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10. Global -- Personal
collective, governance
Global: In contrast to the long-term focus on "international" and "world" forms of organization, the focus on "global" forms has suggested a degree of conceptual integration and coherence obscured by the conventional preoccupation with trade-related issues (see Global modelling perspective  , 1991; Globalization of Knowledge and Insight  , 1997; Future Generation through Global Conversation  , 1997; Global Civil Society: strategic comments on the path ahead  . 2003) as well as the potential for its manipulation (see Discrimination and Fragmentation in the 1970s: an organized response to global crisis  , 1971; Category Manipulation in Global Dialogue  , 2000; Globalization within a Global Potemkin Society  , 2000; Promoting a Singular Global Threat -- Terrorism: Strategy of choice for world governance  , 2002; Globalization of Death: checklist  . 2003; Global Strategic Implications of the Unsaid: from myth- making to a wisdom society  , 2003). Associated with the question of complexity and emergent order has been the possibility of global self-organization (  Configuring Globally and Contending Locally: shaping the global network of local bargains  , 1992; Spherical configuration of interlocking roundtables: Internet enhancement of global self- organization through patterns of dialogue  , 1998; 1998  ) and the design perspective required (   1994  ) for innovative global management (  1989  ). A particular concern has been global governance (  Metaphor as a Language for Global Governance  , 1993; Four Complementary Languages Required for Global Governance  , 1998) and the constraints on its development ((   Tank-thoughts from Think-tanks: constraining metaphors on developing global governance  , 2003; 12 Complementary Languages for Sustainable Governance  , 2003). Global community, its learning capacity (  1980  , 1981  , 1982  ), and its sustainability through dialogue, has also been a preoccupation (  1995  ) as has the role of global information systems (   Need for a World Management Information System to Assist Initiation and Coordination of Global Development Programmes  , 1969; Songlines of the Noosphere: global configuration of hypertext pathways  , 1996; Simulating a Global Brain: using networks of international organizations, world problems, strategies, and values  , 2001)

individual, subjective, embodiment
Personal: The development of a database of approaches to human development, including modes of awareness, has been a central theme of the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential  (1976, 1986, 1991, 1995; commentaries  ), as have their interaction (  1979  ), their phases (  1991  ), and their relevance (  1991  ), notably as an existential challenge (  1991  ). The variety of approaches, and the challenge of typologies of human relationships (  1978  ), have also been a focus. Such development is seen as an objective of many strategies -- whose obstruction was perceived as a source of many world problems (see From Apartheid to Schizophrenia: the logic of depersonalized separate development  , 1971) and the movement of meaning in governance (  1994  ). Its preoccupations were prefigured in an experiment (   Universal Declaration of the Rights of Human Organization: an experimental extension of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights  , 1971), subsequently repeated (  Convention on the Rights of the Child Within  , 1997). Constraints on that development have been explored (   Limits to Human Potential  , 1976), notably in relation to the challenge of internalizing discontinuity (  1995  ), to personal globalization (  2001  ) and to lifestyle change (  1977  ) -- and to the creation of facilitative environments (  1975  *), especially for dialogue (  1984  ; 1994  ). The challenge of the problematic relationship between leaders has also been considered (  1998  ). A related concern has been technical approaches to augmenting human intellect (  1994  ) and the quality of dialogue (  2001  ) -- as well the role of metaphor in such enhancement (  Enhancing the Quality of Knowing through Integration of East-West metaphors  , 2000). The human development theme is intimately related to that of human values as the focus of a complementary dataset in the Encylopedia, notably the function of values as "attractors" for such development (   Human Values as Strange Attractors: Coevolution of classes of governance principles  , 1993). Both themes converge in concerns relating to wisdom (  Development beyond Science to Wisdom  , 1979; The Isdom of the Wisdom Society: Embodying time as the heartland of humanity  , 2003), authenticity (  Evoking Authenticity: through polyhedral global configuration of local paradoxes  , 2003) and future human development (  Authentic Grokking: Emergence of Homo conjugens  , 2003)
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