The Role of Women in Integral Sustainable Development

By Vijay Kaul.

Publisher: Strategy & Consulting.

PROBLEM DEFINITION

KEY FINDING OF THE WORLD SUMMIT ON WOMEN IN BEIJING

Need to increase women's participation in power and decision making.

PROBLEM DEFINITION

FINDINGS OF THE CAPWIP, Global Congress of Women in Politics, Purple Book, p. 49.

increased participation in local governments, but women found in very small numbers and have little impact in national governance

Women's representation in government is tokenistic which impedes the real change and progress that women can make even when they are in power.

NEEDS

Review and examine the Asia Pacific situation on women in leadership, decision making and politics in current global context

identify strategic gaps and appropriate courses of action for the next decade.

ANALYSIS: REFRAMING THE CHALLENGE

Re-conceptualize the notions

Sustainable development

Power

Leadership

Women’s Role

REFRAMING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

THE CASE OF GLOBAL WARMING

Reframing Sustainable Development

Ecological - Entropy

Economic – cars, industries

Culture – consumption habits, S & T

Political – laws and policies

Social – population

Human – individualism, materialism

Spiritual – materialism

Seven Dimensions of Integral Sus Dev (ISD)

7 Dimensions of SD

- Spiritual

- Human

- Social

- Cultural

- Political

- Economic

- Ecological

REFRAMING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Sus Dev (SD) not = Environment alone

Earth Summit: SD = Environment, Economic, Social

SD ISD

All UN Summits are in reality aspects of ISD

ISD AND THE UN SUMMITS

They all share the same fate.

Conclusion of the Commission on Globalization in London – negligible impact of all summits

Why?

WTO and the Marginalization of the UN Summits

The Hard Agenda of the 1990s

WTO obligatory and with sanctions

UN Summits voluntary and minimal sanctions

Policy Conflict: WTO obligations prevail

Bush Doctrine: Marginalization of the UN Summits

The Hard Agenda of the 21st century =

The Bush Doctrine

TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY

The Third Meta-Agenda of the 21st

Century

What is Technological Singularity?

What is it a Threat to ISD?

Fukuyama and the Real End of History

THE CLASH OF WORLDVIEWS

ISD or the Empire Matrix

Who determines?

Whose World?

A question of power, leadership, women’s role and spiritual development

REFRAMING POWER

ISD New Concept of Power

ISD Societal Threefolding (3F)

3F and 3 Kinds of Power

Societal Threefolding

THE THREE SPHERES OF SOCIETY

ECONOMY

(Business)

POLITICS

(Government)

CULTURE

(Civil society)

REFRAMING POWER

Cultural or Soft Power

Political/Military or Hard Power

Economic or Sticky Power

ECONOMY

(Business)

POLITICS

(Government)

CULTURE

(Civil society)

POWER CONCEPT IN THE BUSH DOCTRINE

Cultural Power = Clash of Civilizations

Political Power = US Unilateralism

Economic = Economic Globalization

ISD Counter Concept of Power

ISD poses the counter power of solidarity of the societal spheres or

Societal threefolding

Requires the principled and strategic convergence of civil society (cultural power), government (political power) and business (economic power)

3F POWER AND DEMOCRACY

The New Check and Balance in Society

But new balance of power not enough

New Leadership required

REFRAMING LEADERSHIP

Competitive Leadership vs. Associative Leadership

Darwinian Struggle for Power or Harnessing Collective Intelligence

ISD and Associative Leadership

THE ROLE OF WOMEN

ISD Challenges not ordinary challenges

Unprecedented

Women’s Role also needs to be reframed

REFRAMING THE ROLE OF WOMEN

Historically, women power associated with the take over of the domain of the masculine

The feminine in the guise of the masculine

REFRAMING THE ROLE OF WOMEN

Civilizational Challenges Requires the Mobilization of the True Feminine

Our world is suffering from one the overblown idolatry of the masculine

THE MASCULINE IN WORLD AFFAIRS

Global Warming and the masculine Baconian attitude of “torturing” nature so that “she” will reveal her secrets.

Fragmentation and reductionism in science connected with left brain analytical cognition

THE MASCULINE IN WORLD AFFAIRS

Masculine Competition permeates

Economic globalization

US Unilateralism

Clash of Civilization

Technological Singularity

THE FEMININE IN WORLD AFFAIRS

SOME BASIC SCIENTIFIC

FACTS ON HUMAN NATURE

The Feminine in World Affairs

Not surprising that 67% of cultural creatives are women

In the US, there are 50 million cultural creatives

70 million in Europe

The Femininein World Affairs

WHAT IS MISSING IN WORLD POLITICS IS THE HEART.

POLITICS HAS BECOME THE DOMAIN OF THE HEAD.

We need of a politics of the heart guiding the politics of the head

THE FEMININE IN WORLD AFFAIRS

Societal Threefolding

Collective Intelligence

Generative Dialogue

Conflict Resolution

Integral ISD

THE FEMININE IN WORLD AFFAIRS

The Polarity of Masculine and Feminine in World Affairs

Played Out in Contrasting Worldview of the US and Europe

IMPLICATIONS

Holistic concept of SD

Reframing of Power, Democracy and Governance

Advancing the truly feminine

Towards integration