IntegralJim Garrison
Integral Politics and Climate Change
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Jim Garrison is one of the Directors of State of the World Forum. He became President and Chairman of Wisdom University on February 2, 2005. Garrison is
also founder and President of the Gorbachev Foundation/USA, which set the stage for the establishment in 1995 of the State of the World Forum, a San Francisco based non-profit institution created to establish a global network of leaders dedicated to creating a more sustainable global civilization. With President Gorbachev as its Convening Chairman, the Forum convenes leaders from around the world and a spectrum of disciplines to its annual and regional conferences and has catalyzed the creation of several independent organizations. Garrison was born in China and grew up in Taiwan. After returning to the US, he began college at Pepperdine University (1969-70), attended the University of Tel Aviv in 1972, and received a B.A. magna cum laude in World History from the Santa Clara University (1973). He then received a double M.T.S. in Christology and History of Religion from Harvard Divinity School (1975); and a Ph.D. in
Philosophical Theology from Cambridge University (1982). Garrison published
his first book in 1980, The Plutonium Culture (SCM). This was followed by The
Darkness of God: Theology After Hiroshima (SCM/1982); The Russian Threat: Myths
and Realities (Gateway Books/ 1983); The New Diplomats (Resurgence Press/1984);
Civilization and the Transformation of Power (Paraview Press/2000); and America
As Empire: Global Leader or Rogue Power? (Barrett Koehler/2004). Garrison is
also active in Mosaic Networks, a business development company of which he
is a Founding Partner.
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