Talk:Living Together Research Proposal

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Revision as of 07:35, 21 June 2007 by Flower (talk | contribs) (further thoughts on intro and section 1)

Aims

To submit a proposal for working on the Living Together paper as part of a research position at a New Zealand university. The ideas discussed in the paper will be connected to the current discourse on political science, making them acceptable to mainstream academia. We will need to write a brief summary of what will be researched and need to contact academics for feedback. Once the proposal is polished enough we can then submit it as part of an application for an academic research position for Flo.

Through this we will achieve multiple objectives:

  • To secure gainful employment and payment for Flo (teaching) and Milan (writing), allowing Flo to build the case for his residency application by having a job offer for which he is uniquely qualified, and allowing Milan to be paid to write about the work that has taken place under the project.
  • To tie together the philosophy, ideas and technologies discussed on Organic Design succinctly and in a language that is acceptable to the academic mainstream.
  • Build the case for the project and gaining support for various aspects of it such as Peer development. This can then form the foundation of proposals for various sub-projects connected to the project.
  • To integrate real-world examples of the principles discussed in the paper and achieve exposure or support for said examples, such as sustainable communities and community centres, or Platforms

Concepts

  • The main emphasis is political science rather than philosophy, so philosophical concepts will need to be expressed within a political science framework
  • World government is one of the concepts addressed, however we want to avoid implying rigid centralisation. Further potential problems that arise from world government are corruption and the large interfering with the small. Rather, we want to express the idea of a "global" (in the sense of holistic) organisation and how local organisation can scale to world level
  • We need to build a connection between the concept of organic groups and the idea of institutions with a mandate (given how)?

Principles

== Discuss from the solution ==etc. Place current problems in context of solutions, that is explain why or how a certain approach is taken, contrasting with current problems or discussing the achievement of currently impossible aims.

Conclusion

Global values

Platforms and sanctuaries

The Network

Organisation and governance

Discussion on Proposal

  • 'The Book of Formation' by Abraham - seed of most religions
    • use to establish idea of oneness and same origin for most(all?) religions
  • different religions (e.g. Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism) are talking about the 'Tree of Live'
    • further indicator for same origins
regarding changes made to section 1
  • i do think that political science as such is concerned about creating or how to establish a peaceful, just and prosperous global society. it simply depends on who u ask and what school this scientist follows. i.e. realism, globalism, liberalism, etc. so i think its a bit difficult to support the statement. its true for some schools and scientists but not for all. the variety is enormous. the question is much more what makes it way from the political scientist to those people that do make decisions? here the statement: ' the strengthening of centralised institutions like the world bank, united nations, world trade organisations and the decreasing role of nation-states which will be required to relinquish authority to said global institutions or even a world government' applies. but not to political science as such!
  • talking about corruption and multinational corporates gaining power needs to include the concept/practice of lobbying
  • concept of 'all aspects changeable' is uncommon and unclear to anyone who's not familiar with it. maybe it can rephrased or might not be essential for the proposal?
  • I love the distinguishing between the two forms of global government as it makes it very clear whats new about the thing we want to talk about. as far as i know this concept of localised decision making has been very much neglected. however, we do need to look at currently discussed models of world government.
  • we do need the bridge to the philosophical section, saying that a peaceful, etc world government is not possible without that foundation.
regarding intro
  • i like the idea of observing three people's lives. think that would work really well!
  • cover history of wold government as a notion
  • whats the current status of academic discussion?
regarding proposal structure and content
  • (1) Title
  • (2) Current research and discussion
  • (3) Questions and expectations regarding the result, including reasoning why
  • (4) Possible consequences of the results
  • (5) Bibliography
regarding section 1, questions to answer
  • (a)Whats the potential of a world governemnt? why do we need/want one?
  • (b)whats the structure gonna look like and how would it opperate?
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