The Janus Project       

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Why is it called the Janus Project?

Janus is extracted from ancient Roman mythology. He was popularly represented with two faces facing opposite directions.

The name "Janus" was chosen for this project because the god's plurality was thought to best symbolize the world's diverse socio-political landscape and visually represents a meeting of minds.

Roman mythology holds that Janus represents the transition between primitive life and civilization, chaos and order, war and peace.

Janus introduced of the system of the years, the changing of the seasons, the ups and downs of fortune, and the civilization of the human race by means of agriculture, industry and the arts.

Janus brought the people a time of peace and welfare. He introduced money, cultivation of the fields, and the laws. Janus was the orchestrator of all things, and of all enterprises. He began things and ended things.

In his left hand he held a key to show that he opened shut all things, and in his right hand he carried a long virgate rod with which he controlled all undertakings and their progress.

The doors of his temple were kept open in times of war so he would be ready to intervene when necessary. In times of peace the doors were closed.

The month of January is named after Janus.

The concept of a world summit for "a peace without victory", originated with Adam Davidson in 1985, in Sydney Australia.

The concept was developed by Mr. Davidson and his network of associates from The Scots College, Sydney, Mitchell College, Bathurst, and working peers among in the commercial media and communication arts academic spaces.

The Janus Project has been driven under two public companies limited by guarantee. The Janus Foundation International Ltd and the International Janus Committee Ltd.

The Janus Foundation International Ltd was created in June 1991 as a nonprofit organization. The founding members of Janus had backgrounds in public relations, legal, accounting, marketing, television, journalism and performing arts.

From 1991 to 1993, the N.E.W.S. World Summit event was shaped following meeting with key officials at the (UNDPI) United Nations, New York, Intelsat, Washington, and religious academics in the USA.

An early proposal along these lines was made in 1993, to UNDPI for the UN's 50th Anniversary celebration in 1995.  It was rejected on the grounds that the UN Secretariat is not mandated to initiate or support projects that involve commercial enterprises and mix individuals with the affairs of state of UN Members.

Since 1995, the Janus Project was refined to emphasize the political, commercial and social interests of all participants while accommodating the sensitivities of the dominant religious groups and global institutions like the United Nations and its system of organizations.

Throughout this process, the Janus Project sought political, broadcast, entertainment, and NGO executives and professionals and opinion leaders for event format, government lobbying and operational costs advice from key Olympic Games exetutives from Sydney Australia.

Feedback from religious leaders has also helped frame how the Janus Project could be symbolically relevant to the major cultural religious groups.

In May 2000, the Janus Project proposal was submitted to the world via the Internet. A number of key people where sourced to form a "Brains Trust" to promote the project to targeted individuals and governments.

In late 2004, Adam Davidson, the prime administrator of the Janus Project, moved from Sydney Australia to Washington DC.

The task at hand then, and now again, is to gain the interests of governments and their Heads of State or Heads of Government, the media, corporations, and of course, individuals - the world's real base of power.

Adam Davidson is the Principal Consultant for ADVOCATION LLC, a recruitment services and consulting firm based in the Washington DC metropolitan area, and is the Federal Sales Manager for Taleo Corporation, the world's leading technology and software-as-a-service company for human capital management solutions. 

Mr. Davidson currently provides an enormous amount of US and international recruitment knowledge and perspective to the processes and challenges facing government agencies, non-profit organizations, and private enterprise. Mr. Davidson is responsible for developing business relationships and managing client deliverables.

Mr. Davidson has managed clients in the government and private sectors for 25 years.  He spent almost 15 years as a commercial radio broadcaster and producer, before spending the past 10 years dealing directly with HR related client issues specific to recruitment in Australia and the USA.

In government, his unique understanding of the problems and recruitment solution options and processes available to the US Federal Government has resulted in the Obama Administration's Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management accepting his hiring policy change recommendations to implement new federal hiring policies and processes across government. 

Mr. Davidson's experience in recruitment service projects lends itself to the US Federal Government contractor-to-FTE processes, all USC Title 5 protocols and flexibilities, Excepted Service Agency flexibilities, Direct Hire Authority recruitment, and internal merit promotion.  He is also the most knowledgeable expert on all government job-board candidate gateways, the government's various applicant rating & ranking recruitment and aptitude assessment technology options. 

Previously, Mr. Davidson built and led Korn/Ferry International's volume recruitment and consulting division, Futurestep, as the Government Practice Leader.  Prior to that he was with the national recruitment technology and talent management services company, Kenexa, where he was the Federal Director of the Government Solutions practice delivering technology and RPO solutions.  Prior to that, Mr. Davidson was Monster Worldwide's Federal Director of Monster Government Solutions where he developed and managed business relationships with federal civilian agencies and international public sector organizations. Mr. Davidson's experience at Monster also extends back almost 10 years to Australia where he also led the nation's largest government recruiting services practice as its Principal Consultant and Client Relationship Manager.
 
Mr. Davidson's earlier working career was in broadcasting, advertising, sponsorship and media production with multiple radio and television enterprises across Australia.

Mr. Davidson's work in the US has extended to being Chairman of the Hiring and Succession Planning Committee of the Industry Advisory Council, a public-private partnership network supporting and advising the US Federal Government's CHCO Council.

Mr. Davidson holds both a bachelors degree in communication (Mitchell College) and a master of business administration degree from Charles Sturt University, Australia.

Mr. Davidson visits the Unitarian Universalist congregation in Fairfax VA, and is a visiting Master Mason to lodges in VA & DC.