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'The WFSF emerged from the ideas and pioneering work of such persons as Igor Bestuzhev-Lada, Bertrand de Jouvenel, Johan Galtung, Robert Jungk, Eleonora Masini, John and Magda McHale and others who in the 1960s conceived of the concept of futures studies at the global level. This resulted in the organization of the first International Futures Research Conference in Oslo, Norway, in September 1967, for which Mankind 2000 was responsible in cooperation with the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, and the Institut für Zukunftsfragen. A Continuing Committee was created, with headquarters in Paris.'

'The aim of the Online Centre for Pedagogical Resources in Futures Studies is to develop an interactive global repository that will act as a hub to gather, store and interlink the diversity of futures pedagogical resources being created globally (including school, undergraduate, graduate, professional and lifelong learning). The project encourages participation and collaboration from all players in the ongoing establishment and development of the futures field, particularly through furthering access to leading-edge pedagogical research and practice.'

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Although thinking about the future has always been a part of human culture (e.g., soothsayers, prophets, and later 'utopians') it has only been in the past four to five decades that it has produced the academic research field known as Future Studies. The WFSF uses the plural term “futures” studies rather than the singular “future” studies to counter the notion that there is only one future the latter having both conceptual limitations and political implications. This pluralisation of futures opens up the territory for envisioning and creating alternative and preferred futures.'

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