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• [2010] Towards a University of Earth? (32k, 40w)
• [2010] Writing Guidelines for Future Occupation of Earth by Extraterrestrials (43k, 36w)
• [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] Concept Analysis of Climate Change Agreements (7k)
• [2009] Emerging Memetic Singularity in the Global Knowledge Society (98k, 97w)
• [2009] Enabling Strategies for Viable Futures (59k, 162w)
• [2009] Engaging with Globality: through cognitive lines, circlets, crowns or holes (67k, 133w)
• [2009] Extreme Financial Risk-taking as Extremism (34k, 23w)
• [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, Topology and Dynamics of Identity (37k, 24w)
• [2009] Global Street Twinning in Polyhedral Configurations (51k, 55w)
• [2009] Keys to Strategic Crisis Amplification (5k)
• [2009] Overpopulation Debate as a Psychosocial Hazard (111k, 86w)
• [2009] Recognizing the Psychosocial Boundaries of Remedial Action (58k, 55w)
• [2009] Relevance of Mythopoeic Insights to Global Challenges (48k, 62w)
• [2009] Remedies to Global Crisis: "Allopathic" or "Homeopathic"? (170k, 117w)
• [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] Terror as Distractant from More Deadly Global Threats (101k, 90w)
• [2009] Transforming the Unsustainable Cost of General Education (63k, 46w)
• [2009] Uncritical Strategic Dependence on Little-known Metrics (32k, 28w)
• [2009] We Are on the Brink of Failure in Responding to Global Crises (15k, 15w)
• [2009] Women and the Underside of Meetings (36k, 44w)
• [2008] An Inconvenient Truth about any Inconvenient Truth (12k, 5w)
• [2008] Climate Change and the Elephant in the Living Room (122k, 128w)
• [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 Optimism Beyond the Edge: through avoidance of the answering process (110k, 99w)
• [2008] Institutionalized Shunning of Overpopulation Challenge: incommunicability of fundamentally inconvenient truth (147k, 108w)
• [2008] Irresponsible Dependence on a Flat Earth Mentality -- in response to global governance challenges (43k, 36w)
• [2008] Moving Symbols: Radical Change in Psycho-social Energy Policy? (90k, 56w)
• [2008] Systemic Crises as Keys to Systemic Remedies: a metaphorical Rosetta Stone for future strategy? (147k, 89w)
• [2008] World Crises: Dishonest and spurious arguments (7k, 4w)
• [2007] Imagining the Real Challenge and Realizing the Imaginal Pathway of Sustainable Transformation (49k, 73w)
• [2007] In Quest of Mnemonic Catalysts -- for comprehension of complex psychosocial dynamics (66k, 90w)
• [2007] Interrelating Metaphors -- to enable a cycle of transformation between epistemological modes (67k, 62w)
• [2007] Psychosocial Energy from Polarization: within a cyclic pattern of Enantiodromia (189k, 161w)
• [2007] Psychosocial Work Cycle: Beyond the plane of Mobius (104k, 106w)
• [2007] University of Earth: Questing for a more comprehensive dream (3k, 10w)
• [2006] Coactive Contextual Relationships: necessary underdefinition and resonant associations of ITER-8 (43k, 39w)
• [2006] Cognitive Fusion through Myth and Symbol Making: archetypal dimensions (40k, 17w)
• [2006] Complementarity and Self-Reflexivity: between nuclear fusion and cognitive fusion (61k, 75w)
• [2006] Dematerialization and Virtualization: comparison of nuclear fusion and cognitive fusion (114k, 79w)
• [2006] Enactivating a Cognitive Fusion Reactor: Imaginal Transformation of Energy Resourcing (ITER-8) (138k, 184w)
• [2006] Ensuring Strategic Resilience through Haiku Patterns: reframing the scope of the "martial arts" in response to strategic threats (140k, 185w)
• [2006] Participative Development Process for Singable Declarations: Applying the Wikipedia-Wikimedia-WikiMusic concept to constitutions (20k, 10w)
• [2006] Question Avoidance, Evasion, Aversion and Phobia: why we are unable to escape from traps (99k, 90w)
• [2006] Reframing Sustainable Sources of Energy for the Future: the vital role of psychosocial variants (171k, 209w)
• [2006] Walking Elven Pathways: enactivating the pattern that connects (76k, 71w)
• [2005] Avoiding Dialogue with Alternative Worldviews at any Cost: Timid hypocrisy in responding to terrorism (36k, 43w)
• [2005] Galactic Memo on Rapture Readiness (15k, 3w)
• [2004] 'Goodwill' and its Presumption: key to understanding the current challenges and opportunities of UIA (72k, 1w)
• [2004] Alternative Approaches to Security: towards well-being and psychological dimensions of sustainability (9k, 41w)
• [2004] Errorism vs Terrorism?: Encroachment, Complicity, Denial and Terraism (129k, 162w)
• [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] Interplanetary Security Council: Nibiru-sponsored draft resolution on Earth (4003) (8k, 6w)
• [2003] Planetary Challenge of 12-fold Strategic Marriage: Bonding Empire + Alternatives, Global + Local, and Behavioural + Depth psychology * (34k, 23w)
• [2002] Interplanetary Security Council: Nibiru-sponsored resolution 1441 on Earth (20k, 6w)
• [2002] Metaphoric Entrapment (13k, 12w)
• [2002] Promoting a Singular Global Threat -- Terrorism: Strategy of choice for world governance (78k, 117w)
• [2001] Enabling Creative Response to Extraordinary Crises (36k, 17w)
• [2000] Communicating with Aliens: the Psychological Dimension of Dialogue (10k, 11w)
• [2000] Designing a Team for Alien Encounter: Communicating with Aliens (Part IV) (25k, 50w)
• [2000] Distinguishing Patterns of Assumption in Dialogue with Aliens: Communicating with Aliens (Part III) (82k, 11w)
• [2000] Meeting Industrialization and Package-Processing of Participants (37k, 8w)
• [2000] Metaphoric entrapment in time: avoiding the trap of Project Logic (88k, 16w)
• [2000] Strategic Clues for Alien Communication: Communicating with Aliens (Part II) (23k, 15w)
• [2000] Test challenges for Alien Encounter: Communicating with Aliens (Part I) (68k, 23w)
• [1999] Coordination through Templates of Thematic Relationships (6k, 3w)
• [1998] Enhancing Sustainable Development Strategies through Avoidance of Military Metaphors (76k, 5w)
• [1998] Global Self-Organization: the systemic structural challenge of the exchange of meaning, dramatized by the Asian financial crisis (20k, 24w)
• [1998] Reframing Personal Relationships between Innovators or Leaders (27k, 6w)
• [1998] Sustainable Improvement in the Quality of Corruption (10k, 2w)
• [1998] University of Earth: Draft Proposal (56k, 4w)
• [1997] Dialogue: Controlled threat (Transformation Metaphor) (3k)
• [1997] Dialogue: Crisis preparedness (Transformation Metaphor) (3k)
• [1997] Network: Controlled threat (Transformation Metaphor) (3k)
• [1997] Network: Crisis preparedness (Transformation Metaphor) (3k)
• [1997] Sustainable community: Controlled threat (Transformation Metaphor) (3k)
• [1997] Sustainable community: Crisis preparedness (Transformation Metaphor) (3k)
• [1997] Sustainable lifestyle: Controlled threat (Transformation Metaphor) (3k)
• [1997] Sustainable lifestyle: Crisis preparedness (Transformation Metaphor) (3k)
• [1997] Sustainable policy: Controlled threat (Transformation Metaphor) (3k)
• [1997] Sustainable policy: Crisis preparedness (Transformation Metaphor) (3k)
• [1997] Transformative conference: Controlled threat (Transformation Metaphor) (3k)
• [1997] Transformative conference: Crisis preparedness (Transformation Metaphor) (3k)
• [1997] Vision: Controlled threat (Transformation Metaphor) (3k)
• [1997] Vision: Crisis preparedness (Transformation Metaphor) (3k)
• [1996] The International School of Ignorance ?: an ongoing experiment in dialogue meeting design (7k)
• [1996] The International School of Ignorance ?: an ongoing experiment in online dialogue meeting design (13k)
• [1995] Contemporary crisis of governance (Challenge: Metaphor Project)
• [1995] Entrapment by competing metaphors (Comments: Human Development Project)
• [1995] Entropic crisis and the learning response (Patterns of alternation: Global Strategies 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] Global strategy and the game of go (Post-crisis opportunities: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] In quest of radical coherence (Post-crisis opportunities: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] In quest of the socio-economics of non-action (Post-crisis opportunities: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Paradoxical merit of negative strategies (Post-crisis opportunities: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Patterning the problematique (Patterning problems: World Problems Project)
• [1995] Polarity entrapment (Discontinuity: Transformative Approaches Project)
• [1995] Range of strategies (Post-crisis opportunities: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Reframing cooperation through metaphor (Opportunity: Metaphor Project)
• [1995] Strategic metaphors for thriving (Post-crisis opportunities: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Strategies in chaos (Post-crisis opportunities: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Strategies in meetings (Post-crisis opportunities: Global Strategies Project)
• [1994] Time-sharing System in Meetings: Centralized planning vs Free-market economy ? (19k)
• [1993] An Earth Council Identity: experimental articulation through a dynamic system of metaphors (25k, 9w)
• [1993] Possible Traps Towards Spiritual Concord (12k, 1w)
• [1993] Traps and Opportunities of Dialogue (3k, 1w)
• [1992] Catalyzation of New Patterns of Collaboration (38k, 19w)
• [1992] Coded Checklist of Earth Summit Issues: Comments on Document Processing Procedure (5k, 2w)
• [1992] Earth Summit as a Natural Ecological System (9k, 2w)
• [1992] Earth Summit Traps and Opportunities (3k, 2w)
• [1992] Effective Response to Crises: Impeding psycho-conceptual factors and clarification of approaches (8k)
• [1992] Future Coping Strategies: Beyond the constraints of proprietary metaphors (59k, 1w)
• [1992] Inter-Sectoral Dialogue and Sustainable Development: Conveying Earth Summit Insights (7k, 2w)
• [1992] Potential and Dilemma of the Earth Summit (ref)
• [1992] Wanted: Enemies of the Earth and Greenwar International (7k, 1w)
• [1991] Conveying Earth Summit Insights (ref)
• [1989] Cooperation and its Failures (22k)
• [1988] Cooperation and its Failures: Metaphors towards understanding the dilemma for the 1990s (22k, 1w)
• [1988] Energy Patterns in Conferences: a context for higher levels of integration (133k, 13w)
• [1984] Participant Entrapment (Alienation of Committed Activists): Towards Transformative Conferencing and Dialogue (Part R) (4k, 1w)
• [1984] Participant Entrapment (Repetition of Learning Cycles): Towards Transformative Conferencing and Dialogue (Part S) (3k, 1w)
• [1984] Self-constraining Configurations (Energy Dissipation): Towards Transformative Conferencing and Dialogue (Part K) (5k, 1w)
• [1982] Development as Discontinuous Societal Learning: Cyclic transformation of the global answer economy (141k, 22w)
• [1980] Background (University of Earth: Meta-organization for Post-Crisis Action) (61k, 1w)
• [1980] Comments on Problematique (24k)
• [1980] Current Operations (University of Earth: Meta-organization for Post-Crisis Action) (20k, 1w)
• [1980] Historical and Contemporary Context (University of Earth: Meta-organization for Post-Crisis Action) (14k, 1w)
• [1980] Research Initiative Summaries (University of Earth: Meta-organization for Post-Crisis Action) (134k, 1w)
• [1980] University of Earth: meta-organization for post-crisis action (4k, 6w)
• [1974] La Carte des Menaces (7k)
• [1974] Comments on the UN Secretary-General's Unofficial Draft Report on Improving Coordination and Liaison with Nongovernmental Organizations (ref)
• [1973] Mobilization for Alienation vs. Catalysis for Participation: choice for the United Nations system (32k, 2w)
• [1972] Summary of the Crises in Interorganizational Relationships at the International Level (47k, 1w)
• [1971] Discrimination and Fragmentation in the 1970s: an organized response to global crisis (2k, 3w)
• [1971] Management and Assessment of Financial Resources (of international associations) (98k, 1w)
• [1971] Summary of the Crises in Inter-Organizational Relationships at the International Level (45k, 2w)
• [1969] Need for a World Management Information System to Assist Initiation and Coordination of Global Development Programmes (61k)
• [1965] International Cooperation, Communication and Sources of Information (21k, 3w)

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