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The IPCR Initiative
March 11, 2012
To: ______________
I am writing to you to share a summary report from the IPCR
Critical Challenges Assessment 2011-
2012 project.
Since July 2011, I have been giving much attention to an IPCR
Critical Challenges Assessment 2011-
2012 project. Due to accumulated evidence and unfolding events,
one of the sections I was working on
became a preview of what the final report for the whole
Assessment project might look like. The title:
Calling the better angels of our nature: A Multi-Angle View of
the Debt Crises (January, 2012) (398
pages).
The 398 page Multi-Angle document is accessible from the IPCR
webpage for the IPCR Critical
Challenges Assessment 2011-2012 project, at
http://www.ipcri.net/Critical-Challenges-
Assessment.html (where readers can find three other draft
sections for this project)and from the
IPCR Initiative homepage, at www.ipcri.net . Readers looking for
a quick overview of the document can
refer to the detailed Table of Contents (at the beginning of the
398 page Multi-Angle document)
and an 8 page introduction (separate from the 398 page
document). [Note: All IPCR Initiative
documents and resources are accessible for free.]
I have included three items as enclosures with this letter:
1) a 3 page introduction to the Multi-Angle document, which is
supplemented on p. 4 with (9) Key
Themes Brought Forward in Many Ways in this Multi-Angle Document
(which serves as a preface)
2) The ten point list of critical challenges currently serving
as the Table of Contents for the IPCR
Critical Challenges Assessment 2011-2012 projectand The
Potential of Community Visioning
Initiatives (in 500 words)3) a 2 page commentary titled Much
Unrealized Potential for Community Service
The evidence compiled in this Multi-Angle document includes
statistics and observations excerpted
from a wide range of Internet sources, books, articles, and
reports. This evidence suggests that many of
the issues which have resulted in the debt crises (and many
other critical challenges) are problems
which are at the very core of our difficulties with being human
beingsand thus will require much more
than the usual amount of problem solving, if we are to change
course.
The IPCR Initiative advocates for a combination of Community
Visioning Initiatives, Community
Teaching and Learning Centers, and sister community
relationships, as a way of generating an
exponential increase in our collective capacity to overcome the
challenges of our times. Since I believein the critical challenges
assessment I have done, I am moved by compassion for fellow human
beings to
share IPCR documents and resources, and make what contributions
I can to solution-oriented activity.
(over)
Stefan Pasti, Founder and Outreach Coordinator
The Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization (IPCR)
Initiative (at www.ipcri.net )
P.O. Box 163 Leesburg, VA 20178 USA
(703) 209-2093 [email protected]
Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization
http://www.ipcri.net/Critical-Challenges-Assessment.htmlhttp://www.ipcri.net/Critical-Challenges-Assessment.htmlhttp://www.ipcri.net/http://www.ipcri.net/mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]://www.ipcri.net/http://www.ipcri.net/http://www.ipcri.net/Critical-Challenges-Assessment.htmlhttp://www.ipcri.net/Critical-Challenges-Assessment.html
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From Pasti to ________, 3/11/12, p. 2
One of the key points about the IPCR approach is that even if
there no danger signs flashing and no
critical challenges ahead, such a constellation of initiatives
approach would be a relevant and effective
innovation to community education and proactive peacebuilding.
Howevernowwith many danger
signs flashing, this kind of approach can provide significant
support for the problem solving on a scale
most of us have never known before which we need to do.
Another key point is that the IPCR Initiative continues to
emphasize the need for an exponential increase
in compassion for our fellow human beings. There may be ways to
muddle through an unwinding of
complex systems like the ones before us without deliberate
efforts to cultivate an exponential increase
in compassion, but it seems like such ways would only be chosen
if we had no other choices.
Confidence will be dimmed by a lack of clarity until there is
truthful public discourse on the full
dimensions of critical challenges ahead. Confidence will be
built up when people believe that the efforts
of everyone working together is a greater force than the
challenges they are facing.
I am doing outreach and sharing IPCR documents and resources
because I believe wecollectivelywill
need the best efforts we can make at working together if a
significant majority of us are going to make asuccessful transition
to a more peaceful and sustainable world; and because I believe we
must find ways
to bring the best skills and resources each of us has to the
forefront of local community and regional
solution-oriented activity.
Here is an excerpt from The IPCR Resource Sharing Policy which
may help you understand the kind of
sharing I am doing with IPCR documents and resources, and the
kind of sharing which we may need to
see much more of:
The challenges ahead are significant; if IPCR resources can help
people build solution-oriented
momentum, that would be the best kind of compensation.
Thus, once a pilot project [using IPCR resources of any kind
(for examples, see The IPCR Initiative
homepage, at www.ipcri.net )] is underway, the IPCR Initiative
does not require that any such pilot
projects use The IPCR Initiative name, or adhere to any common
mission statement, or list of shared
goals. In other words, any individuals or communities of people
using IPCR ideas or resources will have
no obligation to adhere to a brand messageor even reference or
make attribution to IPCR resources
which inspired their efforts. They can build, adopt, change,
modify, and otherwise create their own way
forwardwith their own name for the initiative, their own website
content, their own stated goals, etc.
By encouraging innovation and creativity in this way many
different experiments can be made, and
there will be more chances that many communities of people will
arrive at many different kinds of
successful model projects.
I hope that you find something in IPCR documents and resources
which can assist you with providingvaluable community service at
this critical time. I welcome any comments, suggestions, questions,
or
recommendations you might have which would help me with my
work.
For a Peaceful and Sustainable Future,
Stefan Pasti, Founder and Outreach Coordinator
The IPCR Initiative
http://www.ipcri.net/http://www.ipcri.net/
