The Role of Women in Integral Sustainable
Development
By Nicanor PerlasPublisher, www.truthforce.info
PROBLEM DEFINITION
KEY FINDING OF THE WORLD SUMMIT ON WOMEN IN BEIJING
Need to increase women's participation in power and decision making.
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.
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.
ANALYSIS: REFRAMING THE CHALLENGE
Re-conceptualize the notions Sustainable development Power Leadership Women’s Role
REFRAMING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
THE CASE OF GLOBAL WARMING
Reframing Sustainable Development
Ecological - Entropy Economic – cars, industries Culture – consumption habits, S & T Political – laws and policies Social – population Human – individualism, materialism Spiritual – materialism
Seven Dimensions of Integral Sus Dev (ISD)
7 Dimensions of SD- Spiritual- Human- Social- Cultural- Political - Economic- Ecological
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
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?
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
Bush Doctrine: Marginalization of the UN Summits
The Hard Agenda of the 21st century =
The Bush Doctrine
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
THE CLASH OF WORLDVIEWS
ISD or the Empire Matrix Who determines? Whose World? A question of power, leadership,
women’s role and spiritual development
REFRAMING POWER
ISD New Concept of Power ISD Societal Threefolding (3F) 3F and 3 Kinds of Power
Societal ThreefoldingTHE THREE SPHERES OF SOCIETY
ECONOMY(Business)
POLITICS(Government)
CULTURE
(Civil society)
REFRAMING POWER
Cultural or Soft Power
Political/Military or Hard Power
Economic or Sticky Power
ECONOMY(Business)
POLITICS(Government)
CULTURE
(Civil society)
POWER CONCEPT IN THE BUSH DOCTRINE
Cultural Power = Clash of Civilizations
Political Power = US Unilateralism Economic = Economic
Globalization
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)
3F POWER AND DEMOCRACY
The New Check and Balance in Society
But new balance of power not enough
New Leadership required
REFRAMING LEADERSHIP
Competitive Leadership vs. Associative Leadership
Darwinian Struggle for Power or Harnessing Collective Intelligence
ISD and Associative Leadership
THE ROLE OF WOMEN
ISD Challenges not ordinary challenges
Unprecedented Women’s Role also needs to be
reframed
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
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
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
THE MASCULINE IN WORLD AFFAIRS
Masculine Competition permeates Economic globalization US Unilateralism Clash of Civilization Technological Singularity
THE FEMININE IN WORLD AFFAIRS
SOME BASIC SCIENTIFIC FACTS ON HUMAN NATURE
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
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
THE FEMININE IN WORLD AFFAIRS
Societal Threefolding Collective Intelligence Generative Dialogue Conflict Resolution Integral ISD
THE FEMININE IN WORLD AFFAIRS
The Polarity of Masculine and Feminine in World Affairs
Played Out in Contrasting Worldview of the US and Europe
IMPLICATIONS
Holistic concept of SD Reframing of Power, Democracy
and Governance Advancing the truly feminine Towards integration