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
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 fightingDecision Making & Governance
Systems of just and sustainable decision making, leadership, responsibility, and regulationDecision Making & Governance Resources
The Bolivian Declaration of Mother Earth's Rights
Rights & freedoms standard
Mother Earth being a living being, of which all life forms, both animate and inanimate are part, and aware of its benefits for living well — in good health — we assume the responsibility and the generational role in cultivating balance and harmony...
The Co-Intelligence Institute
Decision making & governance organization
The Co-Intelligence Institute (CII) is a non-profit organization that promotes awareness of co-intelligence and the tools and ideas that can be used to increase it. The CII explores the integrated application of these tools to democratic renewal, community...
The Wise Democracy Pattern Language
Decision making & governance website
The Wise Democracy Pattern Language highlights design principles which can make an activity, organization or community more wisely self-governing. Based on of real-life innovations, this evolving database of wise democracy "patterns" intends to help people...
The Earth Charter
Principles & ethics standard
The Earth Charter is an ethical framework for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society in the 21st century. It seeks to inspire in all people a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the well-being of the whole...
Sovereign App by Democracy.earth
Direct democracy tool
Software for blockchain based direct democracy decision making.
Encyclical Laudato si’ on Care for our Common Home
Principles & ethics standard
Laudato Si': On Care for Our Common Home is the 2015 appeal from Pope Francis addressed to "every person living on this planet" for an inclusive dialogue about how humans are shaping the future of the planet. Pope Francis calls the Church and the world...
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...
Pam Cooley
Decision making & governance knowledge holder
Collaborator, Facilitator, Social Entrepreneur, Speaker and Founder of "The Continuum of Collaboration" model, "Choosethical Ventures Inc." and Founding Partner of "CarShare Atlantic Ltd.