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About the Sectors and 12-around-1 Organizing Framework

In 1984 Barbara Marx Hubbard succeeded in having her name placed in nomination as one of the Democratic Party's vice-presidential candidates (the same year as did Geraldine Ferraro) based on the platform of placing a Peace Room in the office of the vice president in the White House. It was obviously a favorable idea, but timing and circumstances would not permit its coming to fruition in the political arena. Now, with the advent of the Internet and the surge of evolutionary transformation in all of our social systems, we are confident that the time has come for this new social function to come fully into form.

Simply stated, the purpose of the Peace Room is to identify, map, connect, and communicate innovations, successes, breakthroughs, and models that work, and to link pioneers, innovators, organizations, and projects so as to foster cooperation and synergy among the diverse sectors of human society. The Synergy Center as presented here in EVOLVE is a beginning step towards fulfilling this vision.

By offering a comprehensive organizing framework and social processes that facilitate the networking of common goals, matching needs and resources, the Peace Room serves a vital role in fulfilling our greatest potential, from the individual to the entire planet.

Peace in this context does not just mean conflict resolution. It means peace through cocreation, through the full expression of human creativity in cooperation with nature, with one another, and with the deeper design of evolution.

In the context of Conscious Evolution, the Peace Room (which is envisioned to become as sophisticated as a war room) serves to bring into coherence and coordinated application the already present and newly arising vital capacities of social, scientific, technological, and spiritual know-how from a whole-system, evolutionary perspective.

Ultimately, we envision the United Nations creating the first global Peace Room within this decade. This global Peace Room would be connected to comparable sites in nations and communities throughout the world, collaboratively working to identify the emerging evolutionary agenda to guide the policies and actions of the social body locally and globally on a positive evolutionary track.

It is significant to note that U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), has submitted legislation for the creation of a Department of Peace in the U.S. government. This is clearly a vision leading towards the same goal.

Organizing Framework of the Peace Room

The basic organizing framework for the Peace Room is the Wheel of Cocreation. Based upon the original concept of a Peace-Building Wheel by Avon Mattison of Pathways to Peace, the Wheel of Cocreation represents the entire body of human society as a living whole system made up of interrelated and interdependent parts. Seeing our social body in this way, as a dynamic and evolving whole system, we begin to catch a glimpse of the matrix of the new memetic code now arising in our emerging planetary cultureóthe memetic code of a living unified organism comprised of a myriad of interconnected systems, a diversity of values and cultures, and countless creative works of individuals and organizations everywhere.

The basic elements of the Wheel of Cocreation are the Sectors of Society.

These represent the basic areas of function, need, and endeavor in human society at a generalized and highly simplified level. Within each sector is a deeply rich and complex set of functions, roles, structures, etc. that comprise every element of the body of society at local, regional and global levels. The Wheel of Cocreation uses a ì12-around-1î model showing the ìpartsî of society arrayed around the central ìWhole System Design,î the pattern of the whole as it emerges from the synergy of all the parts.

For more information about the Peace Room, please read Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of our Social Potential, by Barbara Marx Hubbard, available in the EVOLVE store.