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POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern
www.selectbooks.comCover design by Janice Benight
Front cover art © iStockphoto.com/CidepixJacket fl ap illustration by Phaedra Strecher
EMERG
E!ELZA S. M
AALOU
F
Rarely do political e! orts focus on what causes a culture to emerge and prosper or stagnate and fail. In Elza Maalouf’s groundbreaking new book Emerge! The Rise of Functional Democracy and the Future of the Middle East, we are introduced to a new paradigm for governance based on the Beck-Graves model of value systems and the theories of Spiral Dynamics Integral.
Maalouf, the founder of the Center for Human Emergence Mideast and the Build Palestine Initia-tive, is a geopolitical expert on the region where she pioneered the application of Large-Scale psy-chology and design concepts to confl ict resolution. By placing democracy in an evolutionary, values-system’s context that is indigenously specifi c to the region, Emerge! demonstrates the foundations nec-essary for cultural change.
Maalouf’s collaboration with her colleague and mentor Don E. Beck establishes this model as the new standard for large-scale political change. Many of Beck’s unpublished works, such as the adaptation of Sherifs’ Social Judgment Theory to the value-systems’ model, are featured in detail along with many others of Beck’s and Maalouf’s own social-psychology concepts.
Maalouf’s framework for decoding the com-plexities of the Middle East succeeds in many places where the West’s approach to confl ict reso-lution has failed. By weaving together the threads that make up the pattern of each culture, Emerge! shows the crucial role memes play in creating a system of governance that truly fi ts. Not only does Emerge! ask us to seek understanding before we structure and create what Maalouf calls Functional Democracy, it shows us the necessity of teaching our youth to build their own sustainable, indige-nous constructs.
ISBN 978-1-59079-286-5$24.95
continued from back cover
FROM THE FOREWORD BY DR. DON E. BECK“This book is the definitive authority not only on the
political future of the Middle East, but also on the evolution of democracy itself.”
“ In Elza Maalouf’s book Emerge! she puts the voter first and redefines democ-racy through a functional lens . . . If you want to understand the complexity of Middle Eastern politics and what’s needed to resolve this historic conflict you must read this book.”—HOWARD PUTNAM, former CEO Southwest Airlines and Braniff International and author of The Winds of Turbulence
“ Elza Maalouf’s insightful study, Emerge!, reveals exactly how humanity is re-organizing from youthful, competitive, win/lose political economies to evo-lutionarily mature collaborative models fitting the unique needs of different cultures. I highly recommend this book, not only to leaders in the Middle East, but also to conscious politicians in the West.”—ELISABET SAHTOURIS, evolution biologist, futurist; author of EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution
The Middle East keeps inching closer by the day into a collective chaos. It seems as though oppression, inequality, and violence have been systemically
embedded into the very makeup of its societies. How can the people take charge of their own inalienable rights to freedom, equality and prosperity—to keep from backsliding into the grasp of feudal, unhealthy ideologies as they face an increasingly interconnected world? continued on front flap
ELZA MAALOUF is one of the foremost experts on the memetics of the Middle East who pioneered the use of the value-systems framework and Integral Theory practices in Middle Eastern politics and business. She is the cofounder of the Cen-ter for Human Emergence Middle East, a think tank that reframes existential issues facing the region through the prism of value-system memes. She was named as one of today’s brightest minds by Enlighten-Next magazine. In 2011 she was elected to
be a member of the Evolutionary Leaders in Service to Conscious Evolution, an organization made up of the leading global minds in the fi elds of science, spiri-tuality, and related studies with the primary purpose of advancing the conscious evolution of humanity.
Maalouf is also the founder of the Integral Insights Consulting Group (IIC), an advisory that brings research on the theories of human potential to bear on organizational challenges and opportunities. The IIC Group is dedicated to the multi-faceted development of individuals, teams, and organizations.
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“ In the midst of the global chaos, comes a book that offers great hope for the future of the Middle East. It is a powerful and enlightened rethinking of a region seeking anew renaissance.”—JEAN HOUSTON, PhD, best-selling author of A Passion for the Possible; co-Founder of the Human Potential Movement
ELZA S. MAALOUFForeword by Don E. Beck, PhD
The Rise of Functional Democracy and the Future of the Middle East
EMERGE!
SURVIVAL SENSE: Do what you must to stay alive. No governing system.
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TRIBAL ORDER; KINSHIP & SAFETY. Clan leader or Za’eem. Individual votes are not encouraged. Group allegiance to 3rd level leader, or 4th level ideology. 5% of Current Global Popula=on under value system (VGPS)
POWERFUL SYSTEMS; FEUDAL EMPIRE/DOMINATION. Votes go to the feudal lords. Descending voters are eliminated from poli=cal process. Patriarchal. No clear Na=onal PlaDorm. Rich get richer poor get poorer. 33% VGPS.
ABSOLUTE ORDER; BIRTH OF NATION-‐STATES. Winning party rule. Votes maHer to the “One Party” that has all the right answers. Power of Ins=tu=on prevails over the power of Individual. Heavy hand of government. 27% VGPS.
GLOBAL ORDER; HOLONIC DEMOCRACY & GLOBAL GOVERNANCE. Will appear aPer the values of the 7 level system are realized. Seeking the common good in response to global problems. Whole-‐earth networks. 0% VGPS.
ENTERPRISING SYSTEMS; 2-‐PARTY OR MULTI-‐PARTY DEMOCRACY. Corporate Na=ons. Economic status sets power ra=os. Federal governance with full right to states and provinces. Poli=cs are to the strategic advantage of winner. 24% VGPS.
INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONAL DEMOCRACY & BIG PICTURE VALUES. Governance that fits the Value systems profiles of a culture. Stra=fied systems designed with input from the Indigenous Intelligence. Balance of government & private sector based on func=onality. 3% VGPS.
EGALITARIAN ORDER; SOCIAL DEMOCRACY. Coali=on governments empowered by humanitarian values. Equal access to resources by all people. Votes are important, but losing par=es s=ll have important voice. System votes for gender equality & social programs. 8% VGPS.
Func'onal Democracy &The Eight Levels of Human Existence
The Psychosocial DNA of PoliDcs The MEMEtocracy Framework; What Makes Democracy Func'onal
FORMS OF FUNCTIONAL DEMOCRACY
LEVEL OF HUMAN EXISTENCE
PERCENT GLOBAL POPULATION IN EACH
SYSTEM (VGPS)
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DOMINANT VALUE
SYSTEM
CULTURAL EXPRESSION
AL-‐ JAHILIYA
(PRE-‐ISLAM)
Tribal-‐Heroic Values (Second & Third Level Systems) PURPLE/Red
Bands of Nomads leading simple lives. Tribes used as mercenaries by conquering empires
ISLAMIC RENAISSANCE
Religious Fourth level values mixed with Second, Third and some Fi[h level values that inspired scien\fic discoveries. PURPLE-‐Red-‐BLUE-‐orange
Islam follows in the tradi\on of Hellenis\c philosophy/ Intellectual discourse and inclusion. In Andalusia, Muslims, Chris\ans and Jews lived in harmony. Culture thrived while Europe stagnated. (open system along the spiral of development.
AL-‐GHAZALI DOCTRINE
Fourth Level values with Islamic content. Quran is the word of God (closed the Fourth level system to non-‐Quranic-‐based input). Closed BLUE
Al-‐Ghazali’s Incoherence of the Philosophers brings the scien\fic interpreta\on of the Quran to an end. Begins the Islamic stages of exclusion and leaves out advancement not based in Islam. Future progress relies on the content of the Quran as a “full living system.” Religion dominates the en\re fourth level system slowing emergence.
END OF RENAISSANCE & DECLINE
OF OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Odomans ruled from exploi\ve 3rd level. Kept culture in 2nd level, repressed expression of 3rd level. No na\onal Plaeorm to build higher complexity. PURPLE-‐RED-‐blue
Religious freedom and preserva\on of local tribal customs as long as taxes were paid and order is kept. No empire-‐wide investment in scien\fic endeavors and human capaci\es. Failed to adopt 5th level industrial values. Lost 90 % of territory as Europe advanced with Industrial Revolu\on and alterna\ve trade routes.
FRAMING ARAB HISTORY THROUGH MEMETICS & VALUE SYSTEMS 300 BC-‐ 1900 AD
ERA
DOMINANT VALUE
SYSTEM
CULTURAL EXPRESSION
COLONIAL MANDATES
Imposed a non-‐indigenous Fourth level system & the Western Fourth level concept of Na\ons. Non-‐Indigenous Blue
Surface expression of Western modernism. Placed tribes and religious sects against each other for territorial dominance within arbitrary borders of newly created na\ons. Devalued the meaning of democracy
ARAB NATIONALISM
A unhealthy, Non-‐Indigenous Fourth level system collapsed culture to Third level dictatorships. RED-‐blue
Inspired youth to seek Pan-‐Arab iden\ty through Baath and other movements, before crea\ng na\on-‐states in each country and the ins\tu\ons to support it. Built primarily on the Arabs knack for the rhetoric and the presence of a common enemy.
ERA OF DICTATORSHIPS
Heroic/Feudalis\c Third level values with modern weapons and money from oil or foreign aid. RED-‐purple
Rose from the ashes of failed Arab Na\onalism. Corrup\on, repression and blame on the far enemy. No capacity for self-‐introspec\on. Descending voices eliminated or forced to leave.
CHAOS IN THE INFORMATION
AGE
Third level Al-‐Qaeda evolves into Third-‐Fourth level ISIL with strategic aim. No Fourth level ins\tu\ons in sight. RED-‐Unhealthy BLUE-‐orange
15 minutes of Arab Spring. One person one vote elected radicals. Baath Army reborn as ISIL without the secular cover. Virtual jihad recruitment with global reach. Using social media to make Jihad adrac\ve. Begin bloody hero journey into a new Arab Renaissance with respect for Ins\tu\ons.
FRAMING ARAB HISTORY THROUGH MEMETICS & VALUE SYSTEMS 1900 AD -‐ PRESENT
PEACE Perspectives • Peace in Beige: I Stay Alive “Survival InsDncts” • Peace in PURPLE: We are Safe “Spirit Voices” • Peace in RED: I Rule “Conquest” • Peace in BLUE: We have Order “Mandates-‐Order” • Peace in Orange: I Thrive. “NegoDaDons” • Peace in Green: WE are Equal. “Dialogue” • Peace in Yellow: I Care and DO “Natural Design” • Peace in Turquoise: We Conscioucize “Flows” just emerging….
Indigenous Intelligence (II) is the mul\dimensional capacity of an individual or a group in a specific society to interpret its value-‐system’s complexity to non-‐na\ves. It informs governance by assessing the life condi=ons of the
people and the challenges they face. IIEs: Indigenous Intelligence Experts
• Na\ves of the territory. Speak the language, know the customs, and understand the culture and all subcultures in it.
• Thinking is an open-‐system with high cogni\ve abili\es. • Shaped by the first-‐hand experience of own transi\on from zealots and
flamethrowers. • Ins\nc\vely discern complex paderns by iden\fying the process to evolve
naturally. • They understand the complexity and the uniqueness of the indigenous challenges
that brought the culture to its current status of desola\on. • They’re strategic and systemic in their thinking and believe in efforts that can be
sustainable for their culture
The Indigenous Intelligence Defined
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MEMEtocracy’S 5 -‐DEEP STRATEGY TO M IDDLE EAST PEACE
L I F E C OND I T I O N S
M E M E T I C C O D E S
M I N D S E T S
A N D W O R L D V I E W S
S Y S T E M S & S T R U C T U R E S
BEHAVIORS AND ACTIONS
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PALESTINE DEPARTMENT OF INTEGRATION
مركز النهوض بفلسطني © CHE-‐Mideast 2012-‐2013
Integra\ng The Efforts
of :
q 4200 NGOs Western/Local
q Public Sector
q Private Sector
Meme'c Profiles of Pales'nians: including Value-‐Systems/Mindsets/Belief Systems
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT T h e M i d d l e E a s t B e y o n d t h e A g e o f O i l , a M e m e t i c A n a l y s i s
? The Center for Human Emergence Middle East
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern
www.selectbooks.comCover design by Janice Benight
Front cover art © iStockphoto.com/CidepixJacket fl ap illustration by Phaedra Strecher
EMERG
E!ELZA S. M
AALOU
F
Rarely do political e! orts focus on what causes a culture to emerge and prosper or stagnate and fail. In Elza Maalouf’s groundbreaking new book Emerge! The Rise of Functional Democracy and the Future of the Middle East, we are introduced to a new paradigm for governance based on the Beck-Graves model of value systems and the theories of Spiral Dynamics Integral.
Maalouf, the founder of the Center for Human Emergence Mideast and the Build Palestine Initia-tive, is a geopolitical expert on the region where she pioneered the application of Large-Scale psy-chology and design concepts to confl ict resolution. By placing democracy in an evolutionary, values-system’s context that is indigenously specifi c to the region, Emerge! demonstrates the foundations nec-essary for cultural change.
Maalouf’s collaboration with her colleague and mentor Don E. Beck establishes this model as the new standard for large-scale political change. Many of Beck’s unpublished works, such as the adaptation of Sherifs’ Social Judgment Theory to the value-systems’ model, are featured in detail along with many others of Beck’s and Maalouf’s own social-psychology concepts.
Maalouf’s framework for decoding the com-plexities of the Middle East succeeds in many places where the West’s approach to confl ict reso-lution has failed. By weaving together the threads that make up the pattern of each culture, Emerge! shows the crucial role memes play in creating a system of governance that truly fi ts. Not only does Emerge! ask us to seek understanding before we structure and create what Maalouf calls Functional Democracy, it shows us the necessity of teaching our youth to build their own sustainable, indige-nous constructs.
ISBN 978-1-59079-286-5$24.95
continued from back cover
FROM THE FOREWORD BY DR. DON E. BECK“This book is the definitive authority not only on the
political future of the Middle East, but also on the evolution of democracy itself.”
“ In Elza Maalouf’s book Emerge! she puts the voter first and redefines democ-racy through a functional lens . . . If you want to understand the complexity of Middle Eastern politics and what’s needed to resolve this historic conflict you must read this book.”—HOWARD PUTNAM, former CEO Southwest Airlines and Braniff International and author of The Winds of Turbulence
“ Elza Maalouf’s insightful study, Emerge!, reveals exactly how humanity is re-organizing from youthful, competitive, win/lose political economies to evo-lutionarily mature collaborative models fitting the unique needs of different cultures. I highly recommend this book, not only to leaders in the Middle East, but also to conscious politicians in the West.”—ELISABET SAHTOURIS, evolution biologist, futurist; author of EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution
The Middle East keeps inching closer by the day into a collective chaos. It seems as though oppression, inequality, and violence have been systemically
embedded into the very makeup of its societies. How can the people take charge of their own inalienable rights to freedom, equality and prosperity—to keep from backsliding into the grasp of feudal, unhealthy ideologies as they face an increasingly interconnected world? continued on front flap
ELZA MAALOUF is one of the foremost experts on the memetics of the Middle East who pioneered the use of the value-systems framework and Integral Theory practices in Middle Eastern politics and business. She is the cofounder of the Cen-ter for Human Emergence Middle East, a think tank that reframes existential issues facing the region through the prism of value-system memes. She was named as one of today’s brightest minds by Enlighten-Next magazine. In 2011 she was elected to
be a member of the Evolutionary Leaders in Service to Conscious Evolution, an organization made up of the leading global minds in the fi elds of science, spiri-tuality, and related studies with the primary purpose of advancing the conscious evolution of humanity.
Maalouf is also the founder of the Integral Insights Consulting Group (IIC), an advisory that brings research on the theories of human potential to bear on organizational challenges and opportunities. The IIC Group is dedicated to the multi-faceted development of individuals, teams, and organizations.
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“ In the midst of the global chaos, comes a book that offers great hope for the future of the Middle East. It is a powerful and enlightened rethinking of a region seeking anew renaissance.”—JEAN HOUSTON, PhD, best-selling author of A Passion for the Possible; co-Founder of the Human Potential Movement
ELZA S. MAALOUFForeword by Don E. Beck, PhD
The Rise of Functional Democracy and the Future of the Middle East
EMERGE!
Numbers Tell the Story
“The Middle East is the richest region in the world with the poorest people in it.”
Ø Total 2012 World Bank GDP for en\re MENA region $2.9 Trillion (less than GDP of the 2 largest states in the US)
Ø 80% of popula\on lives on under $5 a day, more than half of the region in poverty Ø Illiteracy rates 35-‐45%, women 60-‐70%. Ø UNEMPLYOMENT:
A. Women with high school degrees 83% B. Women with college degrees 27% C. Millennials 30% +
Ø Region-‐wide annual per capita income is $684. Third from last place between Zimbabwe and Cameroon
Ø Without oil (73% of current revenues), region’s per capita income in last place.
1. Creating the Memetic profile of a country
a. Selecting the Indigenous Intelligence Experts b. Identifying prevailing value systems & Life Conditions. c. Understanding the nature of conflicting views, intra v. inter-conflict. d. Putting it all in perspective. The ACE Model.
2. Designing governance that fits; empowering people from half-value system above where culture is. 3. Creating a culture’s Superordinate Goal; the future pull. 4. Aligning all stakeholders to serve the Superordinate Goal.
a. Reforming government practices b. Reforming the educational system(s) c. Creating resilient and globally inclusive economic policies
THE ARAB MEMOME PROJECT A Func=onal Democracy, Whole System’s approach
to Middle Eastern Emergence