Poetic Engagement with Afghanistan, Caucasus and Iran

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Poetic Engagement with Afghanistan, Caucasus and Iran
Preamble: Aesthetics and the military
Poetry in other strategic contexts
Indicative possibilities of reframing strategic engagement
Clarification of Islamic views
Improvisation in poetic debate
Examples of poetic interaction
Towards an imaginative reflection on possible "Rules of Poetic Engagement"
Conclusion
References

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-- Poetry in the corporate world | Poetry and Islam
-- Poetry and warlords | Poetry and Afghanistan | Poetry and Kazakhstan
-- Poetry and the Caucasus | Poetry and the Middle East
-- Poetic leadership | Poetic protest | Prosaic dialogue
Indicative possibilities of reframing strategic engagement


-- Poetic discourse as a lost art | Poetic engagement
-- Lost archetype? | Medieval Europe | Dialogue in Islamic cultures
-- Improvisation in oral poetry | Invective poetry | Folk traditions
-- Interactive dialogue projects | Framework for clarification of "poetic debate"
Towards an imaginative reflection on possible "Rules of Poetic Engagement"
-- Collaborative aesthetics | Collaborative creativity
-- Practical concerns | Characteristics of possible "rules"
-- Rhythm and rhyme | Autopoiesis |

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Introduction

This exploration is in response to strategic challenges in the region named. It is a development of earlier studies of the interface between strategy and poetry (Poetry-making and Policy-making: arranging a marriage between Beauty and the Beast, 1993; Ensuring Strategic Resilience through Haiku Patterns: reframing the scope of the "martial arts" in response to strategic threats, 2006) as well as in relation to the role of music and song (A Singable Earth Charter, EU Constitution or Global Ethic? 2006; Reframing the EU Reform Process -- through Song responding to the Irish challenge to the Lisbon Treaty, 2008).

The original version of this document arose as a response to an invitation to make a presentation in a session on Caucasus Future Challenges at the Wilton Park Conference on Caucasus 2020: the Future of European Security (January 2009). Wilton Park (Sussex, UK) arranges conferences on international affairs for politicians, officials, academics and others from around the world. In their initial form the notes were communicated to the organizers. Being unable to attend, the focus in that response was on how the challenge of the Caucasus might nevertheless be more fruitfully reframed.

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