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In 2004/05, IFF / Praxis was paid £32,000 by Nirex "to provide corporate communications advice in relation to the Managing Radioactive Waste Safely (MRWS) consultation programme".<ref>David Wild, [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/9/94/Jean.PDF Freedom of Information Request, Letter to Jean McSorley, Senior Advisor to Greenpeace UK], July 15, 2005.</ref> As part of its "programme of support" for Nirex, IFF has produced a "present and future strategy mural" for "thinking through the intractable issues of waste management over long timescales".
==History==
:We have developed a body of theory, practice and wide experience in taking on seemingly intractable challenges and developing the capacities in individuals, teams, organisations and communities to flourish in today's powerful times.'
But, although [[BP]] provided the money, it was the [[Scottish Council Foundation]] which established The International Futures Forum (IFF) in 2001 â??"to bring international thinking to bear on our workâ??work".<ref name="Scottish Foundation">[http://web.archive.org/web/20060502015049/http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/about.php"About Us"] (, Scottish Council Foundation, Accessed 17February 2005)May 2, 2006.</ref>, i.e. to promote policy ideas derived from policy transfer. Today, the IFF is independent of the SCF and it seems as if it has not proven particularly valuable to the SCFâ??SCF's rather pragmatic approach to public policy. The IFF, which tries to bring together so-called "deep thinkers" in order to â??"examine[s] deep structures in the modern global system inits search for a second enlightenment'[http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/about.php] (Accessed 17 February 2005)", has rather obscure aims and purposes.
==Funding==
We are grateful to the following organisations for their core support
* [[BP]]
* [[BT]]
Website: http://www.internationalfuturesforum.co.uk/
==Articles and Resources=====Sources===<references/> ===Related SourceWatch Articles===*[[Think tanks]] ===External links===*Hartwig Pautz, "[http://www.psa.ac.uk/2005/pps/Pautz.pdf Think-Tanks in Scotland]", Paper for the 55th Political Studies Association Annual conference, University of Leeds, 4-7 April 2005. [[Category: Think tanks]][[Category:United Kingdom]][[Category:Nuclear Power]]