variety
Diversity:
Reflected in the author's construction and maintenance of large data sets
on every
field of human activity (whether international organizations, world problems, human values, human
development, etc) notably for the
Yearbook of International Organizations
and the
Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
. Also present are a number of papers
concerned with the range of types of strategy (
1995
,
1998
), dialogue (
1998
), organization (
IGO
, NGO,
all
), transdisciplinarity,
values
, roles (
1997
), etc.
synthesis, integration, coherence
Unity: Reflected
in many papers concerned with synthesis ( 1968
,
1997
,
2000
) , integrative
concepts, transdisciplinarity, dialogue (
1996
,
2000
) , and ways of articulating unity (
1991
) and
coherence (***). The institution where much of this work was done bears a title (
Union of
International Associations
) which raises interesting questions about the nature of any "union" to
be discovered between any form of "association", whether conceptual or otherwise (see
Union
of International Associations -- Virtual Organization
, 2001). An early concern has been
broadening understandings of unity (
Liberation of Integration through pattern, oscillation,
harmony and embodiment
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1. Metaphor
