| The World Knowledge Dialogue at a glance The World Knowledge Dialogue Symposium 2008 is an institutional initiative to bridge the gap between the natural and the human/social sciences starting from new, revolutionary discoveries with potential impact at the scale of paradigmatic changes.Click for more information and summaries of sessions.     | About The World Knowledge DialogueThe World Knowledge Dialogue
Executive Summary"A Plea for a Better Global Understanding".The strategic approach of the World Knowledge Dialogue (WKD) Foundation is based on the provision of a platform for a structured, innovative and productive dialogue between expert researchers, and across the traditionally defined disciplines of knowledge; the natural sciences, technical sciences, social sciences and humanities. The communication gap between them is a major obstacle in attaining a comprehensive understanding of the world and the major problems faced society today, in spite of the signs of concordance and cross-fertilization that are emerging through the seminal work of some internationally recognized scholars. The first WKD Symposium, organized in Crans-Montana (Switzerland) in September 2006, brought together a group of outstanding speakers from fields such as physics, biology, genetics, anthropology, linguistics, history, philosophy and social sciences, in order to initiate an interdisciplinary dialogue centred around the two topics: "Emergence of Complex Systems" and "The Traces of Human Migration". During the year 2007, through meetings and internal discussions, the WKD Foundation has initiated an in depth analysis of the results of the first Symposium. A book summarizing the fruit of these reflections was published shortly before the 2008 Symposium. The Foundation has also reorganized its Scientific Board to increase the presence of top representatives from philosophy and the social sciences. The second WKD Symposium takes place between September 10 to 13, 2008. Once again, it revolves around themes which have received a significant impulse and interest in recent years and which lend themselves particularly well to the experimentation of interdisciplinary discourse.
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Focus on Young Scientists "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." -- Arthur C. Clarke's First Law Many Young Scientists have been selected from around the world to actively participate in The World Knowledge Dialogue. Sponsors              | ||||
