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Alternative Approaches to Security

towards well-being and psychological dimensions of sustainability

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Indicative references

Varieties of encroachment as a security challenge

• [2004] Varieties of Encroachment (88k)
• [2004] Errorism vs Terrorism? Encroachment, Complicity, Denial and Terraism (130k)

Intellectual disciplines of possible relevance

• [2004] Dancing on Terra -- with Terror: Disciplines reframing terrifying relationships * (32k, 2w)
• [2000] Enhancing the Quality of Knowing through Integration of East-West metaphors (123k, 93w)

Spontaneous emergence of threats to security

• [2004] Spontaneous Initiation of Armageddon -- a heartfelt response to systemic negligence * (135k, 115w)

Definitional issues relating to terrorism and threats to security

• [2004] Is God a Terrorist: Definitional game-playing by the Coalition of the Willing? * (119k, 103w)
• [2003] Complementary Patterns of Meaningful Truth and the Interface between Alternative Variants * (46k, 32w)
• [2001] Nature of Terror and Terrorism (36k, 1w)
• [2000] Category Manipulation in Global Dialogue (16k)

Blindspots, conceptual constraints and unstated perspectives of relevance to well-being and threats to security

• [2003] Global Strategic Implications of the Unsaid: from myth-making towards a wisdom society * (51k, 71w)
• [2003] Varieties of the Unsaid in sustaining psycho-social community * (127k, 196w)
• [2003] Tank-thoughts from Think-tanks: constraining metaphors on developing global governance (80k, 23w)
• [2002] The "Dark Riders" of Social Change: a challenge for any Fellowship of the Ring (72k, 81w)
• [2002] Groupthink: the Search for Archaeoraptor as a Metaphoric Tale (28k, 14w)
• [2001] Critical Thinking vs Specious Arguments (14k, 57w)
• [2001] Ways of Thinking, Perception and Analysis (76k, 1w)
• [1998] Enhancing Sustainable Development Strategies through Avoidance of Military Metaphors (71k)
• [1997] In Quest of Uncommon Ground: beyond impoverished metaphor and the impotence of words of power (64k)

Alternative approaches to governance capable of sustaining a well-being society

• [2002] Warp and Weft: Governance through Alternation (120k, 131w)
• [2001] Enabling Creative Response to Extraordinary Crises (38k, 17w)

Ensuring a diversity of complementary approaches to security and well-being

• [2002] Interrelationships between 64 Complementary Approaches to Sustainable Development (62k, 82w)
• [2002] Mapping the Network of Terror (2k, 1w)

Self-reflexive dimensions of security, well-being and sustainability

• [2002] My Reflecting Mirror World: making Joburg worthwhile (99k, 42w)
• [2002] Psychology of Sustainability: Embodying cyclic environmental processes * (111k, 131w)
• [2001] Embodying the Sphere of Change (21k, 11w)
• [2001] Needing Evil Elsewhere (11k, 6w)

Challenge of dialogue with "the other": understanding the source of threat

• [2000] Communicating with Aliens: the Psychological Dimension of Dialogue (10k, 11w)

Strategic approaches meriting further consideration

• [2002] Web resources on "breaking the cycle" * (36k, 237w)
• [2002] Transforming the Encounter with Terrorism (6k, 1w)
• [2002] Promoting a Singular Global Threat -- Terrorism: Strategy of choice for world governance (75k, 116w)
• [2001] Missiles, Missives, Missions and Memetic Warfare: Navigation of strategic interfaces in multidimensional knowledge space (61k, 38w)
• [2000] And When the Bombing Stops? Territorial conflict as a challenge to mathematicians (95k, 82w)
• [2000] Critical Factors for the Long-term Survival of Humanity (10k)
• [1999] Coherent Policy-making Beyond the Information Barrier (114k, 41w)
• [1998] Sustaining a pattern of alternative community initiatives: based on their differences from the conventional economic rationale (25k)
• [1998] Engagement of Governance with Spirituality: Complexification of the Political Image of Religions (8k)
• [1998] Developing an Internet Framework for Creative Dialogue on Irreconcilable Policy Differences (7k)
• [1998] Sustainable Improvement in the Quality of Corruption (10k, 2w)
• [1997] Future Generation through Global Conversation: in quest of collective well-being through conversation in the present moment (42k, 8w)

Enhancing democratic processes whilst minimizing security threats to them

• [1998] The Challenge of Cyber-Parliaments and Statutory Virtual Assemblies (29k, 1w)
• [1998] Spherical configuration of interlocking roundtables: Internet enhancement of global self-organization through patterns of dialogue (44k)

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