The phrase “the commons” refers to domains and resources that belong to or affect the whole of a community. The “conversational commons” then embraces everything that supports or makes possible the enjoyable and productive conversations of a commu…
Some people say Gandhi was about nonviolence. And he was. But he is significant for something else that I believe is far more important: He changed the game. With no one’s permission, he reconfigured the playing field of colonialism to a higher Ga…
With budget-belts tightening at all levels of governance, I have suggested that public engagement is vital to pick up on community and governance functions that official government agencies no longer have enough money to handle well. This goes bey…
The most comprehensive essay I have so far written on the underlying theory of co-intelligent, holistic politics has just been published (two years since I wrote it) in a special edition of Integral Review about integral politics. It starts on pag…
I wrote an article “Expanding ‘public participation’ in hard times” for the International Journal of Public Participation which, although it did not meet their requirements, expressed something I believe is vital for our era — an expanded vision …