Dr. Linda Groff
Dr. Linda Groff and Dr. Paul Smoker at the Seminar '95: Karaoke Party
- Professor, Political Science & Futures Studies, California State
University, Domingues Hills.
Ph.D., M.A.L.D., and M.A. Degrees in International Relations,
The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy (at Tufts University \&
Coordinated with Harvard University), 1978, 1966 & 1963 respectively.
World Future Society; World Futures Studies Federation; Society for
Intercultural Education, Training, & Research.
- Papers: Social and Political Evolution, Encyclopedia of the Future,
Macmillan, New York, 1995;
Spirituality, Religion, and Peace: Exploring the Foundations of
Inner-Outer Peace in the 21st Century, Proceedings of UNESCO Conference
on ``Contributions of Religions to a Culture of Peace'',
UNESCO Centre de Catalunya, Barcelona, 1995 (with Paul Smoker);
Towards Global-Local Cultures of Peace, in Culture of Peace,
UNESCO, 1995-96 (with Paul Smoker).
- Dr. Groff has been teaching for 24 years, including 22 years at Cal.
State University, Domingues Hills, where she originally organized
a Future Policy Studies Minor, and regularly teaches courses in
futures, global, intercultural, peace & conflict resolution areas.
In addition, she is interested in the processes of creativity and
learning in different cultures, evolutionary/change processes, and
East-West spiritual traditions.
Dr. Groff was recently Lovelace Visiting Professor, Antioch College,
Winter, 1995, and served as resident director, California State
University International Program in Japan,
and associate dean, International Division, Waseda University in Tokyo,
1990-91. Earlier she taught one year at the University of British
Columbia and at Fresno State University.
She has been active in futures, intercultural, peace \& conflict
resolution, & other professional organizations over the years;
and has given talks, workshops, and interviews to a wide range of
professional, business, educational, religious, governmental,
community, and media groups over the years.
- To Dr. Groff, the only game in town is how we human beings are
going to learn to live together on this planet, in a way that not
only lets us survive, but increasingly meets the needs of people
on this planet, so that human creativity and spirit can be unleashed
and humanity as a whole and in its wonderful diversity can evolve,
using technology to improve our lives, while also living in harmony
with, and as caretakers of, our natural environment, planet earth.
She is committed to do her small part to see that these goals are
achieved. She also loves traveling to different countries and
cultures and having a global network of friends--which have all
enriched her life a great deal and helped her to grow, and sharing
life with her new partner and friend, Paul Smoker.
