Harlan Cleveland (January 19, 1918 – May 30, 2008) was an American

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, and

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. He served as

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from 1965 to 1969, and earlier as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1961 to 1965. He was president of the

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from 1969 to 1974, president of the

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in the 1990s, and Founding dean of the

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. Cleveland also served as dean of the

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from 1956 to 1961. He was born in New York City to Stanley Matthews Cleveland and Marian Van Buren. His siblings were Harold van Buren Cleveland, an economist, Anne Cleveland White, an artist, and Stanley Cleveland, a diplomat. He attended

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and graduated from

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in 1938. He was a

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in the late 1930s. He was an early advocate and practitioner of

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, teaching courses for the

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and Connected Education in the 1980s and early 1990s. During the 1980s Cleveland was elected as a Fellow of the

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(WAAS) and a member of the

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and served actively in both organization for more than a quarter century. He served as president of the World Academy of Art Science (1990–1998) and remained a member of the board of trustees until his death in 2008. After participating in the final meeting of the International Commission on Peace & Food (ICPF) at the Carter Presidential Center in October 1993, Cleveland released ICPF’s report to the UN entitled Uncommon Opportunities: Agenda for Peace & Equitable Development at the Minneapolis General Assembly in October 1994 and then served as chairman of the commission’s successor organization International Center for Peace and Development in California through the rest of his lifetime. He also represented both WAAS and ICPD at the 10th anniversary conference of ICPF in Delhi in October 2004. During this period, the academy took up a number of the research programs initiated by ICPF, including its work on nuclear abolition, cooperative security, employment and theory of social development. He authored twelve books, among his best-known are ''The Knowledge Executive'' (1985) and ''Nobody in Charge: Essays on the Future of Leadership'' (2002). He also published hundreds of journal and magazine articles. His final published writing was the opening chapter for "Creating a Learning Culture: Strategy, Technology, and Practice" (2004) entitled, "Leading and learning with nobody in charge." He was awarded 22 honorary degrees, the U.S.

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, Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson Award, the Peace Corps' Leader for Peace Award, and the

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. He was the co-winner (with Bertrand de Jouvenel) of the 1981 Prix de Talloires, an international award for "accomplished generalists". He was a trustee of the Chaordic Commons.http://www.guidestar.org/ViewPdf.aspx?PdfSource=0&ein=36-3964557

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Obituary in The Washington Post

University of Hawaii press releaseIn Memory of Harlan Cleveland by Patrick Mendis in The Minnesota Post

External links

Club of Rome

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