The growing interdependence of the local and the global demand
innovative approaches to human development. Such approaches, the author
argues, ought to be based on the emerging ethics of global
intelligence, defined as the ability to understand, respond to, and
work toward what will benefit all human beings and will support and
enrich all life on this planet. As no national or supranational
authority can predefine or predetermine it, global intelligence
involves long-term, collective learning processes and can emerge only
from continuing intercultural research, dialogue, and cooperation. In
this book, the author elaborates the basic principles of a new field of
intercultural studies, oriented toward global intelligence. He proposes
concrete research and educational programs that would help create
intercultural learning environments designed to stimulate sustainable
human development throughout the world.