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Documents relating to Governance, Democracy, Participation and Access

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• [2010] Designing Global Self-governance for the Future (151k, 154w)
• [2009] Abuse of Faith in Governance: Mystery of the Unasked Question (111k, 71w)
• [2009] Cognitive Ballistics vs. Derivative Correlation in Memetic Warfare (57k, 40w)
• [2009] Cognitive Cycles Vital to Sustainable Self-Governance (95k, 111w)
• [2009] Complementary Bullfighting Metaphors of Global Governance (30k, 17w)
• [2009] Concept Analysis of Climate Change Agreements (7k)
• [2009] Considering All the Strategic Options (118k, 67w)
• [2009] Conversion of Global Hot Air Emissions to Music (70k, 84w)
• [2009] Conversion of Strategic Bullets into Global Accomplishment (10k, 15w)
• [2009] Degrees of Cognitive Engagement with Interrelated Global Categories (86k, 302w)
• [2009] Emerging Memetic Singularity in the Global Knowledge Society (98k, 97w)
• [2009] Enabling Strategies for Viable Futures (59k, 162w)
• [2009] Framing the Global Future by Ignoring Alternatives (63k, 46w)
• [2009] Future Implication of Historical Explication (52k, 16w)
• [2009] Generic Reframing of the 12 Tribes of "Israel" (66k, 55w)
• [2009] Geometry of Thinking for Sustainable Global Governance (169k, 223w)
• [2009] Geometry, Topology and Dynamics of Identity (109k, 127w)
• [2009] Geometry, Topology and Dynamics of Identity (37k, 24w)
• [2009] Global Strategic Alternatives for the 21st Century? (6k, 11w)
• [2009] Global Street Twinning in Polyhedral Configurations (51k, 55w)
• [2009] If... (4k)
• [2009] Keys to Strategic Crisis Amplification (5k)
• [2009] Metaphorical Geometry in Quest of Globality (24k, 25w)
• [2009] Overpopulation Debate as a Psychosocial Hazard (111k, 86w)
• [2009] Recognizing the Psychosocial Boundaries of Remedial Action (58k, 55w)
• [2009] Reframing the Game of Strategic Dilemmas (83k, 125w)
• [2009] Reframing Strategic Dilemmas through 12 Modes (52k, 165w)
• [2009] Relevance of Mythopoeic Insights to Global Challenges (48k, 62w)
• [2009] Sins of Hot Air Emission, Omission, Commission and Promission (104k, 114w)
• [2009] State of the 'World Forum' vs 'State of the World' Forum (63k, 73w)
• [2009] Strategic Inflation of Expectations and Inconsequential Drift (115k, 81w)
• [2009] Strategic Jousting through Poetic Wrestling (40k, 34w)
• [2009] Transformation of Global Governance through Bullfighting (44k, 26w)
• [2009] Uncritical Strategic Dependence on Little-known Metrics (32k, 28w)
• [2009] Urgent Need for Blair as President of Europe (77k, 70w)
• [2009] Varieties of Confidence Essential to Sustainability (22k, 29w)
• [2009] Viable Global Governance through Bullfighting: Challenge of transcendence (157k, 119w)
• [2009] We Are on the Brink of Failure in Responding to Global Crises (15k, 15w)
• [2008] An Inconvenient Truth about any Inconvenient Truth (12k, 5w)
• [2008] Celebrating the Value of Deadly Problems Worldwide (62k, 35w)
• [2008] Climate Change and the Elephant in the Living Room (122k, 128w)
• [2008] Coherent Value Frameworks: Pillar-ization, Polarization and Polyhedral frames of reference (111k, 104w)
• [2008] Configuring Global Governance Groups: Experimental animations and video sequences (9k, 19w)
• [2008] Configuring Global Governance Groups: Experimental visualization of possible integrative relationships (19k, 33w)
• [2008] Configuring Global Governance Issues: Experimental animations and video sequences (8k, 19w)
• [2008] Geo-engineering Oversight Agency for Thermal Stabilization (GOATS) (71k, 67w)
• [2008] Global Quality Navigation System (GQS): participative enhancement of aesthetic discovery (26k, 4w)
• [2008] Governing Civilization through Civilizing Governance: global challenge for a turbulent future (113k, 273w)
• [2008] In Quest of a Strategic Pattern Language: a new architecture of values (16k, 31w)
• [2008] Irresponsible Dependence on a Flat Earth Mentality -- in response to global governance challenges (43k, 36w)
• [2008] Polyhedral Empowerment of Networks through Symmetry: psycho-social implications for organization and global governance (3k)
• [2008] Polyhedral Empowerment of Networks through Symmetry: psycho-social implications for organization and global governance (161k, 145w)
• [2008] Polyhedral Pattern Language: Software facilitation of emergence, representation and transformation of psycho-social organization (218k, 214w)
• [2008] Reframing the EU Reform Process -- through Song: responding to the Irish challenge to the Lisbon Treaty (30k, 33w)
• [2008] Responsibility for Global Governance: Who? Where? When? How? Why? Which? What? (11k, 6w)
• [2008] Sustainability through Magically Dancing Patterns (156k, 89w)
• [2008] Topology of Valuing: dynamics of collective engagement with polyhedral value configurations (219k, 163w)
• [2008] Topology of Valuing: psychodynamics of collective engagement with polyhedral value configurations (98k, 93w)
• [2008] Towards Polyhedral Global Governance: complexifying oversimplistic strategic metaphors (196k, 180w)
• [2008] World Crises: Dishonest and spurious arguments (7k, 4w)
• [2007] Abusive Wikipedia Biographical Editorial Process: a case study in problematic alternative forms of governance? (44k, 33w)
• [2007] Archetypal otherness -- "DNA vs. I Ching": Climbing Elven Stairways (Part B) (97k, 75w)
• [2007] Climbing Elven Stairways: DNA as a macroscopic metaphor of polarized psychodynamics (190k, 130w)
• [2007] El-Attractor -- Timeless Complex Dynamic: Health, Wealth, Stealth / Youth, Couth, Truth (63k, 24w)
• [2007] Emergence of a Global Misleadership Council: misleading as vital to governance of the future? (125k, 144w)
• [2007] Existential challenge of "The Other": Climbing Elven Stairways (Part A) (97k, 80w)
• [2007] Framing the Interplay of Leadership and Misleadership: in the light of the coaction cardioid and the Mandelbrot set (44k, 21w)
• [2007] Framing the interplay of (mis)leadership and (mis)followership: challenges and responsibilities (39k, 26w)
• [2007] From ECHELON to NOLEHCE: enabling a strategic conversion to a faith-based global brain (60k, 44w)
• [2007] Possibilities for Massive Participative Interaction: including voting, questions, metaphors, images, constructs, melodies, issues, symbols (44k, 38w)
• [2007] Possibilities for Massive Participative Interaction: including voting, questions, metaphors, images, constructs, melodies, issues, symbols (44k, 38w)
• [2007] Windows on the Union of International Associations (12k, 50w)
• [2006] Cyclopean Vision vs Poly-sensual Engagement (36k, 33w)
• [2006] Distinguishing Levels and Patterns of Strategic Obsolescence (29k, 24w)
• [2006] Ensuring Strategic Resilience through Haiku Patterns: reframing the scope of the "martial arts" in response to strategic threats (140k, 185w)
• [2006] Governance through Pattern Language: creative cognitive engagement contrasted with abdication of responsibility (28k, 49w)
• [2006] Governance and Spin in the Knowledge Universe: Implications for governance, sustainability and alternatives (24k, 19w)
• [2006] Hyperaction through Hypercomprehension and Hyperdrive: necessary complement to hypertext proliferation in hypersociety (184k, 220w)
• [2006] Participative Development Process for Singable Declarations: Applying the Wikipedia-Wikimedia-WikiMusic concept to constitutions (20k, 10w)
• [2006] Polarities as Pluckable Tensed Strings: Hypercomprehension through harmonics of value-based choice-making (49k, 42w)
• [2006] Proportionate Response in the Eye of the Beholder (152k, 101w)
• [2006] Snoring of The Other: a politically relevant psycho-spiritual metaphor? (35k, 39w)
• [2006] 9-fold Higher Order Patterning of Tao Te Ching Insights (136k, 89w)
• [2005] Being Positive and Avoiding Negativity: Management challenge of positive vs negative (126k, 118w)
• [2005] Global Civilization of Vampires: Metaphor of Governance via Demons and Vampires on Spin? (90k, 129w)
• [2005] Honour Essential to Psycho-social Integrity: challenge of dishonourable leadership to the nameless (96k, 99w)
• [2005] Honour-related Challenges of the Disciplines: an unexplored aspect of methodology and integrity (30k, 25w)
• [2005] Humour and Play-Fullness: Essential integrative processes in governance, religion and transdisciplinarity (175k, 147w)
• [2005] Norms in the Global Struggle against Extremism: rooting for normalization vs. rooting out extremism? (156k, 168w)
• [2005] Playfully Changing the Prevailing Climate of Opinion: Climate change as focal metaphor of effective global governance (199k, 247w)
• [2005] Recognized role of humour: in politics, leadership, religion and creativity (92k, 99w)
• [2005] Varieties of Honour and Dishonour: distinguishing intrinsic honour from honourable externalities (89k, 73w)
• [2004] Alternative Approaches to Security: towards well-being and psychological dimensions of sustainability (9k, 41w)
• [2004] Dynamically Gated Conceptual Communities (163k, 156w)
• [2004] Future of United Nations - Civil Society Relations: 257 questions in assessing the Report of the Panel of Eminent Persons (65k, 64w)
• [2004] Harmonic Embodiment of the Present Moment: the Holy Grail of Global Governance * (22k, 19w)
• [2004] Recent Breakthroughs in Civil Society Research: Reactive vs Proactive Exploration of Opportunities and Alternatives? (33k, 16w)
• [2004] Towards a Logico-mathematical Formalization of "Sin": Fundamental memetic organization of faith-based governance strategies (145k, 163w)
• [2004] Twistedness in Psycho-social Systems: challenge to logic, morality, leadership and personal development (44k, 47w)
• [2004] Using Research in the Participative Orchestration of Europe (9k, 8w)
• [2003] America as Eve-ill Empire: Evocation of Authenticity Elsewhere (149k, 151w)
• [2003] Arming Civil Society Worldwide: Getting democracy to work in the emergent American Empire? (44k, 29w)
• [2003] AWOL: American Way Of Life: Assumptions -- justifying worldwide imposition of democratic imperialism (16k, 5w)
• [2003] Future Challenge of Faith-based Governance (26k, 77w)
• [2003] Global Civil Society: strategic comments on the path ahead (73k, 45w)
• [2003] Nos Morituri Te Salutamus: Salute of Iraqi Citizens to the Coalition of the Willing (17k, 3w)
• [2003] Politicization of Evidence in the Plastic Turkey Era: al-Qaida, Saddam, Assassination and the Hijab (42k, 55w)
• [2003] Practicalities of Participatory Democracy with International Institutions: Attitudinal, Quantitative and Qualitative Challenges (38k, 26w)
• [2003] Tank-thoughts from Think-tanks: constraining metaphors on developing global governance (80k, 48w)
• [2003] Terminal Empowerment: socio-political implications of radical mutual assistance amongst the terminally ill (37k, 25w)
• [2003] Towards Fruitful Patterns of Faith-based Governance (91k, 94w)
• [2003] 12 Complementary Languages for Sustainable Governance (19k, 16w)
• [2002] Governing Metaphors: the new policy frontier -- 50 Current policy implications of metaphor in a media oriented society * (32k, 1w)
• [2002] Promoting a Singular Global Threat -- Terrorism: Strategy of choice for world governance (78k, 117w)
• [2002] Spin and Counter-spin: Governance through Terrorism (80k, 68w)
• [2002] Warp and Weft: Governance through Alternation (115k, 136w)
• [2002] World Governance Cookery Book * (30k)
• [2001] Hybrid International Meetings for Participants on the Move (14k, 4w)
• [2001] Presentation and Representatives: Presenting the Future (Part 1) (17k, 2w)
• [2001] Promoting Sustainable Followership * (3k)
• [2000] Meeting Industrialization and Package-Processing of Participants (37k, 8w)
• [1999] Undermining Open Civil Society: Reinforcing unsustainable restrictive initiatives (17k)
• [1998] Emptying Meetings and Fulfilling Participants: Ensuring that encounters are fruitful (14k)
• [1998] Engagement of Governance with Spirituality: Complexification of the Political Image of Religions (8k)
• [1998] Four Complementary Languages Required for Global Governance (9k)
• [1998] Reframing Personal Relationships between Innovators or Leaders (27k, 6w)
• [1997] In Quest of Uncommon Ground: beyond impoverished metaphor and the impotence of words of power (64k)
• [1996] Facilitating Community through Information: suite of software-enabled participation tools (74k, 2w)
• [1996] Interacting Fruitfully with Un-Civil Society: the dilemma for non-civil society organizations (40k, 3w)
• [1996] Legal status of international NGOs: overview and options (28k, 10w)
• [1995] A musical key from a political philosopher (Patterns of alternation: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Aesthetics of governance (Envisioning conferencing: Transformative Approaches Project)
• [1995] Appropriate metaphors of sustainable development (Governance: Metaphor Project)
• [1995] The capacity to govern (Governance: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Comprehending policy meshing and entrainment (Governance: Metaphor Project)
• [1995] Contemporary crisis of governance (Challenge: Metaphor Project)
• [1995] Enhancing policy through powerful metaphors (Governance: Metaphor Project)
• [1995] Epistemological crisis of governance (Challenge: Metaphor Project)
• [1995] Evaluation of the Cooperation between UNESCO and Non-Governmental Organizations: uncompleted evaluation report (ref)
• [1995] From governing metaphors to governance through metaphor (Governance: Metaphor Project)
• [1995] Governance through confidence artistry (Discontinuity: Transformative Approaches Project)
• [1995] Governance through enhancing the movement of meaning (Governance: Metaphor Project)
• [1995] Interactive access and future developments (Overview: Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential)
• [1995] Interpersonal Strategic Dilemmas of Participation (in a sustainable inter-sectoral meeting)
• [1995] Metaphor as a language for global governance (Governance: Metaphor Project)
• [1995] Programme of metaphoric development (Governance: Metaphor Project)
• [1995] Providing a strategic framework (Governance: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Public management (Governance: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Reframing cooperation through metaphor (Opportunity: Metaphor Project)
• [1995] The resolutique (Governance: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] The spiritual challenge (Governance: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Uncommon strategic opportunities (Governance: Global Strategies Project)
• [1994] 'The Capacity to Govern' by Yehzkel Dror: comments by Anthony Judge (ref)
• [1994] Challenges to Governance through Contrasting Images (34k, 1w)
• [1994] The Future of Leadership: reframing the unknown (29k, 2w)
• [1994] Levels of Civil Society and Public Policy Implications (13k, 1w)
• [1994] NGOs and Civil Society: Realities and Distortions (94k, 12w)
• [1994] NGOs and the overlapping perspectives on civil society (39k, 1w)
• [1994] Policy Options for Civil Society through Complementary Contrasts (54k, 20w)
• [1993] The Challenge of Civilization as a Challenge of Conceptual Scaffolding (ref)
• [1993] Governance and the Challenge of Insight Cultivation (12k)
• [1993] Governance Through Confidence Artistry (ref)
• [1993] Human Values as Strange Attractors: Coevolution of classes of governance principles (79k, 8w)
• [1993] Metaphor as a Language for Global Governance (50k, 11w)
• [1993] Reframing the Challenges of Global Governance Through Metaphor (ref)
• [1992] Government by Binding Contract (3k)
• [1992] Sustaining Higher Orders of Policy Consensus through Metaphor: towards a new language of governance (9k, 7w)
• [1991] Participative Democracy vs. Participative Drama: lessons on social transformation for international organizations from Gorbachev (40k, 5w)
• [1991] Research Network on Catalytic Imagery for governance in impossible situations (68k, 3w)
• [1991] Research Network on Catalytic Imagery for Governance in Impossible Situations (ref)
• [1990] Aesthetics of Governance in the Year 2490 (61k, 10w)
• [1989] Cooperation and its Failures (22k)
• [1989] Through Metaphor to a Sustainable Ecology of Development Policies (67k, 15w)
• [1988] Cooperation and its Failures: Metaphors towards understanding the dilemma for the 1990s (22k, 1w)
• [1988] Metaphoric Revolution: in quest of a manifesto for governance through metaphor. (113k, 6w)
• [1987] Governance Through Metaphor (156k, 6w)
• [1984] Pattern Language for Participants: Towards Transformative Conferencing and Dialogue (Part U) (10k, 2w)
• [1984] Survey of African International Organizations and Participation of African Countries in International Organizations (ref)
• [1981] Directory of National Participation in International Organizations (ref)
• [1979] Mobilization of Public Opinion: yesterday's response to today's problems (ref)
• [1979] Principles of the Conscientized International Expert: political correctness in international initiatives (19k)
• [1976] National Participation in International Organizations (ref)
• [1974] A Communication Tool for Meeting Participants (ref)
• [1974] Conceptual Distortions from Negative Descriptors: non-governmental vs. anti-governmental (21k)
• [1973] Mobilization for Alienation vs. Catalysis for Participation: choice for the United Nations system (32k, 2w)
• [1972] Information Needs and the Consultative Relationship in the Second United Nations Development Decade (14k)
• [1972] Research topics on international non-governmental organization (23k)
• [1971] Governmental Support of International Non-governmental Organizations (26k)
• [1971] The UN System's Ivory Tower Strategy; and the Death Knell of INGO Consultative Status (ref)
• [1970] Information Needs and the Consultative Relationship: in the Second United Nations Development Decade (15k)
• [1969] Impact of the Computer / Communication / Information Revolution on Non-governmental Organizations (52k)
• [1968] International Non-governmental, Non-profit Organizations (NGOs) (19k, 7w)
• [1968] Organization of a Seminar for the Officers of International Non-governmental Organizations (7k, 2w)
• [1968] Possible Use of Computers and Data Processing Equipment by International Non-governmental Organizations (43k, 2w)
• [1968] Utilisation, par les organisations internationales non gouvernementales, d'ordinateurs et de traitement électronique des données (45k)
• [1965] International Cooperation, Communication and Sources of Information (21k, 3w)

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