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• [2015] Requisite Meta-reflection on Engagement in Systemic Change? Fiat, fatwa and world-making in a period of existential radicalisation [0.25 mb; PHP version]
• [2009] Considering All the Strategic Options: whilst ignoring alternatives and disclaiming cognitive protectionism [0.5 mb; PHP version]
• [2009] Poetic Engagement with Afghanistan, Caucasus and Iran: an unexplored strategic opportunity? [0.5 mb; PHP version]
• [2009] Facism as Superficial Intercultural Extremism: burkha, toplessness, sunglasses, beards, and flu masks [0.4 mb; PHP version]
• [2008] Governing Civilization through Civilizing Governance: global challenge for a turbulent future [0.9 mb; PHP version]
• [2008] Configuring Global Governance Groups: experimental visualization of possible integrative relationships [2.9 mb; PHP version]
• [2008] Towards Polyhedral Global Governance: complexifying oversimplistic strategic metaphors [2.0 mb; PHP version]
• [2008] Dynamic Exploration of Value Configurations: polyhedral animation of conventional value frameworks [4.4 mb]
• [2008] In Quest of a Strategic Pattern Language: a new architecture of values [2.3 mb; PHP version]
• [2008] Polyhedral Pattern Language: software facilitation of emergence, representation and transformation of psycho-social organization [1.4 mb; PHP version]
• [2007] Union of Intelligible Associations: keystones vs keynotes? Challenges to presentation, communication and comprehension of knowledge [2.4 mb; no PHP version]
• [2007] Rethinking Conference Interfaces: increasing participation value (Presentation at the Conference Ambassador Programme Seminar, Singapore, November 2007 [0.2 mb PDF of slide presentation]
• [2005] Preliminary Attempt at Generating Questions from UIA Databases: Problems, Strategies, Values [0.4 mb; PHP version]
• [2005] Union of Intelligible Associations (Presentation at a conference of the World Academy of Art and Science: The Future of Knowledge: evolutionary challenges for the 21st century, Zagreb, 2005) [Collection; 3.8 mb]]
• [2005] Exploring Intelligible Associations (Presentation on ontological and process issues at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, 2005) [Collection; PHP summary]
• [2005] Meta-challenges of the Future for Networking through Think-tanks (Presentation to Workshop on Networking the Future, Conference on the Futures of Europeans in the Global Knowledge Society, Louvain-la-Neuve, 2005) [2.7mb; PHP version]
• [2002] Mapping the Network of Terror [30k; PHP version]
• [2001] UIA Strategic Overview (PDF version of slide presentation) [3.2 mb; no PHP version]
• [2001] 'Globalization': the UN's 'Safe Haven' for the World's Marginalized: the Global Compact with multinational corporations as the UN's 'Final Solution' [0.3mb; PHP version]
• [2000] Simulating a Global Brain -- using networks of international organizations, world problems, strategies and values (Presentation to the Global Brain Workshop, Brussels, 2000) [3.5mb; PHP version]
• [2000] Striking Screen-shots of Problem and Organization Networks in Virtual Reality [95k]
• [1999] Union of International Associations (East-West Collaboration in the Development of Interactive Media Products) [0.6mb]
• [1999] Beyond Sun, Sea and Sex: conference marketing and communication issues of the future [243k; no PHP version]
• [1999] Coherent Policy-making Beyond the Information Barrier [474k; PHP version]
• [1998] Meaningful Association: strategic constraints and possibilities in the information society [67k; no PHP version]
• [1998] Social Consequences of Bioterrorism [1.3 mb]
• [1997] Interacting Fruitfully with Un-Civil Society: the dilemma for non-civil society organizations [0.2mb; PHP version]
• [1996] Cultivating the Songlines of the Noosphere: Contributions to the first Members Meeting of the Club of Budapest (From presentations by representatives to embodying presence in transformation; Dialogue; Envisioning conferencing; Poetry-making and Policy-making) [Collection 6.0mb; PHP version]
• [1996] Exploratory System of 14 Contrasting Concepts of Civil Society [0.8mb; PHP version]
• [1995] Transdisciplinarity through Structured Dialogue: beyond sterile dualities in meetings to the challenge of participant impotence [0.3mb; PHP version]
• [1995] Le doute createur et l'art de la métaphore (Intuitions, 1995) [2.3mb; no PHP version]
• [1994] Reflections on practical organisation of transdisciplinary conferences [0.2mb; no PHP version]
• [1994] NGOs and Civil Society: some realities and distortions the challenge of 'Necessary-to-Governance Organizations' (NGOs) [0.4mb; PHP version]
• [1993] Poetry-making and Policy-making: arranging a Marriage between Beauty and the Beast (Presentation for the Schule fur Dichtung in Wien / School of Poetry in Vienna) [Collection 6.0mb]
• [1993] Using Disagreements for Superordinate Frame Construction [0.5mb; PHP version]
• [1993] La Métaphore: un outil pour créer (Ecodecision, 1993) [1.2mb; no PHP version]
• [1993] UIA Software Concerns (Presentation to the Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing (University of Ulm, Germany, 1993) [0.3mb; no PHP version]
• [1993] Shadowy "roundtable" hidden within every meeting (Meeting Participant Contract: towards a new order of meeting participation, 1993) [0.9mb; PHP version]
• [1993] Learnings for the Future of Inter-Faith Dialogue [Collection]
• [1993] Social Constructionism and Postmodernism [0.8mb; PHP version]
• [1992] A Conference towards Spiritual Concord as a Metaphor of Spiritual Concord (Notes and reflections) [Collection 9.0mb; PHP version]
• [1992] Configuring Globally and Contending Locally: shaping the global network of local bargains by decoding and mapping Earth Summit inter-sectoral issues (Prepared for the International Facilitating Committee for the Independent Sectors in the UNCED process: Inter-sectoral Dialogue, Rio de Janeiro, June 1992) [Collection 3.9mb; PHP version]
• [1991] Recontextualizing Social Problems through Metaphor: transcending the 'switch' metaphor [0.3mb; PHP version]
• [1990] Comprehending an Ecology of Cultures through a System of Metaphors [1.3mb; PHP version]
• [1988] Energy Patterns in Conferences: weaving patterns of information as a context for higher levels of integration (An exploration of the different patterns of information which may emerge at any time during the course of a meeting -- and the special problems and opportunities to which they may give rise) [2.1mb; PHP version]
• [1988] Metaphoric Revolution: in quest of a manifesto for governance through metaphor (Paper for the 10th World Conference of the World Futures Studies Federation, Beijing, 1988) [2.5mb; PHP version]
• [1987] Governance through Metaphor (Paper for a workshop of the Project on Economic Aspects of Human Development of the Regional and Global Studies Division of the United Nations University, Geneva, 1987) [4.2mb; PHP version]
• [1987] Atlas of International Relationship Networks (Review of the problems of mapping networks of organization/problem relationships in order to produce an "Atlas" as a complement to the Yearbook of International Organizations and to the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential), 1987 [Collection 2.2mb; PHP version]
• [1987] Reflections on Associative Constraints and Possibilities in an Information Society [0.4mb; PHP version]
• [1986] Comprehension of Appropriateness (Paper for workshop of Project on Econimc Aspects of Human Development of the Regional and Global Studies Division of the United Nations University, Rome, 1986) [3.6mb; PHP version]
• [1986] Strategic assumptions of the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential [0.6mb; PHP version]
• [1986] Do Problems Really Exist ? [0.1mb; no PHP version]
• [1985] African Language and African Styles of Organization [0.2mb; PHP version]
• [1985] Thoughts on Community Arrangements [0.5mb; PHP version]
• [1985] Secretariat Cities of African International Organizations in Africa by Organization Type [0.1mb; no PHP version]
• [1985] African Language and African Styles of Organization [0.2mb; PHP version]
• [1984] Forms of Presentation and the Future of Comprehension (Collection of papers mainly presented to the Forms of Presentation sub-project of the Goals, Processes and Indicators of Development (GPID) project of the United Nations University) [Collection; PHP version]
• [1984] Transformative Conferencing: Problems and possibilities on the new frontier of high-risk gatherings concerning social development (Papers reprinted from the journal Transnational Associations in the light of experience in the Goals, Processes and Indicators of Development (GPID) project of the United Nations University) [Collection; PHP version]
• [1984] Policy Alternation for Development (Papers arising from work in connection with the Goals, Processes and Indicators of Development (GPID) project of the United Nations University) [Collection; PHP version]
• [1984] Patterns of Conceptual Integration (Collection of papers) [Collection; PHP version]:
• [1984] From Networking to Tensegrity Organization (Collection of papers) [Collection; PHP version]
• [1984] Survey of African International Organizations and Participation of African Countries in International Organizations (Presented to the Colloquim "The Identity of Associations and the Participation of INGOs in Africa in the Context of a New World Order", Brussels) [4.9mb]
• [1984] African International and Regional Non-governmental Organizations by Date of Foundation [0.9mb; no PHP version]
• [1984] A Five-fold Pattern Language (Material proposed for inclusion in World Problems and Human Potential 1985) [2.9mb; PHP version]
• [1982?] University of Earth: Meta-organization for post-crisis action [Collection 7.0mb; PHP version]
• [1982] Developing through Complexity using Policy Alternation [1.5mb; PHP version]
• [1982] Epistemological Issues: a checklist for the Goals, Process and Indicators of Conceptual Development [0.5 mb; PHP version]
• [1982] Collective Learning from Calls for Global Action [1.7mb; PHP version]
• [1982] Planetary Initiative for the World We Choose by Planetary Citizens [1.1mb; no PHP version]
• [1982] Conference Transformations: maturing the reflective, focusing and transformative power of large-group conferences, especially in response to conditions of social upheaval [0.9mb; PHP version]
• [1981] Togetherbound: a gathering of the mad [1.1mb; PHP version]
• [1981] InterContact: an on-line information system [Collection]
• [1981] Remarks concerning Planetary Congress 1982 (Prepared for a Working Conference convened by Planetary Citizens, Stony Point, USA, 1981 toward the Planetary Inititiative for the World We Choose) [0.5mb; PHP version]
• [1981] In Search of Transformational Pathways: bibliography of studies conducted from 1962 to 1981  [0.3mb; PHP version]
• [1980] Societal Learning and the Erosion of Collective Memory: a critique of the Club of Rome Report: No Limits to Learning [0.3mb; PHP version]
• [1980] Minding the Future: thought experiment on presenting new information  [0.2mb; PHP version]
• [1980] Metaconferencing: discovering people/viewpoint networks in conferences [Collection 7.0mb; PHP version] (Based on documents, tables and maps prepared by Stafford Beer, Syd Howell, Alan Mossman, and Gordon Pask) [2.3mb; PHP version]
• [1980] Les problèmes entravant l'action des organisations internationales nongouvernementales (OING) [0.6mb; PHP version]
• [1980] Summary Description of the Inter-Contact Computer System [Collection; 1.0mb]
• [1980] Participant Interaction Messaging: improving the conference process  [0.6mb; PHP version]
• [1980] Problems Hindering Action of International Nongovernmental Organizations [0.3mb; PHP version]
• [1980] Envisioning the Perfect Meeting: towards transformative conferencing and dialogue [0.2mb; PHP version]
• [1980] Tensing Associative Networks to contain the Fragmentation and Erosion of Collective Memory [0.3mb; PHP version]
• [1979] Groupware Configurations of Challenge and Harmony: an alternative approach to "alternative organization'' [0.4mb; PHP version]
• [1979] The Territory Construed as the Map: in search of radical design innovations in the representation of human activities and their relationships [0.5mb; PHP version]
• [1979] Principles of the Conscientized International Expert: political correctness in international initiatives [0.3mb; PHP version]
• [1979] Implementing Principles by Balancing Configurations of Functions: a tensegrity organization approach [0.5mb; PHP version]
• [1979] Information Mapping for Development [0.5mb; PHP version]
• [1979] The Associative Society of the Future [0.4mb; PHP version]
• [1979] Development beyond 'Science' to 'Wisdom': facilitating the emergence of configurative understanding in 'Councils of the Wise' through computer conferencing dialogue [0.6mb; PHP version]
• [1979] Meeting Thoughts, Visions and Speculations: a destructured congress [Collection 0.4mb; PHP version]
• [1979] Mobilization of Public Opinion: yesterday's reponse to today's problems [0.5mb; PHP version]
• [1978] Facilitating the Networking Processes of a Transnational University using Computer Conferencing (Paper prepared for the 2nd Planning Meeting of the GPID Project of the United Nations University Human and Social Development Programme, Geneva, 1978) [2.3mb; PHP version]
• [1978] An Approach to Systematic Classification of Interpersonal Relationships (Conceived as essential to alternative life styles, social and personal transformation) [0.9mb; PHP variant]
• [1978] Inter-Organizational Networking [0.5mb; PHP version]
• [1978] Assessing the Impact of International Associations [0.5mb; PHP version]
• [1978] Interrelating Viewpoints in Complex Meetings: the Horus wall-display technique [0.5mb; PHP version]
• [1978] Transcending Duality through Tensional Integrity [Collection]
• [1978] A Congress that Dared the Unthinkable: report on the First New Age Congress (Florence, 1978) [0.6mb; PHP version]
• [1978] Emergence of Integrative Processes in a Self-reflective Assembly (Florence, 1978) [0.6mb; PHP version]
• [1978] The Unmentionable Weapons [0.2mb; no PHP version]
• [1977] Complexity: its constraints on social innovation (Introductory reports for a session at the Journées d'études of the International Foundation for Social Innovation) [Collection 3.5mb; PHP version]
• [1977] System Network Complementarity [0.5mb; PHP commentary]
• [1977] Facilitating Group Formation (Proposal for a large-scale small group development process) [0.7mb; PHP version]
• [1977] Organization Terminology and Organization Types [0.7mb; PHP version]
• [1977] Enhancing Transnational Network Action [0.2mb; PHP version]
• [1977] International computer conferencing by NGOs and IGOs [0.2mb; no PHP version]
• [1977] Computer Conferencing as a Means of Enhancing Communication at a Large Conference / Festival [0.2mb; PHP version]
• [1976] Intellectual Disciplines and Sciences (section from Yearbook of World Problems and Human Potential) [PHP summary; PDF 8.5 MB]
• [1976] The Network Alternative [Collection]
• [1976] Organisational systems vs Network organisation (Report of a workshop at a preliminary meeting on "Exploring the Network Alternative", Montreal, 1976) [1.5mb; no PHP version]
• [1976] The Network Alternative:
  • The Network Alternative (A proposal for encounters between practitioners, social scientistis and specialists, incorporating the summary report of a preliminary meeting to assess the feasibility of such a project, Montreal, 1976) [original 1.7mb; no PHP version]
  • The Network Alternative (An exploratory meeting of practitioners, social scientistis and specialists, Montreal, 1976) [published 1.5mb; no PHP version]
• [1976] Pseudo-Issues Paralyzing Transanational Association Action [0.2mb; PHP version]
• [1975] Guides to International Organization: a set of new UAI publications [0.1mb; no PHP version]
• [1975?] The Case Study Method for Training in Peace [0.4mb; no PHP version]
• [1975] Technical facilitation of meeting dynamics and participant interaction [Collection]
• [1975] Problèmes mondiaux et Potentiel humain: un exercice de collecte et de présentation des données [0.2mb; PHP version]
• [1975?] Towards an Outline of a Self-Reflexive Conference [0.5mb; no PHP version]
• [1974] Network-related Concepts: a vocabulary adapted to social complexity and social process (Colloque de l'Union des Associations Internationales, Paris, 1974) [0.2mb; PHP version]
• [1974] The Harmony of Interaction and the Facilitation of Network Processes [0.5mb; PHP version]
• [1974] Revised Notes on the Proposed Conference Series on Social Catalysis [1.6 mb]
• [1974] Interrelationships of Aspects of the Concept of Social Transmutation [1.2 mb]
• [1974] Revised Description of Social Transmutation Conference [0.3mb]
• [1974] Networking: the Need for a New Concept [0.5mb; PHP version]
• [1973] Preliminary Clarification of Some Problems of Processing Networks of Entities in Order Meaningfully to Map Psycho-social Relationships [0.5mb; no PHP version]
• [1973] UN - NGO Relations : a New Departure ? [0.2mb; PHP version]
• [1973] Toward a Concept Inventory: suggestions for a computerized procedure (Prepared for the Committee on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis (COCTA) of the International Political Science Association, 9th Congress, Montreal 1973) [1.5mb; 4.7mb; PHP version]
• [1973] UN Environment Programme Wastes NGO Resources: how to butcher the "Spirit of Stockholm" [0.2mb; no PHP version]
• [1973] Inter-organizational relationships: in search of a new style [0.5mb; PHP version]
• [1973] Principles of Transnational Action: an attempt at a set of guidelines [0.4mb; PHP version]
• [1973] Preliminary Notes on the Proposed Conference Series on Social Engineering [1.2 mb; no PHP version]
• [1973] Managing Planetary Management [0.2mb; PHP version]
• [1973] Mobilization for Alienation vs. Catalysis for Participation: the critical choice for the United Nations system [0.5mb; PHP version]
• [1972] Relationship between Elements of Knowledge: Use of computer systems to facilitate construction, comprehension and comparison of the concept thesauri of different schools of thought [8mb; PHP overview with indication of access to PDFs of individual appendices].
• [1972] The Nature of Organizations in Transnational Networks (Paper for Panel Perspectives on Global Societies, International Studies Association, Dallas, 1972) [2.2mb; PHP version]
• [1972] Levels of Discourse [0.1mb; no PHP version]
• [1972] Mapping World Problems [0.8mb; PHP version]
• [1972] Shared NGO Services: an analysis of a feasibility study for an international centre [0.2mb; PHP version]
• [1972] An NGO Collective Long-term Objective [0.2mb; PHP version]
• [1972] Summary of functions performed by NGO Conferences [0.1mb; PHP version]
• [1972] Summary of the Crises in Interorganizational Relationships at the International level [ 0.8mb; PHP version]
• [1972] IGO-INGO and INGO-INGO Relations a possible approach [0.2mb; PHP version]
• [1972] Wrecking an International Project: notes from a saboteur's vade mecum [0.3mb; PHP version]
• [1972] Le Développement des Moyens Conceptuels Transdisciplinaires [1.0mb; PHP version]
• [1972] Transnational Association Networks (TANs): selected list of research topics on international nongovernmental organization [0.1mb; PHP version]
• [1972] The World Network of Organizations: a symbol for the 1970s [0.5mb; PHP version]
• [1972] A Human Environment Ombudsman (A statement of the Union of International Associations to the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm, 1972) [0.6mb; PHP version]
• [1971] Quo Vadis UNO? a review of some of the issues raised by the Club of Rome study of World Dynamics [0.2mb; PHP version]
• [1971] Use of Multi-Meetings: proposal for improvement to NGO / UN relationships [0.2mb; PHP version]
• [1971] The Next Step in Inter-Organizational Relationships (Use of information, rather than organization, as the foundation for the inter-organizational activity of the future) [Collection 7.8mb; PHP version]
• [1971] Universal Declaration of the Rights of Human Organization: an experimental extension of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [0.9mb; PHP version]
• [1971] Management and Assessment of Financial Resources [0.5mb; PHP version]
• [1971] Discrimination and Fragmentation in the 1970s: an organized response to global crisis [Collection; PHP version]
• [1971] Types of Problem [mb; PHP version]
• [1970] International Organizations and the Generation of the Will to Change: the information systems required [Collection 5.7mb; PHP version]
• [1970] Visualization of the International Organization Network: the UIA as an international data bank [1.4mb; PHP version]
• [1970] Communication and International Organizations [1.0mb; PHP version]
• [1970] La foret cachée par les arbres [0.4mb; no PHP version]
• [1969] Organizational Apartheid: Who needs whom in the Second United Nations Development Decade (1970-1980) ? [0.7mb; PHP version]
• [1969] Inter-Contact: an information centre and a technique [Collection]
• [1969] Les possibilités d'utilisation, par les organisations internationales non gouvernementales, d'ordinateurs et de traitement électronique des données [0.3mb; PHP version]
• [1969] Organization Manual for International Non-Profit Organizations [0.4mb; PHP version]
• [1969] Manuel Administratif des Organisations Internationales Non-gouvernementales [0.2mb; PHP version]
• [1969] Evaluation of International Organizations: the need, current efforts, qualitative and quantitative methods [0.2mb; PHP version]
• [1969] Multinational Business Enterprises: a new category of international organizations [0.3mb; PHP version]
• [1968] Les contributions gouvernementales aux OING [0.2mb]
• [1968] The governmental support of international non governmental organizations [0.2mb; PHP version]
• [1968] Preliminary Investigation of the Possibility of Using Computer Data Processing Methods [Collection; PHP summary]
• [1968] Functional Synthesis of Viewpoints: a conceptual model based on purpose. [Collection 7mb; PHP version]
• [1964] Proceedings of International Meetings: analysis of a bibliography [0.5mb; PHP version]

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