What the ITS should now that may thwart community
Posted by ICS respondent on October 17, 2007
- Thinking that we know the way people should act or think and imposing solutions to neighbors. Not creating social agreements.
- Not using a methodology for conflict resolution, decision making.
- Leadership of only one individual Hierarchical pyramidal social structures Isolating the community from “the outer world”
- Lack of using system thinking to help in the organizational structure of the community.
- Having to go out of the project or community to bring money to the projects of the community.
- Not making or keeping time tables
- Governmental policies or projects that can bring ecological and social unbalance to the bioregion.
- Social problems like youth gangs, drug addictions, alcoholism that affects the neighboring communities.
- The use of recreational drugs by members of the community.
