As we enter 2025, I want to share some reflections and intentions. One realization of last year has been this: Our number one challenge isn’t biodiversity loss, climate change, polarization, countries falling apart, or AI. It is our widespread illusion of insignificance — the belief that there’s nothing we can do about it. Surveys show that more

On July 31st, 2024, my father, Dieter Scharmer, passed away peacefully. At the age of 94, he had lived and worked almost his entire life on the same piece of land, a farm 50 kilometers north of Hamburg. The farm was founded 800 years ago by the Cistercians and owned for roughly 200 years by

Johan Galtung by Oberg PhotoGraphics On Saturday, February 17th, the Norwegian father of peace research as a science, Professor Johan Galtung, passed away in Oslo at the age of 93. After studying mathematics and sociology, Johan founded the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in 1959, the first institute of its kind for peace research. In 1964,