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Heraklion DEMOSCOPIO

Posted on August 9, 2016October 11, 2018 by tomflanagan

Heraklion DEMOSCOPIO: A vision for democracy, cooperation and dialogue The municipality of Heraklion in Crete, Greece will soon open the Heraklion Demoskopio, a new institution that will engage the stakeholders of the city in open and focused dialogues. It will be a public space for eliciting citizen concerns, hosting their dialogues, and posting those concerns…

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The Case for Citizen Think-Tanks

Posted on December 11, 2017October 11, 2018 by tomflanagan

The Case for Citizen Think Tanks Not in all communities, but in many communities, there is a growing sense of confusion, frustration, and even anger in America, and it takes its form at the street level upon which most Americans live their lives. The confusion is larger than what any one mind can grasp. It…

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A Digital Approach to Democratic Dialogue

Posted on December 28, 2015October 11, 2018 by tomflanagan

The essence of a democratic act is the co-construction of a coherent understanding of a shared circumstance. All else flows from this constructed understanding. It has never been easy, and today may be much more difficult that it has been in the past. This is frustratingly ironic to many who turn to the Internet as…

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Systemic Barriers to Effective Societal Response to Terrorism

Posted on November 22, 2015October 11, 2018 by Peter Jones

“Organizational learning must concern itself not with static entities called organizations, but with an active process of organizing which is, at root, a cognitive enterprise. Individual members are continually engaged in attempting to know the organization, and to know themselves in the context of the organization. At the same time, their continuing efforts to know and to test their knowledge represent the…

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The Irony of the Predicament of Detroit

Posted on March 26, 2014October 11, 2018 by tomflanagan

In a recent blog titled “Detroit and the Temptation of Ruin,” Tufts University civics scholar Peter Levine speaks of art, poverty and hopes for renewal. The story, as Levine notes, is tragic in the Aristotelian sense – local art and architecture documents a rise to power, a celebrated era, and a collapse to “700,000 people…

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US EPA Taking Democratic Steps Toward Community Involvement

Posted on July 31, 2013October 11, 2018 by tomflanagan

The Institute for 21st Century Agoras presented a technology poster at the EPA’s 13th Community Involvement Training Conference in Boston on July 30 – August 1. Our poster is entitled A Democratic Approach for Sustainable Futures, with a more lengthy sub-title “Framing Consensus Views for Collective Action: The Sociotechnology of Interpretive Structural Modeling Embedded within Structured…

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Policy is more than a product of process; policy is process itself

Posted on April 3, 2013October 11, 2018 by tomflanagan

The London School of Economics and Political Science blog site carries an evocative – if not provocative – post from a Senior Researcher at the Centre for European Studies, at the University of Oslo.  The post is nine months old, and hasn’t drawn much response – however, the commentary does beg for an audience.  Plato…

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Hyperpartisanism: a consequence of mismanaged complexity?

Posted on January 18, 2013October 11, 2018 by tomflanagan

In an inaugural event in NYC last weekend, the NoLabels movement presented its view of a way to resolve the hyperpartisan crisis in America. “Legislators need to stop fighting and to start working together.” It is unclear how and when legislators choose to fight. Newly seated legislators don’t come into office with aggressive intent. They…

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Elinor Ostrom’s Legacy of the Commons

Posted on June 17, 2012October 11, 2018 by tomflanagan

At this time in history, 78 is still far too young an age to be swept into the future. For four decades, Elinor and her colleagues have been slaying a myth that was breathed into life by Ecologist Garrett Hardin‘s misunderstanding of the nature of “The Tragedy of the Commons.” The myth is that people…

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Planet under Pressure

Posted on June 16, 2012October 11, 2018 by kenbausch

Professor Ray Ison of the Institute for Sustainable Futures reports on a Planet under Pressure We share Professor Ison’s concerns.  A split in systemic thinking erupted in the origins of the Club of Rome in 1970.  An original proposal by Hasan Ozbekhan and Aleco Christakis offered 49 Continuous Critical Problems (CCPs) and argued for a dialogical…

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Heraklion DEMOSCOPIO

The Case for Citizen Think-Tanks

A Digital Approach to Democratic Dialogue

Systemic Barriers to Effective Societal Response to Terrorism

The Irony of the Predicament of Detroit

US EPA Taking Democratic Steps Toward Community Involvement

Policy is more than a product of process; policy is process itself

Hyperpartisanism: a consequence of mismanaged complexity?

Elinor Ostrom’s Legacy of the Commons

Planet under Pressure

Democracy as the Means to Discover the New Narratives for Sustainable Futures

What would a “national dialogue infrastructure” look like?

Reconnecting with the Club of Rome

Welcome to the Institute for 21st Century Agoras

Convening from Complexity to Action

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