Peace Futures (PDFs)

Posted on November 20, 2015November 20, 2015 by Sohail Inayatullah

List of available PDFs from Metafuture.org

Milojević, I. “Introduction.” Breathing: Violence In, Peace Out (1-7), New Approaches to Peace and Conflict Series (Brisbane, University of Queensland Press, 2013), 1-7.
Milojević, I.“Making Peace: Kosovo/a and Serbia.” Journal of Futures Studies (Vol. 13, No. 2, 2008), 1-11.
Milojević, I.“Gender, Militarism and the View of the Future: Students’ Views on the Introduction of the Civilian Service in Serbia.” Journal of Peace Education (Vol. 5, No. 2, 2008), 175-191 (with Slobodanka Markov).
Milojević, I.“Reconciling Funny and Permissible: Can We Develop Non-violent Humour?” Social Alternatives (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2006), 67-70.
Milojević, I.“Gender, Peace and Terrestrial Futures: Alternatives to Terrorism and War.” Ljudska Bezbednost (Human Security), Thematic Issue: Gender and Human Security (Vol. 3, No. 2, 2005), 85-110. Previously published in Journal of Futures Studies, (Vol. 6, No. 3, 2002), 21–45.
Milojević, I.“Gender and the 1999 War In and Around Kosovo.” Social Alternatives (Vol. 22, No. 2, 2003), 28–36.

BREATHING: Violence In, Peace Out (Book Info, 2013)

Posted on November 19, 2015February 26, 2020 by Sohail Inayatullah

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Communism, utopia: the personal is political

Salvation
Progress and regress
Raising of children and worldview
Othering
The failure and the evolution of utopia

Chapter 2. War, dystopia: the holy trinity of militarism, imperialism and nationalism

Knives, guns and beyond
Bellicose fantasies of glory
‘We’ of the ‘lesser’ people
Nation-states and nationalisms

Chapter 3. Feminism, eutopia: challenging patriarchy and androcratic masculinities

Mothers and soldiers
Masculinity wars
Men as violence subjects and objects
Men’s expendable lives
Feminist eutopia: alternative peace-oriented masculinities and femininities

Chapter 4. Living trauma, eupsychia: the political is personal

Horizontal and vertical breakdowns
Concentric cycles and ripple effects
Past and present traumas
Post-traumatic growth

Epilogue

ABOUT THE SERIES

UQPs New Approaches to Peace and Conflict series builds on the wisdom of the first wave of peace researchers while addressing important 21st century challenges to peace, human rights and sustainable development. The series publishes new theory, new research and new strategies for effective peacebuilding and the transformation of violent conflict. It challenges orthodox perspectives on development, conflict transformation and peacebuilding within an ethical framework of doing no harm while doing good.

Purchase BREATHING: Violence In, Peace Out through University of Queensland Press or Amazon.com

University of Stellenbosch Workshop 2015

Posted on November 18, 2015January 13, 2016 by Sohail Inayatullah

The Institute for Futures Research (IFR) at the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) is delighted to invite you to a Masterclass by renowned futurist Prof Sohail Inayatullah.

Since the establishment of IFR 41 years ago, we have hosted some of the world’s leading futurists, and we are proud to present this dynamic and interactive event with one of the leading figures in futures research today.

Prof Inayatullah gained global prominence through Causal Layered Analysis, a transformative theory of knowledge that has been developed over the past 25 years and which is used throughout the world in a number of settings.

Book now. We look forward to seeing you there.

Date: Saturday, 28 November 2015.
Venue: Lecture Hall 2058, USB main building, Bellville Park Campus, Tyger Valley business district, northern Cape Town

The Institute for Futures Research, University of Stellenbosch Business School, Cape Town, South Africa

“Six Pillars” Model Summarised

Posted on November 18, 2015November 20, 2023 by Sohail Inayatullah

Mapping the Present and the Future - through methods and tools such as the futures triangle and the futures landscape.

Anticipating the Future - through methods such as emerging issues analysis and the futures wheel.

Timing the Future - understanding the grand patterns of change, macrohistory and macrofutures.

Deepening the Future - through methods such as causal layered analysis and multiple selves theory.

Creating Alternatives to the Present - through methods such as scenarios and nuts and bolts.

Transforming the Present and Creating the Future - through visioning, backcasting, anticipatory action learning and the transcend conflict resolution method.

Featured Book: What Works (2015)

Posted on October 29, 2015October 1, 2020 by Sohail Inayatullah

What Works: Case Studies in the Practice of Foresight

By Sohail Inayatullah

Tamkang University Press, Tamsui, Taiwan, 2015

What Works furthers the practice of foresight in organizations, institutions, cities and nations. Divided into three parts, What Works moves from theorizing the future to case studies of foresight in action and concludes with innovative futures methods.

The first part introduces futures studies — its principles, theories and methods. The second and main part of the book presents case studies. Chapters include:

Deep inclusion in a digital era: democratic governance Asia 2030
Leap-frogging the West: e-health futures in Bangladesh
From the lecturer to the murabbi: the alternative futures of higher education in Malaysia
Leveraging development: the alternative scenarios for BRAC University
Transforming agriculture: from salinity research to greening the desert
Cities as agents of change: emerging issues and case studies
Going beyond the thin blue line: the futures of international policing
From the collection to co-creation: the futures of libraries and librarians
From crops to care: the changing nature of health care in rural Australia

The third and final section focuses on methodological innovation. These chapters explore the implications of forecasting the long-term future, the use of the Sarkar game in foresight workshops, and how causal layered analysis has been used to transform personal and institutional stories. The conclusion evaluates the use of futures thinking for strategy development.

Purchase: Paperback or PDF

Featured Book: CLA 2.0 (2015)

Posted on October 29, 2015February 16, 2022 by Sohail Inayatullah

CLA 2.0: Transformative Research in Theory and Practice

Edited by Sohail Inayatullah and Ivana Milojević, Tamkang University Press, Tamsui, Taiwan, 2015

CLA 2.0 consolidates the latest in scholarly research on layered approaches to transformative change by thinkers and activists from around the world.

The authors use CLA to investigate topics such as:

The Global Financial Crisis
Global governance
Ageing and the changing workforce
Educational and university futures
Climate change
Water futures in the Muslim world
The alternative futures of China
Agricultural policy in Australia
The new national narrative in Singapore
Terrorism futures

Contributing authors: Mariya Absar, Marcus Anthony, Brian Bishop, Åse Bjurström, Peter Black, Lauren Breen, Robert Burke, Marcus Bussey, April Chin, Maree Conway, Andrew Curry, Peta Dzidic, Niki Ellis, Gilbert Fan, Nauman Farooqi, Tom Graves, Sabina Head, Jeanne Hoffman, Bai Huifen, Sohail Inayatullah, Anita Kelleher, Patricia Kelly, Noni Kenny, Adrian Kuah, Saliv Bin Larif, Aleta Lederwasch, Ian Lowe, Ivana Milojević, Jane Palmer, Jose Ramos, Yvette Montero Salvatico, Miriam Sannum, Wendy Schultz, Umar Sheraz, Lynda Shevellar, Frank Spencer, Debbie Terranova, Pham Thanh, Joonas Vola, Gautam Wahi, Cate Watson, and Tzu-Ying Wu.

Causal layered analysis can be used not just to deconstruct the future but to reconstruct the future, to create whole-of-worldview and narrative solutions to the complex problems humanity faces. This volume will be useful to theoreticians and practitioners who seek to use the future to change the present.

Purchase: CLA 2.0 Paperback, CLA Reader (2004) and CLA 2.0 (2015) Combined PDF, or CLA 2.0 PDF

Featured book: Asia 2038 (2018)

Posted on April 12, 2015February 16, 2022 by Sohail Inayatullah

By Sohail Inayatullah and Lu Na

Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University, Tamsui, 2018

Using insights from hundreds of foresight workshops in Asia, ASIA 2038: Ten Disruptions That Change Everything explores ten key disruptive emerging issues. These include:

The rise of Asian women;
The new extended Asian family;
The end of the God King and the Big Man;
New facilitated models of learning and teaching;
The wandering societies of Asia;
Climate change leading to institutionalized foresight;
The great migration to Asia;
Towards an Asian confederation;
Asia leading in the transition to a spiritual post-capitalist society; and,
An Asia that says yes to itself.

Along with an analysis of these disruptions, stories are used to illustrate these new futures.

Inayatullah and Lu Na argue that Asia is in the midst of a major and foundational shift. The shift is not only related to the spheres of economy, technology and geo-politics; equally important are current and coming social and cultural changes.

But this book is not just about what is likely to happen, it focuses more on using the future to create desired visions, since what we can foresee and imagine, we can also create.

Asia 2038 highlights ten interrelated emerging issues or disruptions that point towards multiple possibilities for Asia. The book intends to provide a working map of the nature of both the disruption and the many possibilities ahead, so that wiser decisions can be made as we create futures. In addition to these many possibilities the book also outlines a number of shared desired visions for Asia 2038, based on decades of conducting workshops and interviews with a range of people across the region.

Emerging issues are credible, potentially high impact occurrences which may be of low probability at the time they are identified. However, if and when they become the new norm, they ‘change everything’. What appears impossible can suddenly become the plausible.

Certainly, in the next twenty years and beyond, many things will remain stable. At the same time, we can also expect dramatic changes. As to which Asia actually emerges, while there are signs enabling “Continued Asian Miracle” and flatter, greener, more transparent, equitable and confederate Asia, other futures, such as “Asia in Decline” or perhaps “Fortress Asia” are equally possible. Whichever future results, the emerging issues and trends suggest more, not less, disruption in the decades to come.

However, Asia 2038 is thus not only about emerging trends and disruptions to come or about possibilities and scenarios for the future. It is also about imagining the best version of Asia, an Asia that continues to innovate and flourish in ways that benefit current and future generations. In sum, Asia 2038 as it could be.

Length: 142 pages

Purchase: PDF or Paperback

Introduction to CLA (video) (2013)

Posted on November 12, 2013February 26, 2020 by Sohail Inayatullah

Global Transformations and World Futures (Book Info, 2009)

Posted on December 24, 2009December 24, 2015 by Sohail Inayatullah

Global Transformations and World Futures: Knowledge, Economy and Society, Vol 1 and 2 | Edited by Sohail Inayatullah | Oxford, EOLSS Publishers, 2009 | ISBN: 978–1–84826–666–7 (hard copy) | ISBN: 978–1–84826–216–4 (Adobe e-book Reader)

The overall structure of this Book is divided into three areas: (1) Global transformations in Knowledge: Social and Cultural issues. Issues such as the nature of global science, the challenge of building real communities in a virtual world, and the transition from an information economy to a communicative economy are explored. (2) The Global Economy. In this area, alternative definitions of globalization are developed – globalization as if the entire globe mattered – and the role of large players such as multinational are explored. Furthermore, globalization and development are linked, and the prospects for development in the South are evaluated. (3) World Futures. In this area, the theories and methods of the emerging discourse of Futures Studies are explored, particularly as applied to issues of gender and world futures; sustainable education; and, the futures of the United Nations.

The purpose for the development of this book has not changed over the past few years. Indeed, continued global transformation have made the analysis and articulate of world futures even more important. Most of the authors in this Book make the argument that humanity is at a juncture. While there are macro patterns that define what is possible in the next fifty or so years – trends in technology, structure of world power, for example – through human agency, transformations can be steered. Agency is possible and desirable. To discern how and where to influence the world system most wisely, maps of the future are required. My introductory chapter essentially maps the futures of humanity. The map has four dimensions. The first dimension is globalization. The second dimension is focused on foundational transformations in nature, truth, reality and Man. The third dimension develops scenarios of the future. These include the Globalized Artificial Society; the Communicative-Inclusive; The Continued Growth Business as Usual, and the Societal Collapse. The fourth dimension is an exploration of a preferred future – a post-globalization future.

Chapters:

Global transformations and world futures : knowledge, economy & society
Global transformations in knowledge : social and cultural issues
Global science
Non-Western science : mining civilizational knowledge
Global management of knowledge systems
Tranformations of information society
From the information era to the communicative era
Building “real” and “virtual” human communities in the 21st century
Navigating globalization through info-design, an alternative approach to understanding cyberculture
The global economy
Multinational corporations
Global movement of labor
The internet and political economy
Economics of transition
Global business ethics
Globalization as if the entire globe mattered : the situation of minority groups
Strategies to eradicate poverty : an integral approach to development
North-North, North-South, and South-South relations
World futures : trends and transformations in state, education and cultural ecology
Epistemology and methodology in the study of the future
The grand patterns of change and the future
Multilayered scenarios, the scientific method and global models
The futures of the United Nations and the world system
Globalization and information society-increasing complexity and potential chaos
Globalization, gender, and world futures
Neo-humanism, globalization, and world futures
Sustainable education : imperatives for a viable future
Financial resources policy and management : world economic order
International commodity policy : a new concept for sustainable development
Global sustainability : rhetoric and reality, analysis and action : the need for removal of a knowledge-apartheid world
Economic assistance to developing countries and sustainable world population
Capacity development and sustainable human development.

Access via publisher:

UNESCO in partnership with EOLSS [Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems]

Alternative Educational Futures: Pedagogies for Emerging Worlds (Book Info, 2008)

Posted on December 24, 2008December 24, 2015 by Sohail Inayatullah

Alternative Educational Futures brings together theoretical and practical work in a challenge to mainstream thinking on the practice and purpose of education. The book promotes multiple futures by presenting works that range from the child-centred, through those that promote a futures oriented critical pedagogy to open ended explorations of the implications of technology for education and the possibilities of rethinking and deepening human potential.

The editors – Bussey, Inayatullah and Milojević – are all educators and describe this book as another small step towards rethinking the present in the light of possible futures. They see that whatever steps we take as a species towards the future – be it a proto-global civilization, a fractal cosmopolitanism, a gaian-technolopoly, or a return to the past – education both as an institution and as a social process is key to how we get there, remembering that the future is created and changes with every step we take.

The book contains chapters on futures strategies, tools and techniques for a range of educational contexts, global education and neohumanism, the futures of universities, the changing shape of textual authority and learning in the face of the internet, access and equity, democracy and learning, Buddhist and Vedantic insights and offering on education, Steiner education, creative pedagogies and a number of case studies on the successes and failures of futures studies in a range of educational and institutional contexts.

Along with chapters by the editors, there are contributions from David Hicks, Jim Dator, Erica McWilliams and Shane Dawson, Patricia Kelly, Julie Matthews, Robert Hattam, Kathleen Kesson, Basil Savitsky, Jennifer Gidley, Gary Hampson, Richard Slaughter, Martin Haigh and Billy Matheson.

All authors in this collection are committed to transformation of assumptions about education and its social function. These chapters bare witness to various manifestations of an emerging global mind set that is marked not by coherence and a single story but by multiple and layered possibility. The authors all see, from often quite different positions, that the future health of society lies in diversity and a social activism that is grounded in the local actions of individuals. Education will play a central role in empowering this activism and it is to this multiple future that this book turns its attention.

Comments on Alternative Educational Futures: Pedagogies for Emergent Worlds

We desperately need the dynamic revolution in education that this book offers us, reflecting the new ways of thinking and being on this planet that will permit us to live in peace as a global family even through massive climate changes. Read it and put these ideas into practice as quickly as possible in any ways you can!

Elisabet Sahtouris

Evolutionary biologist and futurist

Author of EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution

We have more than enough books that under-estimate what is called for where educational change is needed, that only rearrange deck chairs on the deck of the Titanic. This edited book goes where change must go and its case for alternative pedagogies is exhilarating. Drawing on 18 wide-ranging new essays the editors both challenge conventional educational analysis and forge beyond it to explore a deeper transformative potential of self and culture. The book promotes visions, rather than roadmaps, and pioneers thereby a fresh agenda for a new type of lifelong schooling that honours spirituality, sustainability, and empowerment. Bold, eclectic, and original, it leaves a reader eager to get on with a major overhaul of education, from birth throughout life, the better to replace the dominant enervating education narrative with one that soars. Distinctive and revealing, the book will reward a close reading by all eager to help education finally achieve what has always been possible, but needed the creative jumpstart this book offers.

Arthur B. Shostak

Emeritus Professor of Sociology

Drexel University
Author of Anticipate the School You Want: Futurizing K-12 Education

This collection provides an insightful, panoramic view of this precarious moment in the history of humankind. These uncommonly perceptive essays consider the "range of alternative futures" before us and describe how we might work and educate toward a future that offers more humane, nourishing, and genuinely sustainable ways of living. These are stirring, provocative, exciting writings that explore the most vital questions of our time.

Dr. Ron Miller

Holistic education theorist

Editor of Education Revolution magazine.

Alternative Educational Futures is a daring attempt to break out of the endless cycle of school/university reform. This volume offers a rare combination of imagination and rigor, pointing towards the possibility that what is happening in the world around us today is the end of education and the rebirth of learning.

Dr. Riel Miller

UNESCO

Fasten your seatbelts before you enter this collection of provocative, sometimes brilliant, essays, because it will take you at warp speed on a journey to many places you have not conceived of before, places where your past understandings and current beliefs may be shaken up. Basing their work on theory, imaginative thinking, empirical social research, or case studies, the authors map, create, explore, and evaluate alternative futures for education, from grade schools to universities and beyond. Every educator—indeed every citizen—ought to read this book as an inspiration and guide to making teaching and learning more effective, appropriate, equitable, and flexible in a rapidly changing world.

Wendell Bell

Professor Emeritus

Yale University

Author of Foundations of Futures Studies Volumes 1 & 2

Alternative Educational Futures challenges mechanistic models of curriculum and pedagogy predicated on linear thinking, control and predictability. Both individually and collectively, the editors and contributing authors generate multifaceted understandings of futures in and for education that are open, recursive, organic and emergent. This is a text that performs what it represents by questioning its assumptions, permitting contradictions, tolerating ambiguities, and resisting the pernicious and pervasive politics of complexity reduction in education and society. These adventures in thinking should be an invaluable resource – and source of inspiration – for all who care about the quality of education for immanent yet unpredictable futures.

Noel Gough

Professor of Outdoor and Environmental Education

Director, Centre for Excellence in Outdoor and Environmental Education

President, Australian Association for Research in Education

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