DESIGNING A TRANSNATIONAL INDIGENOUS LEADERS INTERACTION

IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION:

A WISDOM OF THE PEOPLE FORUM

(CO-LABORATORY OF DEMOCRACY)

 

 

Final Report

October 2002

 

 

A Partnership of:

 

Institute for 21st Century Agoras

Americans for Indian Opportunity

Advancement of Maori Opportunity

Funded by a grand from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO) is a national non-profit advocacy organization headquartered on the Santa Ana Pueblo reservation in New Mexico.  The organization draws upon traditional tribal values in its efforts to promote innovative problem solving, develop leadership, and create contemporary institutions that can face the challenges of the 21st century.  For further information, please visit the website at www.aio.org.

 

 

Advancement of Maori Opportunity (AMO) is a non profit advocacy organization (www.amo.co.nz) that promotes the following:  to take an active stand for Universal Peace, Harmony and Empowerment through influencing the world by sharing our fundamental values and practices as Maori together with all Indigenous peoples of the world; to promote and develop educational cultural exchanges with other Indigenous cultures nationally and internationally; to promote and build leadership amongst Mäori people by the establishment of an "Maori Ambassadors Programme;” to advance Te Reo (the language)and tikanga Mäori (Mäori customs);  to initiate projects deemed by AMO to benefit the practice and objectives of the movement including leadership, culture, sports, education, health, environment, economic development and other related areas.

 

 

The agoras were the vital centers of the Greek city-states, their outdoor markets and convention halls where gossip mixed with politics.  The agora of Athens was the birthplace of democracy.  Here the town’s citizens discussed pressing issues and made decisions on the basis of popular vote.  The Institute for 21st Century Agoras is a volunteer-driven organization dedicated to vigorous democracy on the model that was practiced in the agoras of ancient Greece.  It employs Co-Laboratories of Democracy that enable civil dialogue in complex situations.  Visit the website at www.globalagoras.org   to learn more.

 

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (www.wkkf.org) was established in 1930 “to help people help themselves through the practical application of knowledge and resources to improve their quality of life and that of future generations.”  Its programming activities center around the common vision of a world in which each person has a sense of worth; accepts responsibility for self, family, community, and societal well-being; and has the capacity to be productive and to help create nurturing families, responsive institutions, and healthy communities.

 

 

 

 

 

“Ko te kai te rangatira he korero”

Dialogue is the food of chiefs.

Maori Proverb

Table of Contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY................................................................................................... 1

INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................ 6

Pre-Forum Discussion Papers......................................................................................... 7

A Guide to Reading this Report...................................................................................... 7

1) FINDINGS...................................................................................................................... 8

1.1) FINDINGS: THE DEFINITION OF BARRIERS.................................................... 8

1.2) FINDINGS: THE PATTERN OF INFLUENCE AMONG THE BARRIERS.......... 9

1.2.1) Level IV: Deep Driver of The Situation........................................................... 9

1.2.2) Level III......................................................................................................... 10

1.2.3) Level II........................................................................................................... 11

1.2.4) Level I............................................................................................................ 12

1.3) FINDINGS: THE ACTION OPTIONS.................................................................. 13

1.4) FINDINGS: SMALL GROUP ACTION SCENARIOS.......................................... 14

1.5) FINDINGS: CONSENSUS.................................................................................... 14

1.5.1) Cluster 1: Identify Core/Shared Vision:......................................................... 14

1.5.2) Cluster 2: Strengthening Own Organization:.................................................. 14

1.5.3) Cluster 6: Networking:................................................................................... 14

1.5.4) Cluster 8: Globalization:................................................................................ 15

1.5.5) Cluster 9: Create Organization Infrastructure:................................................ 15

2) METHODOLOGY........................................................................................................ 19

2.1) METHODOLOGY: DEFINING COMPLEX PROBLEMS THROUGH COLLABORATION...................................................................................................... 19

2.1.1) Background.................................................................................................... 19

2.1.2) The Barriers to Collaboration in Complex Situations.................................... 19

2.1.3) Gaining a Deeper Appreciation of Barriers................................................... 20

2.2) METHODOLOGY: DETERMINING INFLUENCES AMONG BARRIERS........ 21