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Wanted: Needed: Integral agenda
for shared voices and action
Dear Subscribers
As we are all "others" or marginalised
strangers - most of the time, I decided to combine my message, addressing
urban and pagan people at the same time. I would have loved to find a more
general section in all these weeks of the lifeonline debate, but here we
are addressing the basics first !
1. In the countryside people are more rooted and connected to earth and living matters and typically care more due to less "overload". I will therefore try to combine the best of both worlds. In cities we have a greater potential to find people which are already starting to cope with the co-existence of different cultures – what we call inter-generational - intercultural dialogue... people who dare to go beyond the right or wrong and see with other eyes and realise the marginalization as something artificial and arbitrary.
In cities new forms of dialogue started
in Salons, now we have a new form of dialogue or dialogue culture as a
social innovation, to bring small and big potatoes, honorary guests and
surprise guests to one table, and exercise in local and non-local groups,
like we plan for the vun.org (VIRTUAL UNITED NATIONS project) to give VOICE
and to keep the "talkers" in "check": please see http://open-forum.de
2. The moment people are ready to sit
at a table we can try to empower, give voice, co-create, so new potentials
to share and act get results and foremost see that the other position and
perspective also has its merits. People in towns, especially in big towns,
learned there are also "other people," not the ones from "here" so they
are often, as we have experienced, willing to take on the next step, see
through their "eyes", develop an ability to add and merge and morph perspectives,
create new forms of creativity. Please see:
COUNCIL OF EUROPE: http://benking.de/meta-paradigm.htm
3. THE GLOBAL "GRAND" CHALLENGE: is
not only to do better research but see how things are connected and to
gain overview in order to relate levels, proportions, and consequences.
We have done this in physical exhibition models for the German Chancellery,
preparing the visit of the WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL CHANGE to have
not only scientists, but everybody see what is at stake, where we are,
and where the leverage points are. (Donella Meadows).
http://benking.de/Global-Change/GRAND-ENVIRONMENTAL-CHALLENGES-US-UCAR.html
4. When preparing RIO 1992 some people
have been looking at an INTEGRAL AGENDA, so we not only have one sector
or one issue or one international organisation, GO or NGO, but see the
issues in a common layout, we called the central OUTCOME of Rio '92 to
establish "common frames" of references:
http://benking.de/Global-Change/FIGXX-Melbourne-1994.htm
And to go beyond the "one" AGENDA,
an INTEGRAL AGENDA as only with above "common frames of references" and
AGENDA makes sense and can be followed:
http://benking.de/Global-Change/bucky-integral-agenda.html
5. The central question asked here
is what we need most for RIO. I think it is the common will to go beyond
the one issue or insular interest only and confront a bigger concert of
maps/models.
What the organisers in this round
of Earth Summit preparation need most I think is the time and openness
to see what is already there, what was prepared since long for institutions
in charge, like UNU, UIA, UNESCO and not reinvent the wheel or always starting
from square one. Instead broadly and widely allowing people to see a broader
and deeper scaffolding of "affairs" AND see that the sectors interact for
example locally, globally and integrally: see INTEGRAL AGENDA above.
Institutions since long working in
this field, beside the known UNEP and UNDP and WHO should be included.
Some mayor players were here:
http://benking.de/Global-Change/local-global-change-1991.html
MY RECOMMENDATIONS: Let us put more attention to:
A: TECHNOLOGY ISSUES:
see: ROBUST PATHS TO GLOBAL STABILITY:
http://benking.de/Global-Change/globalstability.htm
B: MEDIA AND CYBERCULTURE CHALLENGES
in respect to EDUCATION and a HUMANE INFORMATION SOCIETY: http://benking.de/Global-Change/un-vision-television.html
C: An INTEGRAL AGENDA and forms of
Sharing and Dialogue (as above).
We need to underline that not single
position but the concert of aspects and views form a greater whole.
See WHOLENESS Seminar: We have the
possibility to look at matters by stepping back and so the a frame where
sectors and issues relate, where no single position needs to be marginalized.
This can be done on the local http://www.open-forum.de/wheel.html
or global level: http://open-forum.de/shadowy.html.
The challenge is to integrate the
levels, sectors and times and present the
vicious problem circles in the sustainabiltiy debate:
http://www.uia.org/transfor/a11aa.htm which we presentl update and include for the up-coming IHDGC conference under the title: WANTED: AN INTEGRAL AGENDA: horizontal, vertical, sectoral and integral policies in common frames of references at:
http://www.benking.de/Global-Change/IDGEC-_GAPC_proposal-Benking.html
D: Review and include more substantially and in an on-going predictable form existing institutions like: the UIA http://www.uia.org/
Or our Millennium Project with the new STATE OF THE FUTURE 2001, but also with the reports from yesteryear!!: http: http://www.stateofthefuture.org
and new movements around the CIVIL
SOCIETY, like the NETWORK OF WORLDWIDE PROJECTS:
http://benking.de/RADIO-BRIDGE-OVERSEAS.htm
And let us try in this times of tragedy and violence new steps, ways and means, to not just use words but make them solid so they can lead to shared concern and action, expanded identities and extra and "solid" visions and perspectives
I would like to give this as an example:
http://vun.org
All the best and good health for planet
Earth in times of change, needed change for our thinking, acting, and sharing/caring.
heiner benking
Millennium Project
(written in shock and full of concern
before and after Sept 11. 2001)
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