International

Best Ideas

1. Strong neighbourhoods as the best defence against terrorism
2. Russia and Armageddon
3. The right to secede and to privatise
4. Return of the European city-states
5. The Swiss Example
6. The Brussels two-council model for Jerusalem
7. Golan Heights Peace Park
8. An pan-racial electoral system
9. Stakeholder democracy for Australia
10. Countries to seek bankruptcy protection
11. Sprouted food in famine areas to save on fuel
12. Trickle Up programme
13. Asian carpets without child labour
14. One traveller's initiative to save Jaisalmer
15. Strategic Questions for cleaning up the Ganges
16. Curitiba and its visionary mayor
17. Orangi slum transformed by street committees and small loans
18. Grameen-model village banking in Costa Rica
19. Grameen Banks for women in the States

Social Inventions

1. Harry Schultz Forecasts
2. The physics of politics
3. Re-inventing Democracy
4. 26 regions for South Africa
5. Devolution in Italy and the Nordic countries
6. Democracy and wealth depend on 'civicness'
7. Subsidiarity to be defined from the bottom up
8. A tribal Afghanistan needed
9. Twinning between affluent and poor villages
10. Estonian Renaissance Award
11. Combatting uranium pollution of indigenous peoples
12. State Dowry feasibility study
13. Optimum Population Trust
14. Tobacco companies - the most powerful forces on earth

Book of Visions

1. Dismember the superpowers
2. Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation
3. The shire as the fundamental unit of government
4. Europe of Many Circles
5. The Russian Republic itself must dissolve
6. Welcoming a Balkanised Europe
7. Protecting minorities in the emerging democracies
8. Avoiding civil wars - new constitutions for emerging democracies
9. A new type of directly elected president
10. Exporting the Swiss constitution
11. What rights should local areas have?
12. South African cantonisation
13. Four regions in Ireland
14. Two states, one holy land
15. A new Palestinian homeland within Egypt from reclaimed desert
16. The State Dowry concept for relieving population pressure
17. Best Buys from the Third World
18. Fair Trade Mark for ethical Third World produce
19. Giving food surpluses without undermining local farmers
20. Village Aid
21. Chickens for Children
22. Wonderboxes & Simply Living
23. Engineers' aid to developing world villages
24. Grameen Banks for the poorest of the poor
25. Ashoka funding for innovators in the developing world
26. The Trickle Up Programme
27. Ladakh - a global model
28. Right Governance Awards to governments
29. Ten commandments for extra-planetary travellers

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