'..A system is more than the sum of its parts and cannot be understood merely by breaking it down into its constituent parts. This distinctly contrasts the notion of linear causality which dominates decision making today; identify a problem, decide upon its cause and tackle the root. Without a fuller understanding of underlying system dynamics, the linear approach creates unintended consequences. The failure to solve some of society’s fundamental challenges is a testimony to this. Systems thinking opens new ways of understanding nations and how they evolve. In systems, relationships and flows are more important than events. Events or problems represent the outcomes of the relationships and flows. This is why it is important to look at the multidimensional concept of Positive Peace as a holistic, systemic framework.''Humanity is now facing challenges unparalleled in its history. Many of these problems are global in nature, such as climate change, ever-decreasing biodiversity, depletion of the earth’s fresh water, and overpopulation. Such global challenges call for global solutions and require cooperation on a scale unprecedented in human history. In a hyper-connected world, the sources of many of these challenges are multidimensional, increasingly complex and span national borders. For this reason, finding solutions to these unprecedented challenges fundamentally requires new ways of thinking.
Without peace, it will not be possible to achieve the levels of trust, cooperation or inclusiveness necessary to solve these challenges, let alone empower the international institutions and organisations necessary to address them. Therefore, peace is the prerequisite for the survival of humanity as we know it in the 21st century.
Without an understanding of the factors that create and sustain peaceful societies, it will not be possible to develop the programmes, create the policies or understand the resources required to build peaceful and resilient societies.
Positive Peace provides a framework to understand and address the many complex challenges the world faces. Positive Peace is transformational in that it is a cross-cutting factor of progress, making it easier for businesses to sell, entrepreneurs and scientists to innovate, individuals to produce and governments to effectively regulate.
In addition to the absence of violence, Positive Peace is also associated with many other social characteristics that are considered desirable, including stronger economic outcomes, higher resilience, better measures of well-being, higher levels of inclusiveness and more sustainable environmental performance.
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Positive Peace is systemic and requires new thinking to be properly understood. Systems thinking originated in the study of organisms and has been extended into sociology. It can also assist in understanding the way countries and nations function and evolve. When combined with Positive Peace, systems thinking provides new ways of conceptualising and explaining societal change. A system is more than the sum of its parts and cannot be understood merely by breaking it down into its constituent parts. This distinctly contrasts the notion of linear causality which dominates decision making today; identify a problem, decide upon its cause and tackle the root. Without a fuller understanding of underlying system dynamics, the linear approach creates unintended consequences. The failure to solve some of society’s fundamental challenges is a testimony to this. Systems thinking opens new ways of understanding nations and how they evolve. In systems, relationships and flows are more important than events. Events or problems represent the outcomes of the relationships and flows. This is why it is important to look at the multidimensional concept of Positive Peace as a holistic, systemic framework.'
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Positive Peace Report, 2018
ContextHolistic education - 'One of the most important goals is the development of wisdom'(To Heal)(Management innovation) - '..Teal Organizations to start healing the world..'(Haptopraxeology) - Humans Are Underrated '..the skills of deeply human interaction .. Learning to be more socially sensitive..'Holistic education - '..educating the whole child as its major priority..'(To Heal)(Reinventing Organizations) - '..news about what happening in the space of organizations going Teal.''The question of who is to blame .. for the estrangement between .. Moscow and the West, seems to me to be the wrong question.'(Haptopraxeology) - Affective Human Action '..even from within the maternal womb.' (economics)Decode the meaning of the terrorists' aberrant behavior from the perspective of early childhood development and trauma'..subjective knowledge treats knowledge as being tacit, private, subjective, and decentralized..''..knowledge of individual actors in the economy .. often tacit (i.e., non-verbal) .. impossible for a central planning body to even acquire this knowledge..'(Haptopraxeology) - '..the senses were the windows of the soul and that reason had a divine right to feed upon fact..'Feeling & AnalyzingIn The Electric Universe a Future of Peace and Love