STANDARDS OF LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE — SECULAR & SACRED For a creative culture to survive and properly discharge its sacred obligation to the living planet, its originators must implement an effective method of ensuring that each generation of leadership and citizenship fulfils its mandate without corruption, for the duration or ‘designed lifetime’ of the culture. Compassion, conscience, common sense, essential integrity, humility, strength, stamina, intuition, intelligence, vision, reason, righteousness, wisdom and real will are some of the necessary attributes found within the core models and leadership of successful and enduring human societies.
Liberated
Without external control, bondage, or unnatural constraints
Fair
Providing unbiased equivalent opportunity for all participants
Creative
Best practices for an enlightened and sustainable society.
Rights-respecting
Respecting the fundamental rights and freedoms of humans and all living beings
Peaceful
Peaceful, non-aggressive, and non-harmful means
Local
Fulfilling local needs with resources within a community or bioregion
Community
Optimized local interdependence
Law Enforcement
Leadership and lawmaking that benefit all members of society, enforced justly and equitably
Emergency Services
Procedures and methods for effective and efficient response
Consensus
Decision making by unanimous agreement
Direct Democracy
Democratic governance systems in which decisions are made by direct vote, instead of through a representative
Diplomacy
Facilitating peaceful intercultural communication and relations
Ownership
Systems of title, authority, responsibility, control and obligation
Sociocracy
A governance method that aims to make practical and effective use of collaboration, self-organization,...
Collective Intelligence
Principles and patterns for making wise collective decisions
Communications
Face-to-face, storytelling, written, digital, social media, journalism, visual or performing arts —...
Dispute Resolution
Ways to equitably resolve disagreements and effectively avoid fighting
Record Keeping
Storing information for future useDecision Making & Governance
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Bringing Deep Democracy to Life
Decision making & governance article
Deep Democracy is seeking to notice and understand diverse perspectives, including privileged and marginalized voices. This article is an overview of deep democracy by Amy Mindell. Voices can be marginalized because of systemic oppression, because...
International Association for the Study of Commons
Education & learning organization
The IASC is the leading professional association dedicated to the commons. The association, founded in 1989 by Elinor Ostrom and others, is devoted to bringing together multi-disciplinary researchers, practitioners, and policymakers for the purpose of...
The Co-Intelligence Institute
Decision making & governance organization
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The Bolivian Declaration of Mother Earth's Rights
Rights & freedoms standard
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