From the Clash to the Confluence of Civilizations

This is a hint to the Washington Summit of SDi in January 2007. It deals with macro*Memetics and I consider this approach -though not enough advanced in the SDi learnig curve -as currently the benchmark of large scale global change and transition processes. The integral field testing in Middle East, Mexico, South Africa and other places goes on and clearly spearheads the integral avantgarde in these spaces of turmoil, messy crises and emerging new world orders.

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2007 SDi Level Two Macro*Memetics Theme -

"From the Clash of the Confluence of Civilizations, Cultures and Religions: Positive Alternatives for the Emerging World System. Cartography for the 21st Century. "

Around the world religious conflicts are building to a peak. Regional, national and global organizations and alliances are struggling everywhere to come to terms with the growing threat of Islamic radicalism, the Middle-East mess, and the challenge of "the rest against the West." From the United Nations, to national governments, to a host of high-level groups internationally, all these entities are sincerely and earnestly groping for answers and solutions.

What to do? What to do? This refrain has become the global echo of our time.

Some believe that throwing more money or more military power at problem issues is the answer. Others work to bring about healthier support and development in the hotspots of the world, healthier youth programs, or smarter consensus alliances, or peace and civic education. Yet others stress the role of the media, or run-away migration issues, or cultural and socio-economic alienation, or a variety of these, as the "cause" of all the global conflicts.

The list of attempted solutions is endless. And, noble as all these efforts are, each is tragically bound to fail. Piecemeal initiatives cannot get it done.

The 2007 SDi Macro*Memetics event will be a call to arms to move beyond the surface level attempts and stereotypical projects that have failed in the past and will continue to fail now and in the future.

We will expose flawed, limited thinking, describe the required missing dynamics in all the prevailing initiatives out there, and unpack the in-depth solution to defusing religious conflicts and civilizational clashes. We will also explore the key leadership intelligences needed now to create and utilize transpartisan models and processes of problem-solving.

Because only by uncovering the universal value system priorities and codes that cut across artificially created categories can it become possible to construct a new world system that is integral rather than fragmented, and progressive rather than regressive.

What do YOU think could happen if we could see the whole world as vMemetic flows rather than artificially created categories such as "races," "religions," "East vs. West," and all similar "us vs. them" polarities?

It can be done, and this SDi event will show you how and why.

So join us in constructing the first Global Map to utilize new knowledge from the expanding fields of biopsychosocial systems research, cultural codes, and vMemetic mapping capacities.

The event will mesh the Spiral Dynamics concept of vMemetic emergence (reflecting the theoretical construct of Professor Clare W. Graves) with the Social Judgment (Assimilation-Contrast Effect) based on years of research by the late Dr. Muzafer and Carolyn W. Sherif, formerly at the University of Oklahoma and Penn State University.

This technology is viable at all levels of scale, from local neighborhoods to bioregions and from nation and city states to large-scale, global alliances.

Our intent will be to uncover and display the universal human codes, complex algorithms, and environmental dynamics that forge cultures, generate change and transformation and, ultimately, construct world systems.

Furthermore, by understanding the power and precision of these and other dynamic processes such as Authentic Transpartisanship , we will demonstrate how cultural codes, as human tectonic plates, actually morph, shift, collapse, collide, and lock into holy wars or spiral up to new and next levels of complexity.

By gaining an in-depth understanding of these cultural codes, much like the contributions from the Human Genome Project regarding our biological selves, we believe we can make substantial progress in sorting out some of the most difficult problems of our times.



During these three days, you will:

Discover - at last - how to defuse religious conflicts and civilizational clashes.

Learn how the dynamics of assimilation and contrast shape and reshape the religious and political continuums - and how to pre-empt, soften, or defuse extremist violence.

Find out why, when and how transpartisanship must be used to set systems right, to overcome decades of extreme views and cultural wars, and to intervene in times of extreme emergency and great global divides.

Explore the Power of the Third Win and what the new principles, processes and programs are that have the power and precision to shift us from the so-called clash to the confluence if civilizations.

Using cognitive input, open space technology, appreciative inquiry, and other such forms of knowing, our explorations will result in the following:

The discovery of the polylateral codes that can mesh unilateral, bilateral, and multilateral interests into a distributed intelligence, one that could be used jointly by those seeking after global solutions.

This new knowledge could be used by the United Nations, other global entities, or regional alliances, to deal with tribes, empires, nation states, multinational enterprises, and other such stakeholders.

We will focus specifically on defusing the great global divides that threaten human existence in the 21st Century. This will include such matters as conflicts over religion, economic models, sustainability concerns, and other matters.

Since we are dealing with the universal source code for the formation and behaviors of cultures, the same knowledge and mapping will be appropriate in profiling local communities, large-scale organizations, and other such human groupings.

After we construct the first Global Memetic map, we can then show how the world system forms, cascades, ebbs and flows, shapes and reshapes itself in a three-dimensional manner over the topography and landscape.

We will move beyond the artificial ego-centric. ethno-centric and world-centric categories to describe a universal values-centric (or meme-centric) or spiral-centric perspective on human emergence.

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This is what Dr. Don Beck added in the SDi Internet Forum:

"We will have several live and "live wire" presenters in Washington,
from Tom Barnett (The Pentagon's New Map)

writing better articles for suggestions. Thomas P.M. Barnett

Thomas P.M. Barnett (born 1960) is an American military geostrategist.

Contents [hide] 1 Education and career 2 Ideas and concepts 3 Bibliography 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Education and career

Barnett was born in Chilton, Wisconsin, and grew up in Boscobel, Wisconsin. A distant cousin, Major General George Barnett (also raised in Boscobel), was Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I. After graduation from Boscobel High School, Barnett received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Russian Language and Literature, and International Relations. He received his Ph.D from Harvard in Political Science.

From 1998 through 2004, Barnett was a Senior Strategic Researcher and Professor in the Warfare Analysis & Research Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island.

At the Naval War College, Barnett served as Director of the NewRuleSets.Project an effort designed to explore how the spread of globalization alters the basic "rules of the road" in the international security environment, with special reference to how these changes redefine the U.S. Military's historic role as "security enabler" of America's commercial network ties with the world.[1] The project was hosted by Cantor Fitzgerald and took place near the top of One World Trade Center.

Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, from October 2001 to June 2003, Barnett worked as the Assistant for Strategic Futures in the Office of Force Transformation in the Department of Defense under the direction of the late Vice Admiral (ret). Arthur K. Cebrowski, during which time he created a Powerpoint brief that developed into his book The Pentagon's New Map.[2]

In 2003, he wrote an article titled "The Pentagon's New Map" for Esquire magazine that outlined many of these ideas. He developed the article in a book The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century published in 2004.

A sequel Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating was published in 2005.

Barnett is currently the Senior Managing Director of Enterra Solutions, a contributing editor for Esquire magazine, a Distinguished Scholar and Author at the Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee, and a columnist for the Knoxville News Sentinel.[3]

to Georgie Anne Geyer (on
Tunisia as a model for sacred and secular integration of a whole
country) and several global authorities on the Islamic system as
well.

 Geyer

Geyer graduated from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism in 1956. After accepting a Fulbright Scholarship to study modern history in Vienna, Austria, she worked as a reporter for Chicago's Southtown Economist, before joining the Chicago Daily News, from 1959-1975. She was correspondent in Latin America and foreign correspondent for the Chicago newspaper before going on to the Los Angeles Times as a syndicated columnist on international, domestic and women's affairs. Her column appears in 120 newspapers in the United States and Latin America. Her interview list includes Fidel Castro, Juan Peron, Ayatollah Khomeini, Saddam Hussein, Yassar Arafat, Ronald Reagan and George Bush. Northwestern University honored Geyer with its Alumnae Merit Award in 1968, the Alumnae Award in 1981 and Medill's Hall of Achievement Award in 1996. In addition to her reporting for newspapers and journals, Geyer has written numerous books pertaining to international affairs and politics.

 
We have had significant conversations with the Office of
Public Diplomacy at the State Department and I believe Elza and I
will be invited to present a briefing on why we have failed to
connect in a systemic fashion with
Arab-Islamic societies. As you well know Elza is quickly becoming a
powerful voice on the "confluence." She recently joined with Dr.
William Ury in the Harvard Negotiation Project on what is called the
Abraham Path initiative on a tour through the Middle East. I've heard
from several people associated with Harvard University that they were
most impressed with her knowledge, interpersonal skills in dealing
with Arabs, and ability to translate memetically the real issues. We
are doing joint presentations in late January in Palestine, involving
elements from Hamas and Fatah. As you are aware this is a dangerous time."