THE FORMAL INAUGURATION OF THE WORLD CENTRE FOR NEW THINKING WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE 24TH JUNE, 2004 AT ITS PREMISES: VILLA BIGHI, KALKARA, CSP 12, MALTA.
MEMBERS OF THE MALTA GOVERNMENT AND MEMBERS OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORP WILL BE PRESENT AT THE INAUGURATION.
There are many world problems and conflicts that might benefit from new ideas and new thinking. Before any negotiating conference there needs to be a design conference that can turn up the new ideas and possibilities that can never emerge during the argument stage.
Information, analysis, judgement and argument are never enough without new ideas. There is at the moment no mechanism in the world for putting forward new ideas that are so needed. Representative bodies like the UN cannot do so because new ideas are new and not representative.
The purpose of the new Centre is to provide a platform for new ideas from any source. This platform would give visibility to the ideas.
The Centre would also act as an organizing focus for setting up task forces and conferences to generate possibilities in specified areas. In this way it would supplement existing thinking.
The Centre would also offer training in formal creative methods and would provide creative facilitation for meetings when asked to do so.
The direct and exclusive focus on new thinking and new ideas is what makes the Centre so unique and so needed.
Organisations and governments that wish to float new ideas can do so through the Centre.
Malta has been chosen as the site for the Centre because it is small and neutral without a political agenda. Malta is never going to have economic, political or military power but Malta can have economic power and can offer a facility to provide new ideas. It is possible that Malta also has the oldest civilisation in the world as a stone age temple in Malta is acknowledged as the oldest man made structure in the world. So from the oldest civilisation may come the newest ideas.
THE CENTRE IS THE INITIATIVE OF EDWARD DE BONO AND THE EDWARD DE BONO FOUNDATION (MALTA).
Edward de Bono is regarded by many as the leading authority in the world in formal creative thinking. His work has been translated into thirty seven languages.
