A New Science for Global Governance
Scientific breakthroughs in the last century have produced technologies with great benefits for human well-being. They have also produced a range of WMD: nuclear weapons of mass destruction and digital weapons of mass disruption. Global governance systems are straining to stop the proliferation of these WMD. They are also unable to find solutions for systemic problems that are the unintended consequences of relentless pursuit of economic growth such as climate change and increasing inequality.
The emerging science of complex self- adaptive systems provides a framework for a new science of economics and a new architecture of global governance to solve these systemic problems. The key to evolution of new systemic solutions is listening to ‘people not like us’. Ways of mass dialogue is the WMD that must be proliferated to improve the well-being of the planet and all life on it.