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Illustrative Overview of Some Aspects of the Platform |
TOP CHALLENGES OF THE COUNTRY
| SOCIETAL |
| • Corruption |
| • Poverty |
| • Lack of Meaningful Participation in Governance |
| • Violence, Crime, Drugs |
| • Population |
| • Damaged Institutions |
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| CULTURAL |
| • Apathy and Hopelessness |
| • Low Moral Values (greed/selfishness) |
| • Lack of Identity |
| • Low quality education |
| • Division/Lack of cooperation |
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| POLITICAL |
| • Reign of Trapos (Elite control) |
| • Massive robbery of government funds |
| • Militarization |
| • Disfunctional justice system |
| • Corruption of upper command of military |
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| ECONOMIC |
| • increasing unemployment |
| • narrow and unstable economic fundamentals |
| • continued reliance on failed neoliberalism |
| • inflation in basic commodities and utilities |
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| ECOLOGICAL |
| • Pollution (air, water, earth) |
| • Deforestation |
| • Destructive farming, fishing, mining practices |
| • Unpreparedness for global warming |
| • Unregulated products of genetic engineering |
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| INDIVIDUAL AND SPIRITUAL |
| • Materialism |
| • Lack of creativity |
| • Doubt, fear, and despair |
| • Egotism and self-centeredness |
| • Lack of discipline and follow through |
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Program Framework
| SIX PILLARS |
| • Reduction/Elimination of Poverty |
| • Wipe out corruption |
| • Ecological Restoration |
| • Participatory Governance (Societal Threefolding Partnerships) |
| • Inner and Local Change as Foundation |
| • Mainstream Promising Initiatives |
| • Six Pillars Need to be understood systemically. Hence strategic agenda a living document |
| • Four Levels of Causation behind Societal Phenomena |
| • A presidential program must address all four causative levels |
| • Detailed example: Poverty Eradication |
Download the complete overview of the platform in pdf here.
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