Mahdi Elmandjra (Morocco)
Summary biography
Professor Mahdi Elmandjra graduated from Cornell (USA) and obtained his Ph.D.
from the London School of Economics. He teaches international relations at the
University
of
Rabat
since 1958.
He was Director General of the Moroccan Broadcasting Service and Counselor of
the Moroccan Mission to the UN. He occupied various functions in the UN System
(1961 to 1981) including that of Assistant Director General of UNESCO for
Social Sciences, Human Sciences and Culture.
He was President of the World Future Studies Federation and of Futuribles
International (Paris) as well as the Founding President of the Moroccan
Association of Future Studies and the Moroccan Organization of Human Rights.
He is a member of the
African
Academy
of Sciences
and of the Academy of the
Kingdom
of
Morocco
. He has been
a Visiting Professor to
Tokyo
University
(1998) and a
Visiting Scholar of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
at the
Tokyo
Keizai
University
(1999).
He has published several books and over 500 articles in the fields of the
human and social sciences - see <http://www.elmandjra.org/pub.htm>.
He is a co-author of "No Limits to Learning" (Report to the Club
of Rome, 1979) and the author of several books including "The United
Nations System" (1973), "Maghreb et Francophonie" (1988),
"Premiere Guerre Civilisationnelle" (1991), "Retrospective des
Futurs" (1992), "Nord-Sud, Prelude a l'Ere Postcoloniale"
(1993), «Cultural Diversity Key
to Survival» (1995),» (1996), «Decolonisation Culturelle : Defi majeur du
21e Siecle» (1996), "Reglobalization of globalization" (2000),
"Communication Dialogue" (2000),“Intifadates”
(2001),
Humiliation à
l'ère du méga-impérialisme (2003) et Ihana (2004). Many of his books have been translated to Japanese such as “The
First
Civilizational War” (1999) and “The Afghan War : The Second
Civlizational War, The End of an Empire”.
Professor
Elmandjra received the Prix de la Vie Economique 1981 (France), the Grand
Medal of the French Academy of Architecture (1984), the distinctions of
Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters (France, 1985) and of the Order of
The Rising Sun (Japan, 1986). He also received the Peace Medal of the
Albert
Einstein
International
Academy
and the Award of the World Future
Studies Federation (WFSF) in 1995. In 2002 he was made the first honorary
member of the Moroccan Association of Researchers and Scientists (MARS).