Humanity has entered a new phase in the evolution process. The complex and interdependent consequences of demographic and scientific mutations that took place during the last 150 years require therefore a fundamental rethinking of the basic existential decision-making tools so to be able to respond more efficiently to systemic challenges:
– Traditional logics driving human decision making processes – meaning inherited values – are not any more suitable to address efficiently and systematically new realities. In fact, poor and self-centered governance practices represent the major part of post 20th century threats facing our planet.
– The resulting malfunctions and societal clashes – some call “Clash of Civilizations” – can be overcome through efforts in building-up a new federative vision – a new modern mindset that allows a more broadminded stream-lined and consensual distribution of survival rights and duties .
– Requiring a mix of better education, attentiveness to global past and present experiences, this new world partnership mindset should cover the whole spectrum of the inter-related domains of politics, science, economics, culture or spiritual thinking.
An extremely complex process, the necessary governance enhancement re-thinking exercise involves a comprehensive sharing of knowledge on Humanity’s past decision-making logics and experiences, the present situation as well as perspectives for the drafting of a future post 20th century “World Governance Convention”.
Our modest objective here is to encourage a genuine multi-stakeholders re-thinking effort. Instead of limiting the review on the visible consequences of poor governance – as most mediatized “think tank” organization do – we prefer to focus on the unseen root causes that trigger inadequate decision-making processes. Accordingly, as a first move we suggest to explore and reason in four initial directions:
1. On the Asymmetric Trail of Humanity’s Evolutionary Heritage
2. On the Correct Meaning and Mechanism of Governance Processes
3. On the Need to Adjust Global Human Rights to Global Human Duties
4. On a Vision for a New Global Governance Architecture: The Swiss Federative Template