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Glossary of Terms

Sustainable Development

Sustainable development is defined as balancing the fulfillment of human needs with the protection of the natural environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but in the indefinite future. The term was used by the Brundtland Commission which coined what has become the most often-quoted definition of sustainable development as development that "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." From Wikipedia more...

Sociocracy

The Global Summit’s model of policy making is defined by consent based agreements, mutually supportive collaboration process of consensus and draws from best practices in negotiations, and socially transformative family mediation.

Global (vs. International) *By Global Leadership Network Founder, Michele Ehlers - July 19, 2008

Global perspective:

Considering the world, including its human inhabitants, from OUTSIDE or BEYOND the limits defined by national borders, language constructs, cultural training or “realities”.

Global context:

Accounts for and allows for all human perspectives, and relates to every human being from the same place. Relates to language, culture, politics, customs, (also age, gender, physicality, economic status, etc.). as circumstances, similar to clothing -- sometimes useful, sometimes limiting, and always changeable and ever expandable.

Experience:

“We’re all in this together,” with shifting, expanding, and transforming part of the natural flow of life. There is no “them”.