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Unfortunately the President  and Editor of the symposium ODERA ORUKA was killed a day after the conference in a car accident - which was questioned by some -  Me, the author and presenter, Heiner Benking, heard him talk on the radio after the confererence, the day before he died, speaking with a strong voice and a strong mandate and much results from the conference (with Bishop Tutu et. al. (see below))  - A conference which had been planned for some time (since 1993) with some care and energy, and with the help of the Finnish and Dutch governments to make a difference - not only for Africa.

pls. see also SAGACIOUS REASONING of Odera Oruka and the unpublished and the unpublished Eco-philosophy, Poverty, and the Future section.


* Authors' Organizations

(a) FAW - Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing, Ulm, Germany
(b) School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Canada
(c) WHO - Chairman of the Global Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) -
                  Institute for Occupational and Social Medicine, University of Ulm, Germany
(d) Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland Futures Research Centre, Turku, Finland
(e) Frankfurt Institute for Economic and Public Policy Research (Frankfurter Institut), Bad Homburg, Germany
(f) European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

see also:

WFSF Proceedings Volume:

To much regret and despair the primary urge of the presenting and lead author, the follow-up with a topic from the last WFSF 1993 in Turku, (group 3) was never published. It's important focus is on ECO-PHILOSOPHY /ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS so please visit the WFSF in TURKU 1993 with focus on Education, and a text in the web at that time.
Group IV, Futures and Economy
Robust Paths to Global Stability: 
Tough but Feasible *
H. Benking (a), G.W. Brauer (b), T.M. Fliedner(c), C. Greiner (a), P. Malaska(d), K. Morath (e), R. Pestel (f),  F.J. Radermacher (a)


Group III, Eco-Philosophy / Environmental Ethics
THE OPTICS OF ETHICS - Scales Horizons, Proportions, and Consequences in Perspective
Heiner Benking (a)

FUTURES BEYOND
POVERTY

Editor and President
H. Odera Oruka, 
Nairobi July 1995

Unfortunately only the Group IV presentation was published in a small volume of selected papers in the WFSF proceedings

and a year later at an  INFORMATION SOCIETY Symposium.
please see also: http://benking.de/Global-Change/globalstability.htm, the full ROBUST PATHs paper.

The main author would like to invite you to see the links of the OPTICS OF ETHICS and other papers which were placed but not in such an outstanding and critical for the times place, such as SHOW or SCHAU: (1988-2000),   Ethics with SPACE and TIME HORIZON (1993) -  and how the proposed superstructure is now part of systems community -  and LAST NOT LEAST highlight the main recommendations of the paper for Group IV here:

 I. THE GLOBAL CHALLENGE

 The inability to sustain the present global situation can be characterized by three critical trends:

  • overpopulation and continuing population growth, especially in the developing countries;
  • over consumption and accelerating resource exploitation, primarily in the developed countries, but increasingly also in various countries in transition to a higher state of development;
  • social disintegration, caused by an increase in the (by now, excessive) speed of innovation processes in all areas; processes which are being driven by technological and economical dynamics, but which are not being societally controlled, and which are leading to growing unemployment, social unrest and corresponding threats to social security systems.