The Role of Women in Integral Sustainable Development

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The Role of Women in Integral Sustainable
Development

• By Nicanor Perlas
• Publisher, www.truthforce.info

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PROBLEM DEFINITION

• KEY FINDING OF THE WORLD SUMMIT ON WOMEN IN
  BEIJING
• Need to increase women's participation in power
  and decision making.

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PROBLEM DEFINITION

• FINDINGS OF THE CAPWIP, Global Congress of Women
  in Politics, Purple Book, p. 49.
• increased participation in local governments, but
  women found in very small numbers and have little
  impact in national governance
• Women's representation in government is
  tokenistic which impedes the real change and
  progress that women can make even when they are
  in power.

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NEEDS

• Review and examine the Asia Pacific situation on
  women in leadership, decision making and politics
  in current global context
• identify strategic gaps and appropriate courses
  of action for the next decade.

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ANALYSIS REFRAMING THE CHALLENGE

• Re-conceptualize the notions
• Sustainable development
• Power
• Leadership
• Womens Role

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REFRAMING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

• THE CASE OF GLOBAL WARMING

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Reframing Sustainable Development

• Ecological - Entropy
• Economic cars, industries
• Culture consumption habits, S T
• Political laws and policies
• Social population
• Human individualism, materialism
• Spiritual materialism

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Seven Dimensions of Integral Sus Dev (ISD)

• 7 Dimensions of SD
• Spiritual
• Human
• Social
• Cultural
• Political
• Economic
• Ecological

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REFRAMING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

• Sus Dev (SD) not Environment alone
• Earth Summit SD Environment, Economic, Social
• SD ? ISD
• All UN Summits are in reality aspects of ISD

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ISD AND THE UN SUMMITS

• They all share the same fate.
• Conclusion of the Commission on Globalization in
  London negligible impact of all summits
• Why?

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WTO and the Marginalization of the UN Summits

• The Hard Agenda of the 1990s
• WTO obligatory and with sanctions
• UN Summits voluntary and minimal sanctions
• Policy Conflict WTO obligations prevail

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Bush Doctrine Marginalization of the UN Summits

• The Hard Agenda of the 21st century
• The Bush Doctrine

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TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY

• The Third Meta-Agenda of the 21st Century
• What is Technological Singularity?
• What is it a Threat to ISD?
• Fukuyama and the Real End of History

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THE CLASH OF WORLDVIEWS

• ISD or the Empire Matrix
• Who determines?
• Whose World?
• A question of power, leadership, womens role and
  spiritual development

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REFRAMING POWER

• ISD ? New Concept of Power
• ISD ? Societal Threefolding (3F)
• 3F and 3 Kinds of Power

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Societal Threefolding

• THE THREE SPHERES OF SOCIETY

CULTURE (Civil society)
POLITICS (Government)
ECONOMY (Business)
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REFRAMING POWER

• Cultural or Soft Power
• Political/Military or Hard Power
• Economic or Sticky Power

CULTURE (Civil society)
POLITICS (Government)
ECONOMY (Business)
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POWER CONCEPT IN THE BUSH DOCTRINE

• Cultural Power Clash of Civilizations
• Political Power US Unilateralism
• Economic Economic Globalization

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ISD Counter Concept of Power

• ISD poses the counter power of solidarity of the
  societal spheres or
• Societal threefolding
• Requires the principled and strategic convergence
  of civil society (cultural power), government
  (political power) and business (economic power)

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3F POWER AND DEMOCRACY

• The New Check and Balance in Society
• But new balance of power not enough
• New Leadership required

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REFRAMING LEADERSHIP

• Competitive Leadership vs. Associative Leadership
• Darwinian Struggle for Power or Harnessing
  Collective Intelligence
• ISD and Associative Leadership

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THE ROLE OF WOMEN

• ISD Challenges not ordinary challenges
• Unprecedented
• Womens Role also needs to be reframed

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REFRAMING THE ROLE OF WOMEN

• Historically, women power associated with the
  take over of the domain of the masculine
• The feminine in the guise of the masculine

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REFRAMING THE ROLE OF WOMEN

• Civilizational Challenges Requires the
  Mobilization of the True Feminine
• Our world is suffering from one the overblown
  idolatry of the masculine

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THE MASCULINE IN WORLD AFFAIRS

• Global Warming and the masculine Baconian
  attitude of torturing nature so that she will
  reveal her secrets.
• Fragmentation and reductionism in science
  connected with left brain analytical cognition

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THE MASCULINE IN WORLD AFFAIRS

• Masculine Competition permeates
• Economic globalization
• US Unilateralism
• Clash of Civilization
• Technological Singularity

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THE FEMININE IN WORLD AFFAIRS

• SOME BASIC SCIENTIFIC
• FACTS ON HUMAN NATURE

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The Feminine in World Affairs

• Not surprising that 67 of cultural creatives are
  women
• In the US, there are 50 million cultural
  creatives
• 70 million in Europe

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The Femininein World Affairs

• WHAT IS MISSING IN WORLD POLITICS IS THE HEART.
• POLITICS HAS BECOME THE DOMAIN OF THE HEAD.
• We need of a politics of the heart guiding the
  politics of the head

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THE FEMININE IN WORLD AFFAIRS

• Societal Threefolding
• Collective Intelligence
• Generative Dialogue
• Conflict Resolution
• Integral ISD

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THE FEMININE IN WORLD AFFAIRS

• The Polarity of Masculine and Feminine in World
  Affairs
• Played Out in Contrasting Worldview of the US and
  Europe

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IMPLICATIONS

• Holistic concept of SD
• Reframing of Power, Democracy and Governance
• Advancing the truly feminine
• Towards integration