If someone does harm to someone in a group that uses consensus based decision model, how is justice meted out? For in a consensus model the offender also has an equal say in things, and they can block any punishment. The solution is to go beyond a punitive justice system to a restorative justice system. In a restorative [...]
Archive for November, 2011
On justice in non-hierarchical groups
Posted in Uncategorized on November 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Designing a self-growing gift economy Part I
Posted in Uncategorized on November 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
An intriguing social design challenge is to figure out the conditions under which a gift economy will grow bigger. So for instance lets say you have an weekly event where people come to gift each other services and share goods. How could that be the seed for birthing a larger gift economy in one’s local [...]
Occupy as new societal model and ways to improve it
Posted in Uncategorized on November 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of the compelling attractions of Occupy is that it is modeling a possible socio-economic-political paradigm for how society can run. It is a model the whole world is beginning to watch. For those who come and participate in it, its a learning experience, a training in this new paradigm. Occupy’s general assemblies model a [...]
