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Configuring Globally and Contending Locally: shaping the global network of local bargains

shaping the global network of local bargains by decoding and mapping Earth Summit inter-sectoral issues

Configuring Globally and Contending Locally

Report prepared on the occasion of the Earth Summit (Rio de Janeiro, 1992) for the International Facilitating Committee for the Independent Sectors in the UNCED process (Geneva). It is available separately in its original form (Configuring Globally and Contending Locally: shaping the global network of local bargains by decoding and mapping Earth Summit inter-sectoral issues, 1992, 5 mb PDF). Edited portions of the text have been made available as commentaries in the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential (1994-5, vol 2) and may be accessed as a set of documents at Configuring Strategic Dilemmas in Intersectoral Dialogue. The contents of what follows below are repeated there in the General Checklist of Documents Describing the Rationale and Process.

Configuring Strategic Dilemmas in Intersectoral Dialogue

A. Checklist of documents (ie this document) IFCD50

B. Contextual statements

Premises for an inter-sectoral gathering (IFCD51A)
Dilemmas of inter-sectoral dialogue processes (IFCD51B)
Axes of bias in inter-sectoral dialogue (IFCD51C) (see also)
Dialogue statements or forms of intervention (IFCD51D)
Structure of declarations: challenging traditional patterns (IFCD51E)
Articulating "the way forward" (IFCD51F)
Earth Summit traps and opportunities (IFCD51G)

C. Summary of pre-Rio IFC preparatory processes (IFCD52)

D. Systemic mapping of strategic dilemmas

General checklist of documents describing the rationale and process
Inter-sectoral Strategic Dilemmas of Sustainable Development (Figure 1a)
Significance of 2-domain letter codes (Figure 1b)
Competing Models and Visions of Global Order via Function Dominance (Figure 2)
Representation of Issue Arenas on Icosidodecahedral Net: Alternate A (Figure 3a)
Representation of Issue Arenas on Icosidodecahedral Net: Alternate B (Figure 3b)
Spherical Representation of Icosidodecahedral Net of Strategies (Figure 4)
Significance of 3-domain Dilemma Codes (Figure 5)
Representation of Interlocking Elements for a Sustainable Global System (Figure 6)

E. Coded checklist of Earth Summit issues (Agenda 21, declarations, etc)

Processing Documents on Sustainable Development Issues (IFCD54A) including coding issues (Figure 8)
Sustainable Development Declarations and Documents (Figure 7)
Declaration issues:
- Clustered by principal subject (originally Figure 9)
- Sorted by Code Combination (complete as PDF, originally Figure 10)

F. Inter-sectoral dialogue and sustainable development metaphors

Conveying Earth Summit insights (IFCD55)
Meshing imaginative vision and policy implementability (IFCD55A)
Appropriate metaphors of sustainable development (IFCD55B)
Enhancing policy through powerful metaphors (IFCD55C)
Reframing problems as metaphors (IFCD55D)
Reframing inter-sectoral cooperation through metaphor (IFCDE)
Earth Summit as a natural ecological system (IFCDF)

G. Response to "call for insights"

Reproduced in successive editions of Da Zi Bao (participant messaging system)

H. Visual mapping

Documents (see Visualizing Relationship Networks: International, Interdisciplinary, Intersectoral)

I. Systemic mapping of strategic dilemmas: notes and comments on Document D

Regrouping: IFCD42, IFCD43, IFCD47, IFCD46C?, IFCD49

J. Invited documents

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