Previous commentaries on aspects of the challenge

Reframing Global Initiatives for the Future (Part #15)

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• Consciously Self-reflexive Global Initiatives: Renaissance zones, complex adaptive systems, and third order organizations (2007)
• Conversion of Strategic Bullets into Global Accomplishment: clues to a crowning initiative based on effective partnerships (2009)
• Towards Polyhedral Global Governance: complexifying oversimplistic strategic metaphors (2008)
• Future World Council Creation: reflections of an ancient futurist (2004)

With respect to gathering and organizing relevant information:

• Considering All the Strategic Options: whilst ignoring alternatives and disclaiming cognitive protectionism (2009)
• Framing the Global Future by Ignoring Alternatives: unfreezing categories as a vital necessity (2009)
• Towards a Generic Global Issue Statement: evoking an instructive pattern of unquestionable responses (2009)
• Viable Global Governance through Bullfighting: challenge of transcendence (2009)
• Coherent Policy-making Beyond the Information Barrier: circumventing dependence on access, classification, penetration, dissemination, property, surveillance, interpretation, disinformation, and credibility (1999)
• Problem Sets (2009) ***

With respect to appropriate dialogue:

• Future Generation through Global Conversation: in quest of collective well-being through conversation in the present moment (1997)
• Evaluating Synthesis Initiatives and their Sustaining Dialogues: possible questions as a guide to criteria of evaluation of any synthesis initiative (2000)
• State of the "World Forum" vs "State of the World" Forum: challenge of reflexivity (2009)

With respect to engendering appropriate strategies:

• Enabling Strategies for Viable Futures (2009)
• Globallooning -- Strategic Inflation of Expectations and Inconsequential Drift (2009)
• Reframing the Game of Strategic Dilemmas: a 12-fold interplay of possibilities (2009)
• Remedies to Global Crisis: "Allopathic" or "Homeopathic"? Metaphorical complementarity of "conventional" and "alternative" models (2009)
• Governing Civilization through Civilizing Governance: global challenge for a turbulent future (2008)
• Engendering the Future through Self-reflexive Group Initiatives (2008)
• Comprehension of Appropriateness (1986)

With respect to an appropriately enabling "language":

• Metaphorical Geometry in Quest of Globality (2009)
• Polyhedral Empowerment of Networks through Symmetry: psycho-social implications for organization and global governance (2008)
• Framing the Global Future by Ignoring Alternatives: unfreezing categories as a vital necessity (2009)
• Topology of Valuing: psychodynamics of collective engagement with polyhedral value configurations (2008)
• In Quest of a Strategic Pattern Language: a new architecture of values (2008)

With respect to enabling metaphors:

• In Quest of Mnemonic Catalysts -- for comprehension of complex psychosocial dynamics (2007)
• Designing metaphors and sets of metaphors (1995)
• Metaphoric Revolution: in quest of a manifesto for governance through metaphor (1988)

With respect to aesthetics (as considered below):

• Strategic Jousting through Poetic Wrestling: aesthetic reframing of the clash of civilizations (2009)
• Strategic Dialogue through Poetic Improvisation: web resources and bibliography (2009)
• A Singable Earth Charter, EU Constitution or Global Ethic? (2006)

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