Context: This initiative is part of the intergenerational Existential Security Threats -EXIST Board including Strategy X-EXIST with a series of high level ‘Plans’ enabled with digital solutions by the Global Futures Platform for Planet People and Peace - further partners are welcome to advance collaborative actions and to create tools for different audiences.
Key Messages:
• Increasing Challenges to Human Existence: priority threats to the survival of humanity include our planetary emergency, nuclear catastrophe, pandemics and risks from emerging technologies including artificial general intelligence.
• A Crisis of Leadership: has been revealed with a rise in dominance behaviours and governments, that are undermining our ability to respond to our global challenges effectively, with strategic and collaborative mechanisms.
• The Purpose of Leadership: is to provide security and coordinate collaborative actions to enable everyone to survive and thrive into the future.
• Matching Skills to Challenges: to survive as a species, we need to match leadership skills to effectively avert our complex challenges to our existence.
• Intergenerational Education for Planetary Leaders: requires transdisciplinary knowledge of challenges and social transformation with interdependent and integrated perspectives and skills for decision making based upon planetary principles, with skills for prioritisation, sustainable systems, effective delivery mechanisms and survival skills that enable leadership behaviours for people and peace.
• Transformational Training for Planetary Leaders: scale up training of dynamic, diverse leaders with digital solutions, to maximise resilience and innovation that enables communities to survive and thrive.
Planetary Leadership Principles: applies Future focused and Fair decision making; coordinates Security with sustainable Systems; enhances resilience by maximising Diversity and creates Dynamic innovative solutions for positive change.
Intergenerational Educational Framework for Planetary Leaders:
Planetary Leadership:
• Purpose of Leadership: Security and Coordination
• Principles: Future – Fair – Secure – Systems – Diverse - Dynamic
• Vision: Securing the Well Being of Future Generations for All
Challenges and Solutions:
• Planetary Security: Existential Threats and Risks, and the Poly-crisis
• Plans: Strategy X-EXIST and plans for the Planet, People and Peace
Sustainable Systems:
• Governance: legislation, policy, finance, accountability, monitoring, prioritisation
• Knowledge: root causes, strategic foresight, effective interventions, indicators
• Advocacy: communications, catalysts for change, sustainable development
• Capacity: infrastructure, life-course educational systems, workforce planning
Delivery Mechanisms:
• Protect: emergency & preparedness plans, early-warning systems & interventions, adaptation
• Prevent: address root causes and risk factors, avert and mitigate impacts, recovery
• Promote: human security, enablers, flourishing communities, well-being
• Provide: local to global integrated multi-sector delivery services and systems
Survival Skills:
• Resilience: personal, community, environmental, planetary, survival responses
• Wisdom: history, nature-based solutions, ecological principles, indigenous worldviews
• Thrive: food & water security, sustainable civilisations, harmonious planetary communities
Transformational Training for Planetary Leaders:
Youth Leaders – develop an Academy for Youth Led Solutions to Existential Threats
Life Course Education: incorporate skills across the life course through educational curriculum
MOOCs: scale up Leadership training through Massive Open-Access On-Line Courses (MOOCs)
Professional Programmes: embed Micro-Credits throughout professional training programmes
Personal Training: enhance skills with Intergenerational Leadership Retreats and Mentoring
Digital Platforms: continue to connect diverse and dynamic leaders from all communities of the world to maximise resilience and innovative solutions.