Strategies for Bridging Global Gaps

This a very insightful:

Report from the Forum 2000 Conference 2003

http://www.forum2000.cz/

Its 30 pages long, written by Peter Merry from Dutch Center for Human Emergence and provides very insightful perspectives and global problem solution sequences. Guided by the approach of basically Spiral Dynamics Integral, adding background of Dee Hocks work, Otto Scharmer , Ken Wilber and others.





Here are Executive Summary and Introduction:

"No more prizes for forecasting the rain. Only prizes for building the arks." Don Beck

"One cannot merely follow the timetable we have set for our influence on the world, we must alsohonour and respect the infintely more complex timetable the table has set for itself. That timetable is the sum of the thousands of independent timetables of an infinite number of natural, historical and human actions." Vaclav Havel


Executive Summary

This paper outlines dilemmas that emerged out of the Forum 2000 Bridging Global
Gaps conference 2003, analyses the dilemmas in an integral framework, and makes
suggestions for how the conference could be taken forward in the future. It also
serves as a more general guide for those working with global problem-solving today.
The integral framework has as its goal to be able to find space for all sides of the
dilemmas present, show how they relate to each other and could be transcended to
move forward with global problem-solving. The different sides of the dilemmas are
expressions of different perspectives active in the world today. These perspectives are
bound up with the life conditions that people on the planet face.
Some of the perspectives are related to deep value systems which are active due to
those varying life conditions. These value systems can be located on an evolutionary
framework to show how they inter-relate. Other perspectives are tied up with
dynamics of change that focus on global problem-solving triggers, including power
relationships. This analysis draws particularly on the work of Don Beck and Ken
Wilber.
The recommendations deal with the kind of space that is needed for global problemsolving,
the integral perspective that enables one to consciously move ahead with all
perspectives in the picture, and suggested focus for the content of the conferences.
The space needs to be one which holds people together behind a common purpose,
framed by collective principles which serve that purpose and ensure that people speak
as world citizens for the common good, rather than from their own narrow agenda.
This concept draws on the work of Dee Hock and Claus Otto Scharmer, and our
experience at Engage! InterAct.
The suggested focus for the conferences includes bringing in insight around change
dynamics, as well as picking a few inherently global issues and starting off global
problem-solving processes for each issue, inspired by Jean-Francois Rischard's Global
Issues Networks. Following an analysis of change conditions, it also suggests a focus
on identifying current barriers to change, and on exploring what kind of consolidation
systems might need to be in place to support this change.
The paper as a whole draws its inspiration from Vaclav Havel's insights on change
(illustrated by two quotes in the paper), and Ken Wilber's integral vision for global
governance. I trust this paper helps us to take another step in the right direction.

Introduction

In October 2003, the Forum 2000 Foundation organised its seventh conference, more
recently entitled "Bridging Global Gaps". I was invited "to create an integral map
based on evolutionary systems thinking which identifies how the ideas and institutions
present at the Bridging Global Gaps conference 2003 relate to each other and our
current global problems". Another element of the task was to observe the process at
work, and make suggestions for how it could be developed to better reflect the kind of
problem-solving processes that are needed to solve Inherently Global Issues (IGIs)1.
The objectives are to provide a report for the Bridging Global Gaps 2003 Conference
which:
.. presents an overview of how the different initiatives and institutions present at the
Conference relate to each other in a developmental context
.. identifies apparent flash-points and conflicts between initiatives and institutions,
and plots them out on the integral map
.. creates a framework which includes all the ideas and projects, and enables one to
see them in a bigger context in relation to each other and the development of
human society
.. outlines a framework for the more conscious development of effective global
governance
.. develops a clearer picture of how to pull together a package and process that
meets the needs of all
The report comprises of three main sections. The first names the dilemmas,
identifying the paradoxes and tensions which surfaced at the conference. The second
unmasks the dynamics, providing a framework with which to understand how these
paradoxes and tensions relate to each other, and how one might be able to reconcile
them. The third makes suggestions for taking it forward, in future Bridging Global
Gaps conferences (or similar events), both in terms of content and process.

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