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Fewer than 500 words about * Plans for the future
John EWBANK
Tuesday, 15 April 2003
The WP project of Alliance 21 [WPA21] could be less arrogant. It should
humbly recognize that it is only one of dozens of WP projects. Individuals
choose how many and which WP projects merit attention. Concerned amateurs
such as have participated in WPA21 can more wisely discern and invent
appropriate solutions to complex problems than the experts blinded by their
neocolonialism.
Politicians promote *official* tribunals as the sole means for terminating
disputes. Thousands of disputes are ended by unofficial tribunals. Within
the next few years , WPA21 might create various new tribunals by recruiting
fair-minded judges who would be paid by the litigants on a per diem basis.
Wise tribunals can gain prestige without having any authority for
enforcement. For more than 300 years, China flourished with courts lacking
any enforcement authority.
To the extent that the governmental services offered by WPA21 emphasize
meritocracy, more widespread support as a *seed government* is potential.
Such governmental services can be offered while recognizing the utter
hopelessness of the WPA21 having more than an iota of influence directly
upon the foreign policies of any nation or the UN. No Supra-National
Federation can be launched until some entity invents a formula for weighted
voting in a WP that could win the enthusiastic support of the overwhelming
clout of the world. Inventing that formula is remote from the objectives of
WPA21, which is a powerless spectator of the ongoing stampede toward
ecocide.
Each WPA21 forum should be strictly monolingual, and operated at such a low
cost as to not require any funding from foundations. The WPA21 forum
concerned with the English summaries of the various language forums should
be primarily a bulletin board. Any discussion group thereon should be quite
separate and self-financing. All translations from the monolingual forums to
English should be on a voluntary basis, except as participants might make
financial contributions.
Primary attention should be given to stimulating the *spontaneous order*
development of thousands of local chapters of WPA21. Amateurs [as
distinguished from experts] could prolong the evaluations of the complex
problems as if they were a WP. The impact of eyeballing conversations is
distinguishable from whatever might be done by a group relying upon e-mail.
Each chapter should be a part of the sociocracy coordination toward global
governance on a nonviolent meritocracy basis. Such an example of global
governance using sociocratic principles would certainly influence whatever
type of Supra-National Federation is ultimately launched by the powerful
nations. The great opportunity for WPA21 is in seeking to extend what has
been learned about sociocracy. At the start of WPA21, only Doug Everingham,
Marielle Jansen, and John Ewbank had much familiarity with sociocracy. Now
several have praised its small groups and the importance of adequate
discussion at each level of operations. Home Rule Globally aspires for the
same goals sought by sociocracy, but emphasizes *top-down* instead of
*bottom-up* decentralization.
WP21 Alliance Forum on a World Parliament for the 21st Century
E-mail : world-parl@forums.alliance21.org
Fax 1 717 264 5036
Information, inscriptions, désinscriptions: germa@alliance21.org
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