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CRISIS POLICY FORUM: FORGING SOLUTIONS FROM OPEN DEBATE
A VIEW TO LASTING SOLUTIONS FOR HUMANITARIAN, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC CRISES
. . . INTRODUCTION
The Crisis Policy Forum is a proposed online community project with a view to fomenting open debate and discourse on humanitarian, political and economic crises across the world. CPF aims to highlight and bring about new research and policy-proposals, to produce viable, locally-relevant solutions to pervasive crises such as fresh-water scarcity, chronic poverty, access to technology and education, voting rights, agricultural sustainability, infectious disease, conflict resolution and democracy.
The mission of CPF is not profit-driven or entrepreneurial, but is, rather, intended to focus on directing major policy initiatives toward sound, evidence-based efforts that strengthen the fabric of local communities and civil society. An essential ingredient in this project is the recognition that: ideology is a mystical devotion to singular, exclusive political structures, which as a result tends to bring about division, arbitrary exercise of power, social 'blockage', stagnation in the marketplace of ideas, persecution and a 'dumbing down' of the process of inquiry, generally.
Ideals are necessary in the planning, living and evolution of any human endeavor, but cannot be applied as blanket solutions; they are not solutions but rather seeds for thought and must be channeled through local context and available resources, needs, choice and applicability to the problem at hand; when the ideal is not imposed but is chosen voluntarily by those affected, it ceases to force or attack and begins to help resolve problems, which are, essentially, the lack of 'ideal' conditions.
CPF will combine statistics, reports from UN agencies, governments, non-governmental organizations, academics, essays on theory, history and actual policies introduced, examining how they proceed, what level of success is perceived to have been achieved, by various 'stakeholders' (involved parties, both those affected and those acting to implement policy initiatives). The format will be open, and initially without hard channeling of information, as we seek to build a reserve of commentary and a well-spring of concepts, critiques and innovative thought.
PARTICIPATION:
Casavaria invites all those interested in contributing to use the contact link below to submit proposals, essays, comments and links to abstracts and papers on major issues or endemic crisis situations that require complex solutions. We launch the Crisis Policy Forum now, as formally as informally, with your help and a view to making ideas work for the good of humanity and the strength of civil society...
. . . THE FORUM, OPEN & INTEGRATED
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The Think forum will work like a voluntary think-tank, without a set or limited staff or research facility. It will evolve in stages, from theory and discussion, to conceptual and design research, to prototype and testing, and eventually, broad-market production.
The forum will be open in the sense that anyone can contribute comments and ideas, but integrated in the sense that a select few "innovators" who contribute to the project may be chosen to participate as partners in ongoing research and development, with possible royalty rights, depending on the choice of the project's directors and/or existing partners.
BEFORE CONTRIBUTING, VITALLY IMPORTANT:
Casavaria will not relinquish the exclusive right to develop ideas based on already-existing internal documentation, discussion or research, on the basis of a similar concept being aired by an outside party. All contributions to Think are with the understanding that Casavaria may with absolute discretion decide which ideas are unique or new enough to warrant a potential contractual partner status. All other comments will be treated as voluntary contributions.
We are wrong to want to 'get beyond' or even 'smooth over' the imperfect, because that separation between one thing and another, even between ideal and actual, is what gives the constellation of difference in which we all come to be, in which all human relations situate both the core and the outer limits of their reason for being... [Full Text]
WORKING OUT THE KINKS IN RENEWABLE ENERGY'S GREATEST PROMISE: WIND POWER
CONSERVATIONISTS COMPLAIN WIND TURBINES CAN HARM THE ENVIRONMENT, BUT THERE ARE SOLUTIONS TO PREVENT IT
Opponents of wind-harvested power generation —usually lobbying for subsidies or public support for fossil fuels purveyors, but also including conservationists— like to crow that giant turbines kill birds, destroy pristine habitat and even "emit" carbon dioxide indirectly. The gist: that an "environmentally friendly" power source is in point of fact not so environmentally friendly. [Full Text]
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