Expanding cooperation at multiple levels and scales

To accelerate convergence, expand cooperation at higher levels and wider scales, and foster learning and collaboration processes that enable co-creation, co-governance and conflict resolution on multiple scales, adopting subsidiarity principles to define the boundaries of the commons.

[To  accelerate convergence, we must learn to observe patterns of change as  change unfolds and make sense of complex interactions. We must expand  cooperation at higher levels and wider scales,  and foster learning and  collaboration processes that enable collective sense-making,  co-creation, co-governance and conflict resolution on multiple scales to  encourage institutional change.  We must encourage learning and  awareness of the needs of the whole, even if when the nature and operating systems of the whole are unknown.

We must sustain the complexity of larger scales of integration, and the specialization (find other word) of remote services that empower local organization. 
This requires acknowledging multiple logically or physically overlapping or intersecting commons, and finding natural boundaries (subsidiarity). 

Trends & Existing initiatives:   
Dialogue   facilitation methodologies and "systems  intervention", "action   learning",  "systems thinking" and "whole system assessment" to draw  new  practices from. New collaborative and collective management  practices  and new forms of ownership within business. (what else?)]

  • *Subsidiarity is an organizing  principle stating that a matter ought to be handled by the   smallest, lowest, or least centralized authority capable of addressing that matter      effectively, and that a central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing   only   those tasks which cannot be performed effectively at a  more immediate or local level. 

References:
  • Ostrom's Common's governance model <<find relevant document - 'organizational' dimension>>.

Dynamics at work: 
  • Promoting  "connections" conversations to help build on  interactions   and    facilitate  integrated  shifts in larger and smaller  scale practices     allowing stakeholders to  discover new ways to solve  their mutual      problems. Adopt  appreciative  methods of enquiry and  conflict      resolution, being open to seeing  things as they are, as  well as how   you want them to be, to  experiment,  learn and  adjust.   Encourage    questioning, learning,  discovery and  innovation,  and our  capacity   to  bootstrap, to invent  seeds of  change,  plant and  nurture  them,   and  evolve. Find ways to work together and actively engage in    learning  processes that enable  co-creation and    co-governance and    conflict  resolution on all scales. 
  • Learning  from grassroots community practices and early adopters,  fostering     growing awareness in each locality of the nature of local and global  integration. Observing  patterns of behaviors emerging and recognizing change as it unfolds, so that theory is always checked against reality of what is observed and emerges, and new learning can be integrated and made applicable.

  • Who?: Local  and regional communities and stakeholders -the people, local and  regional governments and institutions, facilitator organizations, UN,  governments, NGO's

Detailed Action Items: [Expand more?]
  • Help the development of learning and observation of the system and   methodologies that help make sense of our environment, interactions  and  emergent behaviors. Encourage  questioning, learning, discovery  and    innovation,  and our  capacity   to  bootstrap, to invent  seeds  of  change,  plant and  nurture  them,  and  evolve.
  • Promote   "connections" conversations to help build on interactions and help   spreading of methodologies and participative processes allowing   stakeholders to discover new ways to solve their mutual  problems,   fostering growing awareness in each locality of the nature of local and   global   integration. 
  • Expand   on and diffuse Elinor Ostrom's approach to polycentism, principle of    subsidiarity, approaches to find the 'natural' boundaries and of   co-governance. 
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