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 DEFINITIONFINDINGS 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 ThreefoldingTHE 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