ULRICH BECK is Professor of Sociology, Munchen, Germany DAN BRANSDSTROM is former Director of the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, and Chairman of the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond's Sector Committee for Culture, Security and Sustainable Social Development GUDEUN DAHL is Professor of Social Anthropology and Dean of the Social Faculty at Stockholm University, Sweden ALF HORNBORG is Professor of Human Ecology, Lund University, Sweden SAAS EDDIN IBRAHIM is Professor and Director of Ibn Khaldun Center of Development, Cairo, Egypt URBAN JONSSON is former Regional Director of the United Nations Children's Fund ENRIQUE RODRIGUEZ LARRETA is Director of Centre for Cultural Studies, Sergio Mendes University, Rio de Janeiro FREDRIK LUNDMARK is Secretary of the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond's Sector Committee for Culture, Security and Sustainable Social Development PENINA MLAMA is Professor and Executive Director of the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), Nairobi, Kenya JAN NEDERVEEN PIETERSE is Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois, USA THORAYA OBAID is Executive Director, the United Nations Population Fund OSVALDO SUNKEL is Emeritus Professor of Economics, Santiago de Chile PONNA WIGNARAJA is Chairman of South Asian Perspectives Network Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka