SCF states that its &quot;principal supporters&quot; include <br /> *[[Associated Newspapers]]<br /> *[[Boots]]<br /> *[[BP]]<br /> *[[BT]]<br /> *[[Communities Scotland]]<br /> *[[Diageo]]<br /> *[[Liddell Thomson]]<br /> *[[Pfizer]]<br /> *[[Scottich Council for Development and Industry]]<br /> *[[Scottish Adult Learning Partnership]]<br /> *[[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> *[[Shell]]<br /> *[[Volunteer Development Scotland]]<br /> <br /> ==Personnel==<br /> SCF's Trustees are: <br /> *[[Shonaig MacPherson]], Chairperson <br /> *[[Donal Dowds]]<br /> *[[Crawford Gillies]] <br /> *[[Mike Hambly]]<br /> *[[Alan Wilson]]<br /> <br /> All serve in a personal capacity.<br /> <br /> ===Staff===<br /> *[[Linda Boyes]] Policy Manager <br /> *[[Deirdre Elrick]] Policy Manager <br /> *[[Jim McCormick]] Director <br /> *[[Gillian Menzies]] Finance Officer <br /> *[[Sandra Robertson]] Events Co-ordinator <br /> *[[Janet Smith]] Office Manager <br /> *[[Mark Langan]] Research Fellow <br /> *[[Andrew Harris]] Programme Director<br /> <br /> ==Contact details==<br /> Scottish Council Foundation, &lt;br&gt;<br /> 23 Chester Street,&lt;br&gt;<br /> Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 7ET&lt;br&gt;<br /> Phone: 0131 225 4709&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fax: 0131 220 2116 &lt;br&gt;<br /> Email: scf AT @scottishcouncilfoundation.org &lt;br&gt;<br /> Web: http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/index.php<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> *Richard Gray [http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=144382006 Message in a bottle] Scotland on Sunday, 29 January 2006.<br /> *Alf Young [http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/54799.html The horse is at the water, but who’s nagging it to drink?] the Herald, 24 January 2006.<br /> <br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Scottish_Council_Foundation&diff=6329 2006-03-14T17:38:00Z

<p>Hartwig: /* External links */</p> <hr /> <div>The [[Scottish Council Foundation]] (SCF) is a neoliberal [[Sourcewatch:Think tanks|think tank]] that proclaims that it &quot;develops leading edge thinking and world class practice to address the strategic challenges facing Scotland and other modern economies and societies in an age of complexity and rapid change&quot; [http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/]. It was established by the [[Scottish Council for Development and Industry]] (SCDI) in 1999, which seeks to &quot;strengthen Scotland’s economic competitiveness and sustainable prosperity by influencing Government policy at all levels&quot;. The SCDI remains strongly involved, as three of the SCF’s five trustees are high-ranking members of the SCDI executive and its board and all of them are important members of Scotland’s business community. In 2004, the SCF employs five full-time research staff. Its present director, James McCormick, was appointed in 2002. Previously had worked for the Institute for Public Policy Research’s (IPPR) Social Justice Commission Report (1994), which was important for the Labour Party’s Third Way concepts of the welfare state. The SCF is the only Scottish-based and Scotland-focussed think-tanks that carries out original research and only occasionally draws from external expertise. Unnlike the [[David Hume Institute]] and [[Policy Institute]], the SCF has also cooperates with various organisatiosn, including the Washington D.C [[Centre for Excellence in Government]], the [[IPPR]], the [[Public Health Institute of Scotland]] and the [[Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health]]. The SCF emphasises the international and national relevance of its projects and therefore the ‘exportability’ of its products [http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/comm.php.] (accessed 1 June 2004). <br /> Non-aligned to any political party, the SCF’s language resembles (New) Labour-speech: the institute’s core aims are &quot;tackle[ing] inequalities in the marketplace&quot;, in public health and in the distribution of wealth [http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/news.php?id=4]. It demands action led by the Scottish Executive to &quot;promote cost-cutting partnerships between local shops and major retailers, and offer incentives for new businesses to set up in low-income neighbourhoods&quot; in order to allow poor households to get more value for their money. In order to &quot;enjoy the benefits of competition&quot; more commitment from government to functioning markets and a clearer challenge to private service providers is demanded[http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/news2.php#inscf]. In the SCF's policy research work, equality does not feature very highly on the agenda as an aim in itself; at best marked disparities are seen as economically undesirable for all members of society: &quot;a pronounced set of inequalities is bad for everyone, for the economy, for the people in the middle, for the people at the bottom&quot;, said its director James McCormick in January 2004. In January 2006 it published a report with the [[Fraser of Allander Institute]] proposing that Scottish Water be privatised.[http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/54799.html] In the same month it organised a conference with pharma giant [[Pfizer]], one of the most active pharma lobbyists in Scotland on binge drinking. [[Andrew Harris]], from the Foundation, said: &quot;Education, improved housing, employment and environmental changes can all address problems such as binge-drinking far more effectively than trying to tackle the problem in isolation&quot; [http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=144382006].<br /> The SCF, though its director says he sees it in a &quot;social-democratic&quot; epistemic community, pushes market friendly policies. It rejects what its director called the alleged “Scottish consensus�. What this means is the following: &quot;to say that you’re a left think-tank would not really say anything, it would say you’re part of the consensus, because Scotland is so heavily centre-left, and you want to challenge the consensus [...] so we’re not really interested in being aligned in a partisan sense&quot;. Challenging the consensus here means introducing pro-market ideas into the public sphere and advising decision-makers into that direction. <br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> The SCF is funded by big business . <br /> The SCF states that its &quot;principal supporters&quot; include <br /> *[[Associated Newspapers]]<br /> *[[Boots]]<br /> *[[BP]]<br /> *[[BT]]<br /> *[[Communities Scotland]]<br /> *[[Diageo]]<br /> *[[Liddell Thomson]]<br /> *[[Pfizer]]<br /> *[[Scottich Council for Development and Industry]]<br /> *[[Scottish Adult Learning Partnership]]<br /> *[[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> *[[Shell]]<br /> *[[Volunteer Development Scotland]]<br /> <br /> ==Personnel==<br /> SCF's Trustees are: <br /> *[[Shonaig MacPherson]], Chairperson <br /> *[[Donal Dowds]]<br /> *[[Crawford Gillies]] <br /> *[[Mike Hambly]]<br /> *[[Alan Wilson]]<br /> <br /> All serve in a personal capacity.<br /> <br /> ===Staff===<br /> *[[Linda Boyes]] Policy Manager <br /> *[[Deirdre Elrick]] Policy Manager <br /> *[[Jim McCormick]] Director <br /> *[[Gillian Menzies]] Finance Officer <br /> *[[Sandra Robertson]] Events Co-ordinator <br /> *[[Janet Smith]] Office Manager <br /> *[[Mark Langan]] Research Fellow <br /> *[[Andrew Harris]] Programme Director<br /> <br /> ==Contact details==<br /> Scottish Council Foundation, &lt;br&gt;<br /> 23 Chester Street,&lt;br&gt;<br /> Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 7ET&lt;br&gt;<br /> Phone: 0131 225 4709&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fax: 0131 220 2116 &lt;br&gt;<br /> Email: scf AT @scottishcouncilfoundation.org &lt;br&gt;<br /> Web: http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/index.php<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> *RICHARD GRAY [http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=144382006 Message in a bottle] Scotland on Sunday, 29 January 2006.<br /> *Alf Young [http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/54799.html The horse is at the water, but who’s nagging it to drink?] the Herald, 24 January 2006.<br /> <br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Scottish_Council_Foundation&diff=6328 2006-03-14T17:37:24Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The [[Scottish Council Foundation]] (SCF) is a neoliberal [[Sourcewatch:Think tanks|think tank]] that proclaims that it &quot;develops leading edge thinking and world class practice to address the strategic challenges facing Scotland and other modern economies and societies in an age of complexity and rapid change&quot; [http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/]. It was established by the [[Scottish Council for Development and Industry]] (SCDI) in 1999, which seeks to &quot;strengthen Scotland’s economic competitiveness and sustainable prosperity by influencing Government policy at all levels&quot;. The SCDI remains strongly involved, as three of the SCF’s five trustees are high-ranking members of the SCDI executive and its board and all of them are important members of Scotland’s business community. In 2004, the SCF employs five full-time research staff. Its present director, James McCormick, was appointed in 2002. Previously had worked for the Institute for Public Policy Research’s (IPPR) Social Justice Commission Report (1994), which was important for the Labour Party’s Third Way concepts of the welfare state. The SCF is the only Scottish-based and Scotland-focussed think-tanks that carries out original research and only occasionally draws from external expertise. Unnlike the [[David Hume Institute]] and [[Policy Institute]], the SCF has also cooperates with various organisatiosn, including the Washington D.C [[Centre for Excellence in Government]], the [[IPPR]], the [[Public Health Institute of Scotland]] and the [[Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health]]. The SCF emphasises the international and national relevance of its projects and therefore the ‘exportability’ of its products [http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/comm.php.] (accessed 1 June 2004). <br /> Non-aligned to any political party, the SCF’s language resembles (New) Labour-speech: the institute’s core aims are &quot;tackle[ing] inequalities in the marketplace&quot;, in public health and in the distribution of wealth [http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/news.php?id=4]. It demands action led by the Scottish Executive to &quot;promote cost-cutting partnerships between local shops and major retailers, and offer incentives for new businesses to set up in low-income neighbourhoods&quot; in order to allow poor households to get more value for their money. In order to &quot;enjoy the benefits of competition&quot; more commitment from government to functioning markets and a clearer challenge to private service providers is demanded[http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/news2.php#inscf]. In the SCF's policy research work, equality does not feature very highly on the agenda as an aim in itself; at best marked disparities are seen as economically undesirable for all members of society: &quot;a pronounced set of inequalities is bad for everyone, for the economy, for the people in the middle, for the people at the bottom&quot;, said its director James McCormick in January 2004. In January 2006 it published a report with the [[Fraser of Allander Institute]] proposing that Scottish Water be privatised.[http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/54799.html] In the same month it organised a conference with pharma giant [[Pfizer]], one of the most active pharma lobbyists in Scotland on binge drinking. [[Andrew Harris]], from the Foundation, said: &quot;Education, improved housing, employment and environmental changes can all address problems such as binge-drinking far more effectively than trying to tackle the problem in isolation&quot; [http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=144382006].<br /> The SCF, though its director says he sees it in a &quot;social-democratic&quot; epistemic community, pushes market friendly policies. It rejects what its director called the alleged “Scottish consensus�. What this means is the following: &quot;to say that you’re a left think-tank would not really say anything, it would say you’re part of the consensus, because Scotland is so heavily centre-left, and you want to challenge the consensus [...] so we’re not really interested in being aligned in a partisan sense&quot;. Challenging the consensus here means introducing pro-market ideas into the public sphere and advising decision-makers into that direction. <br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> The SCF is funded by big business . <br /> The SCF states that its &quot;principal supporters&quot; include <br /> *[[Associated Newspapers]]<br /> *[[Boots]]<br /> *[[BP]]<br /> *[[BT]]<br /> *[[Communities Scotland]]<br /> *[[Diageo]]<br /> *[[Liddell Thomson]]<br /> *[[Pfizer]]<br /> *[[Scottich Council for Development and Industry]]<br /> *[[Scottish Adult Learning Partnership]]<br /> *[[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> *[[Shell]]<br /> *[[Volunteer Development Scotland]]<br /> <br /> ==Personnel==<br /> SCF's Trustees are: <br /> *[[Shonaig MacPherson]], Chairperson <br /> *[[Donal Dowds]]<br /> *[[Crawford Gillies]] <br /> *[[Mike Hambly]]<br /> *[[Alan Wilson]]<br /> <br /> All serve in a personal capacity.<br /> <br /> ===Staff===<br /> *[[Linda Boyes]] Policy Manager <br /> *[[Deirdre Elrick]] Policy Manager <br /> *[[Jim McCormick]] Director <br /> *[[Gillian Menzies]] Finance Officer <br /> *[[Sandra Robertson]] Events Co-ordinator <br /> *[[Janet Smith]] Office Manager <br /> *[[Mark Langan]] Research Fellow <br /> *[[Andrew Harris]] Programme Director<br /> <br /> ==Contact details==<br /> Scottish Council Foundation, &lt;br&gt;<br /> 23 Chester Street,&lt;br&gt;<br /> Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 7ET&lt;br&gt;<br /> Phone: 0131 225 4709&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fax: 0131 220 2116 &lt;br&gt;<br /> Email: scf AT @scottishcouncilfoundation.org &lt;br&gt;<br /> Web: http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/index.php<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> **RICHARD GRAY [http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=144382006 Message in a bottle] Scotland on Sunday, 29 January 2006.<br /> *Alf Young [http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/54799.html The horse is at the water, but who’s nagging it to drink?] the Herald, 24 January 2006.<br /> <br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Scottish_Council_Foundation&diff=6327 2006-03-14T17:34:25Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The [[Scottish Council Foundation]] (SCF) is a neoliberal [[Sourcewatch:Think tanks|think tank]] that proclaims that it &quot;develops leading edge thinking and world class practice to address the strategic challenges facing Scotland and other modern economies and societies in an age of complexity and rapid change&quot; [http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/]. It was established by the [[Scottish Council for Development and Industry]] (SCDI) in 1999, which seeks to &quot;strengthen Scotland’s economic competitiveness and sustainable prosperity by influencing Government policy at all levels&quot;. The SCDI remains strongly involved, as three of the SCF’s five trustees are high-ranking members of the SCDI executive and its board and all of them are important members of Scotland’s business community. In 2004, the SCF employs five full-time research staff. Its present director, James McCormick, was appointed in 2002. Previously had worked for the Institute for Public Policy Research’s (IPPR) Social Justice Commission Report (1994), which was important for the Labour Party’s Third Way concepts of the welfare state. The SCF is the only Scottish-based and Scotland-focussed think-tanks that carries out original research and only occasionally draws from external expertise. Unnlike the [[David Hume Institute]] and [[Policy Institute]], the SCF has also cooperates with various organisatiosn, including the Washington D.C [[Centre for Excellence in Government]], the [[IPPR]], the [[Public Health Institute of Scotland]] and the [[Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health]]. The SCF emphasises the international and national relevance of its projects and therefore the ‘exportability’ of its products [http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/comm.php.] (accessed 1 June 2004). <br /> Non-aligned to any political party, the SCF’s language resembles (New) Labour-speech: the institute’s core aims are &quot;tackle[ing] inequalities in the marketplace&quot;, in public health and in the distribution of wealth [http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/news.php?id=4]. It demands action led by the Scottish Executive to &quot;promote cost-cutting partnerships between local shops and major retailers, and offer incentives for new businesses to set up in low-income neighbourhoods&quot; in order to allow poor households to get more value for their money. In order to &quot;enjoy the benefits of competition&quot; more commitment from government to functioning markets and a clearer challenge to private service providers is demanded[http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/news2.php#inscf]. In the SCF's policy research work, equality does not feature very highly on the agenda as an aim in itself; at best marked disparities are seen as economically undesirable for all members of society: &quot;a pronounced set of inequalities is bad for everyone, for the economy, for the people in the middle, for the people at the bottom&quot;, said its director James McCormick in January 2004. In January 2006 it published a report with the [[Fraser of Allander Institute]] proposing that Scottish Water be privatised.[http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/54799.html] In the same month it organised a conference with pharma giant [[Pfizer]], one of the most active pharma lobbyists in Scotland on binge drinking. [[Andrew Harris]], from the Foundation, said: &quot;Education, improved housing, employment and environmental changes can all address problems such as binge-drinking far more effectively than trying to tackle the problem in isolation&quot; [http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=144382006].<br /> The SCF, though its director says he sees it in a &quot;social-democratic&quot; epistemic community, pushes market friendly policies. <br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> The SCF is funded by big business . <br /> The SCF states that its &quot;principal supporters&quot; include <br /> *[[Associated Newspapers]]<br /> *[[Boots]]<br /> *[[BP]]<br /> *[[BT]]<br /> *[[Communities Scotland]]<br /> *[[Diageo]]<br /> *[[Liddell Thomson]]<br /> *[[Pfizer]]<br /> *[[Scottich Council for Development and Industry]]<br /> *[[Scottish Adult Learning Partnership]]<br /> *[[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> *[[Shell]]<br /> *[[Volunteer Development Scotland]]<br /> <br /> ==Personnel==<br /> SCF's Trustees are: <br /> *[[Shonaig MacPherson]], Chairperson <br /> *[[Donal Dowds]]<br /> *[[Crawford Gillies]] <br /> *[[Mike Hambly]]<br /> *[[Alan Wilson]]<br /> <br /> All serve in a personal capacity.<br /> <br /> ===Staff===<br /> *[[Linda Boyes]] Policy Manager <br /> *[[Deirdre Elrick]] Policy Manager <br /> *[[Jim McCormick]] Director <br /> *[[Gillian Menzies]] Finance Officer <br /> *[[Sandra Robertson]] Events Co-ordinator <br /> *[[Janet Smith]] Office Manager <br /> *[[Mark Langan]] Research Fellow <br /> *[[Andrew Harris]] Programme Director<br /> <br /> ==Contact details==<br /> Scottish Council Foundation, &lt;br&gt;<br /> 23 Chester Street,&lt;br&gt;<br /> Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 7ET&lt;br&gt;<br /> Phone: 0131 225 4709&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fax: 0131 220 2116 &lt;br&gt;<br /> Email: scf AT @scottishcouncilfoundation.org &lt;br&gt;<br /> Web: http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/index.php<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> **RICHARD GRAY [http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=144382006 Message in a bottle] Scotland on Sunday, 29 January 2006.<br /> *Alf Young [http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/54799.html The horse is at the water, but who’s nagging it to drink?] the Herald, 24 January 2006.<br /> <br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Scottish_Council_Foundation&diff=6326 2006-03-14T17:29:56Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The [[Scottish Council Foundation]] (SCF) is a neoliberal [[Sourcewatch:Think tanks|think tank]] that proclaims that it &quot;develops leading edge thinking and world class practice to address the strategic challenges facing Scotland and other modern economies and societies in an age of complexity and rapid change&quot; [http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/]. It was established by the [[Scottish Council for Development and Industry]] (SCDI) in 1999, which seeks to &quot;strengthen Scotland’s economic competitiveness and sustainable prosperity by influencing Government policy at all levels&quot;. The SCDI remains strongly involved, as three of the SCF’s five trustees are high-ranking members of the SCDI executive and its board and all of them are important members of Scotland’s business community. In 2004, the SCF employs five full-time research staff. Its present director, James McCormick, was appointed in 2002. Previously had worked for the Institute for Public Policy Research’s (IPPR) Social Justice Commission Report (1994), which was important for the Labour Party’s Third Way concepts of the welfare state. The SCF is the only Scottish-based and Scotland-focussed think-tanks that carries out original research and only occasionally draws from external expertise. Unnlike the [[David Hume Institute]] and [[Policy Institute]], the SCF has also cooperates with various organisatiosn, including the Washington D.C [[Centre for Excellence in Government]], the [[IPPR]], the [[Public Health Institute of Scotland]] and the [[Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health]]. The SCF emphasises the international and national relevance of its projects and therefore the ‘exportability’ of its products [http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/comm.php.] (accessed 1 June 2004). <br /> <br /> In January 2006 it published a report with the [[Fraser of Allander Institute]] proposing that Scottish Water be privatised.[http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/54799.html] In the same month it organised a conference with pharma giant [[Pfizer]], one of the most active pharma lobbyists in Scotland on binge drinking. [[Andrew Harris]], from the Foundation, said: &quot;Education, improved housing, employment and environmental changes can all address problems such as binge-drinking far more effectively than trying to tackle the problem in isolation.&quot; [http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=144382006]<br /> Non-aligned to any political party, the SCF’s language resembles (New) Labour-speech: the institute’s core aims are ‘tackle[ing] inequalities in the marketplace’, in public health and in the distribution of wealth[http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/news.php?id=4]. It demands action led by the Scottish Executive to ‘promote cost-cutting partnerships between local shops and major retailers, and offer incentives for new businesses to set up in low-income neighbourhoods’ in order to allow poor households to get more value for their money. In order to ‘enjoy the benefits of competition’ more commitment from government and a clearer challenge to private service providers is demanded[http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/news2.php#inscf]]. Equality is not an aim in itself; at best marked disparities are seen as economically undesirable for all members of society – ‘a pronounced set of inequalities is bad for everyone, for the economy, for the people in the middle, for the people at the bottom’(interview with director James McCormick 2004).<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> The SCF is funded by big business and pushes market friendly policies. <br /> The SCF states that its &quot;principal supporters&quot; include <br /> *[[Associated Newspapers]]<br /> *[[Boots]]<br /> *[[BP]]<br /> *[[BT]]<br /> *[[Communities Scotland]]<br /> *[[Diageo]]<br /> *[[Liddell Thomson]]<br /> *[[Pfizer]]<br /> *[[Scottich Council for Development and Industry]]<br /> *[[Scottish Adult Learning Partnership]]<br /> *[[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> *[[Shell]]<br /> *[[Volunteer Development Scotland]]<br /> <br /> ==Personnel==<br /> SCF's Trustees are: <br /> *[[Shonaig MacPherson]], Chairperson <br /> *[[Donal Dowds]]<br /> *[[Crawford Gillies]] <br /> *[[Mike Hambly]]<br /> *[[Alan Wilson]]<br /> <br /> All serve in a personal capacity.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ===Staff===<br /> *[[Linda Boyes]] Policy Manager <br /> *[[Deirdre Elrick]] Policy Manager <br /> *[[Jim McCormick]] Director <br /> *[[Gillian Menzies]] Finance Officer <br /> *[[Sandra Robertson]] Events Co-ordinator <br /> *[[Janet Smith]] Office Manager <br /> *[[Mark Langan]] Research Fellow <br /> *[[Andrew Harris]] Programme Director<br /> <br /> ==Contact details==<br /> Scottish Council Foundation, &lt;br&gt;<br /> 23 Chester Street,&lt;br&gt;<br /> Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 7ET&lt;br&gt;<br /> Phone: 0131 225 4709&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fax: 0131 220 2116 &lt;br&gt;<br /> Email: scf AT @scottishcouncilfoundation.org &lt;br&gt;<br /> Web: http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/index.php<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> **RICHARD GRAY [http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=144382006 Message in a bottle] Scotland on Sunday, 29 January 2006.<br /> *Alf Young [http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/54799.html The horse is at the water, but who’s nagging it to drink?] the Herald, 24 January 2006.<br /> <br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Scottish_Council_Foundation&diff=6325 2006-03-14T17:29:09Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The 'Scottish Council Foundation'(SCF) is a neoliberal [[Sourcewatch:Think tanks|think tank]] that proclaims that it &quot;develops leading edge thinking and world class practice to address the strategic challenges facing Scotland and other modern economies and societies in an age of complexity and rapid change&quot; [http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/]. It was established by the [[Scottish Council for Development and Industry]] (SCDI) in 1999, which seeks to &quot;strengthen Scotland’s economic competitiveness and sustainable prosperity by influencing Government policy at all levels&quot;. The SCDI remains strongly involved, as three of the SCF’s five trustees are high-ranking members of the SCDI executive and its board and all of them are important members of Scotland’s business community. In 2004, the SCF employs five full-time research staff. Its present director, James McCormick, was appointed in 2002. Previously had worked for the Institute for Public Policy Research’s (IPPR) Social Justice Commission Report (1994), which was important for the Labour Party’s Third Way concepts of the welfare state. The SCF is the only Scottish-based and Scotland-focussed think-tanks that carries out original research and only occasionally draws from external expertise. Unnlike the [[David Hume Institute]] and [[Policy Institute]], the SCF has also cooperates with various organisatiosn, including the Washington D.C [[Centre for Excellence in Government]], the [[IPPR]], the [[Public Health Institute of Scotland]] and the [Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health]. The SCF emphasises the international and national relevance of its projects and therefore the ‘exportability’ of its products [http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/comm.php.] (accessed 1 June 2004). <br /> <br /> In January 2006 it published a report with the [[Fraser of Allander Institute]] proposing that Scottish Water be privatised.[http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/54799.html] In the same month it organised a conference with pharma giant [[Pfizer]], one of the most active pharma lobbyists in Scotland on binge drinking. [[Andrew Harris]], from the Foundation, said: &quot;Education, improved housing, employment and environmental changes can all address problems such as binge-drinking far more effectively than trying to tackle the problem in isolation.&quot; [http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=144382006]<br /> Non-aligned to any political party, the SCF’s language resembles (New) Labour-speech: the institute’s core aims are ‘tackle[ing] inequalities in the marketplace’, in public health and in the distribution of wealth[http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/news.php?id=4]. It demands action led by the Scottish Executive to ‘promote cost-cutting partnerships between local shops and major retailers, and offer incentives for new businesses to set up in low-income neighbourhoods’ in order to allow poor households to get more value for their money. In order to ‘enjoy the benefits of competition’ more commitment from government and a clearer challenge to private service providers is demanded[http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/news2.php#inscf]]. Equality is not an aim in itself; at best marked disparities are seen as economically undesirable for all members of society – ‘a pronounced set of inequalities is bad for everyone, for the economy, for the people in the middle, for the people at the bottom’(interview with director James McCormick 2004).<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> The SCF is funded by big business and pushes market friendly policies. <br /> The SCF states that its &quot;principal supporters&quot; include <br /> *[[Associated Newspapers]]<br /> *[[Boots]]<br /> *[[BP]]<br /> *[[BT]]<br /> *[[Communities Scotland]]<br /> *[[Diageo]]<br /> *[[Liddell Thomson]]<br /> *[[Pfizer]]<br /> *[[Scottich Council for Development and Industry]]<br /> *[[Scottish Adult Learning Partnership]]<br /> *[[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> *[[Shell]]<br /> *[[Volunteer Development Scotland]]<br /> <br /> ==Personnel==<br /> SCF's Trustees are: <br /> *[[Shonaig MacPherson]], Chairperson <br /> *[[Donal Dowds]]<br /> *[[Crawford Gillies]] <br /> *[[Mike Hambly]]<br /> *[[Alan Wilson]]<br /> <br /> All serve in a personal capacity.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ===Staff===<br /> *[[Linda Boyes]] Policy Manager <br /> *[[Deirdre Elrick]] Policy Manager <br /> *[[Jim McCormick]] Director <br /> *[[Gillian Menzies]] Finance Officer <br /> *[[Sandra Robertson]] Events Co-ordinator <br /> *[[Janet Smith]] Office Manager <br /> *[[Mark Langan]] Research Fellow <br /> *[[Andrew Harris]] Programme Director<br /> <br /> ==Contact details==<br /> Scottish Council Foundation, &lt;br&gt;<br /> 23 Chester Street,&lt;br&gt;<br /> Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 7ET&lt;br&gt;<br /> Phone: 0131 225 4709&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fax: 0131 220 2116 &lt;br&gt;<br /> Email: scf AT @scottishcouncilfoundation.org &lt;br&gt;<br /> Web: http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/index.php<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> **RICHARD GRAY [http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=144382006 Message in a bottle] Scotland on Sunday, 29 January 2006.<br /> *Alf Young [http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/54799.html The horse is at the water, but who’s nagging it to drink?] the Herald, 24 January 2006.<br /> <br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Scottish_Council_Foundation&diff=6324 2006-03-14T17:27:12Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The 'Scottish Council Foundation'(SCF) is a neoliberal [[Sourcewatch:Think tanks|think tank]] that proclaims that it &quot;develops leading edge thinking and world class practice to address the strategic challenges facing Scotland and other modern economies and societies in an age of complexity and rapid change&quot; [http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/]. It was established by the [[Scottish Council for Development and Industry]] (SCDI) in 1999, which seeks to ‘strengthen Scotland’s economic competitiveness and sustainable prosperity by influencing Government policy at all levels’. Three of the SCF’s five trustees are high-ranking members of the SCDI executive and its board and all of them are important members of Scotland’s business community. The SCF employs five full-time research staff. The present director, James McCormick, was ap-pointed in 2002. Previously he worked for the Institute for Public Policy Research’s (IPPR) Social Justice Commission Report, published in 1994, which was important for the Labour Party’s Third Way concepts of the welfare state. The SCF is the only Scottish-based and Scotland-focussed think-tanks that carries out original research and only occasionally draws from external expertise - unlike the [[David Hume Institute]] and [[Policy Institute]], the SCF has also cooperates with various organisatiosn, including the Washington D.C [[Centre for Excellence in Government]], the [[IPPR]], the [[Public Health Institute of Scotland]] and the [[Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health. The SCF emphasises the international and national relevance of its projects and therefore the ‘exportability’ of its products [http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/comm.php.] (accessed 1 June 2004). <br /> <br /> In January 2006 it published a report with the [[Fraser of Allander Institute]] proposing that Scottish Water be privatised.[http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/54799.html] In the same month it organised a conference with pharma giant [[Pfizer]], one of the most active pharma lobbyists in Scotland on binge drinking. [[Andrew Harris]], from the Foundation, said: &quot;Education, improved housing, employment and environmental changes can all address problems such as binge-drinking far more effectively than trying to tackle the problem in isolation.&quot; [http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=144382006]<br /> Non-aligned to any political party, the SCF’s language resembles (New) Labour-speech: the institute’s core aims are ‘tackle[ing] inequalities in the marketplace’, in public health and in the distribution of wealth[http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/news.php?id=4]. It demands action led by the Scottish Executive to ‘promote cost-cutting partnerships between local shops and major retailers, and offer incentives for new businesses to set up in low-income neighbourhoods’ in order to allow poor households to get more value for their money. In order to ‘enjoy the benefits of competition’ more commitment from government and a clearer challenge to private service providers is demanded[http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/news2.php#inscf]]. Equality is not an aim in itself; at best marked disparities are seen as economically undesirable for all members of society – ‘a pronounced set of inequalities is bad for everyone, for the economy, for the people in the middle, for the people at the bottom’(interview with director James McCormick 2004).<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> The SCF is funded by big business and pushes market friendly policies. <br /> The SCF states that its &quot;principal supporters&quot; include <br /> *[[Associated Newspapers]]<br /> *[[Boots]]<br /> *[[BP]]<br /> *[[BT]]<br /> *[[Communities Scotland]]<br /> *[[Diageo]]<br /> *[[Liddell Thomson]]<br /> *[[Pfizer]]<br /> *[[Scottich Council for Development and Industry]]<br /> *[[Scottish Adult Learning Partnership]]<br /> *[[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> *[[Shell]]<br /> *[[Volunteer Development Scotland]]<br /> <br /> ==Personnel==<br /> SCF's Trustees are: <br /> *[[Shonaig MacPherson]], Chairperson <br /> *[[Donal Dowds]]<br /> *[[Crawford Gillies]] <br /> *[[Mike Hambly]]<br /> *[[Alan Wilson]]<br /> <br /> All serve in a personal capacity.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ===Staff===<br /> *[[Linda Boyes]] Policy Manager <br /> *[[Deirdre Elrick]] Policy Manager <br /> *[[Jim McCormick]] Director <br /> *[[Gillian Menzies]] Finance Officer <br /> *[[Sandra Robertson]] Events Co-ordinator <br /> *[[Janet Smith]] Office Manager <br /> *[[Mark Langan]] Research Fellow <br /> *[[Andrew Harris]] Programme Director<br /> <br /> ==Contact details==<br /> Scottish Council Foundation, &lt;br&gt;<br /> 23 Chester Street,&lt;br&gt;<br /> Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 7ET&lt;br&gt;<br /> Phone: 0131 225 4709&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fax: 0131 220 2116 &lt;br&gt;<br /> Email: scf AT @scottishcouncilfoundation.org &lt;br&gt;<br /> Web: http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/index.php<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> **RICHARD GRAY [http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=144382006 Message in a bottle] Scotland on Sunday, 29 January 2006.<br /> *Alf Young [http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/54799.html The horse is at the water, but who’s nagging it to drink?] the Herald, 24 January 2006.<br /> <br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=User:Hartwig&diff=30572 2006-03-14T17:24:34Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>Hartwig is a PhD student at Glasgow Caledonian University and compares British and German think-tanks and their involvement in labour market and welfare policy changes under the Blair and Schröder administrations.</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Scottish_Council_Foundation&diff=6323 2006-03-14T17:21:38Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The 'Scottish Council Foundation'(SCF) is a neoliberal [[Sourcewatch:Think tanks|Think tank]] that proclaims that it &quot;develops leading edge thinking and world class practice to address the strategic challenges facing Scotland and other modern economies and societies in an age of complexity and rapid change.&quot; It was established by the [[Scottish Council for Development and Industry]] (SCDI) in 1999, which seeks to ‘strengthen Scotland’s economic competitiveness and sustainable prosperity by influencing Government policy at all levels’. Three of the SCF’s five trustees are high-ranking members of the SCDI executive and its board and all of them are important members of Scotland’s business community. The SCF employs five full-time research staff. The present director, James McCormick, was ap-pointed in 2002. Previously he worked for the Institute for Public Policy Research’s (IPPR) Social Justice Commission Report, published in 1994, which was important for the Labour Party’s Third Way concepts of the welfare state. The SCF is the only Scottish-based and Scotland-focussed think-tanks that carries out original research and only occasionally draws from external expertise - unlike the [[David Hume Institute]] and [[Policy Institute]], the SCF has also cooperates with various organisatiosn, including the Washington D.C [[Centre for Excellence in Government]], the [[IPPR]], the [[Public Health Institute of Scotland]] and the [[Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health. The SCF emphasises the international and national relevance of its projects and therefore the ‘exportability’ of its products [http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/comm.php.] (accessed 1 June 2004). <br /> <br /> In January 2006 it published a report with the [[Fraser of Allander Institute]] proposing that Scottish Water be privatised.[http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/54799.html] In the same month it organised a conference with pharma giant [[Pfizer]], one of the most active pharma lobbyists in Scotland on binge drinking. [[Andrew Harris]], from the Foundation, said: &quot;Education, improved housing, employment and environmental changes can all address problems such as binge-drinking far more effectively than trying to tackle the problem in isolation.&quot; [http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=144382006]<br /> Non-aligned to any political party, the SCF’s language resembles (New) Labour-speech: the institute’s core aims are ‘tackle[ing] inequalities in the marketplace’, in public health and in the distribution of wealth[http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/news.php?id=4]. It demands action led by the Scottish Executive to ‘promote cost-cutting partnerships between local shops and major retailers, and offer incentives for new businesses to set up in low-income neighbourhoods’ in order to allow poor households to get more value for their money. In order to ‘enjoy the benefits of competition’ more commitment from government and a clearer challenge to private service providers is demanded[http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/news2.php#inscf]]. Equality is not an aim in itself; at best marked disparities are seen as economically undesirable for all members of society – ‘a pronounced set of inequalities is bad for everyone, for the economy, for the people in the middle, for the people at the bottom’(interview with director James McCormick 2004).<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> The SCF is funded by big business and pushes market friendly policies. <br /> The SCF states that its &quot;principal supporters&quot; include <br /> *[[Associated Newspapers]]<br /> *[[Boots]]<br /> *[[BP]]<br /> *[[BT]]<br /> *[[Communities Scotland]]<br /> *[[Diageo]]<br /> *[[Liddell Thomson]]<br /> *[[Pfizer]]<br /> *[[Scottich Council for Development and Industry]]<br /> *[[Scottish Adult Learning Partnership]]<br /> *[[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> *[[Shell]]<br /> *[[Volunteer Development Scotland]]<br /> <br /> ==Personnel==<br /> SCF's Trustees are: <br /> *[[Shonaig MacPherson]], Chairperson <br /> *[[Donal Dowds]]<br /> *[[Crawford Gillies]] <br /> *[[Mike Hambly]]<br /> *[[Alan Wilson]]<br /> <br /> All serve in a personal capacity.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ===Staff===<br /> *[[Linda Boyes]] Policy Manager <br /> *[[Deirdre Elrick]] Policy Manager <br /> *[[Jim McCormick]] Director <br /> *[[Gillian Menzies]] Finance Officer <br /> *[[Sandra Robertson]] Events Co-ordinator <br /> *[[Janet Smith]] Office Manager <br /> *[[Mark Langan]] Research Fellow <br /> *[[Andrew Harris]] Programme Director<br /> <br /> ==Contact details==<br /> Scottish Council Foundation, &lt;br&gt;<br /> 23 Chester Street,&lt;br&gt;<br /> Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 7ET&lt;br&gt;<br /> Phone: 0131 225 4709&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fax: 0131 220 2116 &lt;br&gt;<br /> Email: scf AT @scottishcouncilfoundation.org &lt;br&gt;<br /> Web: http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/index.php<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> **RICHARD GRAY [http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=144382006 Message in a bottle] Scotland on Sunday, 29 January 2006.<br /> *Alf Young [http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/54799.html The horse is at the water, but who’s nagging it to drink?] the Herald, 24 January 2006.<br /> <br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=International_Institute_for_Environment_and_Development&diff=6343 2006-03-14T16:57:51Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The Edinburgh office of the '''International Institute for Environment and Development''' (IIED) (http://www.iied.org/index.html) is an exception in Scotland’s think-tank landscape. Founded in the USA in 1971 as the [[Sourcewatch:International Institute for Environmental Affairs|International Institute for Environmental Affairs]], its main office today is in London. <br /> The IIED is a non-profit organization promoting sustainable world development. It describes itself as a globally operating agency contributing to ‘environmental policy and action’. The Scottish IIED office concentrates on promoting sustainable development for Africa’s drylands belt south of the Sahara. In 2000/01 the IIED received about £6 million from aid and development departments, intergovernmental agencies, foundations, and corporate and individual donors from across Europe and North America ([http://www.iied.org/aboutiied/funders.html] Accessed 23 June 2004). The IIED discloses all its sources of funding and lists it sponsors and partners on its website.<br /> <br /> ==Board of Trustees== <br /> [[Mary Robinson]], Chair, Ireland<br /> <br /> Derek F Osborn, Vice Chair, United Kingdom<br /> <br /> Lael Bethlehem, South Africa<br /> <br /> Margaret Catley-Carlson, Canada<br /> <br /> Sir Partha Dasgupta, United Kingdom/India<br /> <br /> Ana Hardoy, Argentina<br /> <br /> Arif Hasan, Pakistan<br /> <br /> Timothy Hornsby, United Kingdom<br /> <br /> Alan Jenkins, United Kingdom<br /> <br /> Idris Kikula, Tanzania<br /> <br /> Lailai Li, China<br /> <br /> Julia Marton-Lefèvre, France<br /> <br /> Yves Renard, St. Lucia<br /> <br /> Niels Roling, The Netherlands<br /> <br /> Madhu Sarin, India<br /> Henrik Secher Marcussen, Denmark<br /> <br /> Youba Sokona, Mali<br /> <br /> Jonathan F Taylor, United Kingdom<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> IIED receives funding from aid and development ministries, intergovernmental agencies, foundations, and corporate and individual donors. Annual receivable income is about UK£6 million (2000/01), covering approximately 250 projects involving over 1000 partners.<br /> <br /> Bundesministerium für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit (BMZ), Germany<br /> <br /> Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Canada<br /> <br /> Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), UK<br /> <br /> Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), Canada<br /> <br /> Department for International Development (DFID)<br /> <br /> Environment Canada<br /> <br /> French Ministry of Foreign Affairs<br /> <br /> Irish Embassy, Mozambique<br /> <br /> Natural Resources Canada<br /> <br /> Netherlands Ministry for Foreign Affairs (DGIS)<br /> <br /> Norwegian Ministry Development Cooperation (NORAD)<br /> <br /> Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs<br /> <br /> Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DANIDA)<br /> <br /> Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (SIDA)<br /> <br /> Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation (SDC)<br /> International &amp; Multilateral Agencies<br /> <br /> European Commission (EC)<br /> <br /> Evangelische Zentralstelle Für Entwicklungshilfe (EZE)<br /> <br /> United Nations Secretariat for the Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)<br /> <br /> United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)<br /> <br /> United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)<br /> <br /> United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (UNFAO)<br /> <br /> United Nations Office for Projects and Services (UNOPS)<br /> <br /> World Bank<br /> '''Foundations and other funders'''<br /> <br /> ALTERRA, Netherlands<br /> <br /> Conservation Law Foundation<br /> <br /> European Partners for the Environment Secretariat<br /> <br /> Esmee Fairbairn Foundation<br /> <br /> Institute for Development Studies (IDS)<br /> <br /> World Conservation Union (IUCN)<br /> <br /> Justus-Liebig University - Giessen<br /> <br /> Loughborough University<br /> <br /> [[MacArthur Foundation]]<br /> <br /> [[Misereor]]<br /> <br /> [[National Lotteries Charity Board]] (NLCB)<br /> <br /> [[National Resources Institute]]<br /> <br /> [[Rockefeller Foundation]]<br /> <br /> The [[Ruben and Elizabeth Rausing Trust]]<br /> <br /> University of Leeds<br /> <br /> University of Trieste<br /> <br /> University of Oxford<br /> <br /> *World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)<br /> <br /> '''Corporate'''<br /> NRI International Ltd<br /> Coillte Consultants Ltd<br /> COWI Denmark<br /> *[[Shell]] IPC<br /> *[[Sourcewatch:World Business Council for Sustainable Development|World Business Council for Sustainable Development ]]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> <br /> International Institute for Environment and Development Website [http://www.iied.org/]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=International_Institute_for_Environment_and_Development&diff=6317 2006-03-14T16:57:16Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The Edinburgh office of the '''International Institute for Environment and Development''' (IIED) (http://www.iied.org/index.html) is an exception in Scotland’s think-tank landscape. Founded in the USA in 1971 as the [[Sourcewatch:International Institute for Environmental Affairs|International Institute for Environmental Affairs]], its main office today is in London. <br /> The IIED is a non-profit organization promoting sustainable world development. It describes itself as a globally operating agency contributing to ‘environmental policy and action’. The Scottish IIED office concentrates on promoting sustainable development for Africa’s drylands belt south of the Sahara. It is a ‘specialist think-tank’(Stone 1995, p. 21), as it focuses on environmental issues only. In 2000/01 the IIED received about £6 million from aid and development departments, intergovernmental agencies, foundations, and corporate and individual donors from across Europe and North America ([http://www.iied.org/aboutiied/funders.html] Accessed 23 June 2004). The IIED discloses all its sources of funding and lists it sponsors and partners on its website.<br /> <br /> ==Board of Trustees== <br /> [[Mary Robinson]], Chair, Ireland<br /> <br /> Derek F Osborn, Vice Chair, United Kingdom<br /> <br /> Lael Bethlehem, South Africa<br /> <br /> Margaret Catley-Carlson, Canada<br /> <br /> Sir Partha Dasgupta, United Kingdom/India<br /> <br /> Ana Hardoy, Argentina<br /> <br /> Arif Hasan, Pakistan<br /> <br /> Timothy Hornsby, United Kingdom<br /> <br /> Alan Jenkins, United Kingdom<br /> <br /> Idris Kikula, Tanzania<br /> <br /> Lailai Li, China<br /> <br /> Julia Marton-Lefèvre, France<br /> <br /> Yves Renard, St. Lucia<br /> <br /> Niels Roling, The Netherlands<br /> <br /> Madhu Sarin, India<br /> Henrik Secher Marcussen, Denmark<br /> <br /> Youba Sokona, Mali<br /> <br /> Jonathan F Taylor, United Kingdom<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> IIED receives funding from aid and development ministries, intergovernmental agencies, foundations, and corporate and individual donors. Annual receivable income is about UK£6 million (2000/01), covering approximately 250 projects involving over 1000 partners.<br /> <br /> Bundesministerium für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit (BMZ), Germany<br /> <br /> Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Canada<br /> <br /> Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), UK<br /> <br /> Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), Canada<br /> <br /> Department for International Development (DFID)<br /> <br /> Environment Canada<br /> <br /> French Ministry of Foreign Affairs<br /> <br /> Irish Embassy, Mozambique<br /> <br /> Natural Resources Canada<br /> <br /> Netherlands Ministry for Foreign Affairs (DGIS)<br /> <br /> Norwegian Ministry Development Cooperation (NORAD)<br /> <br /> Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs<br /> <br /> Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DANIDA)<br /> <br /> Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (SIDA)<br /> <br /> Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation (SDC)<br /> International &amp; Multilateral Agencies<br /> <br /> European Commission (EC)<br /> <br /> Evangelische Zentralstelle Für Entwicklungshilfe (EZE)<br /> <br /> United Nations Secretariat for the Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)<br /> <br /> United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)<br /> <br /> United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)<br /> <br /> United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (UNFAO)<br /> <br /> United Nations Office for Projects and Services (UNOPS)<br /> <br /> World Bank<br /> '''Foundations and other funders'''<br /> <br /> ALTERRA, Netherlands<br /> <br /> Conservation Law Foundation<br /> <br /> European Partners for the Environment Secretariat<br /> <br /> Esmee Fairbairn Foundation<br /> <br /> Institute for Development Studies (IDS)<br /> <br /> World Conservation Union (IUCN)<br /> <br /> Justus-Liebig University - Giessen<br /> <br /> Loughborough University<br /> <br /> [[MacArthur Foundation]]<br /> <br /> [[Misereor]]<br /> <br /> [[National Lotteries Charity Board]] (NLCB)<br /> <br /> [[National Resources Institute]]<br /> <br /> [[Rockefeller Foundation]]<br /> <br /> The [[Ruben and Elizabeth Rausing Trust]]<br /> <br /> University of Leeds<br /> <br /> University of Trieste<br /> <br /> University of Oxford<br /> <br /> *World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)<br /> <br /> '''Corporate'''<br /> NRI International Ltd<br /> Coillte Consultants Ltd<br /> COWI Denmark<br /> *[[Shell]] IPC<br /> *[[Sourcewatch:World Business Council for Sustainable Development|World Business Council for Sustainable Development ]]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> <br /> International Institute for Environment and Development Website [http://www.iied.org/]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=David_Hume_Institute&diff=6320 2006-03-14T16:55:34Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The '''David Hume Institute''' (DHI) was founded in Edinburgh in 1985 by Professor Sir [[Sourcewatch: Alan Peacock|Alan Peacock]], who also became its first Executive Director, and the industrialist Gerald Elliot, then Chairman of Christian Control Salvesen, an international logis-tics business. <br /> Prior to his committement to the DHI Peacock was Professor of Economics at York University and Vice Chancellor of the independent University of Buckingham. He also sat on a number of committees: for example, he was chairman of the Home Office Committee on Financing the BBC between 1985 and 1986, where he proposed making subscription to the BBC voluntary and to bring more more market mechanisms into the broadcasting sector. When, in 2004, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), where Peacock was a Fellow, gave an address on the same topic, it boasted that Peacock’s ideas were now being ‘discussed by several commentators, including experts from the BBC and Ofcom’ [http://www.iea.org.uk/record.jsp?type=publication&amp;ID=254](accessd 3 February 2005). Peacock was member of various other UK Government and international Commissions and served as Chief Eco-nomic Adviser in the UK Department of Trade and Industry between 1973-76.<br /> According to Peacock, his motivation to set up the DHI was to establish an institute independent of government funding in order to avoid constraints on research and publication and to counter the ‘metropolitan perspective of economic events’ coming from the overwhelming number of research institutes based in London (Peacock 1995). The DHI, in the 1980s, can be considered an outpost of neo-liberal thought and Thatcherite ideology in Scotland.<br /> In 1995 Professor Brian Main, who in 2002 was official advisor of the Scottish Parliament Justice Committees One and Two, joined the institute and had been its director since 1999 until he was replaced by Jeremy Peat in June 2005. Peat served as Group Chief Economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland and was economist at the HM Treasury and the Scottish Office. He is also on the Board of Governors of the BBC for Scotland. <br /> It is an interesting move to fill the position formerly held by an academic with a professional economist who has ‘extensive connections with business and areas of government in Scotland and further afield’. Peat’s appointment probably will push the DHI into a more business-oriented direction and will open new sources of sponsorship. <br /> The DHI’s board of trustees unites the who’s who of the Scottish policy com-munity: senior journalists, members of the Scottish Parliament’s Corporate Body Audit and Advisory Board, the CEO of TSB Scotland and a high official of the Rowntree Foundation. The DHI commissions external re-searchers as it does not employ full time research staff. <br /> <br /> <br /> ===Board of Trustees===<br /> Among them are: <br /> *[[Robert Bertram]], currently a member of the [[Scottish Parliament]] Corporate Body's Audit and Advisory Board ([http://www.competitioncommission.org.uk/our_peop/members/all_members/biogs/robertbertram.htm] Accessed 17 November 2004).<br /> *[[Andrew Ferguson]] worked briefly for the Conservative Party research unit before joining The Economist and the Sunday Times. Now he works at the Scotsman newspaper as Editor-in-Chief ([http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/people/famousfirst673.html] Accessed 17 November 2004). <br /> *[[Isabelle Low]], formerly a [[Scottish Executive]] civil servant, is now Deputy Chair of the [[Accounts Commission for Scotland]] ([http://www.asainternational.co.uk/fdoty/judge.asp] Accessed 17 November 2004). <br /> *[[Susan Rice]], chief executive of [[Lloyds TSB Scotland]] plc, was a member of HM Treasury’s Policy Action Team on access to financial services. She is also a member of the Foresight Sub-Committee on Retail Finance, on the board of [[Scottish Business in the Community]], and a member of the [[Scottish Advisory Task Force on the New Deal]] ([http://www.sra.ed.ac.uk/htc/susan_rice.htm] Accessed 17 November 2004). <br /> *Professor [[Duncan MacLennan]] worked for the Rowntree Foundation and has provided advice to the World Bank, the European Commission and the European Parliament ([http://www.scothomes.gov.uk/annualreport98/members/dmaclennan.html] Accessed 17 November 2004).<br /> <br /> ==Trustees at February 2006==<br /> *Mr. [[Robert Bertram]] WS<br /> *Mr [[Jo Elliot]]<br /> *Mr. [[Andrew Ferguson]]<br /> *Professor [[Gavin Kennedy]]<br /> *Mr. [[Nick Kuenssberg]]<br /> *Dr [[Isabelle Low]]<br /> *Dr [[Ken Lyall]]<br /> *Miss [[Eileen Mackay]] CB (Chairman)<br /> *Professor [[Hector MacQueen]] FRSE<br /> *Professor [[Donald MacRae]]<br /> *Professor [[John Murray]] QC<br /> *Professor [[David Simpson]]<br /> *Professor [[Joan Stringer]] CBE FRSE<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> Between 2000 and 2004, the DHI received financial sponsorship from blue chip corporations including the [[Royal Bank of Scotland]], the [[Bank of Scotland]], [[Lloyds TSB Scotland]] and [[Standard Life]]. The academic background of the DHI is reflected in the sponsorship by the [[ESRC]] and Edinburgh University’s [[Europa Institute]]. Some individuals, including a member of the board of the SCDI and a Scotsman journalist, were also among the financial contributors (Source:[http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf] )<br /> <br /> ==Activities==<br /> The DHI hardly pursues any local, national or international cooperation with other think-tanks or research institutions. The only ongoing cooperation is to be found with the [[Europa Institute]] of the University of Edinburgh. Though Diane Stone describes the DHI as an advocacy institute which is part of a wider epistemic community of privatisation and as the [[Adam Smith Institute]]’s Scottish counterpart, today it has neither the interest nor the ability in a wider cooperation with other like-minded institutions' (Stone 1995, 22).<br /> In 2004, the DHI's director stated that it was struggling to get press attention, because of the media’s commercial structure: the ‘press generally want you to say something quite sensational, political, and we […] are generally not talking in those terms’. Such media relations were left to institutes which ‘are more politically oriented. [..] to be pejorative, some of them are for people who actually want to be MPs or politicians’.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> Stone, Diane. (2003) Think-tanks and the Privatisation Band-Wagon in: Lovenduski,J. and Stanyer, J. (eds). Contemporary Political Studies; Belfast: Political Studies Association, Vol. 1, 1995<br /> Peacock, Alan.(1995)Kuenssberg, Nick and Lomas, Gillian. (eds) The David Hume Institute. The First Decade. Norwich : Page Bros Ltd.</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=David_Hume_Institute&diff=6315 2006-03-14T16:52:38Z

<p>Hartwig: /* Activities */</p> <hr /> <div>The '''David Hume Institute''' (DHI) was founded in Edinburgh in 1985 by Professor Sir [[Sourcewatch: Alan Peacock|Alan Peacock]], who also became its first Executive Director, and the industrialist Gerald Elliot, then Chairman of Christian Control Salvesen, an international logis-tics business. <br /> Prior to his committement to the DHI Peacock was Professor of Economics at York University and Vice Chancellor of the independent University of Buckingham. He also sat on a number of committees: for example, he was chairman of the Home Office Committee on Financing the BBC between 1985 and 1986, where he proposed making subscription to the BBC voluntary and to bring more more market mechanisms into the broadcasting sector. When, in 2004, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), where Peacock was a Fellow, gave an address on the same topic, it boasted that Peacock’s ideas were now being ‘discussed by several commentators, including experts from the BBC and Ofcom’ [http://www.iea.org.uk/record.jsp?type=publication&amp;ID=254](accessd 3 February 2005). Peacock was member of various other UK Government and international Commissions and served as Chief Eco-nomic Adviser in the UK Department of Trade and Industry between 1973-76.<br /> According to Peacock, his motivation to set up the DHI was to establish an institute independent of government funding in order to avoid constraints on research and publication and to counter the ‘metropolitan perspective of economic events’ coming from the overwhelming number of research institutes based in London (Peacock 1995). The DHI, in the 1980s, can be considered an outpost of neo-liberal thought and Thatcherite ideology in Scotland.<br /> In 1995 Professor Brian Main, who in 2002 was official advisor of the Scottish Parliament Justice Committees One and Two, joined the institute and had been its director since 1999 until he was replaced by Jeremy Peat in June 2005. Peat served as Group Chief Economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland and was economist at the HM Treasury and the Scottish Office. He is also on the Board of Governors of the BBC for Scotland. <br /> It is an interesting move to fill the position formerly held by an academic with a professional economist who has ‘extensive connections with business and areas of government in Scotland and further afield’. Peat’s appointment probably will push the DHI into a more business-oriented direction and will open new sources of sponsorship. <br /> The DHI’s board of trustees unites the who’s who of the Scottish policy com-munity: senior journalists, members of the Scottish Parliament’s Corporate Body Audit and Advisory Board, the CEO of TSB Scotland and a high official of the Rowntree Foundation. The DHI commissions external re-searchers as it does not employ full time research staff. <br /> <br /> <br /> ===Board of Trustees===<br /> Among them are: <br /> *[[Robert Bertram]], currently a member of the [[Scottish Parliament]] Corporate Body's Audit and Advisory Board ([http://www.competitioncommission.org.uk/our_peop/members/all_members/biogs/robertbertram.htm] Accessed 17 November 2004).<br /> *[[Andrew Ferguson]] worked briefly for the Conservative Party research unit before joining The Economist and the Sunday Times. Now he works at the Scotsman newspaper as Editor-in-Chief ([http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/people/famousfirst673.html] Accessed 17 November 2004). <br /> *[[Isabelle Low]], formerly a [[Scottish Executive]] civil servant, is now Deputy Chair of the [[Accounts Commission for Scotland]] ([http://www.asainternational.co.uk/fdoty/judge.asp] Accessed 17 November 2004). <br /> *[[Susan Rice]], chief executive of [[Lloyds TSB Scotland]] plc, was a member of HM Treasury’s Policy Action Team on access to financial services. She is also a member of the Foresight Sub-Committee on Retail Finance, on the board of [[Scottish Business in the Community]], and a member of the [[Scottish Advisory Task Force on the New Deal]] ([http://www.sra.ed.ac.uk/htc/susan_rice.htm] Accessed 17 November 2004). <br /> *Professor [[Duncan MacLennan]] worked for the Rowntree Foundation and has provided advice to the World Bank, the European Commission and the European Parliament ([http://www.scothomes.gov.uk/annualreport98/members/dmaclennan.html] Accessed 17 November 2004).<br /> <br /> ==Trustees at February 2006==<br /> *Mr. [[Robert Bertram]] WS<br /> *Mr [[Jo Elliot]]<br /> *Mr. [[Andrew Ferguson]]<br /> *Professor [[Gavin Kennedy]]<br /> *Mr. [[Nick Kuenssberg]]<br /> *Dr [[Isabelle Low]]<br /> *Dr [[Ken Lyall]]<br /> *Miss [[Eileen Mackay]] CB (Chairman)<br /> *Professor [[Hector MacQueen]] FRSE<br /> *Professor [[Donald MacRae]]<br /> *Professor [[John Murray]] QC<br /> *Professor [[David Simpson]]<br /> *Professor [[Joan Stringer]] CBE FRSE<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> Between 2000 and 2004, the DHI received financial sponsorship from blue chip corporations including the [[Royal Bank of Scotland]], the [[Bank of Scotland]], [[Lloyds TSB Scotland]] and [[Standard Life]]. The academic background of the DHI is reflected in the sponsorship by the [[ESRC]] and Edinburgh University’s [[Europa Institute]]. Some individuals, including a member of the board of the SCDI and a Scotsman journalist, were also among the financial contributors (Source:[http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf] )<br /> <br /> ==Activities==<br /> The DHI hardly pursues any local, national or international cooperation with other think-tanks or research institutions. The only ongoing cooperation is to be found with the [[Europa Institute]] of the University of Edinburgh. Though Diane Stone describes the DHI as an advocacy institute which is part of a wider epistemic community of privatisation and as the [[Adam Smith Institute]]’s Scottish counterpart, today it has neither the interest nor the ability in a wider cooperation with other like-minded institutions.' {{ref|Stone}}<br /> In 2004, the DHI's director stated that it was struggling to get press attention, because of the media’s commercial structure: the ‘press generally want you to say something quite sensational, political, and we […] are generally not talking in those terms’. Such media relations were left to institutes which ‘are more politically oriented. [..] to be pejorative, some of them are for people who actually want to be MPs or politicians’.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{note|Stone}} Stone, Diane. Think-tanks and the Privatisation Band-Wagon in: Lovenduski,J. and Stanyer, J. (eds). ''Contemporary Political Studies'' Belfast: Political Studies Association, Vol. 1, 1995, p 22; Stone, Diane 2003 op.cit., p. 335.<br /> Peacock, Alan. in: Kuenssberg, Nick and Lomas, Gillian. () The David Hume Institute. The First Decade. Norwich : Page Bros Ltd., 1995</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=David_Hume_Institute&diff=6314 2006-03-14T16:50:42Z

<p>Hartwig: /* Board of Trustees */</p> <hr /> <div>The '''David Hume Institute''' (DHI) was founded in Edinburgh in 1985 by Professor Sir [[Sourcewatch: Alan Peacock|Alan Peacock]], who also became its first Executive Director, and the industrialist Gerald Elliot, then Chairman of Christian Control Salvesen, an international logis-tics business. <br /> Prior to his committement to the DHI Peacock was Professor of Economics at York University and Vice Chancellor of the independent University of Buckingham. He also sat on a number of committees: for example, he was chairman of the Home Office Committee on Financing the BBC between 1985 and 1986, where he proposed making subscription to the BBC voluntary and to bring more more market mechanisms into the broadcasting sector. When, in 2004, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), where Peacock was a Fellow, gave an address on the same topic, it boasted that Peacock’s ideas were now being ‘discussed by several commentators, including experts from the BBC and Ofcom’ [http://www.iea.org.uk/record.jsp?type=publication&amp;ID=254](accessd 3 February 2005). Peacock was member of various other UK Government and international Commissions and served as Chief Eco-nomic Adviser in the UK Department of Trade and Industry between 1973-76.<br /> According to Peacock, his motivation to set up the DHI was to establish an institute independent of government funding in order to avoid constraints on research and publication and to counter the ‘metropolitan perspective of economic events’ coming from the overwhelming number of research institutes based in London (Peacock 1995). The DHI, in the 1980s, can be considered an outpost of neo-liberal thought and Thatcherite ideology in Scotland.<br /> In 1995 Professor Brian Main, who in 2002 was official advisor of the Scottish Parliament Justice Committees One and Two, joined the institute and had been its director since 1999 until he was replaced by Jeremy Peat in June 2005. Peat served as Group Chief Economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland and was economist at the HM Treasury and the Scottish Office. He is also on the Board of Governors of the BBC for Scotland. <br /> It is an interesting move to fill the position formerly held by an academic with a professional economist who has ‘extensive connections with business and areas of government in Scotland and further afield’. Peat’s appointment probably will push the DHI into a more business-oriented direction and will open new sources of sponsorship. <br /> The DHI’s board of trustees unites the who’s who of the Scottish policy com-munity: senior journalists, members of the Scottish Parliament’s Corporate Body Audit and Advisory Board, the CEO of TSB Scotland and a high official of the Rowntree Foundation. The DHI commissions external re-searchers as it does not employ full time research staff. <br /> <br /> <br /> ===Board of Trustees===<br /> Among them are: <br /> *[[Robert Bertram]], currently a member of the [[Scottish Parliament]] Corporate Body's Audit and Advisory Board ([http://www.competitioncommission.org.uk/our_peop/members/all_members/biogs/robertbertram.htm] Accessed 17 November 2004).<br /> *[[Andrew Ferguson]] worked briefly for the Conservative Party research unit before joining The Economist and the Sunday Times. Now he works at the Scotsman newspaper as Editor-in-Chief ([http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/people/famousfirst673.html] Accessed 17 November 2004). <br /> *[[Isabelle Low]], formerly a [[Scottish Executive]] civil servant, is now Deputy Chair of the [[Accounts Commission for Scotland]] ([http://www.asainternational.co.uk/fdoty/judge.asp] Accessed 17 November 2004). <br /> *[[Susan Rice]], chief executive of [[Lloyds TSB Scotland]] plc, was a member of HM Treasury’s Policy Action Team on access to financial services. She is also a member of the Foresight Sub-Committee on Retail Finance, on the board of [[Scottish Business in the Community]], and a member of the [[Scottish Advisory Task Force on the New Deal]] ([http://www.sra.ed.ac.uk/htc/susan_rice.htm] Accessed 17 November 2004). <br /> *Professor [[Duncan MacLennan]] worked for the Rowntree Foundation and has provided advice to the World Bank, the European Commission and the European Parliament ([http://www.scothomes.gov.uk/annualreport98/members/dmaclennan.html] Accessed 17 November 2004).<br /> <br /> ==Trustees at February 2006==<br /> *Mr. [[Robert Bertram]] WS<br /> *Mr [[Jo Elliot]]<br /> *Mr. [[Andrew Ferguson]]<br /> *Professor [[Gavin Kennedy]]<br /> *Mr. [[Nick Kuenssberg]]<br /> *Dr [[Isabelle Low]]<br /> *Dr [[Ken Lyall]]<br /> *Miss [[Eileen Mackay]] CB (Chairman)<br /> *Professor [[Hector MacQueen]] FRSE<br /> *Professor [[Donald MacRae]]<br /> *Professor [[John Murray]] QC<br /> *Professor [[David Simpson]]<br /> *Professor [[Joan Stringer]] CBE FRSE<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> Between 2000 and 2004, the DHI received financial sponsorship from blue chip corporations including the [[Royal Bank of Scotland]], the [[Bank of Scotland]], [[Lloyds TSB Scotland]] and [[Standard Life]]. The academic background of the DHI is reflected in the sponsorship by the [[ESRC]] and Edinburgh University’s [[Europa Institute]]. Some individuals, including a member of the board of the SCDI and a Scotsman journalist, were also among the financial contributors (Source:[http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf] )<br /> <br /> ==Activities==<br /> 'The DHI hardly pursues any local, national or international cooperation<br /> with other think-tanks or research institutions. The only ongoing cooperation<br /> is to be found with the [[Europa Institute]] of the University of Edinburgh.<br /> Though Stone describes the DHI as an advocacy institute which is part of<br /> a wider epistemic community of privatisation and as the [[Adam Smith Institute]]’s Scottish<br /> counterpart, today it has neither the interest nor the ability in a wider cooperation<br /> with other like-minded institutions.' {{ref|Stone}}<br /> <br /> The DHI claims it is struggling to get press attention, because of the media’s commercial structure: the ‘press generally want you to say something quite sensational, political, and we […] are generally not talking in those terms’. Such media relations are left to institutes which<br /> ‘are more politically oriented. [..] to be pejorative, some of them are for<br /> people who actually want to be MPs or politicians’(Interview with Tom Miers, cited in [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf Pautz].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{note|Stone}} Stone, Diane. Think-tanks and the Privatisation Band-Wagon in: Lovenduski,J. and Stanyer, J. (eds). ''Contemporary Political Studies'' Belfast: Political Studies Association, Vol. 1, 1995, p 22; Stone, Diane 2003 op.cit., p. 335.<br /> Peacock, Alan. in: Kuenssberg, Nick and Lomas, Gillian. () The David Hume Institute. The First Decade. Norwich : Page Bros Ltd., 1995</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=David_Hume_Institute&diff=6313 2006-03-14T16:49:20Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The '''David Hume Institute''' (DHI) was founded in Edinburgh in 1985 by Professor Sir [[Sourcewatch: Alan Peacock|Alan Peacock]], who also became its first Executive Director, and the industrialist Gerald Elliot, then Chairman of Christian Control Salvesen, an international logis-tics business. <br /> Prior to his committement to the DHI Peacock was Professor of Economics at York University and Vice Chancellor of the independent University of Buckingham. He also sat on a number of committees: for example, he was chairman of the Home Office Committee on Financing the BBC between 1985 and 1986, where he proposed making subscription to the BBC voluntary and to bring more more market mechanisms into the broadcasting sector. When, in 2004, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), where Peacock was a Fellow, gave an address on the same topic, it boasted that Peacock’s ideas were now being ‘discussed by several commentators, including experts from the BBC and Ofcom’ [http://www.iea.org.uk/record.jsp?type=publication&amp;ID=254](accessd 3 February 2005). Peacock was member of various other UK Government and international Commissions and served as Chief Eco-nomic Adviser in the UK Department of Trade and Industry between 1973-76.<br /> According to Peacock, his motivation to set up the DHI was to establish an institute independent of government funding in order to avoid constraints on research and publication and to counter the ‘metropolitan perspective of economic events’ coming from the overwhelming number of research institutes based in London (Peacock 1995). The DHI, in the 1980s, can be considered an outpost of neo-liberal thought and Thatcherite ideology in Scotland.<br /> In 1995 Professor Brian Main, who in 2002 was official advisor of the Scottish Parliament Justice Committees One and Two, joined the institute and had been its director since 1999 until he was replaced by Jeremy Peat in June 2005. Peat served as Group Chief Economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland and was economist at the HM Treasury and the Scottish Office. He is also on the Board of Governors of the BBC for Scotland. <br /> It is an interesting move to fill the position formerly held by an academic with a professional economist who has ‘extensive connections with business and areas of government in Scotland and further afield’. Peat’s appointment probably will push the DHI into a more business-oriented direction and will open new sources of sponsorship. <br /> The DHI’s board of trustees unites the who’s who of the Scottish policy com-munity: senior journalists, members of the Scottish Parliament’s Corporate Body Audit and Advisory Board, the CEO of TSB Scotland and a high official of the Rowntree Foundation. The DHI commissions external re-searchers as it does not employ full time research staff. <br /> <br /> <br /> ===Board of Trustees===<br /> Among them are: <br /> *[[Robert Bertram]], currently a member of the [[Scottish Parliament]] Corporate Body's Audit and Advisory Board ([http://www.competitioncommission.org.uk/our_peop/members/all_members/biogs/robertbertram.htm] Accessed 17 November 2004).<br /> *[[Andrew Ferguson]] worked briefly for the Conservative Party research unit before joining The Economist and the Sunday Times. Now he works at the Scotsman newspaper as Editor-in-Chief ([http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/people/famousfirst673.html] Accessed 17 November 2004). <br /> *[[Isabelle Low]], formerly a [[Scottish Executive]] civil servant, is now Deputy Chair of the [[Accounts Commission for Scotland]] ([http://www.asainternational.co.uk/fdoty/judge.asp] Accessed 17 November 2004). <br /> *[[Susan Rice]], chief executive of [[Lloyds TSB Scotland]] plc, was a member of HM Treasury’s Policy Action Team on access to financial services. She is also a member of the Foresight Sub-Committee on Retail Finance, on the board of [[Scottish Business in the Community]], and a member of the [[Scottish Advisory Task Force on the New Deal]] ([http://www.sra.ed.ac.uk/htc/susan_rice.htm] Accessed 17 November<br /> 2004). <br /> *Professor [[Duncan MacLennan]] worked for the Rowntree Foundation and has provided advice to the World Bank, the European Commission and the European Parliament ([http://www.scothomes.gov.uk/annualreport98/members/dmaclennan.html] Accessed 17 November 2004).<br /> <br /> ==Trustees at February 2006==<br /> *Mr. [[Robert Bertram]] WS<br /> *Mr [[Jo Elliot]]<br /> *Mr. [[Andrew Ferguson]]<br /> *Professor [[Gavin Kennedy]]<br /> *Mr. [[Nick Kuenssberg]]<br /> *Dr [[Isabelle Low]]<br /> *Dr [[Ken Lyall]]<br /> *Miss [[Eileen Mackay]] CB (Chairman)<br /> *Professor [[Hector MacQueen]] FRSE<br /> *Professor [[Donald MacRae]]<br /> *Professor [[John Murray]] QC<br /> *Professor [[David Simpson]]<br /> *Professor [[Joan Stringer]] CBE FRSE<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> Between 2000 and 2004, the DHI received financial sponsorship from blue chip corporations including the [[Royal Bank of Scotland]], the [[Bank of Scotland]], [[Lloyds TSB Scotland]] and [[Standard Life]]. The academic background of the DHI is reflected in the sponsorship by the [[ESRC]] and Edinburgh University’s [[Europa Institute]]. Some individuals, including a member of the board of the SCDI and a Scotsman journalist, were also among the financial contributors (Source:[http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf] )<br /> <br /> ==Activities==<br /> 'The DHI hardly pursues any local, national or international cooperation<br /> with other think-tanks or research institutions. The only ongoing cooperation<br /> is to be found with the [[Europa Institute]] of the University of Edinburgh.<br /> Though Stone describes the DHI as an advocacy institute which is part of<br /> a wider epistemic community of privatisation and as the [[Adam Smith Institute]]’s Scottish<br /> counterpart, today it has neither the interest nor the ability in a wider cooperation<br /> with other like-minded institutions.' {{ref|Stone}}<br /> <br /> The DHI claims it is struggling to get press attention, because of the media’s commercial structure: the ‘press generally want you to say something quite sensational, political, and we […] are generally not talking in those terms’. Such media relations are left to institutes which<br /> ‘are more politically oriented. [..] to be pejorative, some of them are for<br /> people who actually want to be MPs or politicians’(Interview with Tom Miers, cited in [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf Pautz].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{note|Stone}} Stone, Diane. Think-tanks and the Privatisation Band-Wagon in: Lovenduski,J. and Stanyer, J. (eds). ''Contemporary Political Studies'' Belfast: Political Studies Association, Vol. 1, 1995, p 22; Stone, Diane 2003 op.cit., p. 335.<br /> Peacock, Alan. in: Kuenssberg, Nick and Lomas, Gillian. () The David Hume Institute. The First Decade. Norwich : Page Bros Ltd., 1995</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=David_Hume_Institute&diff=6312 2006-03-14T16:38:08Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The '''David Hume Institute''' was founded in Edinburgh in 1985 by Professor Sir [[Sourcewatch: Alan Peacock|Alan Peacock]], who also became its first Executive Director, and the industrialist Gerald Elliot, then Chairman of Christian Control Salvesen, an international logis-tics business. The institute wanted to consider a free market account of legal and economic aspects of public policy questions, and to promote the results widely.<br /> <br /> The David Hume Institute (DHI) was founded in 1985 by Alan Peacock, the once Professor of Economics at York University and Vice Chancellor of the independent University of Buckingham , and the Peacock was Chairman of the Home Office Committee on Financing the BBC 1985-1986, where he proposed making subscription to the BBC subscription voluntary and to bring more market pressure to bear on it. The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), where Peacock is a Fellow, gave an address on the same topic in 2004, boasting that Peacock’s ideas were now being ‘discussed by several commentators, including experts from the BBC and Ofcom’ . Peacock was member of various other UK Government and international Commissions and served as Chief Eco-nomic Adviser in the UK Department of Trade and Industry (1973-76). Ac-cording to Peacock, his motivation to set up the DHI was to establish an institute independent of government funding in order to avoid constraints on research and publication and to counter the ‘metropolitan perspective of economic events’ coming from the overwhelming number of research institutes based in London . In 1995 Professor Brian Main, who in 2002 was official advisor of the Scottish Parliament Justice Committees One and Two, joined the institute and has been its director since 1999. In June 2005 he was replaced by Jeremy Peat, former Group Chief Economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland and former economist at the HM Treasury and the Scottish Office. He is also on the Board of Governors of the BBC for Scotland . It is an interesting move to fill the position formerly held by an academic with a professional economist who has ‘extensive connections with business and areas of government in Scotland and further afield’ . Peat’s appointment probably will push the DHI into a more business-oriented direction and will certainly open new sources of sponsorship. The DHI’s board of trustees unites the who’s who of the Scottish policy com-munity: senior journalists, members of the Scottish Parliament’s Corporate Body Audit and Advisory Board, the CEO of TSB Scotland and a high offi-cial of the Rowntree Foundation . The DHI commissions external re-searchers as it does not employ full time research staff. <br /> Peacock was formerly the Professor of Economics at York University and Vice Chancellor<br /> of the private [[Sourcewatch:University of Buckingham|University of Buckingham]] [http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/international/aboutdept/hongrads/peacock.html]. Also involved in setting up DHI was the industrialist [[Gerald Elliot]], then Chairman of [[Christian Control Salvesen]], an international logistics business. Peacock was Chairman of the Home Office Committee on Financing the BBC 1985-1986, where he proposed making subscription to the BBC voluntary and to bring more market pressure to bear on it. The<br /> [[Sourcewatch:Institute of Economic Affairs|Institute of Economic Affairs]] (IEA), where Peacock is a Fellow, gave an address on the same topic in 2004, boasting that these ideas are now being ‘discussed by several commentators, including experts from the BBC<br /> and Ofcom’([http://www.iea.org.uk/record.jsp?type=publication&amp;ID=254] Accessed<br /> 3 February 2005). Peacock was member of various other UK Government and<br /> international Commissions and served as Chief Economic Adviser in the<br /> UK Department of Trade and Industry (1973-76). <br /> <br /> According to Peacock, his motivation to set up the DHI was to establish an institute independent of government funding in order to avoid constraints on research and publication<br /> and to counter the ‘metropolitan perspective of economic events’<br /> coming from the overwhelming number of research institutes based in<br /> London (Peacock, Alan. in Kuenssberg, Nick and Lomas, Gillian, ''The David Hume Institute. The First Decade'' Norwich : Page Bros Ltd., 1995). Obviously, Peacock’s desire to influence policy making had not been quenched by his work within governmental agencies; perhaps he felt that the IEA’s influence on the Thatcher governments was more impressive than the power of governmental commissions. <br /> <br /> ==Staff==<br /> <br /> In 1995 Professor [[Brian Main]], who in 2002 was official advisor of the Scottish Parliament<br /> Justice Committees One and Two, joined the institute and has been its<br /> director since 1999. In June 2005 he will be replaced by [[Jeremy Peat]],<br /> former Group Chief Economist at the [[Royal Bank of Scotland]] and former<br /> economist at the HM Treasury and the Scottish Office. He is also on the<br /> Board of Governors of the BBC for Scotland ([http://www.davidhumeinstitute.com/DHI%20Website/Press/Spring%202005/Director%20press%20release.pdf] Accessed 12 February<br /> 2005). It is an interesting move to fill the position formerly held by an academic with a professional economist who has ‘extensive connections with business and areas of government<br /> in Scotland and further afield’ – Peat’s appointment probably will push the DHI into a more business-oriented direction and will certainly open new sources of sponsorship. The DHI employs one full-time secretary and one part-time fundraiser and uses offices rented from the University of Edinburgh. Its board of trustees unites the who’s who of the Scottish policy community: senior journalists, members of the Scottish Parliament’s Corporate Body Audit and Advisory Board, the CEO of [[TSB Scotland]] and a high official of the Rowntree Foundation.<br /> <br /> ===Board of Trustees===<br /> Among them are: <br /> *[[Robert Bertram]], currently a member of the [[Scottish Parliament]] Corporate Body's Audit and Advisory Board ([http://www.competitioncommission.org.uk/our_peop/members/all_members/biogs/robertbertram.htm] Accessed 17 November 2004).<br /> *[[Andrew Ferguson]] worked briefly for the Conservative Party research unit before joining The Economist and the Sunday Times. Now he works at the Scotsman newspaper as Editor-in-Chief ([http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/people/famousfirst673.html] Accessed 17 November 2004). <br /> *[[Isabelle Low]], formerly a [[Scottish Executive]] civil servant, is now Deputy Chair of the [[Accounts Commission for Scotland]] ([http://www.asainternational.co.uk/fdoty/judge.asp] Accessed 17 November 2004). <br /> *[[Susan Rice]], chief executive of [[Lloyds TSB Scotland]] plc, was a member of HM Treasury’s Policy Action Team on access to financial services. She is also a member of the Foresight Sub-Committee on Retail Finance, on the board of [[Scottish Business in the Community]], and a member of the [[Scottish Advisory Task Force on the New Deal]] ([http://www.sra.ed.ac.uk/htc/susan_rice.htm] Accessed 17 November<br /> 2004). <br /> *Professor [[Duncan MacLennan]] worked for the Rowntree Foundation and has provided advice to the World Bank, the European Commission and the European Parliament ([http://www.scothomes.gov.uk/annualreport98/members/dmaclennan.html] Accessed 17 November 2004).<br /> <br /> ==Trustees at February 2006==<br /> *Mr. [[Robert Bertram]] WS<br /> *Mr [[Jo Elliot]]<br /> *Mr. [[Andrew Ferguson]]<br /> *Professor [[Gavin Kennedy]]<br /> *Mr. [[Nick Kuenssberg]]<br /> *Dr [[Isabelle Low]]<br /> *Dr [[Ken Lyall]]<br /> *Miss [[Eileen Mackay]] CB (Chairman)<br /> *Professor [[Hector MacQueen]] FRSE<br /> *Professor [[Donald MacRae]]<br /> *Professor [[John Murray]] QC<br /> *Professor [[David Simpson]]<br /> *Professor [[Joan Stringer]] CBE FRSE<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> <br /> Between 2000 and 2004, the DHI received financial sponsorship from blue chip corporations including the [[Royal Bank of Scotland]], the [[Bank of Scotland]], [[Lloyds TSB Scotland]] and [[Standard Life]]. The academic background of the DHI is reflected in the sponsorship by the [[ESRC]] and Edinburgh University’s [[Europa Institute]]. Some individuals, including a member of the board of the SCDI and a Scotsman journalist, were also among the financial contributors (Source:[http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf] )<br /> <br /> ==Activities==<br /> <br /> 'The DHI hardly pursues any local, national or international cooperation<br /> with other think-tanks or research institutions. The only ongoing cooperation<br /> is to be found with the [[Europa Institute]] of the University of Edinburgh.<br /> Though Stone describes the DHI as an advocacy institute which is part of<br /> a wider epistemic community of privatisation and as the [[Adam Smith Institute]]’s Scottish<br /> counterpart, today it has neither the interest nor the ability in a wider cooperation<br /> with other like-minded institutions.' {{ref|Stone}}<br /> <br /> The DHI claims it is struggling to get press attention, because of the media’s commercial structure: the ‘press generally want you to say something quite sensational, political, and we […] are generally not talking in those terms’. Such media relations are left to institutes which<br /> ‘are more politically oriented. [..] to be pejorative, some of them are for<br /> people who actually want to be MPs or politicians’(Interview with Tom Miers, cited in [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf Pautz].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{note|Stone}} Stone, Diane. Think-tanks and the Privatisation Band-Wagon in: Lovenduski,J. and Stanyer, J. (eds). ''Contemporary Political Studies'' Belfast: Political Studies Association, Vol. 1, 1995, p 22; Stone, Diane 2003 op.cit., p. 335.</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=International_Futures_Forum&diff=6428 2006-03-14T16:33:58Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The International Futures Forum is a think tank cum PR agency funded by big business and with links to the [[Futures Forum]] of the Scottish Parliament and to the California based [[Global Business Network]] with which they have several members in common.<br /> <br /> ==Activities==<br /> In 2001, the [[Scottish Council Foundation]] (SCF), a New Labour-esque think-tank based in Edinburgh, undertook an interesting move by founding a new organisation they called the International Futures Forum (IFF). Its purpose was ‘to bring international thinking to bear on our [the SCF's] work’, with a ‘generous grant’ from British Petroleum (BP). Today, the IFF is independent from the SCF and tries to bring together so-called ‘deep thinkers’ in order to ‘examine[s] deep structures in the modern global system in its search for a second enlight-enment'. Still supported by [[BP]] it ‘explore[s] new ways of operating effectively and responsibly in a world of boundless complexity, a world we no longer fully understand and cannot control’ [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/index.php] (Accessed 17 February 2005). This world is seen as a challenge for business, government and society and confronts them with the task of ‘restor[ing] the capacity to act effectively and responsibly and thereby revive and foster a culture of human aspiration’. Based on this view of today’s world, the IFF seeks to create a new ‘paradigm’ by renouncing ‘traditional’ ways of making sense of the world. <br /> How does the IFF view its role in the spread of the Second Enlightenment? A diagram in one its first reports shows a &quot;dialogue&quot; between a variety of actors ([http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] Accessed 17 February 2005):<br /> ‘Core dialogue thinkers’ disseminate knowledge, specialist information and support to a ‘tier of converters’, who ‘convert the insights from the dialogue into practical form and who disseminate it to a wider audience’. This group is composed of a broad variety of organisations and actors, such as the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), business corporations, artists and writers, the BBC, unspecified ‘social entrepreneurs’, policy makers, the [[OECD]] and also [[BP]]. <br /> Finally, a further group of agents, who will ‘make things happen on the ground’, should use the information provided through the dialogue. In spite of the emphasis on ‘dialogue’, the IFF appears to see its role almost in a Hayekian tradition of ‘original thinkers’ who inform policy entrepreneurs or ‘second hand dealers in ideas’([[Friedrich A.Hayek]]; [[Edwin J.Feulner]] and [[John Blundell]]. The Intellectuals and Socialism. London : [[Institute of Economic Affairs]], 1998) with their theoretical knowledge so that they can utilise it to influence the wider society, including policy-makers. And, in fact, the IFF makes ‘no apology for taking seriously [[Margaret Mead]]’s conviction that a small group of individuals can change the world’('Project Prospectus' December 2000, p. 5. [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] (Accessed 2 March 2005). <br /> This small group convening for the IFF’s first meeting in April 2001 included among others former Director of the OECD International Futures Programme and ‘futurist’ [[Wolfgang Michalski]]; [[Kees van der Heijden]] (director of the scenario and strategy consultancy [[Global Business Network]], Emeritus Professor of General and Strategic Management at Strathclyde University, former head of the Business Environment Division in Group Planning at Royal Dutch/[[Shell]], London), Arun Mairo from [[Boston Consulting Group]] India, Biologist [[Brian Goodwin]], [[Pat Kane]] from the Sunday Herald, and [[Mark Woodhouse]], a philosopher interested in ‘scientific, spiritual, and healing communities’[http://www.markwoodhouse.com/01_index.html].<br /> Rather than being a permanent think-tank, the IFF is an attempt to facilitate an international network of thinkers, businesspeople and policy makers. During a case study trip to BP’s Grangemouth refinery – the IFF group also conducted case studies on the ‘learning society in Dundee’ ('IFF Learning in Dundee. A Second Enlightenment View' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_dundee.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) and on health provision for ‘deprived individuals and communities in Fife’ (IFF Entreprise in Falkirk [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) – the IFF came up with a &quot;vision&quot; for the future of BP and Falkirk/Grangemouth.<br /> When BP asked the IFF how it could combine the challenge of adjusting the plant to global competition bearing on mind the responsibility of BP to all local stakeholders ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 2 Accessed 4 March 2005). The IFF responded by proposing to understand the downsizing of the plant, which culminated in the lay off of about 1000 employees, as a creative act. As BP is a ‘different kind of energy company, radiating energy of all kinds – intellectual, physical, creative – into the community’, the sacking of workers equals ‘releasing high quality resources into the community’ ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 3 Accessed 4 March 2005). This rather interesting take on unemployment and economical restructuring is part of the IFF’s attempt to act as a kind of “spiritual management consultancy�. However, behind these superficially laughable analyses and proposals, behind the language of challenge and creativity, we find policy statements with stark consequences if put into practice. The IFF, for example, demands tht the NHS-generated ‘entitlement culture’ should be transformed into a ‘gift culture’, which would effectively generate a group of deserving and undeserving people and would even further the discourse on &quot;rights and responsibilities&quot;. [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf](p, 19,Accessed 4 March 2005). <br /> Why is BP so interested in the IFF? BP is preparing to pull out of Scotland’s oil industry in the long term as it is &quot;a mature industry&quot; [http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=2010596&amp;contentId=2015120?categoryId=2010596&amp;contentId=201512] (accessed 14 March 2006), it is trying to present itself as a responsible corporate citizen. The Pathfinder Plan, meant to help the more than 1000 laid off employees in orienting themselves on the job market, and the My Future's in Falkirk [http://www.myfuturesinfalkirk.co.uk/](formerly known as the Falkirk Action Plan) – ‘a multi-faceted project involving a wide range of stakeholders and designed to help the local area build on its strengths and diversify and broaden its economic base’ [http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2010601&amp;contentId=2015179] – are meant to demonstrate a CSR approach ‘away from an approach characterised by donations to charitable projects and causes, to one more closely focused on outcomes and strongly allied to the BP brand values (green, innovation, progressive, performance)’.<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> According to the IFF [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/partners.php website]it enjoys &quot;a variety of productive and mutually beneficial relationships with sponsors, clients, subscribers, research funders and others&quot;. What they label &quot;core support&quot; comes from [[BP]] and [[BT]]. Other organisations the IFF has worked with include<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]]<br /> * [[Scottish Parliament]]<br /> * [[Scottish Executive]]<br /> * UK [[Nirex]] Ltd<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Tayside Health Board]]<br /> * [[Glasgow Centre for Population Health]]<br /> The IFF has a number of subscribers to their research output, among which are<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Henley Centre]]<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Falkirk Council]]<br /> * [[Audit Scotland]]<br /> * [[AOL]] (Europe) Ltd<br /> * [[Cultureshift Co-operative]], Australia<br /> Research funding has come from<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]] Glasgow<br /> * [[Society for Organisational Learning]] (Scotland)'<br /> <br /> ==Members==<br /> Source: [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/members.php]<br /> *[[Martin Albrow]] Formerly Professor of Sociology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, author ‘The Global Age: state and society beyond modernity’<br /> *[[Ruth Anderson]] Chief Executive, Barataria Foundation, Scotland<br /> *[[Tony Beesley]] Conceptual artist and cartoonist<br /> *[[Max Boisot]] Adjunct professor of Asian Business and Comparative Management at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, author ‘Knowledge Assets: securing competitive advantage in the information economy’<br /> *[[Roberto Carneiro]] Former Education Minister, President of Grupo Forum, Portugal, UNESCO International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century<br /> *[[Napier Collyns]] Co-founder, [[Global Business Network]] (GBN), Emeryville, California<br /> [[Brian Goodwin]] [[Schumacher College]], Devon and Santa Fe Institute, author ‘How the Leopard Changed its Spots: the evolution of complexity’<br /> *[[Mike Hambly]] Business consultant, formerly Chief Executive, [[Digital Animations Group]], Glasgow<br /> *[[Pat Heneghan]] Director, [[ForthRoad Limited]], Scotland<br /> *[[Rebecca Hodgson]] Researcher, International Futures Forum<br /> *[[Tony Hodgson]] Director, [[Decision Integrity Limited]], founder Metabridge AB, collaborator with the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems, Senior adviser to [[Global Leaders Group]] and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts<br /> *[[Robert Horn]] Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, author Visual Language: global communication in the 21 st century<br /> *[[Kees van der Heijden]] Professor at Templeton College, Oxford, author ‘Scenarios: the art of strategic conversation’<br /> *[[Pat Kane ]] Writer, theorist and musician, Glasgow, author The Play Ethic<br /> *[[Eamonn Kelly]] President, Global Business Network, Emeryville, California, author ‘What’s Next? exploring the new terrain for business’<br /> *[[Graham Leicester]] Director, International Futures Forum<br /> *[[David Lorimer]] Scientific and Medical Network, Scotland, editor ‘Thinking Beyond the Brain: a wider science of consciousness’<br /> *[[Charles Lowe]] Consultant, Former head of e-government BT<br /> *[[Wendy Luhabe]] Bridging the Gap, South Africa, author ‘Defining Moments: experiences of black executives in South Africa’s workplace’<br /> *[[Andrew Lyon]] Converger, International Futures Forum<br /> *[[Arun Maira]] [[Boston Consulting Group]], Delhi, India, author ‘Shaping the Future: aspirational leadership in India and beyond’<br /> *[[Wolfgang Michalski]] WM International, formerly Director, OECD International Futures Programme<br /> *[[Maureen O’Hara]] President Emerita, Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco and IFF<br /> *[[Ian Page]] Former Research Manager / Futurist, HP Corporate Labs.<br /> *[[Nick Rengger]] Professor of Political Theory and International Relations, University of St Andrews, author ‘International Relations, Political Theory and the Problem of Order’<br /> *[[Jennifer Williams]] Director, [[Centre for Creative Communities]], UK<br /> *[[Mark Woodhouse]] Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Georgia State University, USA, author ‘Paradigm Wars: worldviews for a new age’<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Contact==<br /> International Futures Forum PO Box 29207 St Andrews Fife KY16 8YU UK T: +44 1334470090 E: editorial@internationalfuturesforum.com<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> <br /> International Futures Forum website [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Centre_for_the_Study_of_Public_Policy&diff=10767 2006-03-14T16:32:56Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The Centre for the [http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk Study of Public Policy (CSPP)]was founded by by Professor Richard Rose in 1976 at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. Since 1 October 2005 it is part of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Aberdeen, which is &quot;creating a major centre for the comparative analysis of survey research across Europe&quot; [http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk/ CSPP website]. Labelling itself a &quot;specialist independent research unit of the university&quot;(http://www.strath.ac.uk/cspp/research.html Accessed 23 June 2004), it has consulted the World Bank, the OECD and UN agencies on &amp;#39;problems of post-Communist countries' (http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk Accessed<br /> 29 June 2004).It mainly works on barometer surveys on democratic attitudes and behaviours in post-communist countries. <br /> Using Kent Weaver's typology (2000; 1989) the CSPP is a hybrid between a consultancy, a university research institute and a contract research think-tank. Most of its work is openly accessible through publication in academic journals, books or the in-house series &quot;Studies in Public Policy&quot;. <br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> It is sponsored by scientific and private foundations, governmental and intergovernmental organizations in Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States and intergovernmental agencies such as the European Commission, the Council of Europe and the World Bank. During the 1990s, Barometer surveys were conducted jointly with the Paul Lazarsfeld Society, Vienna, which was supported by the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research and the Austrian National Bank. <br /> *[[European Union]] <br /> *[[UNESCO]]<br /> *[[World Bank]]<br /> *[[Austrian National Bank]]<br /> <br /> ==Contact==<br /> The CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF PUBLIC POLICY, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, Aberdeen AB24 3QY, UK<br /> <br /> ==Literature==<br /> Weaver, Kent R and McGann, James G. (eds) 2000. Think-tanks &amp; Civil Societies. Catalysts for Ideas and Action. New Jersey : Transaction Publishers <br /> Weaver, Kent R. (1989) The Changing World of Think-tanks. PS: Political Science and Politics. Vol. 22/3, pp. 563-578</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=International_Futures_Forum&diff=6310 2006-03-14T16:24:22Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The International Futures Forum is a think tank cum PR agency funded by big business and with links to the [[Futures Forum]] of the Scottish Parliament and to the California based [[Global Business Network]] with which they have several members in common.<br /> <br /> ==Activities==<br /> In 2001, the [[Scottish Council Foundation]] (SCF), a New Labour-esque think-tank based in Edinburgh, undertook an interesting move by founding a new organisation they called the International Futures Forum (IFF). Its purpose was ‘to bring international thinking to bear on our [the SCF's] work’, with a ‘generous grant’ from British Petroleum (BP). Today, the IFF is independent from the SCF and tries to bring together so-called ‘deep thinkers’ in order to ‘examine[s] deep structures in the modern global system in its search for a second enlight-enment'. Still supported by [[BP]] it ‘explore[s] new ways of operating effectively and responsibly in a world of boundless complexity, a world we no longer fully understand and cannot control’ [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/index.php] (Accessed 17 February 2005). This world is seen as a challenge for business, government and society and confronts them with the task of ‘restor[ing] the capacity to act effectively and responsibly and thereby revive and foster a culture of human aspiration’. Based on this view of today’s world, the IFF seeks to create a new ‘paradigm’ by renouncing ‘traditional’ ways of making sense of the world. <br /> How does the IFF view its role in the spread of the Second Enlightenment? A diagram in one its first reports shows a &quot;dialogue&quot; between a variety of actors ([http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] Accessed 17 February 2005):<br /> ‘Core dialogue thinkers’ disseminate knowledge, specialist information and support to a ‘tier of converters’, who ‘convert the insights from the dialogue into practical form and who disseminate it to a wider audience’. This group is composed of a broad variety of organisations and actors, such as the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), business corporations, artists and writers, the BBC, unspecified ‘social entrepreneurs’, policy makers, the [[OECD]] and also [[BP]]. <br /> Finally, a further group of agents, who will ‘make things happen on the ground’, should use the information provided through the dialogue. In spite of the emphasis on ‘dialogue’, the IFF appears to see its role almost in a Hayekian tradition of ‘original thinkers’ who inform policy entrepreneurs or ‘second hand dealers in ideas’([[Friedrich A.Hayek]]; [[Edwin J.Feulner]] and [[John Blundell]]. The Intellectuals and Socialism. London : [[Institute of Economic Affairs]], 1998) with their theoretical knowledge so that they can utilise it to influence the wider society, including policy-makers. And, in fact, the IFF makes ‘no apology for taking seriously [[Margaret Mead]]’s conviction that a small group of individuals can change the world’('Project Prospectus' December 2000, p. 5. [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] (Accessed 2 March 2005). <br /> This small group convening for the IFF’s first meeting in April 2001 included among others former Director of the OECD International Futures Programme and ‘futurist’ [[Wolfgang Michalski]]; [[Kees van der Heijden]] (director of the scenario and strategy consultancy [[Global Business Network]], Emeritus Professor of General and Strategic Management at Strathclyde University, former head of the Business Environment Division in Group Planning at Royal Dutch/[[Shell]], London), Arun Mairo from [[Boston Consulting Group]] India, Biologist [[Brian Goodwin]], [[Pat Kane]] from the Sunday Herald, and [[Mark Woodhouse]], a philosopher interested in ‘scientific, spiritual, and healing communities’[http://www.markwoodhouse.com/01_index.html].<br /> Rather than being a permanent think-tank, the IFF is an attempt to facilitate an international network of thinkers, businesspeople and policy makers. During a case study trip to BP’s Grangemouth refinery – the IFF group also conducted case studies on the ‘learning society in Dundee’ ('IFF Learning in Dundee. A Second Enlightenment View' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_dundee.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) and on health provision for ‘deprived individuals and communities in Fife’ (IFF Entreprise in Falkirk [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) – the IFF came up with a &quot;vision&quot; for the future of BP and Falkirk/Grangemouth.<br /> When BP asked the IFF how it could combine the challenge of adjusting the plant to global competition bearing on mind the responsibility of BP to all local stakeholders ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 2 Accessed 4 March 2005). The IFF responded by proposing to understand the downsizing of the plant, which culminated in the lay off of about 1000 employees, as a creative act. As BP is a ‘different kind of energy company, radiating energy of all kinds – intellectual, physical, creative – into the community’, the sacking of workers equals ‘releasing high quality resources into the community’ ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 3 Accessed 4 March 2005). This rather interesting take on unemployment and economical restructuring is part of the IFF’s attempt to act as a kind of “spiritual management consultancy�. However, behind these superficially laughable analyses and proposals, behind the language of challenge and creativity, we find policy statements with stark consequences if put into practice. The IFF, for example, demands tht the NHS-generated ‘entitlement culture’ should be transformed into a ‘gift culture’, which would effectively generate a group of deserving and undeserving people and would even further the discourse on &quot;rights and responsibilities&quot;. [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf](p, 19,Accessed 4 March 2005). <br /> Why is BP so interested in the IFF? BP is preparing to pull out of Scotland’s oil industry in the long term as it is &quot;a mature industry&quot; [http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=2010596&amp;contentId=2015120?categoryId=2010596&amp;contentId=201512] (accessed 14 March 2006), it is trying to present itself as a responsible corporate citizen. The Pathfinder Plan, meant to help the more than 1000 laid off employees in orienting themselves on the job market, and the My Future's in Falkirk [http://www.myfuturesinfalkirk.co.uk/](formerly known as the Falkirk Action Plan) – ‘a multi-faceted project involving a wide range of stakeholders and designed to help the local area build on its strengths and diversify and broaden its economic base’ [http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2010601&amp;contentId=2015179] – are meant to demonstrate a CSR approach ‘away from an approach characterised by donations to charitable projects and causes, to one more closely focused on outcomes and strongly allied to the BP brand values (green, innovation, progressive, performance)’.<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> According to the IFF [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/partners.php website]it enjoys &quot;a variety of productive and mutually beneficial relationships with sponsors, clients, subscribers, research funders and others&quot;. What they label &quot;core support&quot; comes from [[BP]] and [[BT]]. Other organisations the IFF has worked with include<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]]<br /> * [[Scottish Parliament]]<br /> * [[Scottish Executive]]<br /> * UK [[Nirex]] Ltd<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Tayside Health Board]]<br /> * [[Glasgow Centre for Population Health]]<br /> The IFF has a number of subscribers to their research output, among which are<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Henley Centre]]<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Falkirk Council]]<br /> * [[Audit Scotland]]<br /> * [[AOL]] (Europe) Ltd<br /> * [[Cultureshift Co-operative]], Australia<br /> Research funding has come from<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]] Glasgow<br /> * [[Society for Organisational Learning]] (Scotland)'<br /> <br /> ==Members==<br /> Source: [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/members.php]<br /> *[[Martin Albrow]] Formerly Professor of Sociology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, author ‘The Global Age: state and society beyond modernity’<br /> *[[Ruth Anderson]] Chief Executive, Barataria Foundation, Scotland<br /> *[[Tony Beesley]] Conceptual artist and cartoonist<br /> *[[Max Boisot]] Adjunct professor of Asian Business and Comparative Management at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, author ‘Knowledge Assets: securing competitive advantage in the information economy’<br /> *[[Roberto Carneiro]] Former Education Minister, President of Grupo Forum, Portugal, UNESCO International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century<br /> *[[Napier Collyns]] Co-founder, [[Global Business Network]] (GBN), Emeryville, California<br /> [[Brian Goodwin]] [[Schumacher College]], Devon and Santa Fe Institute, author ‘How the Leopard Changed its Spots: the evolution of complexity’<br /> *[[Mike Hambly]] Business consultant, formerly Chief Executive, [[Digital Animations Group]], Glasgow<br /> *[[Pat Heneghan]] Director, [[ForthRoad Limited]], Scotland<br /> *[[Rebecca Hodgson]] Researcher, International Futures Forum<br /> *[[Tony Hodgson]] Director, [[Decision Integrity Limited]], founder Metabridge AB, collaborator with the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems, Senior adviser to [[Global Leaders Group]] and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts<br /> *[[Robert Horn]] Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, author Visual Language: global communication in the 21 st century<br /> *[[Kees van der Heijden]] Professor at Templeton College, Oxford, author ‘Scenarios: the art of strategic conversation’<br /> *[[Pat Kane ]] Writer, theorist and musician, Glasgow, author The Play Ethic<br /> *[[Eamonn Kelly]] President, Global Business Network, Emeryville, California, author ‘What’s Next? exploring the new terrain for business’<br /> *[[Graham Leicester]] Director, International Futures Forum<br /> *[[David Lorimer]] Scientific and Medical Network, Scotland, editor ‘Thinking Beyond the Brain: a wider science of consciousness’<br /> *[[Charles Lowe]] Consultant, Former head of e-government BT<br /> *[[Wendy Luhabe]] Bridging the Gap, South Africa, author ‘Defining Moments: experiences of black executives in South Africa’s workplace’<br /> *[[Andrew Lyon]] Converger, International Futures Forum<br /> *[[Arun Maira]] [[Boston Consulting Group]], Delhi, India, author ‘Shaping the Future: aspirational leadership in India and beyond’<br /> *[[Wolfgang Michalski]] WM International, formerly Director, OECD International Futures Programme<br /> *[[Maureen O’Hara]] President Emerita, Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco and IFF<br /> *[[Ian Page]] Former Research Manager / Futurist, HP Corporate Labs.<br /> *[[Nick Rengger]] Professor of Political Theory and International Relations, University of St Andrews, author ‘International Relations, Political Theory and the Problem of Order’<br /> *[[Jennifer Williams]] Director, [[Centre for Creative Communities]], UK<br /> *[[Mark Woodhouse]] Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Georgia State University, USA, author ‘Paradigm Wars: worldviews for a new age’<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Contact==<br /> International Futures Forum PO Box 29207 St Andrews Fife KY16 8YU UK T: +44 1334470090 E: editorial@internationalfuturesforum.com<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> <br /> International Futures Forum website [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/]<br /> <br /> <br /> Hartwig Pautz 'Think-Tanks in Scotland' Paper for the 55th Political Studies Association Annual conference, 4-7 April 2005, University of Leeds, [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]<br /> [[Category:Nuclear PR, lobbying and consultancy firms]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=International_Futures_Forum&diff=6308 2006-03-14T16:21:51Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The International Futures Forum is a think tank cum PR agency funded by big business and with links to the [[Futures Forum]] of the Scottish Parliament and to the California based [[Global Business Network]] with which they have several members in common.<br /> <br /> ==Activities==<br /> In 2001, the [[Scottish Council Foundation]] (SCF), a New Labour-esque think-tank based in Edinburgh, undertook an interesting move by founding a new organisation they called the International Futures Forum (IFF). Its purpose was ‘to bring international thinking to bear on our [the SCF's] work’, with a ‘generous grant’ from British Petroleum (BP). Today, the IFF is independent from the SCF and tries to bring together so-called ‘deep thinkers’ in order to ‘examine[s] deep structures in the modern global system in its search for a second enlight-enment'. Still supported by [[BP]] it ‘explore[s] new ways of operating effectively and responsibly in a world of boundless complexity, a world we no longer fully understand and cannot control’ [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/index.php] (Accessed 17 February 2005). This world is seen as a challenge for business, government and society and confronts them with the task of ‘restor[ing] the capacity to act effectively and responsibly and thereby revive and foster a culture of human aspiration’. Based on this view of today’s world, the IFF seeks to create a new ‘paradigm’ by renouncing ‘traditional’ ways of making sense of the world. <br /> How does the IFF view its role in the spread of the Second Enlightenment? A diagram in one its first reports shows a &quot;dialogue&quot; between a variety of actors ([http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] Accessed 17 February 2005):<br /> ‘Core dialogue thinkers’ disseminate knowledge, specialist information and support to a ‘tier of converters’, who ‘convert the insights from the dialogue into practical form and who disseminate it to a wider audience’. This group is composed of a broad variety of organisations and actors, such as the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), business corporations, artists and writers, the BBC, unspecified ‘social entrepreneurs’, policy makers, the [[OECD]] and also [[BP]]. <br /> Finally, a further group of agents, who will ‘make things happen on the ground’, should use the information provided through the dialogue. In spite of the emphasis on ‘dialogue’, the IFF appears to see its role almost in a Hayekian tradition of ‘original thinkers’ who inform policy entrepreneurs or ‘second hand dealers in ideas’([[Friedrich A.Hayek]]; [[Edwin J.Feulner]] and [[John Blundell]]. The Intellectuals and Socialism. London : [[Institute of Economic Affairs]], 1998) with their theoretical knowledge so that they can utilise it to influence the wider society, including policy-makers. And, in fact, the IFF makes ‘no apology for taking seriously [[Margaret Mead]]’s conviction that a small group of individuals can change the world’('Project Prospectus' December 2000, p. 5. [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] (Accessed 2 March 2005). <br /> This small group convening for the IFF’s first meeting in April 2001 included among others former Director of the OECD International Futures Programme and ‘futurist’ [[Wolfgang Michalski]]; [[Kees van der Heijden]] (director of the scenario and strategy consultancy [[Global Business Network]], Emeritus Professor of General and Strategic Management at Strathclyde University, former head of the Business Environment Division in Group Planning at Royal Dutch/[[Shell]], London), Arun Mairo from [[Boston Consulting Group]] India, Biologist [[Brian Goodwin]], [[Pat Kane]] from the Sunday Herald, and [[Mark Woodhouse]], a philosopher interested in ‘scientific, spiritual, and healing communities’[http://www.markwoodhouse.com/01_index.html].<br /> Rather than being a permanent think-tank, the IFF is an attempt to facilitate an international network of thinkers, businesspeople and policy makers. During a case study trip to BP’s Grangemouth refinery – the IFF group also conducted case studies on the ‘learning society in Dundee’ ('IFF Learning in Dundee. A Second Enlightenment View' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_dundee.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) and on health provision for ‘deprived individuals and communities in Fife’ (IFF Entreprise in Falkirk [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) – the IFF came up with a &quot;vision&quot; for the future of BP and Falkirk/Grangemouth.<br /> When BP asked the IFF how it could combine the challenge of adjusting the plant to global competition bearing on mind the responsibility of BP to all local stakeholders ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 2 Accessed 4 March 2005). The IFF responded by proposing to understand the downsizing of the plant, which culminated in the lay off of about 1000 employees, as a creative act. As BP is a ‘different kind of energy company, radiating energy of all kinds – intellectual, physical, creative – into the community’, the sacking of workers equals ‘releasing high quality resources into the community’ ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 3 Accessed 4 March 2005). This rather interesting take on unemployment and economical restructuring is part of the IFF’s attempt to act as a kind of “spiritual management consultancy�. However, behind these superficially laughable analyses and proposals, behind the language of challenge and creativity, we find policy statements with stark consequences if put into practice. The IFF, for example, demands tht the NHS-generated ‘entitlement culture’ should be transformed into a ‘gift culture’, which would effectively generate a group of deserving and undeserving people and would even further the discourse on &quot;rights and responsibilities&quot;. [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf](p, 19,Accessed 4 March 2005). <br /> Why is BP so interested in the IFF? BP is preparing to pull out of Scotland’s oil industry in the long term as it is &quot;a mature industry&quot; [http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=2010596&amp;contentId=201512], it is trying to present itself as a responsible corporate citizen. The Pathfinder Plan, meant to help the more than 1000 laid off employees in orienting themselves on the job market, and the My Future's in Falkirk [http://www.myfuturesinfalkirk.co.uk/](formerly known as the Falkirk Action Plan) – ‘a multi-faceted project involving a wide range of stakeholders and designed to help the local area build on its strengths and diversify and broaden its economic base’ [http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2010601&amp;contentId=2015179] – are meant to demonstrate a CSR approach ‘away from an approach characterised by donations to charitable projects and causes, to one more closely focused on outcomes and strongly allied to the BP brand values (green, innovation, progressive, performance)’.<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> According to the IFF [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/partners.php website]it enjoys &quot;a variety of productive and mutually beneficial relationships with sponsors, clients, subscribers, research funders and others&quot;. What they label &quot;core support&quot; comes from [[BP]] and [[BT]]. Other organisations the IFF has worked with include<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]]<br /> * [[Scottish Parliament]]<br /> * [[Scottish Executive]]<br /> * UK [[Nirex]] Ltd<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Tayside Health Board]]<br /> * [[Glasgow Centre for Population Health]]<br /> The IFF has a number of subscribers to their research output, among which are<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Henley Centre]]<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Falkirk Council]]<br /> * [[Audit Scotland]]<br /> * [[AOL]] (Europe) Ltd<br /> * [[Cultureshift Co-operative]], Australia<br /> Research funding has come from<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]] Glasgow<br /> * [[Society for Organisational Learning]] (Scotland)'<br /> <br /> ==Members==<br /> Source: [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/members.php]<br /> *[[Martin Albrow]] Formerly Professor of Sociology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, author ‘The Global Age: state and society beyond modernity’<br /> *[[Ruth Anderson]] Chief Executive, Barataria Foundation, Scotland<br /> *[[Tony Beesley]] Conceptual artist and cartoonist<br /> *[[Max Boisot]] Adjunct professor of Asian Business and Comparative Management at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, author ‘Knowledge Assets: securing competitive advantage in the information economy’<br /> *[[Roberto Carneiro]] Former Education Minister, President of Grupo Forum, Portugal, UNESCO International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century<br /> *[[Napier Collyns]] Co-founder, [[Global Business Network]] (GBN), Emeryville, California<br /> [[Brian Goodwin]] [[Schumacher College]], Devon and Santa Fe Institute, author ‘How the Leopard Changed its Spots: the evolution of complexity’<br /> *[[Mike Hambly]] Business consultant, formerly Chief Executive, [[Digital Animations Group]], Glasgow<br /> *[[Pat Heneghan]] Director, [[ForthRoad Limited]], Scotland<br /> *[[Rebecca Hodgson]] Researcher, International Futures Forum<br /> *[[Tony Hodgson]] Director, [[Decision Integrity Limited]], founder Metabridge AB, collaborator with the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems, Senior adviser to [[Global Leaders Group]] and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts<br /> *[[Robert Horn]] Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, author Visual Language: global communication in the 21 st century<br /> *[[Kees van der Heijden]] Professor at Templeton College, Oxford, author ‘Scenarios: the art of strategic conversation’<br /> *[[Pat Kane ]] Writer, theorist and musician, Glasgow, author The Play Ethic<br /> *[[Eamonn Kelly]] President, Global Business Network, Emeryville, California, author ‘What’s Next? exploring the new terrain for business’<br /> *[[Graham Leicester]] Director, International Futures Forum<br /> *[[David Lorimer]] Scientific and Medical Network, Scotland, editor ‘Thinking Beyond the Brain: a wider science of consciousness’<br /> *[[Charles Lowe]] Consultant, Former head of e-government BT<br /> *[[Wendy Luhabe]] Bridging the Gap, South Africa, author ‘Defining Moments: experiences of black executives in South Africa’s workplace’<br /> *[[Andrew Lyon]] Converger, International Futures Forum<br /> *[[Arun Maira]] [[Boston Consulting Group]], Delhi, India, author ‘Shaping the Future: aspirational leadership in India and beyond’<br /> *[[Wolfgang Michalski]] WM International, formerly Director, OECD International Futures Programme<br /> *[[Maureen O’Hara]] President Emerita, Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco and IFF<br /> *[[Ian Page]] Former Research Manager / Futurist, HP Corporate Labs.<br /> *[[Nick Rengger]] Professor of Political Theory and International Relations, University of St Andrews, author ‘International Relations, Political Theory and the Problem of Order’<br /> *[[Jennifer Williams]] Director, [[Centre for Creative Communities]], UK<br /> *[[Mark Woodhouse]] Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Georgia State University, USA, author ‘Paradigm Wars: worldviews for a new age’<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Contact==<br /> International Futures Forum PO Box 29207 St Andrews Fife KY16 8YU UK T: +44 1334470090 E: editorial@internationalfuturesforum.com<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> <br /> International Futures Forum website [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/]<br /> <br /> <br /> Hartwig Pautz 'Think-Tanks in Scotland' Paper for the 55th Political Studies Association Annual conference, 4-7 April 2005, University of Leeds, [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]<br /> [[Category:Nuclear PR, lobbying and consultancy firms]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=International_Futures_Forum&diff=6306 2006-03-14T16:13:36Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The International Futures Forum is a think tank cum PR agency funded by big business and with links to the [[Futures Forum]] of the Scottish Parliament and to the California based [[Global Business Network]] with which they have several members in common.<br /> <br /> ==Activities==<br /> In 2001, the [[Scottish Council Foundation]] (SCF), a New Labour-esque think-tank based in Edinburgh, undertook an interesting move by founding a new organisation they called the International Futures Forum (IFF). Its purpose was ‘to bring international thinking to bear on our [the SCF's] work’, with a ‘generous grant’ from British Petroleum (BP). Today, the IFF is independent from the SCF and tries to bring together so-called ‘deep thinkers’ in order to ‘examine[s] deep structures in the modern global system in its search for a second enlight-enment'. Still supported by [[BP]] it ‘explore[s] new ways of operating effectively and responsibly in a world of boundless complexity, a world we no longer fully understand and cannot control’ [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/index.php] (Accessed 17 February 2005). This world is seen as a challenge for business, government and society and confronts them with the task of ‘restor[ing] the capacity to act effectively and responsibly and thereby revive and foster a culture of human aspiration’. Based on this view of today’s world, the IFF seeks to create a new ‘paradigm’ by renouncing ‘traditional’ ways of making sense of the world. <br /> How does the IFF view its role in the spread of the Second Enlightenment? A diagram in one its first reports shows a &quot;dialogue&quot; between a variety of actors ([http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] Accessed 17 February 2005):<br /> ‘Core dialogue thinkers’ disseminate knowledge, specialist information and support to a ‘tier of converters’, who ‘convert the insights from the dialogue into practical form and who disseminate it to a wider audience’. This group is composed of a broad variety of organisations and actors, such as the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), business corporations, artists and writers, the BBC, unspecified ‘social entrepreneurs’, policy makers, the [[OECD]] and also [[BP]]. <br /> <br /> Finally, a further group of agents, who will ‘make things happen on the ground’, should use the information provided through the dialogue. In spite of the emphasis on ‘dialogue’, the IFF appears to see its role almost in a Hayekian tradition of ‘original thinkers’ who inform policy entrepreneurs or ‘second hand dealers in ideas’([[Friedrich A.Hayek]]; [[Edwin J.Feulner]] and [[John Blundell]]. The Intellectuals and Socialism. London : [[Institute of Economic Affairs]], 1998) with their theoretical and rather abstract knowledge so that they can utilise it to influence the wider society, including policy-makers. And, in fact, the IFF makes ‘no apology for taking seriously [[Margaret Mead]]’s conviction that a small group of individuals can change the world’('Project Prospectus' December 2000, p. 5. [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] (Accessed 2 March 2005). <br /> <br /> This small group convening for the IFF’s first meeting in April 2001 included among others former Director of the OECD International Futures Programme and ‘futurist’ [[Wolfgang Michalski]]; [[Kees van der Heijden]] (director of the scenario and strategy consultancy [[Global Business Network]], Emeritus Professor of General and Strategic Management at Strathclyde University, former head of the Business Environment Division in Group Planning at Royal Dutch/[[Shell]], London), Arun Mairo from [[Boston Consulting Group]] India, Biologist [[Brian Goodwin]], [[Pat Kane]] from the Sunday Herald, and [[Mark Woodhouse]], a philosopher interested in ‘scientific, spiritual, and healing communities’[http://www.markwoodhouse.com/01_index.html].<br /> <br /> Rather than being a permanent think-tank, the IFF is an attempt to facilitate an international network of thinkers, businesspeople and policy makers. During a case study trip to BP’s Grangemouth refinery – the IFF group also conducted case studies on the ‘learning society in Dundee’ ('IFF Learning in Dundee. A Second Enlightenment View' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_dundee.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) and on health provision for ‘deprived individuals and communities in Fife’ (IFF Entreprise in Falkirk [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) – the IFF came up with a &quot;vision&quot; for the future of BP and Falkirk/Grangemouth.<br /> When BP asked the IFF how it could combine the challenge of adjusting the plant to global competition bearing on mind the responsibility of BP to all local stakeholders ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 2 Accessed 4 March 2005). The IFF responded by proposing to understand the downsizing of the plant, which culminated in the lay off of about 1000 employees, as a creative act. As BP is a ‘different kind of energy company, radiating energy of all kinds – intellectual, physical, creative – into the community’, the sacking of workers equals ‘releasing high quality resources into the community’ ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 3 Accessed 4 March 2005). This rather interesting take on unemployment and economical restructuring is part of the IFF’s attempt to act as a kind of “spiritual management consultancy�. However, behind these superficially laughable analyses and proposals, behind the language of challenge and creativity, we find policy statements with stark conse-quences if put into practice. If, for example, the IFF’s stance on the NHS-generated ‘entitlement culture’ was transformed into a ‘gift culture’ , the idea of a consensual welfare state based on civic rights and the idea of social justice would be even more transformed than the current New Labour discourse on rights and responsibilities already has achieved. The allocation of health treatment as a gift would mean the final turn towards a charity-based system for the deserving poor[http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf](p, 19,Accessed 4 March 2005). <br /> <br /> As BP is preparing to pull out of Scotland’s oil industry in the long term, labelling it a mature industry [http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=2010596&amp;contentId=201512], it is trying to present itself as a responsible corporate citizen. The Pathfinder Plan, meant to help the more than 1000 laid off employees in orienting themselves on the job market, and the My Future's in Falkirk [http://www.myfuturesinfalkirk.co.uk/](formerly known as the Falkirk Action Plan) – ‘a multi-faceted project involving a wide range of stakeholders and designed to help the local area build on its strengths and diversify and broaden its economic base’ [http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2010601&amp;contentId=2015179] – are meant to demonstrate a CSR approach ‘away from an approach characterised by donations to charitable projects and causes, to one more closely focused on outcomes and strongly allied to the BP brand values (green, innovation, progressive, performance)’.<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> According to the IFF [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/partners.php website]it enjoys &quot;a variety of productive and mutually beneficial relationships with sponsors, clients, subscribers, research funders and others&quot;. What they label &quot;core support&quot; comes from [[BP]] and [[BT]]. Other organisations the IFF has worked with include<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]]<br /> * [[Scottish Parliament]]<br /> * [[Scottish Executive]]<br /> * UK [[Nirex]] Ltd<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Tayside Health Board]]<br /> * [[Glasgow Centre for Population Health]]<br /> The IFF has a number of subscribers to their research output, among which are<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Henley Centre]]<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Falkirk Council]]<br /> * [[Audit Scotland]]<br /> * [[AOL]] (Europe) Ltd<br /> * [[Cultureshift Co-operative]], Australia<br /> Research funding has come from<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]] Glasgow<br /> * [[Society for Organisational Learning]] (Scotland)'<br /> <br /> ==Members==<br /> Source: [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/members.php]<br /> *[[Martin Albrow]] Formerly Professor of Sociology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, author ‘The Global Age: state and society beyond modernity’<br /> *[[Ruth Anderson]] Chief Executive, Barataria Foundation, Scotland<br /> *[[Tony Beesley]] Conceptual artist and cartoonist<br /> *[[Max Boisot]] Adjunct professor of Asian Business and Comparative Management at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, author ‘Knowledge Assets: securing competitive advantage in the information economy’<br /> *[[Roberto Carneiro]] Former Education Minister, President of Grupo Forum, Portugal, UNESCO International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century<br /> *[[Napier Collyns]] Co-founder, [[Global Business Network]] (GBN), Emeryville, California<br /> [[Brian Goodwin]] [[Schumacher College]], Devon and Santa Fe Institute, author ‘How the Leopard Changed its Spots: the evolution of complexity’<br /> *[[Mike Hambly]] Business consultant, formerly Chief Executive, [[Digital Animations Group]], Glasgow<br /> *[[Pat Heneghan]] Director, [[ForthRoad Limited]], Scotland<br /> *[[Rebecca Hodgson]] Researcher, International Futures Forum<br /> *[[Tony Hodgson]] Director, [[Decision Integrity Limited]], founder Metabridge AB, collaborator with the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems, Senior adviser to [[Global Leaders Group]] and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts<br /> *[[Robert Horn]] Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, author Visual Language: global communication in the 21 st century<br /> *[[Kees van der Heijden]] Professor at Templeton College, Oxford, author ‘Scenarios: the art of strategic conversation’<br /> *[[Pat Kane ]] Writer, theorist and musician, Glasgow, author The Play Ethic<br /> *[[Eamonn Kelly]] President, Global Business Network, Emeryville, California, author ‘What’s Next? exploring the new terrain for business’<br /> *[[Graham Leicester]] Director, International Futures Forum<br /> *[[David Lorimer]] Scientific and Medical Network, Scotland, editor ‘Thinking Beyond the Brain: a wider science of consciousness’<br /> *[[Charles Lowe]] Consultant, Former head of e-government BT<br /> *[[Wendy Luhabe]] Bridging the Gap, South Africa, author ‘Defining Moments: experiences of black executives in South Africa’s workplace’<br /> *[[Andrew Lyon]] Converger, International Futures Forum<br /> *[[Arun Maira]] [[Boston Consulting Group]], Delhi, India, author ‘Shaping the Future: aspirational leadership in India and beyond’<br /> *[[Wolfgang Michalski]] WM International, formerly Director, OECD International Futures Programme<br /> *[[Maureen O’Hara]] President Emerita, Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco and IFF<br /> *[[Ian Page]] Former Research Manager / Futurist, HP Corporate Labs.<br /> *[[Nick Rengger]] Professor of Political Theory and International Relations, University of St Andrews, author ‘International Relations, Political Theory and the Problem of Order’<br /> *[[Jennifer Williams]] Director, [[Centre for Creative Communities]], UK<br /> *[[Mark Woodhouse]] Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Georgia State University, USA, author ‘Paradigm Wars: worldviews for a new age’<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Contact==<br /> International Futures Forum PO Box 29207 St Andrews Fife KY16 8YU UK T: +44 1334470090 E: editorial@internationalfuturesforum.com<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> <br /> International Futures Forum website [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/]<br /> <br /> <br /> Hartwig Pautz 'Think-Tanks in Scotland' Paper for the 55th Political Studies Association Annual conference, 4-7 April 2005, University of Leeds, [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]<br /> [[Category:Nuclear PR, lobbying and consultancy firms]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Centre_for_the_Study_of_Public_Policy&diff=6309 2006-03-14T16:11:25Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The Centre for the [http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk Study of Public Policy (CSPP)]was founded by by Professor Richard Rose in 1976 at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. Since 1 October 2005 it is part of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Aberdeen, which is &quot;creating a major centre for the comparative analysis of survey research across Europe&quot; [http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk/ CSPP website]. Labelling itself a &quot;specialist independent research unit of the university&quot;(http://www.strath.ac.uk/cspp/research.html Accessed 23 June 2004), it has consulted the World Bank, the OECD and UN agencies on ‘problems of post-Communist countries' (http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk Accessed<br /> 29 June 2004).It mainly works on barometer surveys on democratic attitudes and behaviours in post-communist countries. <br /> Using Kent Weaver's typology (2000; 1989) the CSPP is a hybrid between a consultancy, a university research institute and a contract research think-tank. Most of its work is openly accessible through publication in academic journals, books or the in-house series &quot;Studies in Public Policy&quot;. <br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> It is sponsored by scientific and private foundations, governmental and intergovernmental organizations in Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States and intergovernmental agencies such as the European Commission, the Council of Europe and the World Bank. During the 1990s, Barometer surveys were conducted jointly with the Paul Lazarsfeld Society, Vienna, which was supported by the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research and the Austrian National Bank. <br /> *[[European Union]] <br /> *[[UNESCO]]<br /> *[[World Bank]]<br /> *[[Austrian National Bank]]<br /> <br /> ==Literature==<br /> Weaver, Kent R and McGann, James G. (eds) 2000. Think-tanks &amp; Civil Societies. Catalysts for Ideas and Action. New Jersey : Transaction Publishers <br /> Weaver, Kent R. (1989) The Changing World of Think-tanks. PS: Political Science and Politics. Vol. 22/3, pp. 563-578</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Centre_for_the_Study_of_Public_Policy&diff=6304 2006-03-14T16:07:23Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The Centre for the [http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk Study of Public Policy (CSPP)]was founded by by Professor Richard Rose in 1976 at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. Since 1 October 2005 it is part of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Aberdeen, which is &quot;creating a major centre for the comparative analysis of survey research across Europe&quot; [http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk/ CSPP website]. Labelling itself a &quot;specialist independent research unit of the university&quot;(http://www.strath.ac.uk/cspp/research.html Accessed 23 June 2004), it has consulted the World Bank, the OECD and UN agencies on ‘problems of post-Communist countries' (http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk Accessed<br /> 29 June 2004).<br /> <br /> Using Kent Weaver's typology (2000; 1989) the CSPP is a hybrid between a consultancy, a university research institute and a contract research think-tank. It mainly works on barometer surveys on democratic attitudes and behaviours in post-communist countries. <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> It is sponsored by scientific and private foundations, governmental and intergovernmental organizations in Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States and intergovernmental agencies such as the European Commission, the Council of Europe and the World Bank. During the 1990s, Barometer surveys were conducted jointly with the Paul Lazarsfeld Society, Vienna, which was supported by the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research and the Austrian National Bank. <br /> *[[European Union]] <br /> *[[UNESCO]]<br /> *[[World Bank]]<br /> *[[Austrian National Bank]]<br /> [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf Source: http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> <br /> ==Literature==<br /> Weaver, Kent R and McGann, James G. (eds) 2000. Think-tanks &amp; Civil Societies. Catalysts for Ideas and Action. New Jersey : Transaction Publishers <br /> Weaver, Kent R. (1989) The Changing World of Think-tanks. PS: Political Science and Politics. Vol. 22/3, pp. 563-578</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Centre_for_the_Study_of_Public_Policy&diff=6303 2006-03-14T16:04:16Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The Centre for the [http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk Study of Public Policy (CSPP)]was founded by by Professor Richard Rose in 1976 at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. Since 1 October 2005 it is part of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Aberdeen, which is &quot;creating a major centre for the comparative analysis of survey research across Europe&quot; [http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk/ CSPP website].<br /> . Using Kent Weaver's typology (2000; 1989) the CSPP is a hybrid between a consultancy, a university research institute and a contract research think-tank. It mainly works on barometer surveys on democratic attitudes and behaviours in post-communist countries. <br /> Labelling itself a ‘specialist independent research unit of the university’(http://www.strath.ac.uk/cspp/research.html Accessed 23 June 2004), it has consulted the World Bank, the OECD and UN agencies on ‘problems of post-Communist countries' (http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk Accessed<br /> 29 June 2004).<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> *[[European Union]] <br /> *[[UNESCO]]<br /> *[[World Bank]]<br /> *[[Austrian National Bank]]<br /> [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf Source: http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> <br /> ==Literature==<br /> Weaver, Kent R and McGann, James G. (eds) 2000. Think-tanks &amp; Civil Societies. Catalysts for Ideas and Action. New Jersey : Transaction Publishers <br /> Weaver, Kent R. (1989) The Changing World of Think-tanks. PS: Political Science and Politics. Vol. 22/3, pp. 563-578</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Centre_for_the_Study_of_Public_Policy&diff=6302 2006-03-14T15:58:34Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The Centre for the [http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk Study of Public Policy (CSPP)]was founded by by Professor Richard Rose in 1976 at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. Since 1 October 2005 it is part of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Aberdeen. Using Kent Weaver's typology (2000; 1989) the CSPP is a hybrid between a consultancy, a university research institute and a contract research think-tank. It mainly works on barometer surveys on democratic attitudes and behaviours in post-communist countries. <br /> Labelling itself a ‘specialist independent research unit of the university’(http://www.strath.ac.uk/cspp/research.html Accessed 23 June 2004), it has consulted the World Bank, the OECD and UN agencies on ‘problems of post-Communist countries' (http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk Accessed<br /> 29 June 2004)'.<br /> <br /> <br /> The Centre for the Study of Public Policy was 'the first public policy centre within a European university. Its purpose is to relate social science research to major problems of contemporary societies. ... In the 1980s it conducted major comparative studies of the growth of government, concerning taxation and expenditure, organizational change, and laws. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the CSPP has developed an innovative repertoire of Barometer surveys to advance empirical understanding of mass response to transformation in post-Communist societies.<br /> <br /> The CSPP has now conducted more than 100 nationwide Barometer surveys across Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the former Soviet Union... CSPP websites have more than 1mn hits a year from more than 80 countries.<br /> <br /> After 30 years at the [http://www.strath.ac.uk University of Strathclyde], the CSPP has joined the School of Social Sciences at the University of Aberdeen, which is creating a major centre for the comparative analysis of survey research across Europe.' [http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk/ CSPP website]<br /> Weaver, Kent R and McGann, James G. (eds) 2000. Think-tanks &amp; Civil Societies. Catalysts for Ideas and Action. New Jersey : Transaction Publishers <br /> Weaver, Kent R. (1989) The Changing World of Think-tanks. PS: Political Science and Politics. Vol. 22/3, pp. 563-578<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> <br /> *[[European Union]] <br /> *[[UNESCO]]<br /> *[[World Bank]]<br /> *[[Austrian National Bank]]<br /> [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf Source: http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> Hartwig Pautz 'Think-Tanks in Scotland' Paper for the 55th Political Studies Association Annual conference, 4-7 April 2005, University of Leeds, [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Centre_for_the_Study_of_Public_Policy&diff=6301 2006-03-14T15:57:02Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The Centre for the [http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk Study of Public Policy (CSPP)]was founded by by Professor Richard Rose in 1976 at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. Since 1 October 2005 it is part of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Aberdeen. Using Kent Weaver's typology the CSPP is a hybrid between a consultancy, a university research institute and a contract research think-tank. It is mainly concerned with barometer surveys on democratic attitudes and behaviours in post-communist countries33. Labelling itself a ‘specialist independent research unit of the university’(http://www.strath.ac.uk/cspp/research.html Accessed 23 June 2004), it has consulted the World Bank, OECD and UN agencies on ‘problems of post-Communist countries' (http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk Accessed<br /> 29 June 2004)'.<br /> <br /> <br /> The Centre for the Study of Public Policy was 'the first public policy centre within a European university. Its purpose is to relate social science research to major problems of contemporary societies. ... In the 1980s it conducted major comparative studies of the growth of government, concerning taxation and expenditure, organizational change, and laws. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the CSPP has developed an innovative repertoire of Barometer surveys to advance empirical understanding of mass response to transformation in post-Communist societies.<br /> <br /> The CSPP has now conducted more than 100 nationwide Barometer surveys across Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the former Soviet Union... CSPP websites have more than 1mn hits a year from more than 80 countries.<br /> <br /> After 30 years at the [http://www.strath.ac.uk University of Strathclyde], the CSPP has joined the School of Social Sciences at the University of Aberdeen, which is creating a major centre for the comparative analysis of survey research across Europe.' [http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk/ CSPP website]<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> <br /> *[[European Union]] <br /> *[[UNESCO]]<br /> *[[World Bank]]<br /> *[[Austrian National Bank]]<br /> [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf Source: http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> Hartwig Pautz 'Think-Tanks in Scotland' Paper for the 55th Political Studies Association Annual conference, 4-7 April 2005, University of Leeds, [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Centre_for_the_Study_of_Public_Policy&diff=6300 2006-03-14T15:55:22Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The Centre for the [http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk Study of Public Policy (CSPP)]was founded by by Professor Richard Rose in 1976 at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. Since 1 October 2005 it is part of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Aberdeen. <br /> According to [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf Hartwig Pautz] 'it is a hybrid between a consultancy, a university research institute and a contract research think-tank. It is mainly concerned with barometer surveys on democratic attitudes and behaviours in post-communist countries33. Labelling itself a ‘specialist independent research unit of the university’(http://www.strath.ac.uk/cspp/research.html Accessed 23 June 2004), it has consulted the World Bank, OECD and UN agencies on ‘problems of post-Communist countries' (http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk Accessed<br /> 29 June 2004)'.<br /> <br /> <br /> The Centre for the Study of Public Policy was 'the first public policy centre within a European university. Its purpose is to relate social science research to major problems of contemporary societies. ... In the 1980s it conducted major comparative studies of the growth of government, concerning taxation and expenditure, organizational change, and laws. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the CSPP has developed an innovative repertoire of Barometer surveys to advance empirical understanding of mass response to transformation in post-Communist societies.<br /> <br /> The CSPP has now conducted more than 100 nationwide Barometer surveys across Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the former Soviet Union... CSPP websites have more than 1mn hits a year from more than 80 countries.<br /> <br /> After 30 years at the [http://www.strath.ac.uk University of Strathclyde], the CSPP has joined the School of Social Sciences at the University of Aberdeen, which is creating a major centre for the comparative analysis of survey research across Europe.' [http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk/ CSPP website]<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> <br /> *[[European Union]] <br /> *[[UNESCO]]<br /> *[[World Bank]]<br /> *[[Austrian National Bank]]<br /> [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf Source: http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> Hartwig Pautz 'Think-Tanks in Scotland' Paper for the 55th Political Studies Association Annual conference, 4-7 April 2005, University of Leeds, [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Centre_for_the_Study_of_Public_Policy&diff=6299 2006-03-14T15:54:50Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The Centre for the [http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk Study of Public Policy (CSPP)]was founded by by Professor Richard Rose in 1976 at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. Since 1 October 2005 it is part of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Aberdeen. <br /> <br /> <br /> Since 1 October 2005 part of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], but originally based at Glasgow’s Strathclyde University and founded by Professor [[Richard Rose]] in 1976. According to [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf Hartwig Pautz] 'it is a hybrid between a consultancy, a university research institute and a contract research think-tank. It is mainly concerned with barometer surveys on democratic attitudes and behaviours in post-communist countries33. Labelling itself a ‘specialist independent research unit of the university’(http://www.strath.ac.uk/cspp/research.html Accessed 23 June 2004), it has consulted the World Bank, OECD and UN agencies on ‘problems of post-Communist countries' (http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk Accessed<br /> 29 June 2004)'.<br /> <br /> <br /> The Centre for the Study of Public Policy was 'the first public policy centre within a European university. Its purpose is to relate social science research to major problems of contemporary societies. ... In the 1980s it conducted major comparative studies of the growth of government, concerning taxation and expenditure, organizational change, and laws. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the CSPP has developed an innovative repertoire of Barometer surveys to advance empirical understanding of mass response to transformation in post-Communist societies.<br /> <br /> The CSPP has now conducted more than 100 nationwide Barometer surveys across Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the former Soviet Union... CSPP websites have more than 1mn hits a year from more than 80 countries.<br /> <br /> After 30 years at the [http://www.strath.ac.uk University of Strathclyde], the CSPP has joined the School of Social Sciences at the University of Aberdeen, which is creating a major centre for the comparative analysis of survey research across Europe.' [http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk/ CSPP website]<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> <br /> *[[European Union]] <br /> *[[UNESCO]]<br /> *[[World Bank]]<br /> *[[Austrian National Bank]]<br /> [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf Source: http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> Hartwig Pautz 'Think-Tanks in Scotland' Paper for the 55th Political Studies Association Annual conference, 4-7 April 2005, University of Leeds, [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Centre_for_the_Study_of_Public_Policy&diff=6298 2006-03-14T15:53:52Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The Centre for the [Study of Public Policy (CSPP)[http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk]] was founded by by Professor Richard Rose in 1976 at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. Since 1 October 2005 it is part of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Aberdeen. <br /> <br /> <br /> Since 1 October 2005 part of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], but originally based at Glasgow’s Strathclyde University and founded by Professor [[Richard Rose]] in 1976. According to [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf Hartwig Pautz] 'it is a hybrid between a consultancy, a university research institute and a contract research think-tank. It is mainly concerned with barometer surveys on democratic attitudes and behaviours in post-communist countries33. Labelling itself a ‘specialist independent research unit of the university’(http://www.strath.ac.uk/cspp/research.html Accessed 23 June 2004), it has consulted the World Bank, OECD and UN agencies on ‘problems of post-Communist countries' (http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk Accessed<br /> 29 June 2004)'.<br /> <br /> <br /> The Centre for the Study of Public Policy was 'the first public policy centre within a European university. Its purpose is to relate social science research to major problems of contemporary societies. ... In the 1980s it conducted major comparative studies of the growth of government, concerning taxation and expenditure, organizational change, and laws. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the CSPP has developed an innovative repertoire of Barometer surveys to advance empirical understanding of mass response to transformation in post-Communist societies.<br /> <br /> The CSPP has now conducted more than 100 nationwide Barometer surveys across Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the former Soviet Union... CSPP websites have more than 1mn hits a year from more than 80 countries.<br /> <br /> After 30 years at the [http://www.strath.ac.uk University of Strathclyde], the CSPP has joined the School of Social Sciences at the University of Aberdeen, which is creating a major centre for the comparative analysis of survey research across Europe.' [http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk/ CSPP website]<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> <br /> *[[European Union]] <br /> *[[UNESCO]]<br /> *[[World Bank]]<br /> *[[Austrian National Bank]]<br /> [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf Source: http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> Hartwig Pautz 'Think-Tanks in Scotland' Paper for the 55th Political Studies Association Annual conference, 4-7 April 2005, University of Leeds, [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Centre_for_the_Study_of_Public_Policy&diff=6297 2006-03-14T15:53:31Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The Centre for the Study of Public Policy (CSPP)[http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk] was founded by by Professor Richard Rose in 1976 at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. Since 1 October 2005 it is part of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Aberdeen. <br /> <br /> <br /> Since 1 October 2005 part of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], but originally based at Glasgow’s Strathclyde University and founded by Professor [[Richard Rose]] in 1976. According to [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf Hartwig Pautz] 'it is a hybrid between a consultancy, a university research institute and a contract research think-tank. It is mainly concerned with barometer surveys on democratic attitudes and behaviours in post-communist countries33. Labelling itself a ‘specialist independent research unit of the university’(http://www.strath.ac.uk/cspp/research.html Accessed 23 June 2004), it has consulted the World Bank, OECD and UN agencies on ‘problems of post-Communist countries' (http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk Accessed<br /> 29 June 2004)'.<br /> <br /> <br /> The Centre for the Study of Public Policy was 'the first public policy centre within a European university. Its purpose is to relate social science research to major problems of contemporary societies. ... In the 1980s it conducted major comparative studies of the growth of government, concerning taxation and expenditure, organizational change, and laws. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the CSPP has developed an innovative repertoire of Barometer surveys to advance empirical understanding of mass response to transformation in post-Communist societies.<br /> <br /> The CSPP has now conducted more than 100 nationwide Barometer surveys across Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the former Soviet Union... CSPP websites have more than 1mn hits a year from more than 80 countries.<br /> <br /> After 30 years at the [http://www.strath.ac.uk University of Strathclyde], the CSPP has joined the School of Social Sciences at the University of Aberdeen, which is creating a major centre for the comparative analysis of survey research across Europe.' [http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk/ CSPP website]<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> <br /> *[[European Union]] <br /> *[[UNESCO]]<br /> *[[World Bank]]<br /> *[[Austrian National Bank]]<br /> [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf Source: http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> Hartwig Pautz 'Think-Tanks in Scotland' Paper for the 55th Political Studies Association Annual conference, 4-7 April 2005, University of Leeds, [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Centre_for_the_Study_of_Public_Policy&diff=6296 2006-03-14T15:52:45Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The Centre for the [http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk] Study of Public Policy (CSPP) was founded by by Professor Richard Rose in 1976 at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. Since 1 October 2005 it is part of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Aberdeen. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> is One of the few self-styled think-tanks which had existed in Scotland prior<br /> to devolution is the '''Centre for the Study of Public Policy''' (CSPP). <br /> <br /> Since 1 October 2005 part of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], but originally based at Glasgow’s Strathclyde University and founded by Professor [[Richard Rose]] in 1976. According to [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf Hartwig Pautz] 'it is a hybrid between a consultancy, a university research institute and a contract research think-tank. It is mainly concerned with barometer surveys on democratic attitudes and behaviours in post-communist countries33. Labelling itself a ‘specialist independent research unit of the university’(http://www.strath.ac.uk/cspp/research.html Accessed 23 June 2004), it has consulted the World Bank, OECD and UN agencies on ‘problems of post-Communist countries' (http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk Accessed<br /> 29 June 2004)'.<br /> <br /> <br /> The Centre for the Study of Public Policy was 'the first public policy centre within a European university. Its purpose is to relate social science research to major problems of contemporary societies. ... In the 1980s it conducted major comparative studies of the growth of government, concerning taxation and expenditure, organizational change, and laws. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the CSPP has developed an innovative repertoire of Barometer surveys to advance empirical understanding of mass response to transformation in post-Communist societies.<br /> <br /> The CSPP has now conducted more than 100 nationwide Barometer surveys across Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the former Soviet Union... CSPP websites have more than 1mn hits a year from more than 80 countries.<br /> <br /> After 30 years at the [http://www.strath.ac.uk University of Strathclyde], the CSPP has joined the School of Social Sciences at the University of Aberdeen, which is creating a major centre for the comparative analysis of survey research across Europe.' [http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk/ CSPP website]<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> <br /> *[[European Union]] <br /> *[[UNESCO]]<br /> *[[World Bank]]<br /> *[[Austrian National Bank]]<br /> [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf Source: http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> Hartwig Pautz 'Think-Tanks in Scotland' Paper for the 55th Political Studies Association Annual conference, 4-7 April 2005, University of Leeds, [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Centre_for_the_Study_of_Public_Policy&diff=6295 2006-03-14T15:52:18Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>The Centre for the [Study of Public Policy] (CSPP) was founded by by Professor Richard Rose in 1976 at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. Since 1 October 2005 it is part of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Aberdeen. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> is One of the few self-styled think-tanks which had existed in Scotland prior<br /> to devolution is the '''Centre for the Study of Public Policy''' (CSPP). <br /> <br /> Since 1 October 2005 part of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the [http://www.abdn.ac.uk University of Aberdeen], but originally based at Glasgow’s Strathclyde University and founded by Professor [[Richard Rose]] in 1976. According to [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf Hartwig Pautz] 'it is a hybrid between a consultancy, a university research institute and a contract research think-tank. It is mainly concerned with barometer surveys on democratic attitudes and behaviours in post-communist countries33. Labelling itself a ‘specialist independent research unit of the university’(http://www.strath.ac.uk/cspp/research.html Accessed 23 June 2004), it has consulted the World Bank, OECD and UN agencies on ‘problems of post-Communist countries' (http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk Accessed<br /> 29 June 2004)'.<br /> <br /> <br /> The Centre for the Study of Public Policy was 'the first public policy centre within a European university. Its purpose is to relate social science research to major problems of contemporary societies. ... In the 1980s it conducted major comparative studies of the growth of government, concerning taxation and expenditure, organizational change, and laws. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the CSPP has developed an innovative repertoire of Barometer surveys to advance empirical understanding of mass response to transformation in post-Communist societies.<br /> <br /> The CSPP has now conducted more than 100 nationwide Barometer surveys across Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the former Soviet Union... CSPP websites have more than 1mn hits a year from more than 80 countries.<br /> <br /> After 30 years at the [http://www.strath.ac.uk University of Strathclyde], the CSPP has joined the School of Social Sciences at the University of Aberdeen, which is creating a major centre for the comparative analysis of survey research across Europe.' [http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk/ CSPP website]<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> <br /> *[[European Union]] <br /> *[[UNESCO]]<br /> *[[World Bank]]<br /> *[[Austrian National Bank]]<br /> [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf Source: http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> Hartwig Pautz 'Think-Tanks in Scotland' Paper for the 55th Political Studies Association Annual conference, 4-7 April 2005, University of Leeds, [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=International_Futures_Forum&diff=1776 2005-12-09T16:48:53Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>==Funding==<br /> According to the IFF [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/partners.php website]it enjoys &quot;a variety of productive and mutually beneficial relationships with sponsors, clients, subscribers, research funders and others&quot;. What they label &quot;core support&quot; comes from [[BP]] and [[BT]]. Other organisatins the IFF has worked with include<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]]<br /> * [[Scottish Parliament]]<br /> * [[Scottish Executive]]<br /> * UK [[Nirex]] Ltd<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Tayside Health Board]]<br /> * [[Glasgow Centre for Population Health]]<br /> The IFF has a number of subscribers to their research output, among which are<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Henley Centre]]<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Falkirk Council]]<br /> * [[Audit Scotland]]<br /> * [[AOL]] (Europe) Ltd<br /> * [[Cultureshift Co-operative]], Australia<br /> Research funding has come from<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]] Glasgow<br /> * [[Society for Organisational Learning]] (Scotland)'<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Activities==<br /> In 2001, the Scottish Council Foundation (SCF), a New Labour-esque think-based in Edinburgh, undertook an interesting move by founding a new organisation they called the International Futures Forum (IFF). Its purpose was ‘to bring international thinking to bear on our [the SCF's]work’, with a ‘generous grant’ from British Petrol. Today, the IFF is independent from the SCF and tries to bring together so-called ‘deep thinkers’ in order to ‘examine[s] deep structures in the modern global system in its search for a second enlight-enment' . Still supported by BP it ‘explore[s] new ways of operating effectively and responsibly in a world of boundless complexity, a world we no longer fully understand and cannot control’ [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/index.php] (Accessed 17 February 2005). This world is seen as a challenge for business, government and society and confronts them with the task of ‘restor[ing] the capacity to act effectively and responsibly and thereby revive and foster a culture of human aspiration’. Based on this view of today’s world, the IFF seeks to create a new ‘paradigm’ by renouncing ‘traditional’ ways of making sense of the world. <br /> How does the IFF view its role in the spread of the Second Enlightenment? A diagram in one its first reports shows a &quot;dialogue&quot; between a variety of actors ([http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] Accessed 17 February 2005). ‘Core dialogue thinkers’ disseminate knowledge, specialist information and support to a ‘tier of converters’, who ‘convert the insights from the dialogue into practical form and who disseminate it to a wider audience’. This group is composed of a broad variety of organisations and actors, such as the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), business corporations, artists and writers, the BBC, unspecified ‘social entrepreneurs’, policy makers, the [[OECD]] and also [[BP]]. <br /> Finally, a further group of agents, who will ‘make things happen on the ground’, should use the information provided through the dialogue. In spite of the emphasis on ‘dialogue’, the IFF appears to see its role almost in a Hayekian tradition of ‘original thinkers’ who inform policy entrepreneurs or ‘second hand dealers in ideas’([[Friedrich A.Hayek]]; [[Edwin J.Feulner]] and [[John Blundell]]. The Intellectuals and Socialism. London : [[Institute of Economic Affairs]], 1998) with their theoretical and rather abstract knowledge so that they can utilise it to influence the wider society, including policy-makers. And, in fact, the IFF makes ‘no apology for taking seriously Margaret Mead’s conviction that a small group of individuals can change the world’('Project Prospectus' December 2000, p. 5. [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] (Accessed 2 March 2005). This small group convening for the IFF’s first meeting in April 2001 included among others former Director of the OECD International Futures Programme and ‘futurist’ [[Wolfgang Michalski]]; [[Kees van der Heijden]] (director of the scenario and strategy consultancy [[Global Business Network]], Emeritus Professor of General and Strategic Management at Strathclyde University, former head of the Business Environment Division in Group Planning at Royal Dutch/[[Shell]], London), Arun Mairo from [[Boston Consulting Group]] India, Biologist [[Brian Goodwin]], [[Pat Kane]] from the Sunday Herald, and [[Mark Woodhouse]], a philosopher interested in ‘scientific, spiritual, and healing communities’[http://www.markwoodhouse.com/01_index.html].<br /> Rather than being a permanent think-tank, the IFF is an attempt to facilitate an international network of thinkers, businesspeople and policy makers. During a case study trip to BP’s Grangemouth refinery – the IFF group also conducted case studies on the ‘learning society in Dundee’ ('IFF Learning in Dundee. A Second Enlightenment View' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_dundee.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) and on health provision for ‘deprived individuals and communities in Fife’ (IFF Entreprise in Falkirk [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) – the IFF came up with a &quot;vision&quot; for the future of BP and Falkirk/Grangemouth.<br /> When BP asked the IFF how it could combine the challenge of adjusting the plant to global competition bearing on mind the responsibility of BP to all local stakeholders ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 2 Accessed 4 March 2005). The IFF responded by proposing to understand the downsizing of the plant, which culminated in the lay off of about 1000 employees, as a creative act. As BP is a ‘different kind of energy company, radiating energy of all kinds – intellectual, physical, creative – into the community’, the sacking of workers equals ‘releasing high quality resources into the community’ ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 3 Accessed 4 March 2005). This rather interesting take on unemployment and economical restructuring is part of the IFF’s attempt to act as a kind of “spiritual management consultancy�. However, behind these superficially laughable analyses and proposals, behind the language of challenge and creativity, we find policy statements with stark conse-quences if put into practice. If, for example, the IFF’s stance on the NHS-generated ‘entitlement culture’ was transformed into a ‘gift culture’ , the idea of a consensual welfare state based on civic rights and the idea of social justice would be even more transformed than the current New Labour discourse on rights and responsibilities already has achieved. The allocation of health treatment as a gift would mean the final turn towards a charity-based system for the deserving poor[http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf](p, 19,Accessed 4 March 2005). <br /> As BP is preparing to pull out of Scotland’s oil industry in the long term, labelling it a mature industry [http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=2010596&amp;contentId=201512], it is trying to present itself as a responsible corporate citizen. The Pathfinder Plan, meant to help the more than 1000 laid off employees in orienting themselves on the job market, and the My Future's in Falkirk [http://www.myfuturesinfalkirk.co.uk/](formerly known as the Falkirk Action Plan) – ‘a multi-faceted project involving a wide range of stakeholders and designed to help the local area build on its strengths and diversify and broaden its economic base’ [http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2010601&amp;contentId=2015179] – are meant to demonstrate a CSR approach ‘away from an approach characterised by donations to charitable projects and causes, to one more closely focused on outcomes and strongly allied to the BP brand values (green, innovation, progressive, performance)’. <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Contact==<br /> International Futures Forum PO Box 29207 St Andrews Fife KY16 8YU UK T: +44 1334470090 E: editorial@internationalfuturesforum.com<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> <br /> International Futures Forum website [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> Hartwig Pautz 'Think-Tanks in Scotland' Paper for the 55th Political Studies Association Annual conference, 4-7 April 2005, University of Leeds, [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=International_Futures_Forum&diff=1775 2005-12-09T16:47:38Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>==Funding==<br /> According to the IFF [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/partners.php website]it enjoys &quot;a variety of productive and mutually beneficial relationships with sponsors, clients, subscribers, research funders and others&quot;. What they label &quot;core support&quot; comes from [[BP]] and [[BT]]. Other organisatins the IFF has worked with include<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]]<br /> * [[Scottish Parliament]]<br /> * [[Scottish Executive]]<br /> * UK [[Nirex]] Ltd<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Tayside Health Board]]<br /> * [[Glasgow Centre for Population Health]]<br /> The IFF has a number of subscribers to their research output, among which are<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Henley Centre]]<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Falkirk Council]]<br /> * [[Audit Scotland]]<br /> * [[AOL]] (Europe) Ltd<br /> * [[Cultureshift Co-operative]], Australia<br /> Research funding has come from<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]] Glasgow<br /> * [[Society for Organisational Learning]] (Scotland)'<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Activities==<br /> In 2001, the Scottish Council Foundation (SCF), a New Labour-esque think-based in Edinburgh, undertook an interesting move by founding a new organisation they called the International Futures Forum (IFF). Its purpose was ‘to bring international thinking to bear on our [the SCF's]work’, with a ‘generous grant’ from British Petrol. Today, the IFF is independent from the SCF and tries to bring together so-called ‘deep thinkers’ in order to ‘examine[s] deep structures in the modern global system in its search for a second enlight-enment' . Still supported by BP it ‘explore[s] new ways of operating effectively and responsibly in a world of boundless complexity, a world we no longer fully understand and cannot control’ [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/index.php] (Accessed 17 February 2005). This world is seen as a challenge for business, government and society and confronts them with the task of ‘restor[ing] the capacity to act effectively and responsibly and thereby revive and foster a culture of human aspiration’. Based on this view of today’s world, the IFF seeks to create a new ‘paradigm’ by renouncing ‘traditional’ ways of making sense of the world. <br /> How does the IFF view its role in the spread of the Second Enlightenment? A diagram in one its first reports shows a &quot;dialogue&quot; between a variety of actors ([http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] Accessed 17 February 2005). ‘Core dialogue thinkers’ disseminate knowledge, specialist information and support to a ‘tier of converters’, who ‘convert the insights from the dialogue into practical form and who disseminate it to a wider audience’. This group is composed of a broad variety of organisations and actors, such as the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), business corporations, artists and writers, the BBC, unspecified ‘social entrepreneurs’, policy makers, the [[OECD]] and also [[BP]]. <br /> Finally, a further group of agents, who will ‘make things happen on the ground’, should use the information provided through the dialogue. In spite of the emphasis on ‘dialogue’, the IFF appears to see its role almost in a Hayekian tradition of ‘original thinkers’ who inform policy entrepreneurs or ‘second hand dealers in ideas’([[Friedrich A.Hayek]]; [[Edwin J.Feulner]] and [[John Blundell]]. The Intellectuals and Socialism. London : [[Institute of Economic Affairs]], 1998) with their theoretical and rather abstract knowledge so that they can utilise it to influence the wider society, including policy-makers. And, in fact, the IFF makes ‘no apology for taking seriously Margaret Mead’s conviction that a small group of individuals can change the world’('Project Prospectus' December 2000, p. 5. [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] (Accessed 2 March 2005). This small group convening for the IFF’s first meeting in April 2001 included among others former Director of the OECD International Futures Programme and ‘futurist’ [[Wolfgang Michalski]]; [[Kees van der Heijden]] (director of the scenario and strategy consultancy [[Global Business Network]], Emeritus Professor of General and Strategic Management at Strathclyde University, former head of the Business Environment Division in Group Planning at Royal Dutch/[[Shell]], London), Arun Mairo from [[Boston Consulting Group]] India, Biologist [[Brian Goodwin]], [[Pat Kane]] from the Sunday Herald, and [[Mark Woodhouse]], a philosopher interested in ‘scientific, spiritual, and healing communities’[http://www.markwoodhouse.com/01_index.html].<br /> Rather than being a permanent think-tank, the IFF is an attempt to facilitate an international network of thinkers, businesspeople and policy makers. During a case study trip to BP’s Grangemouth refinery – the IFF group also conducted case studies on the ‘learning society in Dundee’ ('IFF Learning in Dundee. A Second Enlightenment View' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_dundee.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) and on health provision for ‘deprived individuals and communities in Fife’ (IFF Entreprise in Falkirk [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) – the IFF came up with a &quot;vision&quot; for the future of BP and Falkirk/Grangemouth.<br /> When BP asked the IFF how it could combine the challenge of adjusting the plant to global competition bearing on mind the responsibility of BP to all local stakeholders ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 2 Accessed 4 March 2005). The IFF responded by proposing to understand the downsizing of the plant, which culminated in the lay off of about 1000 employees, as a creative act. As BP is a ‘different kind of energy company, radiating energy of all kinds – intellectual, physical, creative – into the community’, the sacking of workers equals ‘releasing high quality resources into the community’ ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 3 Accessed 4 March 2005). This rather interesting take on unemployment and economical restructuring is part of the IFF’s attempt to act as a kind of “spiritual management consultancy�. However, behind these superficially laughable analyses and proposals, behind the language of challenge and creativity, we find policy statements with stark conse-quences if put into practice. If, for example, the IFF’s stance on the NHS-generated ‘entitlement culture’ was transformed into a ‘gift culture’ , the idea of a consensual welfare state based on civic rights and the idea of social justice would be even more transformed than the current New Labour discourse on rights and responsibilities already has achieved. The allocation of health treatment as a gift would mean the final turn towards a charity-based system for the deserving poor[http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf](p, 19,Accessed 4 March 2005). <br /> As BP is preparing to pull out of Scotland’s oil industry in the long term, labelling it a mature industry [http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=2010596&amp;contentId=201512], it is trying to present itself as a responsible corporate citizen. The Pathfinder Plan, meant to help the more than 1000 laid off employees in orienting themselves on the job market, and the My Future's in Falkirk (formerly known as the Falkirk Action Plan) – ‘a multi-faceted project involving a wide range of stakeholders and designed to help the local area build on its strengths and diversify and broaden its economic base’ [http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2010601&amp;contentId=2015179] – are meant to demonstrate a CSR approach ‘away from an approach characterised by donations to charitable projects and causes, to one more closely focused on outcomes and strongly allied to the BP brand values (green, innovation, progressive, performance)’. <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Contact==<br /> International Futures Forum PO Box 29207 St Andrews Fife KY16 8YU UK T: +44 1334470090 E: editorial@internationalfuturesforum.com<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> <br /> International Futures Forum website [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> Hartwig Pautz 'Think-Tanks in Scotland' Paper for the 55th Political Studies Association Annual conference, 4-7 April 2005, University of Leeds, [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=International_Futures_Forum&diff=1774 2005-12-09T16:44:55Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> ==Funding==<br /> According to the IFF [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/partners.php website]it enjoys &quot;a variety of productive and mutually beneficial relationships with sponsors, clients, subscribers, research funders and others&quot;. What they label &quot;core support&quot; comes from [[BP]] and [[BT]]. Other organisatins the IFF has worked with include<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]]<br /> * [[Scottish Parliament]]<br /> * [[Scottish Executive]]<br /> * UK [[Nirex]] Ltd<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Tayside Health Board]]<br /> * [[Glasgow Centre for Population Health]]<br /> The IFF has a number of subscribers to their research output, among which are<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Henley Centre]]<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Falkirk Council]]<br /> * [[Audit Scotland]]<br /> * [[AOL]] (Europe) Ltd<br /> * [[Cultureshift Co-operative]], Australia<br /> Research funding has come from<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]] Glasgow<br /> * [[Society for Organisational Learning]] (Scotland)'<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Activities==<br /> In 2001, the Scottish Council Foundation (SCF), a New Labour-esque think-based in Edinburgh, undertook an interesting move by founding a new organisation they called the International Futures Forum (IFF). Its purpose was ‘to bring international thinking to bear on our [the SCF's]work’, with a ‘generous grant’ from British Petrol. Today, the IFF is independent from the SCF and tries to bring together so-called ‘deep thinkers’ in order to ‘examine[s] deep structures in the modern global system in its search for a second enlight-enment' . Still supported by BP it ‘explore[s] new ways of operating effectively and responsibly in a world of boundless complexity, a world we no longer fully understand and cannot control’ [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/index.php] (Accessed 17 February 2005). This world is seen as a challenge for business, government and society and confronts them with the task of ‘restor[ing] the capacity to act effectively and responsibly and thereby revive and foster a culture of human aspiration’. Based on this view of today’s world, the IFF seeks to create a new ‘paradigm’ by renouncing ‘traditional’ ways of making sense of the world. <br /> How does the IFF view its role in the spread of the Second Enlightenment? A diagram in one its first reports shows a &quot;dialogue&quot; between a variety of actors ([http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] Accessed 17 February 2005). ‘Core dialogue thinkers’ disseminate knowledge, specialist information and support to a ‘tier of converters’, who ‘convert the insights from the dialogue into practical form and who disseminate it to a wider audience’. This group is composed of a broad variety of organisations and actors, such as the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), business corporations, artists and writers, the BBC, unspecified ‘social entrepreneurs’, policy makers, the [[OECD]] and also [[BP]]. <br /> Finally, a further group of agents, who will ‘make things happen on the ground’, should use the information provided through the dialogue. In spite of the emphasis on ‘dialogue’, the IFF appears to see its role almost in a Hayekian tradition of ‘original thinkers’ who inform policy entrepreneurs or ‘second hand dealers in ideas’([[Friedrich A.Hayek]]; [[Edwin J.Feulner]] and [[John Blundell]]. The Intellectuals and Socialism. London : [[Institute of Economic Affairs]], 1998) with their theoretical and rather abstract knowledge so that they can utilise it to influence the wider society, including policy-makers. And, in fact, the IFF makes ‘no apology for taking seriously Margaret Mead’s conviction that a small group of individuals can change the world’('Project Prospectus' December 2000, p. 5. [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] (Accessed 2 March 2005). This small group convening for the IFF’s first meeting in April 2001 included among others former Director of the OECD International Futures Programme and ‘futurist’ [[Wolfgang Michalski]]; [[Kees van der Heijden]] (director of the scenario and strategy consultancy [[Global Business Network]], Emeritus Professor of General and Strategic Management at Strathclyde University, former head of the Business Environment Division in Group Planning at Royal Dutch/[[Shell]], London), Arun Mairo from [[Boston Consulting Group]] India, Biologist [[Brian Goodwin]], [[Pat Kane]] from the Sunday Herald, and [[Mark Woodhouse]], a philosopher interested in ‘scientific, spiritual, and healing communities’[http://www.markwoodhouse.com/01_index.html].<br /> Rather than being a permanent think-tank, the IFF is an attempt to facilitate an international network of thinkers, businesspeople and policy makers. During a case study trip to BP’s Grangemouth refinery – the IFF group also conducted case studies on the ‘learning society in Dundee’ ('IFF Learning in Dundee. A Second Enlightenment View' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_dundee.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) and on health provision for ‘deprived individuals and communities in Fife’ (IFF Entreprise in Falkirk [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) – the IFF came up with a &quot;vision&quot; for the future of BP and Falkirk/Grangemouth.<br /> When BP asked the IFF how it could combine the challenge of adjusting the plant to global competition bearing on mind the responsibility of BP to all local stakeholders ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 2 Accessed 4 March 2005). The IFF responded by proposing to understand the downsizing of the plant, which culminated in the lay off of about 1000 employees, as a creative act. As BP is a ‘different kind of energy company, radiating energy of all kinds – intellectual, physical, creative – into the community’, the sacking of workers equals ‘releasing high quality resources into the community’ ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 3 Accessed 4 March 2005). This rather interesting take on unemployment and economical restructuring is part of the IFF’s attempt to act as a kind of “spiritual management consultancy�. However, behind these superficially laughable analyses and proposals, behind the language of challenge and creativity, we find policy statements with stark conse-quences if put into practice. If, for example, the IFF’s stance on the NHS-generated ‘entitlement culture’ was transformed into a ‘gift culture’ , the idea of a consensual welfare state based on civic rights and the idea of social justice would be even more transformed than the current New Labour discourse on rights and responsibilities already has achieved. The allocation of health treatment as a gift would mean the final turn towards a charity-based system for the deserving poor[http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf](p, 19,Accessed 4 March 2005). <br /> As BP is preparing to pull out of Scotland’s oil industry in the long term, labelling it a mature industry [http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=2010596&amp;contentId=201512], it is trying to present itself as a responsible corporate citizen. The Pathfinder Plan, meant to help the more than 1000 laid off employees in orienting themselves on the job market, and the My Future's in Falkirk (formerly known as the Falkirk Action Plan) – ‘a multi-faceted project involving a wide range of stakeholders and designed to help the local area build on its strengths and diversify and broaden its economic base’ [http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2010601&amp;contentId=2015179] – are meant to demonstrate a CSR approach ‘away from an approach characterised by donations to charitable projects and causes, to one more closely focused on outcomes and strongly allied to the BP brand values (green, innovation, progressive, performance)’. This shift focuses on the following areas: <br /> • Enterprise - BP supports efforts to create a ‘smart, successful Scotland.' <br /> • Education - BP wants to see the potential of Scotland's young people to be fully developed, and strongly emphasizes science and technology in its schools programmes. <br /> • Environment - BP wants Scotland's environment to be protected and enhanced to improve the quality of life and attract both people and industry. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Contact==<br /> International Futures Forum PO Box 29207 St Andrews Fife KY16 8YU UK T: +44 1334470090 E: editorial@internationalfuturesforum.com<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> <br /> International Futures Forum website [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> Hartwig Pautz 'Think-Tanks in Scotland' Paper for the 55th Political Studies Association Annual conference, 4-7 April 2005, University of Leeds, [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=International_Futures_Forum&diff=1773 2005-12-09T16:37:57Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> :We work in areas where there are no easy answers, where existing models fail to make sense of our confusing reality, where we are in over our heads, where we face an unacknowledged ‘conceptual emergency’.<br /> <br /> :We have developed a body of theory, practice and wide experience in taking on seemingly intractable challenges and developing the capacities in individuals, teams, organisations and communities to flourish in today’s powerful times.'<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> According to the IFF [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/partners.php website]it enjoys &quot;a variety of productive and mutually beneficial relationships with sponsors, clients, subscribers, research funders and others&quot;. What they label &quot;core support&quot; comes from [[BP]] and [[BT]]. Other organisatins the IFF has worked with include<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]]<br /> * [[Scottish Parliament]]<br /> * [[Scottish Executive]]<br /> * UK [[Nirex]] Ltd<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Tayside Health Board]]<br /> * [[Glasgow Centre for Population Health]]<br /> The IFF has a number of subscribers to their research output, among which are<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Henley Centre]]<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Falkirk Council]]<br /> * [[Audit Scotland]]<br /> * [[AOL]] (Europe) Ltd<br /> * [[Cultureshift Co-operative]], Australia<br /> Research funding has come from<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]] Glasgow<br /> * [[Society for Organisational Learning]] (Scotland)'<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Activities==<br /> In 2001, the Scottish Council Foundation (SCF), a New Labour-esque think-based in Edinburgh, undertook an interesting move by founding a new organisation they called the International Futures Forum (IFF). Its purpose was ‘to bring international thinking to bear on our [the SCF's]work’, with a ‘generous grant’ from British Petrol. Today, the IFF is independent from the SCF and tries to bring together so-called ‘deep thinkers’ in order to ‘examine[s] deep structures in the modern global system in its search for a second enlight-enment' . Still supported by BP it ‘explore[s] new ways of operating effectively and responsibly in a world of boundless complexity, a world we no longer fully understand and cannot control’ [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/index.php] (Accessed 17 February 2005). This world is seen as a challenge for business, government and society and confronts them with the task of ‘restor[ing] the capacity to act effectively and responsibly and thereby revive and foster a culture of human aspiration’. Based on this view of today’s world, the IFF seeks to create a new ‘paradigm’ by renouncing ‘traditional’ ways of making sense of the world. <br /> How does the IFF view its role in the spread of the Second Enlightenment? A diagram in one its first reports shows a &quot;dialogue&quot; between a variety of actors ([http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] Accessed 17 February 2005). ‘Core dialogue thinkers’ disseminate knowledge, specialist information and support to a ‘tier of converters’, who ‘convert the insights from the dialogue into practical form and who disseminate it to a wider audience’. This group is composed of a broad variety of organisations and actors, such as the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), business corporations, artists and writers, the BBC, unspecified ‘social entrepreneurs’, policy makers, the [[OECD]] and also [[BP]]. <br /> Finally, a further group of agents, who will ‘make things happen on the ground’, should use the information provided through the dialogue. In spite of the emphasis on ‘dialogue’, the IFF appears to see its role almost in a Hayekian tradition of ‘original thinkers’ who inform policy entrepreneurs or ‘second hand dealers in ideas’([[Friedrich A.Hayek]]; [[Edwin J.Feulner]] and [[John Blundell]]. The Intellectuals and Socialism. London : [[Institute of Economic Affairs]], 1998) with their theoretical and rather abstract knowledge so that they can utilise it to influence the wider society, including policy-makers. And, in fact, the IFF makes ‘no apology for taking seriously Margaret Mead’s conviction that a small group of individuals can change the world’('Project Prospectus' December 2000, p. 5. [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] (Accessed 2 March 2005). This small group convening for the IFF’s first meeting in April 2001 included among others former Director of the OECD International Futures Programme and ‘futurist’ [[Wolfgang Michalski]]; [[Kees van der Heijden]] (director of the scenario and strategy consultancy [[Global Business Network]], Emeritus Professor of General and Strategic Management at Strathclyde University, former head of the Business Environment Division in Group Planning at Royal Dutch/[[Shell]], London), Arun Mairo from [[Boston Consulting Group]] India, Biologist [[Brian Goodwin]], [[Pat Kane]] from the Sunday Herald, and [[Mark Woodhouse]], a philosopher interested in ‘scientific, spiritual, and healing communities’[http://www.markwoodhouse.com/01_index.html].<br /> Rather than being a permanent think-tank, the IFF is an attempt to facilitate an international network of thinkers, businesspeople and policy makers. During a case study trip to BP’s Grangemouth refinery – the IFF group also conducted case studies on the ‘learning society in Dundee’ ('IFF Learning in Dundee. A Second Enlightenment View' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_dundee.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) and on health provision for ‘deprived individuals and communities in Fife’ (IFF Entreprise in Falkirk [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) – the IFF came up with a &quot;vision&quot; for the future of BP and Falkirk/Grangemouth.<br /> When BP asked the IFF how it could combine the challenge of adjusting the plant to global competition bearing on mind the responsibility of BP to all local stakeholders ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 2 Accessed 4 March 2005). The IFF responded by proposing to understand the downsizing of the plant, which culminated in the lay off of about 1000 employees, as a creative act. As BP is a ‘different kind of energy company, radiating energy of all kinds – intellectual, physical, creative – into the community’, the sacking of workers equals ‘releasing high quality resources into the community’ ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 3 Accessed 4 March 2005). This rather interesting take on unemployment and economical restructuring is part of the IFF’s attempt to act as a kind of “spiritual management consultancy�. However, behind these superficially laughable analyses and proposals, behind the language of challenge and creativity, we find policy statements with stark conse-quences if put into practice. If, for example, the IFF’s stance on the NHS-generated ‘entitlement culture’ was transformed into a ‘gift culture’ , the idea of a consensual welfare state based on civic rights and the idea of social justice would be even more transformed than the current New Labour discourse on rights and responsibilities already has achieved. The allocation of health treatment as a gift would mean the final turn towards a charity-based system for the deserving poor[http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf](p, 19,Accessed 4 March 2005). <br /> <br /> ==Contact==<br /> International Futures Forum PO Box 29207 St Andrews Fife KY16 8YU UK T: +44 1334470090 E: editorial@internationalfuturesforum.com<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> <br /> International Futures Forum website [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> Hartwig Pautz 'Think-Tanks in Scotland' Paper for the 55th Political Studies Association Annual conference, 4-7 April 2005, University of Leeds, [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=International_Futures_Forum&diff=1771 2005-12-09T16:34:41Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>How does the IFF view its role in the spread of the Second Enlightenment? A diagram in one its first reports shows a “dialogue� between a variety of actors and the IFF’s place in it. The IFF wants to provide the ‘core dialogue thinkers’ who disseminate knowledge, specialist information and support to a ‘tier of converters’. These ‘convert the insights from the dialogue into practical form and [.] disseminate it to a wider audience’. This group is composed of a broad variety of organisations and actors, such as the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), business corporations, artists and writers, the BBC, unspecified ‘social entrepreneurs’, policy makers, the OECD and also BP. Finally, a further group of agents, who will ‘make things happen on the ground’, should use the information provided through the dialogue. The IFF sees its role almost in a Hayekian tradition of ‘original thinkers’ who inform policy entrepreneurs or ‘second hand dealers in ideas’ – i.e. think-tanks – with their theoretical and rather abstract knowledge so that they can utilise it to influence the wider society and policy-makers. Not surprisingly, the IFF makes ‘no apology for taking seriously Margaret Mead’s conviction that a small group of individuals can change the world’ . This small group convening for the IFF’s first meeting in April 2001 included among others former Director of the OECD International Futures Programme and ‘futurist’ Wolfgang Michalski; Kees van der Hei-jden (director of the scenario and strategy consultancy Global Business Network, Emeritus Professor of General and Strategic Management at Strathclyde University, former head of the Business Environment Division in Group Planning at Royal Dutch/Shell, London), Arun Mairo from Boston Consulting Group India, Biologist Brian Goodwin, Pat Kane from the Sun-day Herald, and Mark Woodhouse, a philosopher interested in ‘scientific, spiritual, and healing communities’ . Rather than being a permanent think-tank, the IFF is an attempt to facilitate an international network of thinkers, businesspeople and policy makers. Its reports are written in airy, pseudo-postmodernist language, renounce almost all empirical research and define and approach policy problems from their own individual per-spectives. During a case study trip to BP’s Grangemouth refinery – the IFF group also conducted case studies on the ‘learning society in Dundee’ and on health provision for ‘deprived individuals and communities in Fife’ – the IFF came up with a ‘vision’ for the future of BP and Falkirk/Grangemouth. When BP asked the IFF how it could combine the challenge of adjusting the plant to global competition bearing on mind the responsibility of BP to all local stakeholders , the IFF proposed to under-stand the downsizing of the plant, which culminated in the lay off of about 1000 employees in 2001, as a creative act. As BP is a ‘different kind of energy company, radiating energy of all kinds – intellectual, physical, crea-tive – into the community’, the sacking of workers equals ‘releasing high quality resources into the community’ . This rather interesting take on unemployment and economical restructuring is part of the IFF’s attempt to act as a kind of “spiritual management consultancy�. However, behind these superficially laughable analyses and proposals, behind the language of challenge and creativity, we find policy statements with stark conse-quences if put into practice. If, for example, the IFF’s stance on the NHS-generated ‘entitlement culture’ was transformed into a ‘gift culture’ , the idea of a consensual welfare state based on civic rights and the idea of social justice would be even more transformed than the current New Labour discourse on rights and responsibilities already has achieved. The allocation of health treatment as a gift would mean the final turn towards a charity-based system for the deserving poor <br /> :We work in areas where there are no easy answers, where existing models fail to make sense of our confusing reality, where we are in over our heads, where we face an unacknowledged ‘conceptual emergency’.<br /> <br /> :We have developed a body of theory, practice and wide experience in taking on seemingly intractable challenges and developing the capacities in individuals, teams, organisations and communities to flourish in today’s powerful times.'<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> According to the IFF [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/partners.php website]it enjoys &quot;a variety of productive and mutually beneficial relationships with sponsors, clients, subscribers, research funders and others&quot;. What they label &quot;core support&quot; comes from [[BP]] and [[BT]]. Other organisatins the IFF has worked with include<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]]<br /> * [[Scottish Parliament]]<br /> * [[Scottish Executive]]<br /> * UK [[Nirex]] Ltd<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Tayside Health Board]]<br /> * [[Glasgow Centre for Population Health]]<br /> The IFF has a number of subscribers to their research output, among which are<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Henley Centre]]<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Falkirk Council]]<br /> * [[Audit Scotland]]<br /> * [[AOL]] (Europe) Ltd<br /> * [[Cultureshift Co-operative]], Australia<br /> Research funding has come from<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]] Glasgow<br /> * [[Society for Organisational Learning]] (Scotland)'<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Activities==<br /> In 2001, the Scottish Council Foundation (SCF), a New Labour-esque think-based in Edinburgh, undertook an interesting move by founding a new organisation they called the International Futures Forum (IFF). Its purpose was ‘to bring international thinking to bear on our [the SCF's]work’, with a ‘generous grant’ from British Petrol. Today, the IFF is independent from the SCF and tries to bring together so-called ‘deep thinkers’ in order to ‘examine[s] deep structures in the modern global system in its search for a second enlight-enment' . Still supported by BP it ‘explore[s] new ways of operating effectively and responsibly in a world of boundless complexity, a world we no longer fully understand and cannot control’ [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/index.php] (Accessed 17 February 2005). This world is seen as a challenge for business, government and society and confronts them with the task of ‘restor[ing] the capacity to act effectively and responsibly and thereby revive and foster a culture of human aspiration’. Based on this view of today’s world, the IFF seeks to create a new ‘paradigm’ by renouncing ‘traditional’ ways of making sense of the world. <br /> How does the IFF view its role in the spread of the Second Enlightenment? A diagram in one its first reports shows a &quot;dialogue&quot; between a variety of actors ([http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] Accessed 17 February 2005). ‘Core dialogue thinkers’ disseminate knowledge, specialist information and support to a ‘tier of converters’, who ‘convert the insights from the dialogue into practical form and who disseminate it to a wider audience’. This group is composed of a broad variety of organisations and actors, such as the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), business corporations, artists and writers, the BBC, unspecified ‘social entrepreneurs’, policy makers, the [[OECD]] and also [[BP]]. <br /> Finally, a further group of agents, who will ‘make things happen on the ground’, should use the information provided through the dialogue. In spite of the emphasis on ‘dialogue’, the IFF appears to see its role almost in a Hayekian tradition of ‘original thinkers’ who inform policy entrepreneurs or ‘second hand dealers in ideas’([[Friedrich A.Hayek]]; [[Edwin J.Feulner]] and [[John Blundell]]. The Intellectuals and Socialism. London : [[Institute of Economic Affairs]], 1998) with their theoretical and rather abstract knowledge so that they can utilise it to influence the wider society, including policy-makers. And, in fact, the IFF makes ‘no apology for taking seriously Margaret Mead’s conviction that a small group of individuals can change the world’('Project Prospectus' December 2000, p. 5. [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] (Accessed 2 March 2005). This small group convening for the IFF’s first meeting in April 2001 included among others former Director of the OECD International Futures Programme and ‘futurist’ [[Wolfgang Michalski]]; [[Kees van der Heijden]] (director of the scenario and strategy consultancy [[Global Business Network]], Emeritus Professor of General and Strategic Management at Strathclyde University, former head of the Business Environment Division in Group Planning at Royal Dutch/[[Shell]], London), Arun Mairo from [[Boston Consulting Group]] India, Biologist [[Brian Goodwin]], [[Pat Kane]] from the Sunday Herald, and [[Mark Woodhouse]], a philosopher interested in ‘scientific, spiritual, and healing communities’[http://www.markwoodhouse.com/01_index.html].<br /> Rather than being a permanent think-tank, the IFF is an attempt to facilitate an international network of thinkers, businesspeople and policy makers. During a case study trip to BP’s Grangemouth refinery – the IFF group also conducted case studies on the ‘learning society in Dundee’ ('IFF Learning in Dundee. A Second Enlightenment View' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_dundee.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) and on health provision for ‘deprived individuals and communities in Fife’ (IFF Entreprise in Falkirk [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) – the IFF came up with a &quot;vision&quot; for the future of BP and Falkirk/Grangemouth.<br /> When BP asked the IFF how it could combine the challenge of adjusting the plant to global competition bearing on mind the responsibility of BP to all local stakeholders ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 2 Accessed 4 March 2005). The IFF responded by proposing to understand the downsizing of the plant, which culminated in the lay off of about 1000 employees, as a creative act. As BP is a ‘different kind of energy company, radiating energy of all kinds – intellectual, physical, creative – into the community’, the sacking of workers equals ‘releasing high quality resources into the community’ ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 3 Accessed 4 March 2005). This rather interesting take on unemployment and economic restructuring is part of the IFF’s attempt to create new management and organisational approaches. It wants to act as a kind of &quot;spiritual management consultancy&quot; – although behind the airy language of challenges and creativity we find statements with stark consequences if put into practice: for example, the IFF’s stance on the NHS generated ‘entitlement culture’ which should be transformed into a more creative ‘gift culture’, would lead to significant changes in the allocation of resources, as gift cultures rely on their reciprocity rather than on solidarity and social contracts [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf](p, 19,Accessed 4 March 2005). (Source: [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf])<br /> <br /> ==Contact==<br /> International Futures Forum PO Box 29207 St Andrews Fife KY16 8YU UK T: +44 1334470090 E: editorial@internationalfuturesforum.com<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> <br /> International Futures Forum website [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> Hartwig Pautz 'Think-Tanks in Scotland' Paper for the 55th Political Studies Association Annual conference, 4-7 April 2005, University of Leeds, [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=International_Futures_Forum&diff=1769 2005-12-09T16:32:30Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>How does the IFF view its role in the spread of the Second Enlightenment? A diagram in one its first reports shows a “dialogue� between a variety of actors and the IFF’s place in it. The IFF wants to provide the ‘core dialogue thinkers’ who disseminate knowledge, specialist information and support to a ‘tier of converters’. These ‘convert the insights from the dialogue into practical form and [.] disseminate it to a wider audience’. This group is composed of a broad variety of organisations and actors, such as the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), business corporations, artists and writers, the BBC, unspecified ‘social entrepreneurs’, policy makers, the OECD and also BP. Finally, a further group of agents, who will ‘make things happen on the ground’, should use the information provided through the dialogue. The IFF sees its role almost in a Hayekian tradition of ‘original thinkers’ who inform policy entrepreneurs or ‘second hand dealers in ideas’ – i.e. think-tanks – with their theoretical and rather abstract knowledge so that they can utilise it to influence the wider society and policy-makers. Not surprisingly, the IFF makes ‘no apology for taking seriously Margaret Mead’s conviction that a small group of individuals can change the world’ . This small group convening for the IFF’s first meeting in April 2001 included among others former Director of the OECD International Futures Programme and ‘futurist’ Wolfgang Michalski; Kees van der Hei-jden (director of the scenario and strategy consultancy Global Business Network, Emeritus Professor of General and Strategic Management at Strathclyde University, former head of the Business Environment Division in Group Planning at Royal Dutch/Shell, London), Arun Mairo from Boston Consulting Group India, Biologist Brian Goodwin, Pat Kane from the Sun-day Herald, and Mark Woodhouse, a philosopher interested in ‘scientific, spiritual, and healing communities’ . Rather than being a permanent think-tank, the IFF is an attempt to facilitate an international network of thinkers, businesspeople and policy makers. Its reports are written in airy, pseudo-postmodernist language, renounce almost all empirical research and define and approach policy problems from their own individual per-spectives. During a case study trip to BP’s Grangemouth refinery – the IFF group also conducted case studies on the ‘learning society in Dundee’ and on health provision for ‘deprived individuals and communities in Fife’ – the IFF came up with a ‘vision’ for the future of BP and Falkirk/Grangemouth. When BP asked the IFF how it could combine the challenge of adjusting the plant to global competition bearing on mind the responsibility of BP to all local stakeholders , the IFF proposed to under-stand the downsizing of the plant, which culminated in the lay off of about 1000 employees in 2001, as a creative act. As BP is a ‘different kind of energy company, radiating energy of all kinds – intellectual, physical, crea-tive – into the community’, the sacking of workers equals ‘releasing high quality resources into the community’ . This rather interesting take on unemployment and economical restructuring is part of the IFF’s attempt to act as a kind of “spiritual management consultancy�. However, behind these superficially laughable analyses and proposals, behind the language of challenge and creativity, we find policy statements with stark conse-quences if put into practice. If, for example, the IFF’s stance on the NHS-generated ‘entitlement culture’ was transformed into a ‘gift culture’ , the idea of a consensual welfare state based on civic rights and the idea of social justice would be even more transformed than the current New Labour discourse on rights and responsibilities already has achieved. The allocation of health treatment as a gift would mean the final turn towards a charity-based system for the deserving poor <br /> :We work in areas where there are no easy answers, where existing models fail to make sense of our confusing reality, where we are in over our heads, where we face an unacknowledged ‘conceptual emergency’.<br /> <br /> :We have developed a body of theory, practice and wide experience in taking on seemingly intractable challenges and developing the capacities in individuals, teams, organisations and communities to flourish in today’s powerful times.'<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> According to the IFF [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/partners.php website]: <br /> 'We now enjoy a variety of productive and mutually beneficial relationships with sponsors, clients, subscribers, research funders and others.<br /> <br /> <br /> We are grateful to the following organisations for their core support<br /> <br /> * [[BP]]<br /> * [[BT]]<br /> <br /> These are some of the organisations we have worked with:<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]]<br /> * [[Scottish Parliament]]<br /> * [[Scottish Executive]]<br /> * UK [[Nirex]] Ltd<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Tayside Health Board]]<br /> * [[Glasgow Centre for Population Health]]<br /> <br /> Our subscribers include:<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Henley Centre]]<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Falkirk Council]]<br /> * [[Audit Scotland]]<br /> * [[AOL]] (Europe) Ltd<br /> * [[Cultureshift Co-operative]], Australia<br /> <br /> We have enjoyed research funding from:<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]] Glasgow<br /> * [[Society for Organisational Learning]] (Scotland)'<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Activities==<br /> In 2001, the Scottish Council Foundation (SCF), a New Labour-esque think-based in Edinburgh, undertook an interesting move by founding a new organisation they called the International Futures Forum (IFF). Its purpose was ‘to bring international thinking to bear on our [the SCF's]work’, with a ‘generous grant’ from British Petrol. Today, the IFF is independent from the SCF and tries to bring together so-called ‘deep thinkers’ in order to ‘examine[s] deep structures in the modern global system in its search for a second enlight-enment' . Still supported by BP it ‘explore[s] new ways of operating effectively and responsibly in a world of boundless complexity, a world we no longer fully understand and cannot control’ [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/index.php] (Accessed 17 February 2005). This world is seen as a challenge for business, government and society and confronts them with the task of ‘restor[ing] the capacity to act effectively and responsibly and thereby revive and foster a culture of human aspiration’. Based on this view of today’s world, the IFF seeks to create a new ‘paradigm’ by renouncing ‘traditional’ ways of making sense of the world. <br /> How does the IFF view its role in the spread of the Second Enlightenment? A diagram in one its first reports shows a &quot;dialogue&quot; between a variety of actors ([http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] Accessed 17 February 2005). ‘Core dialogue thinkers’ disseminate knowledge, specialist information and support to a ‘tier of converters’, who ‘convert the insights from the dialogue into practical form and who disseminate it to a wider audience’. This group is composed of a broad variety of organisations and actors, such as the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), business corporations, artists and writers, the BBC, unspecified ‘social entrepreneurs’, policy makers, the [[OECD]] and also [[BP]]. <br /> Finally, a further group of agents, who will ‘make things happen on the ground’, should use the information provided through the dialogue. In spite of the emphasis on ‘dialogue’, the IFF appears to see its role almost in a Hayekian tradition of ‘original thinkers’ who inform policy entrepreneurs or ‘second hand dealers in ideas’([[Friedrich A.Hayek]]; [[Edwin J.Feulner]] and [[John Blundell]]. The Intellectuals and Socialism. London : [[Institute of Economic Affairs]], 1998) with their theoretical and rather abstract knowledge so that they can utilise it to influence the wider society, including policy-makers. And, in fact, the IFF makes ‘no apology for taking seriously Margaret Mead’s conviction that a small group of individuals can change the world’('Project Prospectus' December 2000, p. 5. [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] (Accessed 2 March 2005). This small group convening for the IFF’s first meeting in April 2001 included among others former Director of the OECD International Futures Programme and ‘futurist’ [[Wolfgang Michalski]]; [[Kees van der Heijden]] (director of the scenario and strategy consultancy [[Global Business Network]], Emeritus Professor of General and Strategic Management at Strathclyde University, former head of the Business Environment Division in Group Planning at Royal Dutch/[[Shell]], London), Arun Mairo from [[Boston Consulting Group]] India, Biologist [[Brian Goodwin]], [[Pat Kane]] from the Sunday Herald, and [[Mark Woodhouse]], a philosopher interested in ‘scientific, spiritual, and healing communities’[http://www.markwoodhouse.com/01_index.html].<br /> Rather than being a permanent think-tank, the IFF is an attempt to facilitate an international network of thinkers, businesspeople and policy makers. During a case study trip to BP’s Grangemouth refinery – the IFF group also conducted case studies on the ‘learning society in Dundee’ ('IFF Learning in Dundee. A Second Enlightenment View' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_dundee.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) and on health provision for ‘deprived individuals and communities in Fife’ (IFF Entreprise in Falkirk [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) – the IFF came up with a &quot;vision&quot; for the future of BP and Falkirk/Grangemouth.<br /> <br /> :When BP asked the IFF how it could combine the challenge of adjusting the plant to global competition bearing on mind the responsibility of BP to all local stakeholders ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 2 Accessed 4 March 2005). The IFF responded by proposing to understand the downsizing of the plant, which culminated in the lay off of about 1000 employees, as a creative act. As BP is a ‘different kind of energy company, radiating energy of all kinds – intellectual, physical, creative – into the community’, the sacking of workers equals ‘releasing high quality resources into the community’ ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 3 Accessed 4 March 2005). This rather interesting take on unemployment and economic restructuring is part of the IFF’s attempt to create new management and organisational approaches. It wants to act as a kind of &quot;spiritual management consultancy&quot; – although behind the airy language of challenges and creativity we find statements with stark consequences if put into practice: for example, the IFF’s stance on the NHS generated ‘entitlement culture’ which should be transformed into a more creative ‘gift culture’, would lead to significant changes in the allocation of resources, as gift cultures rely on their reciprocity rather than on solidarity and social contracts [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf](p, 19,Accessed 4 March 2005). (Source: [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf])<br /> <br /> ==Contact==<br /> International Futures Forum PO Box 29207 St Andrews Fife KY16 8YU UK T: +44 1334470090 E: editorial@internationalfuturesforum.com<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> <br /> International Futures Forum website [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> Hartwig Pautz 'Think-Tanks in Scotland' Paper for the 55th Political Studies Association Annual conference, 4-7 April 2005, University of Leeds, [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=International_Futures_Forum&diff=1768 2005-12-09T16:29:11Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>In 2001, the Scottish Council Foundation (SCF), a New Labour-esque think-based in Edinburgh, undertook an interesting move by founding a new organisation they called the International Futures Forum (IFF). Its purpose was ‘to bring international thinking to bear on our [the SCF's]work’, with a ‘generous grant’ from British Petrol. Today, the IFF is independent from the SCF and tries to bring together so-called ‘deep thinkers’ in order to ‘examine[s] deep structures in the modern global system in its search for a second enlight-enment' . Still supported by BP it ‘explore[s] new ways of operating effectively and responsibly in a world of boundless complexity, a world we no longer fully understand and cannot control’ . This world is seen as a challenge for business, government and society and confronts them with the task of ‘restor[ing] the capacity to act effectively and responsibly and thereby revive and foster a culture of human aspiration’. Based on this view of today’s world, the IFF seeks to create a new ‘paradigm’ by renouncing ‘traditional’ ways of making sense of the world. <br /> How does the IFF view its role in the spread of the Second Enlightenment? A diagram in one its first reports shows a “dialogue� between a variety of actors and the IFF’s place in it. The IFF wants to provide the ‘core dialogue thinkers’ who disseminate knowledge, specialist information and support to a ‘tier of converters’. These ‘convert the insights from the dialogue into practical form and [.] disseminate it to a wider audience’. This group is composed of a broad variety of organisations and actors, such as the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), business corporations, artists and writers, the BBC, unspecified ‘social entrepreneurs’, policy makers, the OECD and also BP. Finally, a further group of agents, who will ‘make things happen on the ground’, should use the information provided through the dialogue. The IFF sees its role almost in a Hayekian tradition of ‘original thinkers’ who inform policy entrepreneurs or ‘second hand dealers in ideas’ – i.e. think-tanks – with their theoretical and rather abstract knowledge so that they can utilise it to influence the wider society and policy-makers. Not surprisingly, the IFF makes ‘no apology for taking seriously Margaret Mead’s conviction that a small group of individuals can change the world’ . This small group convening for the IFF’s first meeting in April 2001 included among others former Director of the OECD International Futures Programme and ‘futurist’ Wolfgang Michalski; Kees van der Hei-jden (director of the scenario and strategy consultancy Global Business Network, Emeritus Professor of General and Strategic Management at Strathclyde University, former head of the Business Environment Division in Group Planning at Royal Dutch/Shell, London), Arun Mairo from Boston Consulting Group India, Biologist Brian Goodwin, Pat Kane from the Sun-day Herald, and Mark Woodhouse, a philosopher interested in ‘scientific, spiritual, and healing communities’ . Rather than being a permanent think-tank, the IFF is an attempt to facilitate an international network of thinkers, businesspeople and policy makers. Its reports are written in airy, pseudo-postmodernist language, renounce almost all empirical research and define and approach policy problems from their own individual per-spectives. During a case study trip to BP’s Grangemouth refinery – the IFF group also conducted case studies on the ‘learning society in Dundee’ and on health provision for ‘deprived individuals and communities in Fife’ – the IFF came up with a ‘vision’ for the future of BP and Falkirk/Grangemouth. When BP asked the IFF how it could combine the challenge of adjusting the plant to global competition bearing on mind the responsibility of BP to all local stakeholders , the IFF proposed to under-stand the downsizing of the plant, which culminated in the lay off of about 1000 employees in 2001, as a creative act. As BP is a ‘different kind of energy company, radiating energy of all kinds – intellectual, physical, crea-tive – into the community’, the sacking of workers equals ‘releasing high quality resources into the community’ . This rather interesting take on unemployment and economical restructuring is part of the IFF’s attempt to act as a kind of “spiritual management consultancy�. However, behind these superficially laughable analyses and proposals, behind the language of challenge and creativity, we find policy statements with stark conse-quences if put into practice. If, for example, the IFF’s stance on the NHS-generated ‘entitlement culture’ was transformed into a ‘gift culture’ , the idea of a consensual welfare state based on civic rights and the idea of social justice would be even more transformed than the current New Labour discourse on rights and responsibilities already has achieved. The allocation of health treatment as a gift would mean the final turn towards a charity-based system for the deserving poor <br /> :We work in areas where there are no easy answers, where existing models fail to make sense of our confusing reality, where we are in over our heads, where we face an unacknowledged ‘conceptual emergency’.<br /> <br /> :We have developed a body of theory, practice and wide experience in taking on seemingly intractable challenges and developing the capacities in individuals, teams, organisations and communities to flourish in today’s powerful times.'<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> According to the IFF [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/partners.php website]: <br /> 'We now enjoy a variety of productive and mutually beneficial relationships with sponsors, clients, subscribers, research funders and others.<br /> <br /> <br /> We are grateful to the following organisations for their core support<br /> <br /> * [[BP]]<br /> * [[BT]]<br /> <br /> These are some of the organisations we have worked with:<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]]<br /> * [[Scottish Parliament]]<br /> * [[Scottish Executive]]<br /> * UK [[Nirex]] Ltd<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Tayside Health Board]]<br /> * [[Glasgow Centre for Population Health]]<br /> <br /> Our subscribers include:<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Henley Centre]]<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Falkirk Council]]<br /> * [[Audit Scotland]]<br /> * [[AOL]] (Europe) Ltd<br /> * [[Cultureshift Co-operative]], Australia<br /> <br /> We have enjoyed research funding from:<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]] Glasgow<br /> * [[Society for Organisational Learning]] (Scotland)'<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Activities==<br /> <br /> With support from BP it ‘explore[s] new ways of operating effectively and responsibly in a world of boundless complexity, a world we no longer fully understand and cannot control’[http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/index.php] (Accessed 17 February 2005). This world is seen as a challenge for business, government and society and confronts them with the task of ‘restor[ing] the capacity to act effectively and responsibly and thereby revive and foster a culture of human aspiration’. Based on this view of today’s world, the IFF seeks to create a new ‘paradigm’ by renouncing ‘traditional’ ways of making sense of the world. <br /> <br /> :How does the IFF view its role in the spread of the Second Enlightenment? A diagram in one its first reports shows a &quot;dialogue&quot; between a variety of actors ([http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] Accessed 17 February 2005). ‘Core dialogue thinkers’ disseminate knowledge, specialist information and support to a ‘tier of converters’, who ‘convert the insights from the dialogue into practical form and who disseminate it to a wider audience’. This group is composed of a broad variety of organisations and actors, such as the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), business corporations, artists and writers, the BBC, unspecified ‘social entrepreneurs’, policy makers, the [[OECD]] and also [[BP]]. <br /> <br /> :Finally, a further group of agents, who will ‘make things happen on the ground’, should use the information provided through the dialogue. In spite of the emphasis on ‘dialogue’, the IFF appears to see its role almost in a Hayekian tradition of ‘original thinkers’ who inform policy entrepreneurs or ‘second hand dealers in ideas’([[Friedrich A.Hayek]]; [[Edwin J.Feulner]] and [[John Blundell]]. The Intellectuals and Socialism. London : [[Institute of Economic Affairs]], 1998) with their theoretical and rather abstract knowledge so that they can utilise it to influence the wider society, including policy-makers. And, in fact, the IFF makes ‘no apology for taking seriously Margaret Mead’s conviction that a small group of individuals can change the world’('Project Prospectus' December 2000, p. 5. [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] (Accessed 2 March 2005). This small group convening for the IFF’s first meeting in April 2001 included among others former Director of the OECD International Futures Programme and ‘futurist’ [[Wolfgang Michalski]]; [[Kees van der Heijden]] (director of the scenario and strategy consultancy [[Global Business Network]], Emeritus Professor of General and Strategic Management at Strathclyde University, former head of the Business Environment Division in Group Planning at Royal Dutch/[[Shell]], London), Arun Mairo from [[Boston Consulting Group]] India, Biologist [[Brian Goodwin]], [[Pat Kane]] from the Sunday Herald, and [[Mark Woodhouse]], a philosopher interested in ‘scientific, spiritual, and healing communities’[http://www.markwoodhouse.com/01_index.html].<br /> <br /> :Rather than being a permanent think-tank, the IFF is an attempt to facilitate an international network of thinkers, businesspeople and policy makers. During a case study trip to BP’s Grangemouth refinery – the IFF group also conducted case studies on the ‘learning society in Dundee’ ('IFF Learning in Dundee. A Second Enlightenment View' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_dundee.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) and on health provision for ‘deprived individuals and communities in Fife’ (IFF Entreprise in Falkirk [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) – the IFF came up with a &quot;vision&quot; for the future of BP and Falkirk/Grangemouth.<br /> <br /> :When BP asked the IFF how it could combine the challenge of adjusting the plant to global competition bearing on mind the responsibility of BP to all local stakeholders ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 2 Accessed 4 March 2005). The IFF responded by proposing to understand the downsizing of the plant, which culminated in the lay off of about 1000 employees, as a creative act. As BP is a ‘different kind of energy company, radiating energy of all kinds – intellectual, physical, creative – into the community’, the sacking of workers equals ‘releasing high quality resources into the community’ ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 3 Accessed 4 March 2005). This rather interesting take on unemployment and economic restructuring is part of the IFF’s attempt to create new management and organisational approaches. It wants to act as a kind of &quot;spiritual management consultancy&quot; – although behind the airy language of challenges and creativity we find statements with stark consequences if put into practice: for example, the IFF’s stance on the NHS generated ‘entitlement culture’ which should be transformed into a more creative ‘gift culture’, would lead to significant changes in the allocation of resources, as gift cultures rely on their reciprocity rather than on solidarity and social contracts [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf](p, 19,Accessed 4 March 2005). (Source: [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf])<br /> <br /> ==Contact==<br /> International Futures Forum PO Box 29207 St Andrews Fife KY16 8YU UK T: +44 1334470090 E: editorial@internationalfuturesforum.com<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> <br /> International Futures Forum website [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> Hartwig Pautz 'Think-Tanks in Scotland' Paper for the 55th Political Studies Association Annual conference, 4-7 April 2005, University of Leeds, [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=International_Futures_Forum&diff=1767 2005-12-09T16:28:00Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>In 2001, the Scottish Council Foundation (SCF), a New Labour-esque think-based in Edinburgh, undertook an interesting move by founding a new organisation they called the International Futures Forum (IFF). Its purpose was ‘to bring international thinking to bear on our [the SCF's]work’, with a ‘generous grant’ from British Petrol. Today, the IFF is independent from the SCF and tries to bring together so-called ‘deep thinkers’ in order to ‘examine[s] deep structures in the modern global system in its search for a second enlight-enment' . Still supported by BP it ‘explore[s] new ways of operating effectively and responsibly in a world of boundless complexity, a world we no longer fully understand and cannot control’ . This world is seen as a challenge for business, government and society and confronts them with the task of ‘restor[ing] the capacity to act effectively and responsibly and thereby revive and foster a culture of human aspiration’. Based on this view of today’s world, the IFF seeks to create a new ‘paradigm’ by renouncing ‘traditional’ ways of making sense of the world. <br /> How does the IFF view its role in the spread of the Second Enlightenment? A diagram in one its first reports shows a “dialogue� between a variety of actors and the IFF’s place in it. The IFF wants to provide the ‘core dialogue thinkers’ who disseminate knowledge, specialist information and support to a ‘tier of converters’. These ‘convert the insights from the dialogue into practical form and [.] disseminate it to a wider audience’. This group is composed of a broad variety of organisations and actors, such as the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), business corporations, artists and writers, the BBC, unspecified ‘social entrepreneurs’, policy makers, the OECD and also BP. Finally, a further group of agents, who will ‘make things happen on the ground’, should use the information provided through the dialogue. The IFF sees its role almost in a Hayekian tradition of ‘original thinkers’ who inform policy entrepreneurs or ‘second hand dealers in ideas’ – i.e. think-tanks – with their theoretical and rather abstract knowledge so that they can utilise it to influence the wider society and policy-makers. Not surprisingly, the IFF makes ‘no apology for taking seriously Margaret Mead’s conviction that a small group of individuals can change the world’ . This small group convening for the IFF’s first meeting in April 2001 included among others former Director of the OECD International Futures Programme and ‘futurist’ Wolfgang Michalski; Kees van der Hei-jden (director of the scenario and strategy consultancy Global Business Network, Emeritus Professor of General and Strategic Management at Strathclyde University, former head of the Business Environment Division in Group Planning at Royal Dutch/Shell, London), Arun Mairo from Boston Consulting Group India, Biologist Brian Goodwin, Pat Kane from the Sun-day Herald, and Mark Woodhouse, a philosopher interested in ‘scientific, spiritual, and healing communities’ . Rather than being a permanent think-tank, the IFF is an attempt to facilitate an international network of thinkers, businesspeople and policy makers. Its reports are written in airy, pseudo-postmodernist language, renounce almost all empirical research and define and approach policy problems from their own individual per-spectives. During a case study trip to BP’s Grangemouth refinery – the IFF group also conducted case studies on the ‘learning society in Dundee’ and on health provision for ‘deprived individuals and communities in Fife’ – the IFF came up with a ‘vision’ for the future of BP and Falkirk/Grangemouth. When BP asked the IFF how it could combine the challenge of adjusting the plant to global competition bearing on mind the responsibility of BP to all local stakeholders , the IFF proposed to under-stand the downsizing of the plant, which culminated in the lay off of about 1000 employees in 2001, as a creative act. As BP is a ‘different kind of energy company, radiating energy of all kinds – intellectual, physical, crea-tive – into the community’, the sacking of workers equals ‘releasing high quality resources into the community’ . This rather interesting take on unemployment and economical restructuring is part of the IFF’s attempt to act as a kind of “spiritual management consultancy�. However, behind these superficially laughable analyses and proposals, behind the language of challenge and creativity, we find policy statements with stark conse-quences if put into practice. If, for example, the IFF’s stance on the NHS-generated ‘entitlement culture’ was transformed into a ‘gift culture’ , the idea of a consensual welfare state based on civic rights and the idea of social justice would be even more transformed than the current New Labour discourse on rights and responsibilities already has achieved. The allocation of health treatment as a gift would mean the final turn towards a charity-based system for the deserving poor <br /> :We work in areas where there are no easy answers, where existing models fail to make sense of our confusing reality, where we are in over our heads, where we face an unacknowledged ‘conceptual emergency’.<br /> <br /> :We have developed a body of theory, practice and wide experience in taking on seemingly intractable challenges and developing the capacities in individuals, teams, organisations and communities to flourish in today’s powerful times.'<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> According to the IFF [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/partners.php website]: <br /> 'We now enjoy a variety of productive and mutually beneficial relationships with sponsors, clients, subscribers, research funders and others.<br /> <br /> <br /> We are grateful to the following organisations for their core support<br /> <br /> * [[BP]]<br /> * [[BT]]<br /> <br /> These are some of the organisations we have worked with:<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]]<br /> * [[Scottish Parliament]]<br /> * [[Scottish Executive]]<br /> * UK [[Nirex]] Ltd<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Tayside Health Board]]<br /> * [[Glasgow Centre for Population Health]]<br /> <br /> Our subscribers include:<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Henley Centre]]<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Falkirk Council]]<br /> * [[Audit Scotland]]<br /> * [[AOL]] (Europe) Ltd<br /> * [[Cultureshift Co-operative]], Australia<br /> <br /> We have enjoyed research funding from:<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]] Glasgow<br /> * [[Society for Organisational Learning]] (Scotland)'<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Activities==<br /> <br /> As Hartwig Pautz has written:<br /> <br /> :With support from BP it ‘explore[s] new ways of operating effectively and responsibly in a world of boundless complexity, a world we no longer fully understand and cannot control’[http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/index.php] (Accessed 17 February 2005). This world is seen as a challenge for business, government and society and confronts them with the task of ‘restor[ing] the capacity to act effectively and responsibly and thereby revive and foster a culture of human aspiration’. Based on this view of today’s world, the IFF seeks to create a new ‘paradigm’ by renouncing ‘traditional’ ways of making sense of the world. <br /> <br /> :How does the IFF view its role in the spread of the Second Enlightenment? A diagram in one its first reports shows a &quot;dialogue&quot; between a variety of actors ([http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] Accessed 17 February 2005). ‘Core dialogue thinkers’ disseminate knowledge, specialist information and support to a ‘tier of converters’, who ‘convert the insights from the dialogue into practical form and who disseminate it to a wider audience’. This group is composed of a broad variety of organisations and actors, such as the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), business corporations, artists and writers, the BBC, unspecified ‘social entrepreneurs’, policy makers, the [[OECD]] and also [[BP]]. <br /> <br /> :Finally, a further group of agents, who will ‘make things happen on the ground’, should use the information provided through the dialogue. In spite of the emphasis on ‘dialogue’, the IFF appears to see its role almost in a Hayekian tradition of ‘original thinkers’ who inform policy entrepreneurs or ‘second hand dealers in ideas’([[Friedrich A.Hayek]]; [[Edwin J.Feulner]] and [[John Blundell]]. The Intellectuals and Socialism. London : [[Institute of Economic Affairs]], 1998) with their theoretical and rather abstract knowledge so that they can utilise it to influence the wider society, including policy-makers. And, in fact, the IFF makes ‘no apology for taking seriously Margaret Mead’s conviction that a small group of individuals can change the world’('Project Prospectus' December 2000, p. 5. [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] (Accessed 2 March 2005). This small group convening for the IFF’s first meeting in April 2001 included among others former Director of the OECD International Futures Programme and ‘futurist’ [[Wolfgang Michalski]]; [[Kees van der Heijden]] (director of the scenario and strategy consultancy [[Global Business Network]], Emeritus Professor of General and Strategic Management at Strathclyde University, former head of the Business Environment Division in Group Planning at Royal Dutch/[[Shell]], London), Arun Mairo from [[Boston Consulting Group]] India, Biologist [[Brian Goodwin]], [[Pat Kane]] from the Sunday Herald, and [[Mark Woodhouse]], a philosopher interested in ‘scientific, spiritual, and healing communities’[http://www.markwoodhouse.com/01_index.html].<br /> <br /> :Rather than being a permanent think-tank, the IFF is an attempt to facilitate an international network of thinkers, businesspeople and policy makers. During a case study trip to BP’s Grangemouth refinery – the IFF group also conducted case studies on the ‘learning society in Dundee’ ('IFF Learning in Dundee. A Second Enlightenment View' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_dundee.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) and on health provision for ‘deprived individuals and communities in Fife’ (IFF Entreprise in Falkirk [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) – the IFF came up with a &quot;vision&quot; for the future of BP and Falkirk/Grangemouth.<br /> <br /> :When BP asked the IFF how it could combine the challenge of adjusting the plant to global competition bearing on mind the responsibility of BP to all local stakeholders ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 2 Accessed 4 March 2005). The IFF responded by proposing to understand the downsizing of the plant, which culminated in the lay off of about 1000 employees, as a creative act. As BP is a ‘different kind of energy company, radiating energy of all kinds – intellectual, physical, creative – into the community’, the sacking of workers equals ‘releasing high quality resources into the community’ ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 3 Accessed 4 March 2005). This rather interesting take on unemployment and economic restructuring is part of the IFF’s attempt to create new management and organisational approaches. It wants to act as a kind of &quot;spiritual management consultancy&quot; – although behind the airy language of challenges and creativity we find statements with stark consequences if put into practice: for example, the IFF’s stance on the NHS generated ‘entitlement culture’ which should be transformed into a more creative ‘gift culture’, would lead to significant changes in the allocation of resources, as gift cultures rely on their reciprocity rather than on solidarity and social contracts [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf](p, 19,Accessed 4 March 2005). (Source: [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf])<br /> <br /> ==Contact==<br /> International Futures Forum PO Box 29207 St Andrews Fife KY16 8YU UK T: +44 1334470090 E: editorial@internationalfuturesforum.com<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> <br /> International Futures Forum website [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> Hartwig Pautz 'Think-Tanks in Scotland' Paper for the 55th Political Studies Association Annual conference, 4-7 April 2005, University of Leeds, [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=International_Futures_Forum&diff=1766 2005-12-09T16:15:15Z

<p>Hartwig: </p> <hr /> <div>In 2001, the Scottish Council Foundation (SCF), a New Labour-esque think-based in Edinburgh, undertook an interesting move by founding a new organisation they called the International Futures Forum (IFF). Its purpose was ‘to bring international thinking to bear on our [the SCF's]work’, with a ‘generous grant’ from British Petrol. Today, the IFF is independent from the SCF and tries to bring together so-called ‘deep thinkers’ in order to ‘examine[s] deep structures in the modern global system in its search for a second enlight-enment' . Still supported by BP it ‘explore[s] new ways of operating effectively and responsibly in a world of boundless complexity, a world we no longer fully understand and cannot control’ . This world is seen as a challenge for business, government and society and confronts them with the task of ‘restor[ing] the capacity to act effectively and responsibly and thereby revive and foster a culture of human aspiration’. Based on this view of today’s world, the IFF seeks to create a new ‘paradigm’ by renouncing ‘traditional’ ways of making sense of the world. <br /> How does the IFF view its role in the spread of the Second Enlightenment? A diagram in one its first reports shows a “dialogue� between a variety of actors and the IFF’s place in it. The IFF wants to provide the ‘core dialogue thinkers’ who disseminate knowledge, specialist information and support to a ‘tier of converters’. These ‘convert the insights from the dialogue into practical form and [.] disseminate it to a wider audience’. This group is composed of a broad variety of organisations and actors, such as the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), business corporations, artists and writers, the BBC, unspecified ‘social entrepreneurs’, policy makers, the OECD and also BP. Finally, a further group of agents, who will ‘make things happen on the ground’, should use the information provided through the dialogue. The IFF sees its role almost in a Hayekian tradition of ‘original thinkers’ who inform policy entrepreneurs or ‘second hand dealers in ideas’ – i.e. think-tanks – with their theoretical and rather abstract knowledge so that they can utilise it to influence the wider society and policy-makers. Not surprisingly, the IFF makes ‘no apology for taking seriously Margaret Mead’s conviction that a small group of individuals can change the world’ . This small group convening for the IFF’s first meeting in April 2001 included among others former Director of the OECD International Futures Programme and ‘futurist’ Wolfgang Michalski; Kees van der Hei-jden (director of the scenario and strategy consultancy Global Business Network, Emeritus Professor of General and Strategic Management at Strathclyde University, former head of the Business Environment Division in Group Planning at Royal Dutch/Shell, London), Arun Mairo from Boston Consulting Group India, Biologist Brian Goodwin, Pat Kane from the Sun-day Herald, and Mark Woodhouse, a philosopher interested in ‘scientific, spiritual, and healing communities’ . Rather than being a permanent think-tank, the IFF is an attempt to facilitate an international network of thinkers, businesspeople and policy makers. Its reports are written in airy, pseudo-postmodernist language, renounce almost all empirical research and define and approach policy problems from their own individual per-spectives. During a case study trip to BP’s Grangemouth refinery – the IFF group also conducted case studies on the ‘learning society in Dundee’ and on health provision for ‘deprived individuals and communities in Fife’ – the IFF came up with a ‘vision’ for the future of BP and Falkirk/Grangemouth. When BP asked the IFF how it could combine the challenge of adjusting the plant to global competition bearing on mind the responsibility of BP to all local stakeholders , the IFF proposed to under-stand the downsizing of the plant, which culminated in the lay off of about 1000 employees in 2001, as a creative act. As BP is a ‘different kind of energy company, radiating energy of all kinds – intellectual, physical, crea-tive – into the community’, the sacking of workers equals ‘releasing high quality resources into the community’ . This rather interesting take on unemployment and economical restructuring is part of the IFF’s attempt to act as a kind of “spiritual management consultancy�. However, behind these superficially laughable analyses and proposals, behind the language of challenge and creativity, we find policy statements with stark conse-quences if put into practice. If, for example, the IFF’s stance on the NHS-generated ‘entitlement culture’ was transformed into a ‘gift culture’ , the idea of a consensual welfare state based on civic rights and the idea of social justice would be even more transformed than the current New La-bour discourse on rights and responsibilities already has achieved. The allocation of health treatment as a gift would mean the final turn towards a charity-based system for the deserving poor ccording to its website: 'The '''International Futures Forum''' exists to develop the capacity to sustain human aspiration, realised through wise action, in a complex and challenging world.<br /> <br /> <br /> :We work in areas where there are no easy answers, where existing models fail to make sense of our confusing reality, where we are in over our heads, where we face an unacknowledged ‘conceptual emergency’.<br /> <br /> :We have developed a body of theory, practice and wide experience in taking on seemingly intractable challenges and developing the capacities in individuals, teams, organisations and communities to flourish in today’s powerful times.'<br /> <br /> ==Funding==<br /> According to the IFF [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/partners.php website]: <br /> 'We now enjoy a variety of productive and mutually beneficial relationships with sponsors, clients, subscribers, research funders and others.<br /> <br /> <br /> We are grateful to the following organisations for their core support<br /> <br /> * [[BP]]<br /> * [[BT]]<br /> <br /> These are some of the organisations we have worked with:<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]]<br /> * [[Scottish Parliament]]<br /> * [[Scottish Executive]]<br /> * UK [[Nirex]] Ltd<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Tayside Health Board]]<br /> * [[Glasgow Centre for Population Health]]<br /> <br /> Our subscribers include:<br /> * [[World Economic Forum]]<br /> * [[Henley Centre]]<br /> * [[Diageo]]<br /> * [[Falkirk Council]]<br /> * [[Audit Scotland]]<br /> * [[AOL]] (Europe) Ltd<br /> * [[Cultureshift Co-operative]], Australia<br /> <br /> We have enjoyed research funding from:<br /> * [[Scottish Enterprise]] Glasgow<br /> * [[Society for Organisational Learning]] (Scotland)'<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Activities==<br /> <br /> As Hartwig Pautz has written:<br /> <br /> :With support from BP it ‘explore[s] new ways of operating effectively and responsibly in a world of boundless complexity, a world we no longer fully understand and cannot control’[http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/index.php] (Accessed 17 February 2005). This world is seen as a challenge for business, government and society and confronts them with the task of ‘restor[ing] the capacity to act effectively and responsibly and thereby revive and foster a culture of human aspiration’. Based on this view of today’s world, the IFF seeks to create a new ‘paradigm’ by renouncing ‘traditional’ ways of making sense of the world. <br /> <br /> :How does the IFF view its role in the spread of the Second Enlightenment? A diagram in one its first reports shows a &quot;dialogue&quot; between a variety of actors ([http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] Accessed 17 February 2005). ‘Core dialogue thinkers’ disseminate knowledge, specialist information and support to a ‘tier of converters’, who ‘convert the insights from the dialogue into practical form and who disseminate it to a wider audience’. This group is composed of a broad variety of organisations and actors, such as the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), business corporations, artists and writers, the BBC, unspecified ‘social entrepreneurs’, policy makers, the [[OECD]] and also [[BP]]. <br /> <br /> :Finally, a further group of agents, who will ‘make things happen on the ground’, should use the information provided through the dialogue. In spite of the emphasis on ‘dialogue’, the IFF appears to see its role almost in a Hayekian tradition of ‘original thinkers’ who inform policy entrepreneurs or ‘second hand dealers in ideas’([[Friedrich A.Hayek]]; [[Edwin J.Feulner]] and [[John Blundell]]. The Intellectuals and Socialism. London : [[Institute of Economic Affairs]], 1998) with their theoretical and rather abstract knowledge so that they can utilise it to influence the wider society, including policy-makers. And, in fact, the IFF makes ‘no apology for taking seriously Margaret Mead’s conviction that a small group of individuals can change the world’('Project Prospectus' December 2000, p. 5. [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/IFF1_prospectus.pdf] (Accessed 2 March 2005). This small group convening for the IFF’s first meeting in April 2001 included among others former Director of the OECD International Futures Programme and ‘futurist’ [[Wolfgang Michalski]]; [[Kees van der Heijden]] (director of the scenario and strategy consultancy [[Global Business Network]], Emeritus Professor of General and Strategic Management at Strathclyde University, former head of the Business Environment Division in Group Planning at Royal Dutch/[[Shell]], London), Arun Mairo from [[Boston Consulting Group]] India, Biologist [[Brian Goodwin]], [[Pat Kane]] from the Sunday Herald, and [[Mark Woodhouse]], a philosopher interested in ‘scientific, spiritual, and healing communities’[http://www.markwoodhouse.com/01_index.html].<br /> <br /> :Rather than being a permanent think-tank, the IFF is an attempt to facilitate an international network of thinkers, businesspeople and policy makers. During a case study trip to BP’s Grangemouth refinery – the IFF group also conducted case studies on the ‘learning society in Dundee’ ('IFF Learning in Dundee. A Second Enlightenment View' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_dundee.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) and on health provision for ‘deprived individuals and communities in Fife’ (IFF Entreprise in Falkirk [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf] Accessed 4 March 2005) – the IFF came up with a &quot;vision&quot; for the future of BP and Falkirk/Grangemouth.<br /> <br /> :When BP asked the IFF how it could combine the challenge of adjusting the plant to global competition bearing on mind the responsibility of BP to all local stakeholders ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 2 Accessed 4 March 2005). The IFF responded by proposing to understand the downsizing of the plant, which culminated in the lay off of about 1000 employees, as a creative act. As BP is a ‘different kind of energy company, radiating energy of all kinds – intellectual, physical, creative – into the community’, the sacking of workers equals ‘releasing high quality resources into the community’ ('Health in Fife' [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_falkirk.pdf], p. 3 Accessed 4 March 2005). This rather interesting take on unemployment and economic restructuring is part of the IFF’s attempt to create new management and organisational approaches. It wants to act as a kind of &quot;spiritual management consultancy&quot; – although behind the airy language of challenges and creativity we find statements with stark consequences if put into practice: for example, the IFF’s stance on the NHS generated ‘entitlement culture’ which should be transformed into a more creative ‘gift culture’, would lead to significant changes in the allocation of resources, as gift cultures rely on their reciprocity rather than on solidarity and social contracts [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/reports/case_encounter_fife.pdf](p, 19,Accessed 4 March 2005). (Source: [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf])<br /> <br /> ==Contact==<br /> International Futures Forum PO Box 29207 St Andrews Fife KY16 8YU UK T: +44 1334470090 E: editorial@internationalfuturesforum.com<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> <br /> International Futures Forum website [http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> Hartwig Pautz 'Think-Tanks in Scotland' Paper for the 55th Political Studies Association Annual conference, 4-7 April 2005, University of Leeds, [http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf]<br /> [[Category: Think tanks]]</div>

Hartwig