In a world filled with geopolitical tensions, a project called the Pacific Means Peace (PMP) project is exploring how to find alternative pathways to peace. The PMP began as a focused effort called Pax Pacifica, aimed at addressing the Taiwan-China conflict, but has since evolved into a broader initiative that integrates traditional peace theory with …
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Pacifica Means Peace – Hacking the present to create alternative futures
By José Ramos and Jeanne Hoffman Pacifica Means Peace is a project dedicated to envisioning a future of peaceful coexistence between the USA, China, and all the other countries in the Pacific Rim. The project uses a participatory futures approach to explore the futures we collectively wish to avoid and those we aspire to create. …
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Using an Alternative Future-Histories Approach to Explore Peace in the Pacific
Pacifica Means Peace is a project that aims to envision a peaceful coexistence between the USA and China and all the other countries in the Pacific Rim. The project uses a participatory futures approach to engage the public in considering the futures that we want to avoid and that we want to create. There is …
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Pacifica Means Peace
Comment Pacifica Means Peace (PMP) is a project to use participatory futures methods to envision a peaceful coexistence between the USA and China. Images of the future have the power to shape the imagination of the public and policymakers. As well, images of the future come with cognitive bias, for example a military think tank …
Futurescaper for the Pax Pacifica
A few months ago I was contacted by Giorgos Georgopoulos from the Futurescaper team about the Pax Pacifica research proposal. Futurescaper is a crowd based peer to peer foresight platform, a significant social and technical innovation and advance in the futures studies field. In its own words: Futurescaper builds upon decades of research about how people …
Crowdsourcing the Pax Pacifica: A new story for cross strait relations
Overview: This project proposes a crowd-sourced foresight approach to develop a set of scenarios that addresses conflict dynamics and resolution within China-USA-Taiwan/Republic of China (ROC) cross-strait relations. The method will engage participants in generating content for a Pax Pacifica vision and story-world, in which conflict dynamics have been transcended and a win-win solution created. …
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