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The Role of Women in 
Integral Sustainable Development 
By Vijay Kaul. 
Publisher: Strategy & Consulting.
PROBLEM DEFINITION 
KEY FINDING OF THE WORLD SUMMIT 
ON WOMEN IN BEIJING 
 Need to increase women's participation 
in power and decision making.
PROBLEM DEFINITION 
FINDINGS OF THE CAPWIP, Global Congress of 
Women in Politics, Purple Book, p. 49. 
 increased participation in local governments, 
but women found in very small numbers and 
have little impact in national governance 
 Women's representation in government is 
tokenistic which impedes the real change and 
progress that women can make even when 
they are in power.
NEEDS 
 Review and examine the Asia Pacific 
situation on women in leadership, 
decision making and politics in current 
global context 
 identify strategic gaps and appropriate 
courses of action for the next decade.
ANALYSIS: REFRAMING 
THE CHALLENGE 
Re-conceptualize the notions 
 Sustainable development 
 Power 
 Leadership 
 Womens Role
REFRAMING 
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 
THE CASE OF GLOBAL WARMING
The Role of Women in ISD
The Role of Women in ISD
The Role of Women in ISD
The Role of Women in ISD
The Role of Women in ISD
Reframing 
Sustainable Development 
 Ecological - Entropy 
 Economic  cars, industries 
 Culture  consumption habits, S & T 
 Political  laws and policies 
 Social  population 
 Human  individualism, materialism 
 Spiritual  materialism
Seven Dimensions of 
Integral Sus Dev (ISD) 
7 Dimensions of SD 
- Spiritual 
- Human 
- Social 
- Cultural 
- Political 
- Economic 
- Ecological
REFRAMING SUSTAINABLE 
DEVELOPMENT 
 Sus Dev (SD) not = Environment alone 
 Earth Summit: SD = Environment, 
Economic, Social 
 SD  ISD 
 All UN Summits are in reality aspects of 
ISD
ISD AND THE UN SUMMITS 
 They all share the same fate. 
 Conclusion of the Commission on 
Globalization in London  negligible 
impact of all summits 
 Why?
WTO and the Marginalization 
of the UN Summits 
 The Hard Agenda of the 1990s 
 WTO obligatory and with sanctions 
 UN Summits voluntary and minimal 
sanctions 
 Policy Conflict: WTO obligations prevail
Bush Doctrine: Marginalization 
of the UN Summits 
The Hard Agenda of 
the 21st century = 
The Bush Doctrine
TECHNOLOGICAL 
SINGULARITY 
The Third Meta-Agenda of the 21st 
Century 
 What is Technological Singularity? 
 What is it a Threat to ISD? 
 Fukuyama and the Real End of History
THE CLASH OF WORLDVIEWS 
 ISD or the Empire Matrix 
 Who determines? 
 Whose World? 
 A question of power, leadership, 
womens role and spiritual development
REFRAMING POWER 
 ISD  New Concept of Power 
 ISD  Societal Threefolding (3F) 
 3F and 3 Kinds of Power
Societal Threefolding 
THE THREE SPHERES OF SOCIETY 
POLITICS 
(Government) 
CULTURE 
(Civil society) 
ECONOMY 
(Business)
REFRAMING POWER 
 Cultural or Soft 
Power 
 Political/Military or 
Hard Power 
 Economic or Sticky 
Power 
POLITICS 
(Government) 
CULTURE 
(Civil society) 
ECONOMY 
(Business)
POWER CONCEPT IN THE 
BUSH DOCTRINE 
 Cultural Power = Clash of Civilizations 
 Political Power = US Unilateralism 
 Economic = Economic Globalization
ISD Counter Concept of Power 
 ISD poses the counter power of 
solidarity of the societal spheres or 
 Societal threefolding 
 Requires the principled and strategic 
convergence of civil society (cultural 
power), government (political power) 
and business (economic power)
3F POWER AND DEMOCRACY 
 The New Check and Balance in Society 
 But new balance of power not enough 
 New Leadership required
REFRAMING LEADERSHIP 
 Competitive Leadership vs. Associative 
Leadership 
 Darwinian Struggle for Power or 
Harnessing Collective Intelligence 
 ISD and Associative Leadership
THE ROLE OF WOMEN 
 ISD Challenges not ordinary challenges 
 Unprecedented 
 Womens Role also needs to be 
reframed
REFRAMING THE ROLE OF 
WOMEN 
 Historically, women power associated 
with the take over of the domain of the 
masculine 
 The feminine in the guise of the 
masculine
REFRAMING THE 
ROLE OF WOMEN 
 Civilizational Challenges Requires the 
Mobilization of the True Feminine 
 Our world is suffering from one the 
overblown idolatry of the masculine
THE MASCULINE 
IN WORLD AFFAIRS 
 Global Warming and the masculine 
Baconian attitude of torturing nature 
so that she will reveal her secrets. 
 Fragmentation and reductionism in 
science connected with left brain 
analytical cognition
THE MASCULINE 
IN WORLD AFFAIRS 
Masculine Competition permeates 
 Economic globalization 
 US Unilateralism 
 Clash of Civilization 
 Technological Singularity
THE FEMININE 
IN WORLD AFFAIRS 
SOME BASIC SCIENTIFIC 
FACTS ON HUMAN NATURE
The Role of Women in ISD
The Role of Women in ISD
The Role of Women in ISD
The Role of Women in ISD
The Role of Women in ISD
The Role of Women in ISD
The Feminine in World Affairs 
 Not surprising that 
67% of cultural 
creatives are women 
 In the US, there are 
50 million cultural 
creatives 
 70 million in Europe
The Feminine 
in World Affairs 
 WHAT IS MISSING IN WORLD 
POLITICS IS THE HEART. 
 POLITICS HAS BECOME THE DOMAIN 
OF THE HEAD. 
 We need of a politics of the heart 
guiding the politics of the head
THE FEMININE IN WORLD 
AFFAIRS 
 Societal Threefolding 
 Collective Intelligence 
 Generative Dialogue 
 Conflict Resolution 
 Integral ISD
THE FEMININE 
IN WORLD AFFAIRS 
 The Polarity of Masculine and Feminine 
in World Affairs 
 Played Out in Contrasting Worldview of 
the US and Europe
IMPLICATIONS 
 Holistic concept of SD 
 Reframing of Power, Democracy and 
Governance 
 Advancing the truly feminine 
 Towards integration

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  • 2. PROBLEM DEFINITION KEY FINDING OF THE WORLD SUMMIT ON WOMEN IN BEIJING Need to increase women's participation in power and decision making.
  • 3. PROBLEM DEFINITION FINDINGS OF THE CAPWIP, Global Congress of Women in Politics, Purple Book, p. 49. increased participation in local governments, but women found in very small numbers and have little impact in national governance Women's representation in government is tokenistic which impedes the real change and progress that women can make even when they are in power.
  • 4. NEEDS Review and examine the Asia Pacific situation on women in leadership, decision making and politics in current global context identify strategic gaps and appropriate courses of action for the next decade.
  • 5. ANALYSIS: REFRAMING THE CHALLENGE Re-conceptualize the notions Sustainable development Power Leadership Womens Role
  • 6. REFRAMING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT THE CASE OF GLOBAL WARMING
  • 12. Reframing Sustainable Development Ecological - Entropy Economic cars, industries Culture consumption habits, S & T Political laws and policies Social population Human individualism, materialism Spiritual materialism
  • 13. Seven Dimensions of Integral Sus Dev (ISD) 7 Dimensions of SD - Spiritual - Human - Social - Cultural - Political - Economic - Ecological
  • 14. REFRAMING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Sus Dev (SD) not = Environment alone Earth Summit: SD = Environment, Economic, Social SD ISD All UN Summits are in reality aspects of ISD
  • 15. ISD AND THE UN SUMMITS They all share the same fate. Conclusion of the Commission on Globalization in London negligible impact of all summits Why?
  • 16. WTO and the Marginalization of the UN Summits The Hard Agenda of the 1990s WTO obligatory and with sanctions UN Summits voluntary and minimal sanctions Policy Conflict: WTO obligations prevail
  • 17. Bush Doctrine: Marginalization of the UN Summits The Hard Agenda of the 21st century = The Bush Doctrine
  • 18. TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY The Third Meta-Agenda of the 21st Century What is Technological Singularity? What is it a Threat to ISD? Fukuyama and the Real End of History
  • 19. THE CLASH OF WORLDVIEWS ISD or the Empire Matrix Who determines? Whose World? A question of power, leadership, womens role and spiritual development
  • 20. REFRAMING POWER ISD New Concept of Power ISD Societal Threefolding (3F) 3F and 3 Kinds of Power
  • 21. Societal Threefolding THE THREE SPHERES OF SOCIETY POLITICS (Government) CULTURE (Civil society) ECONOMY (Business)
  • 22. REFRAMING POWER Cultural or Soft Power Political/Military or Hard Power Economic or Sticky Power POLITICS (Government) CULTURE (Civil society) ECONOMY (Business)
  • 23. POWER CONCEPT IN THE BUSH DOCTRINE Cultural Power = Clash of Civilizations Political Power = US Unilateralism Economic = Economic Globalization
  • 24. ISD Counter Concept of Power ISD poses the counter power of solidarity of the societal spheres or Societal threefolding Requires the principled and strategic convergence of civil society (cultural power), government (political power) and business (economic power)
  • 25. 3F POWER AND DEMOCRACY The New Check and Balance in Society But new balance of power not enough New Leadership required
  • 26. REFRAMING LEADERSHIP Competitive Leadership vs. Associative Leadership Darwinian Struggle for Power or Harnessing Collective Intelligence ISD and Associative Leadership
  • 27. THE ROLE OF WOMEN ISD Challenges not ordinary challenges Unprecedented Womens Role also needs to be reframed
  • 28. REFRAMING THE ROLE OF WOMEN Historically, women power associated with the take over of the domain of the masculine The feminine in the guise of the masculine
  • 29. REFRAMING THE ROLE OF WOMEN Civilizational Challenges Requires the Mobilization of the True Feminine Our world is suffering from one the overblown idolatry of the masculine
  • 30. THE MASCULINE IN WORLD AFFAIRS Global Warming and the masculine Baconian attitude of torturing nature so that she will reveal her secrets. Fragmentation and reductionism in science connected with left brain analytical cognition
  • 31. THE MASCULINE IN WORLD AFFAIRS Masculine Competition permeates Economic globalization US Unilateralism Clash of Civilization Technological Singularity
  • 32. THE FEMININE IN WORLD AFFAIRS SOME BASIC SCIENTIFIC FACTS ON HUMAN NATURE
  • 39. The Feminine in World Affairs Not surprising that 67% of cultural creatives are women In the US, there are 50 million cultural creatives 70 million in Europe
  • 40. The Feminine in World Affairs WHAT IS MISSING IN WORLD POLITICS IS THE HEART. POLITICS HAS BECOME THE DOMAIN OF THE HEAD. We need of a politics of the heart guiding the politics of the head
  • 41. THE FEMININE IN WORLD AFFAIRS Societal Threefolding Collective Intelligence Generative Dialogue Conflict Resolution Integral ISD
  • 42. THE FEMININE IN WORLD AFFAIRS The Polarity of Masculine and Feminine in World Affairs Played Out in Contrasting Worldview of the US and Europe
  • 43. IMPLICATIONS Holistic concept of SD Reframing of Power, Democracy and Governance Advancing the truly feminine Towards integration