In May 2008, UNESCO hosted a conference to celebrate Buddhism's contributions to social change in Hanoi, Vietnam. These papers were prepared in anticipation of that event. As such, they are written for an international audience of people with diverse backgrounds. I am not religious; however, I have found the practices of Buddhism helpful in my work as a mediator, interaction designer and capacity building for social change.
While none of the papers were presented, I have found that the themes continue to emerge in conversations with people engaged in social change, social enterprise and social innovation. For easier blog reading, the papers are broken down into manageable "posts." For each paper, a personal introduction post is under construction, not included in the original papers available here as PDFs.
Passive Participation in Conflict (whole embedded document)
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Personal Reflection
1. Passive Participation in Conflict: A Framework for Reclaiming Wholeness
2. Background: Why consider Passive Participants in a Conflict?
3. Framework to Identify Passive Participants in Conflict (PPiC)
4. PPiC Framework Applied
5. Strategies for Healing and Transforming Experience: Self-Hate
6. Strategies for Healing and Transforming Experience: Shame
7. Strategies for Healing and Transforming Experience: Guilt
8. Strategies for Healing and Transforming Experience: Paralysis
9. Strategies for Healing and Transforming Experience: Fear
10. Strategies for Healing and Transforming Experience: Hurt
11. Strategies for Healing and Transforming Experience: Despair
12. Using the PPiC Framework
| ppic.pdf |
Mind the Gaps (whole embedded document)
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Personal Reflection
1. Engaging Change
2. Gaps of Culture
3. Gaps of Geo-Political-Socio-Economics (GPSE)
4. Gaps of Systems
5. Gaps of Power Perspective
6. Mind the Gaps: Applied to Individual
7. Mind the Gaps: Applied to Institutional/Systems Issue
8. Mind the Gaps: Conclusion
| mindthegaps.pdf |
Building Capacity for I + U Halt Injustice (whole embedded document)
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Personal Reflection
1. Building Capacity for Collaborative, Inclusive Problem Solving
2. Becoming Social Architects: Together, I + U HALT Injustice
3. Cultivating Integrity
4. Cultivating Understanding
5. Cultivating Humility
6. Cultivating Awareness
7. Cultivating Legitimacy
8. Cultivating Trustworthiness
9. Conclusion
| building_capacity_i__u_halt_disparities.pdf |
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