Good governance and peace are outcomes of empathy - when members of a society recognize their own wellbeing is interdependent with how well others are doing in the society, we begin to think about how we can live together in a way where all parts of the system flourish.  This is not mere enlightened self-interest, it’s realistic.  

The session will begin with individuals and organizations dedicated to promoting peace building and good governance sharing some trials and tribulations of their work.  With information and inspiration from these cases the group will use a participatory process to elicit dialogue on the topic, while the conclusions and insights reached by all will be synthesized into an articulation ready for presentation to the conference guests and as a formal document to be applied to policy across the globe. 

The purpose of this stream of the conference is to bring together people of passion and with a wide variety of backgrounds, insights and wisdom to synthasize new 21st Century models and action plans.  We will:

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1. Hold local and virtual study and dialogue meetings for this stream before and during the conference.
2. Gather 21st Century approaches to helpful governance and peace building, doing this both before and during the conference.
3. Experience (briefly) several of these approaches/methods.
4. Analyze what is unique about each of some of these approaches.
5. Synthesize new appropriate approaches for 5 - 10 places around the world.  This would include richer and poorer countries.
6. Take a day out in Nepal where we would research and test our ideas.
7. Set into motion new curriculum for giving skills for training and facilitation for Peace Building in the 21st century.
8. Start the preparation for funding the outcomes of the conference.
9. Make bold and clear resolutions for the conference outcomes.
10. Self assign people and leaders to go home and begin working with the outcome, including virtual connections.
11. Include people resources that can expand the efforts.  And people who need to know what the world really needs next.

Resources:
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and
http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi

Theme Coordinators:
Shizuyo Sato
shizuyo@icajapan.org
Wayne Ellsworth
wayne@icajapan.org
Meena Poudel
meenapoudel@yahoo.com