Modernity Concepts, Cultural Factors & IDCEurope …USA

Arab-Muslim-MENA Region

Moderne; moderne Gesellschaft; Institutionen; Kontingenz; Vielfalt der Moderne; Autonomie; Beherrschung

Wagner, Peter: 1999: Die Modernität der sozialen WeltHobsbawm: “moderne Gesellschaft”Parsons: Moderen als schlüssiges& überlegenes soziales Systems

BMBF – Fachministerien BMZ – EZ – Stiftungen: MENA Portfolio? Update 2011?

Development of Sciences in Islam

1./7. – 10./16.Jh.

Wissenschaft & Technik im Islam

Band I - III

Capacity WORKS Methodology

EZ&Islam: Lit., Projekterfahrungen

Success factors/ Case-Studies

Focus German DC: Science& Technology

Development; SED;

Portfolio Case 1 ETD: 2Q/2007

Portfolio Case 2 ETD: 3Q/2007

Portfolio Case 3 ETD: 4Q/2008

Portfolio Case 4 ETD: 4Q/2008

Portfolio Abgleich

international ETD: 1Q/2011

Sezgin 2003

Arab Cultural Factors

Quelle xETD: No Contract

Quelle YETD: No Contract

ACF&AI:Industrial&Commercial

Training 2011

Additional thoughts

TD: 3Q/2008

Konstitutive Offenheit der Moderne;Gesellschaftstheorie;

Analytical Framework: Modernity Variables

Modernity• achievement (McLelland 1973)

• Economic ethics/ (dissemination?)

• education• Emancipation• (secular) laws• learning• knowledge• Progress• Social practice• (universal) standards

•

Modernization

• Access to (finance, information, other resources)

• Capacity development• Climate change • Economic development• Innovation• Rationalization• Sustainability (scenarios)

Analytical Framework: Arab Cultural Factors(ACF)&Appreciative Inquiry (AI)

ACF• shura ()• narrative/high-context communication• (high) collectivism: tribal& familial

affiliations subordinate the individual orientation

• Homogeneity of Islamic culture• preference for certainty over

uncertainty• emphasis on relationships over tasks

• Tendency to focus on results and intentions (as well as social equality & justice)

AI• affirmative• Interactive• collaborative approach (among

organizational members) • positive attitudes&values• mobilising effect on organisation

development (OD)• clear gender roles• assertiveness & ambition valued• Virtues of aiding others• Modesty and solidarity• Arab leadership: building& maintaining

multiple, effective relationships to support consensus building and cooperation among followers

• Involvement of organisation members