Boundary-Spanning Dialogue for 21st Century Agoras
| BOUNDARY SPANNING DIALOGUE PAPER PUBLISHED IN THE SRBS JOURNAL A research paper titled “Boundary-Spanning Dialogue for 21st Century Agoras” authored by Aleco Christakis and Sabrina Brahms has been published in the July/August 2003 issue of the Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences Journal (SRBS).The paper identifies the critical role dialogue must play in constructing and sustaining the 21st Century Agoras in the context of the Global Village. Recognizing that the trends towards globalization are irreversible, it describes a Boundary-spanning Dialogue Approach (BDA) as the necessary, but not sufficient, foundation for enabling human beings to conceptualize and materialize the idealization of “conscious evolution of humanity.” The approach to BDA described in the paper is based on over thirty years of research, development and testing in the social systems design arena. Many stories from the design arena are available and documented. A major challenge for the Agoras of the 21st Century will be their capacity to engage multi-lingual, multicultural, and geographically dispersed stakeholders in a boundary-spanning dialogue among civilizations in the context of the Global Village. The paper in its expanded version has been posted in the References section of this website for those who would be interested to download it and print it. |