1. The Role of Women in
Integral Sustainable
Development
By Vijay Kaul.
Publisher: Strategy & Consulting.

2. PROBLEM DEFINITION
KEY FINDING OF THE WORLD SUMMIT
ON WOMEN IN BEIJING
 Need to increase women's participation
in power and decision making.

3. PROBLEM DEFINITION
FINDINGS OF THE CAPWIP, Global Congress
of Women in Politics, Purple Book, p. 49.
 increased participation in local governments,
but women found in very small numbers and
have little impact in national governance
 Women's representation in government is
tokenistic which impedes the real change and
progress that women can make even when
they are in power.

4. NEEDS
 Review and examine the Asia Pacific
situation on women in leadership,
decision making and politics in current
global context
 identify strategic gaps and appropriate
courses of action for the next decade.

5. ANALYSIS: REFRAMING
THE CHALLENGE
Re-conceptualize the notions
 Sustainable development
 Power
 Leadership
 Women’s Role

6. REFRAMING
SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
THE CASE OF GLOBAL WARMING

12. Reframing
Sustainable Development
 Ecological - Entropy
 Economic – cars, industries
 Culture – consumption habits, S & T
 Political – laws and policies
 Social – population
 Human – individualism, materialism
 Spiritual – materialism

13. Seven Dimensions of
Integral Sus Dev (ISD)
7 Dimensions of
SD
- Spiritual
- Human
- Social
- Cultural
- Political
- Economic
- Ecological

14. REFRAMING SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
 Sus Dev (SD) not = Environment alone
 Earth Summit: SD = Environment,
Economic, Social
 SD  ISD
 All UN Summits are in reality aspects of
ISD

15. ISD AND THE UN SUMMITS
 They all share the same fate.
 Conclusion of the Commission on
Globalization in London – negligible
impact of all summits
 Why?

16. WTO and the Marginalization
of the UN Summits
 The Hard Agenda of the 1990s
 WTO obligatory and with sanctions
 UN Summits voluntary and minimal
sanctions
 Policy Conflict: WTO obligations prevail

17. Bush Doctrine: Marginalization
of the UN Summits
The Hard Agenda of
the 21st century =
The Bush Doctrine

18. TECHNOLOGICAL
SINGULARITY
The Third Meta-Agenda of the 21st
Century
 What is Technological Singularity?
 What is it a Threat to ISD?
 Fukuyama and the Real End of History

19. THE CLASH OF
WORLDVIEWS
 ISD or the Empire Matrix
 Who determines?
 Whose World?
 A question of power, leadership,
women’s role and spiritual development

20. REFRAMING POWER
 ISD  New Concept of Power
 ISD  Societal Threefolding (3F)
 3F and 3 Kinds of Power

21. Societal Threefolding
THE THREE SPHERES OF SOCIETY
POLITICS
(Government)
CULTURE
(Civil society)
ECONOMY
(Business)

22. REFRAMING POWER
 Cultural or Soft
Power
 Political/Military or
Hard Power
 Economic or Sticky
Power ECONOMY
POLITICS
(Government)
CULTURE
(Civil society)
(Business)

23. POWER CONCEPT IN THE
BUSH DOCTRINE
 Cultural Power = Clash of Civilizations
 Political Power = US Unilateralism
 Economic = Economic Globalization

24. ISD Counter Concept of
Power
 ISD poses the counter power of
solidarity of the societal spheres or
 Societal threefolding
 Requires the principled and strategic
convergence of civil society (cultural
power), government (political power)
and business (economic power)

25. 3F POWER AND
DEMOCRACY
 The New Check and Balance in Society
 But new balance of power not enough
 New Leadership required

26. REFRAMING LEADERSHIP
 Competitive Leadership vs. Associative
Leadership
 Darwinian Struggle for Power or
Harnessing Collective Intelligence
 ISD and Associative Leadership

27. THE ROLE OF WOMEN
 ISD Challenges not ordinary challenges
 Unprecedented
 Women’s Role also needs to be
reframed

28. REFRAMING THE ROLE OF
WOMEN
 Historically, women power associated
with the take over of the domain of the
masculine
 The feminine in the guise of the
masculine

29. REFRAMING THE
ROLE OF WOMEN
 Civilizational Challenges Requires the
Mobilization of the True Feminine
 Our world is suffering from one the
overblown idolatry of the masculine

30. THE MASCULINE
IN WORLD AFFAIRS
 Global Warming and the masculine
Baconian attitude of “torturing” nature
so that “she” will reveal her secrets.
 Fragmentation and reductionism in
science connected with left brain
analytical cognition

31. THE MASCULINE
IN WORLD AFFAIRS
Masculine Competition permeates
 Economic globalization
 US Unilateralism
 Clash of Civilization
 Technological Singularity

32. THE FEMININE
IN WORLD AFFAIRS
SOME BASIC SCIENTIFIC
FACTS ON HUMAN NATURE

39. The Feminine in World Affairs
 Not surprising that
67% of cultural
creatives are
women
 In the US, there are
50 million cultural
creatives
 70 million in Europe

40. The Feminine
in World Affairs
 WHAT IS MISSING IN WORLD
POLITICS IS THE HEART.
 POLITICS HAS BECOME THE
DOMAIN OF THE HEAD.
 We need of a politics of the heart
guiding the politics of the head

41. THE FEMININE IN WORLD
AFFAIRS
 Societal Threefolding
 Collective Intelligence
 Generative Dialogue
 Conflict Resolution
 Integral ISD

42. THE FEMININE
IN WORLD AFFAIRS
 The Polarity of Masculine and Feminine
in World Affairs
 Played Out in Contrasting Worldview of
the US and Europe

43. IMPLICATIONS
 Holistic concept of SD
 Reframing of Power, Democracy and
Governance
 Advancing the truly feminine
 Towards integration