justice, equality,
balance, complementarity, legitimacy, democracy, rights, compassion
Balance:
The focus of the editorial research associated with the reference work of the Union
of International Associations is fundamentally dependent on recognition of the complementarity
of disparate human activities -- of how the solution favoured by one international organization,
in response to challenges of society, gives rise to a problem which is the preoccupation of
another. The challenge has been how to develop understanding of balance and complementarity
( International Organization Networks: a complementary perspective
, 1977; Tensed
Networks: Balancing and focusing network dynamics in response to networking diseases
,
1978; Implementing Principles by Balancing Configurations of Functions: a tensegrity
organization approach
, 1979; Alternating between Complementary Conditions
, 1983;
Spherical Configuration of Categories to Reflect Systemic Patterns of Environmental
Checks and Balances
, 1994; Sustainable Development: a system of 14 complementary
concepts
, 1994; Policy Options for Civil Society through Complementary Contrasts
, 1994;
Typology of 12 complementary strategies
, 1998; Complementary Patterns of Meaningful
Truth and the Interface between Alternative Variants
, 2003; 12 Complementary Languages
for Sustainable Governance
, 2003) With respect to legal structure, this has taken the form of
work on the legal status of international nongovernmental organizations (
1988
; 1996
), the
misapplication of legal norms (
1994
), and human rights (
Universal Declaration of the Rights of
Human Organization: an experimental extension of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights
, 1971; 1997
). In relation to the challenges of governance, the problems and possibilities of
democracy have been a focus (
Participative Democracy vs. Participative Drama: lessons on
social transformation for international organizations from Gorbachev
, 1991; AWOL:
American Way Of Life: Assumptions -- justifying worldwide imposition of democratic
imperialism
, 2003; Arming Civil Society Worldwide: Getting democracy to work in the
emergent American Empire?
, 2003; Practicalities of Participatory Democracy with
International Institutions: Attitudinal, Quantitative and Qualitative Challenges
, 2003). The
concern with justice has recently focused on terrorism (
Justice and Terrorism
, 2001; Warping
the Judgement of Dissenting Opinion: towards a general framework for comparing
distortion in rules of evidence
, 2002).
injustice, inequality,
imbalance
Imbalance:
The focus from 1972 on profiling over 30,000 world problems (see below
) has
essentially been a focus on identifying inequity and imblance in every field of human activity and
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1. Metaphor
