ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the connections between emerging post-war notions of world, humanity and future, as embedded in conceptions of common futures and common problems to all of Mankind. Post-war organizations such as, for instance, Amnesty International, or indeed the World Futures Studies Federation which will be discussed here, were organized from the West and driven by Western agendas. The concept of Mankind was a reflection of global consciousness in two ways: first, the post-war that is that humanity was united by a common future was informed by understandings of planet and world as a matter of interdependency and systemic logic. Essential to such a unit was the creation of new forms of international cooperation around the study of the future and the creation of completely independent, national, international and supranational research-institutes, specially devoted to the coordinated study of the future.
