Home Overview Projects Method Visuals Resources Context Associates Contact Overview   Significance of the domain name: www.un-intelligible.org Challenge to comprehension implied by the logo Knowledge Management Initiatives Intent exemplified by Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential Intent reframed within the Union of International Associations Reclaiming the heritage of misappropriated collective endeavour Intent exemplified by Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential   Press releases Contextual Concerns Existential Challenge Strategic Assumptions Objectives Significance Distinguishing Uses of the Encyclopedia Uses of the Encyclopedia Interactive Access and Future developments Section Interrelationships Comprehension of Sustainable Integration Encyclopedia Illusions: Rationale for an Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential Press releases   Cycles de problèmes vicieux et stratégies dissipatrices (Nov 1996) Sustainable Strategies vs Cycles of Vicious Problems (March 1996) International Organization Data on CD-ROM (Dec 1995) Sustainable Strategies vs Cycles of Vicious Problems (Sept 1995) Sustainable Development of the Individual? (Jan 1995) A la chasse de cycles vicieux de problemes(1994) Australians Hunting 10,000 World Problems in Brussels (1994) Mapping Pandora's Heritage (1988) Intent reframed within the Union of International Associations   Multi-dimensional long-term commitment Paradoxical and "negative" viability Integrated strategic context Long-term viability Civil society and ethical commitment Knowledge management & Reference information Audiences, recognition & "re-presentation" Research, publications & comprehension Information culture / Ongoing work / Projects Multi-dimensional long-term commitment   Multi-dimensional scope Continuity & Future orientation Paradoxical and "negative" viability   Paradoxical viability "Negative capability" Integrated strategic context   Governance context Integrated databases Long-term viability   Self-financing capacity Innovative capacity (Application development) Production capacity Civil society and ethical commitment   Civil society (NGOs) Ethical commitment Facilitation services Knowledge management & Reference information   Reference information Knowledge organization Multimedia / Web Audiences, recognition & "re-presentation"   Interfaces / Audiences Recognition "Re-presentation" Research, publications & comprehension   Research & Statistics Publications Complexity comprehension Information culture / Ongoing work / Projects   Information culture Ongoing work Projects Reclaiming the heritage of misappropriated collective endeavour   Conflicting claims to territory and property: real or virtual "Existence" of collective entities Value context Deprecated arguments Exploitation of contractual relationships Reclaiming a heritage Projects   Projects overview Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential Articulation / Implementation of web strategy Systematic solicitation of institutional project funding Cessation of the Union of Intelligible Associations Projects overview   World problems project Global strategies project Human development project Human values project Integrative knowledge project Metaphor and patterns project Transformative approaches project Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential   1972-1976: Yearbook 1983-1995: Editions 2,3,4 and CD 1997-2000: Web-based developments Articulation / Implementation of web strategy   Simulating a global brain Diversitas bid for management of the .ORG web domain registry Systematic solicitation of institutional project funding   Ecolynx: Information Context for Biodiversity Conservation Interactive Conceptual Environmental Planning Tool for Developing Countries Cultivating Knowledge Ecosystems: adapting visual arts and music Local Action Dynamics: Knowledge patterns for the Lisbon Strategy Global Knowledge Grid for Understanding Globalization CiviLynx: Gateway to Civil Society Organization Information Cessation of the Union of Intelligible Associations   Enabling a Living Library Generating a Million Questions from UIA Databases Method   Explanatory commentaries on set of projects Explanatory commentaries on World Problems Project Explanatory commentaries on Global Strategies Project Explanatory commentaries on Human Development Project Explanatory commentaries on Integrative Knowledge Project Explanatory commentaries on Human Values Project Explanatory commentaries on Transformative Approaches Project Explanatory commentaries on Metaphors/Patterns Project Visuals   Selected presentations of interrelationships between UIA databases Selected Screen-shots of Problem and Organization Networks in Virtual Reality (PDF images) Network visualizations (PDF images) Gallery of screen shots of virtual reality displays (interrelated problems or organizations) Experimental representations of entity interrelationships (using SVG) NetMap visualizations of questions, world problems, global strategies, and values Network visualizations (PDF images)   2001: Spring maps (organizations, problems, strategies, values) 2002: Network analyses (organizations, problems, strategies, values) 2003: Network analyses (organizations, problems, strategies, values) 2004: Network analyses (organizations, problems, strategies, values) NetMap visualizations of questions, world problems, global strategies, and values   Problems and strategies: Energy / Water / Strategies against violence Questions: Peace-related / Faith/Prosperity-related Pattern-language Human values Resources   Specific documents Collections of documents Other documentary resources Context   Association context (map) Complementary initiatives Research resources Historical associations Complementary initiatives   Cognitive Fusion Reactor (ITER-8) Union of Imaginable Associations University of Earth Union of the Whys Research resources   Laetus in Praesens Historical associations   Union of Intelligible Associations Union of International Associations Mankind 2000 / Humanité 2000

Projects Overview (Explanations) Global Strategies Project Explanatory Comments Global Strategies Project 1. Statistics 1.1 Table 1 - Encyclopedia Project developments (1976-1995) 1.2 Table 2 - Strategy entries and relationships by section (1995) 1976-1995 1998: world problems and strategies 1996-2000 2000: loops (Feedback Loops Linking World Problems). 2. Introduction 2.1 Approach 2.2 Intended uses 2.3 Background and acknowledgements 3. Method 3.1 Definition 3.2 "Positive" vs "Negative" strategies 3.3 Document control and strategy description 3.4 Identification procedure 3.5 Strategy naming 3.6 Relationships between strategies 3.7 Relationships to other sections 3.8 Computer-assisted generation of strategies 3.9 Conceptual processes summarized 4. Patterning strategies 4.1 Classification and section attribution 4.2 Concept refinement process 4.3 Language games 4.4 Patterning the resolutique 5. Strategic ecosystem 5.1 Configuring strategic trajectories 5.2 Beyond "The Plan" 5.3 Feedback loops and dependent co-arising 5.4 Network strategy 5.5 Integrating constraint and opposition 5.6 Configuring strategic dilemmas in intersectoral dialogue 5.7 Computer representation of strategy networks 6. Governance 6.1 Resolutique 6.2 Providing a strategic framework 6.3 Capacity to govern 6.4 Uncommon strategic opportunities 6.5 Public management 6.6 Spiritual challenge 7. Strategic denial 7.1 Misappropriation of words of power 7.2 Reframing the unknown 7.3 Unmentionable realities 7.4 Unwritten rules and wishful thinking 7.5 Action inhibition 8. Post-crisis opportunities 8.1 Range of strategies 8.2 Strategies in chaos 8.3 Strategies in meetings 8.4 Paradoxical merit of negative strategies 8.5 In quest of the socio-economics of non-action 8.6 Global strategy and the game of go 8.7 Strategic metaphors for thriving 8.8 In quest of radical coherence 9. Collective strategy-making: designing a strategic array 10. Strategic appropriateness 10.1 Questionable answers 10.2 Accumulation of significance 10.3 Integrating opposition 10.4 Beyond method 10.5 Constraints on a meta-answer 11. Embodying discontinuity 11.1 Containing the incommensurable 11.2 Order through chaos 12. Epistemological challenges 12.1 Threshold of comprehensibility 12.2 Interparadigmatic dialogue 12.3 Mindscapes 12.4 De-categorization and poly-ocular vision 12.5 Language 13. Embracing difference 13.1 Contrasting strategic styles 13.2 System dynamics 13.3 Form and communication 14. Comprehension 14.1 Social organization determined by incommunicability of insights 14.2 Internalizing discontinuity 15. Pattern learning 15.1 Pattern accumulation in a learning society 15.2 Wholeness and the implicate order 15.3 Health and space-time and development strategy 15.4 Structuring around unknowing in a learning society 15.5 Probabilistic vision of the world 16. Patterns of alternation 16.1 Cycles of dissonance and resonance 16.2 A musical key from a political philosopher 16.3 An agricultural key from crop rotation 16.4 Entropic crisis and the learning response 16.5 Cycles of winning and losing 16.6 Toward an enantiomorphic policy 17. Action implications 17.1 Consensus, uncertainty and action formulation 18. Tables and typologies of strategies (tentative) Strategy "action qualifiers" organized in the light of strategy clusters Inter-sectoral strategic dilemmas of sustainable development Typology of 12 complementary strategies essential to sustainable development Table of strategems (Chinese) Table of confidence ploys Bibliographical references identified in abridged form in any Notes refer to publications detailed, by author, in Section SY of the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential, which is the bibliography for Section S. Notes 10 to 17 previously appeared as Section KD in the 1991 edition of the Encyclopedia (Volume 2). Bibliographical references therein are to Section KY in the current edition (Volume 2). From Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential

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