I have the great fortune right now to be teaching Political Futures in two places at the same time: co-teaching the POLS 673 course with professor Jim Dator (my mentor) at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, and teaching the Political Futures course at one of our local high schools here in Honolulu. In both [...]
I have the great fortune right now to be teaching Political Futures in two places at the same time: co-teaching the POLS 673 course with professor Jim Dator (my mentor) at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, and teaching the Political Futures course at one of our local high schools here in Honolulu. In both [...]
Today saw the start of some basic political design process mapping for Nepal. I’ll be sketching out the basic timeline in Nepal’s most recent constitution-making process and then using that timeline to build the process map, employing the political design framework developed during my dissertation research. Stay tuned.
A Foreign Policy post yesterday called my attention to a Bloggingheads.tv spot between Daniel Drezner (Theories of International Politics and Zombies) and Anne-Marie Slaughter. The FP post focused on part of the video that asked the question, “Are social movements now as powerful as nations?” This, of course, has been a version of the question [...]
Futures studies is a field that is a) still relatively young and, b) not very well known. Most people who have heard of the title of “futurist” think that futurists predict the future (and of course because, well, what else would they do?). In fact, the relatively few, academically trained futurists avoid prediction like the [...]
As someone trained in meeting facilitation and who was mentored early in my career to play a facilitative rather than directive role in meetings, I have a long familiarity with the tension/balance between process and content in any type of project, be it a corporate IT initiative or constitution-making. My dissertation research therefore took a [...]
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