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International Ethical, Scientific and Political Collegium, also called Collegium International  is a high-level group created in 2002.

Origin
The International Ethical, Political and Scientific Collegium is committed, according to its founders "to respond intelligently and forcefully to the decisive challenges facing humankind". An appeal calling for the Collegium's establishment was made public in February 2002 in New York and its membership was officially presented on 2 April 2003 in Brussels before the European Parliament.

Collegium members and associate members, signatories of the Appeal, are scientists, philosophers and present and former Heads of State and Government.

Composition
Co-chaired by Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France, and Milan Kucan, who at the time of the Collegium's founding was President of the Republic of Slovenia, the group's members include: former Presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil and Alpha Oumar Konaré of Mali; Ruth Dreifuss, former Federal Counsellor of Switzerland; philosophers Edgar Morin, Jürgen Habermas and Jean-Pierre Dupuy; political analyst Benjamin Barber; international law professor Mireille Delmas-Marty; Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Nobel Prize winners Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen; as well as former Ambassador of France to the United Nations Stéphane Hessel, who was also present at the creation of the United Nations itself, former ambassador of the USA William vanden Heuvel.

His Secretary General is Sacha Goldman, journalist and film producer.

Open letters, Public meetings, conferences, etc.

 * September 2004 : Open letter to the Candidates of the 2004 United States Presidential Election, President George W. Bush)] and Senator [[John Kerry, published in The Nation, US-based weekly magazine


 * March 2007 : Roundtable in Geneva on the realisation of economic, social and cultural rights

Links

 * Collegium international Official Website


 * An Ethical Think-link By Sacha Goldman United Nations UN Chronicle 2004


 * It's a Small Word After All by Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation, Sept.16, 2004


 * Plenary Meeting of the International Ethical, Scientific and Political Collegium (13-14 October 2006)