The Role of Women in
Integral Sustainable Development
By Nicanor Perlas
Publisher, www.truthforce.info
PROBLEM DEFINITION
KEY FINDING OF THE WORLD SUMMIT
ON WOMEN IN BEIJING
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Need to increase women's participation
in power and decision making.
PROBLEM DEFINITION
FINDINGS 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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ISD or the Empire Matrix
Who determines?
Whose World?
A question of power, leadership,
women’s role and spiritual development
REFRAMING POWER
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ISD  New Concept of Power
ISD  Societal Threefolding (3F)
3F and 3 Kinds of Power
Societal Threefolding
THE THREE SPHERES OF SOCIETY
CULTURE
(Civil society)
POLITICS
(Government)
ECONOMY
(Business)
REFRAMING POWER
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Cultural or Soft
Power
Political/Military or
Hard Power
Economic or Sticky
Power
CULTURE
(Civil society)
POLITICS
(Government)
ECONOMY
(Business)
POWER CONCEPT IN THE
BUSH DOCTRINE
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Cultural Power = Clash of Civilizations
Political Power = US Unilateralism
Economic = Economic Globalization
ISD Counter Concept of Power
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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
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The New Check and Balance in Society
But new balance of power not enough
New Leadership required
REFRAMING LEADERSHIP
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Competitive Leadership vs. Associative
Leadership
Darwinian Struggle for Power or
Harnessing Collective Intelligence
ISD and Associative Leadership
THE ROLE OF WOMEN
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ISD Challenges not ordinary challenges
Unprecedented
Women’s Role also needs to be
reframed
REFRAMING THE ROLE OF
WOMEN
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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
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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
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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
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Not surprising that
67% of cultural
creatives are women
In the US, there are
50 million cultural
creatives
70 million in Europe
The Feminine
in World Affairs
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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
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Societal Threefolding
Collective Intelligence
Generative Dialogue
Conflict Resolution
Integral ISD
THE FEMININE
IN WORLD AFFAIRS
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The Polarity of Masculine and Feminine
in World Affairs
Played Out in Contrasting Worldview of
the US and Europe
IMPLICATIONS
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Holistic concept of SD
Reframing of Power, Democracy and
Governance
Advancing the truly feminine
Towards integration