<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">May I get back to you later, Nick.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Perhaps I should alert you to my chapter in a book just released (2021) by Lexington Books/FortPress Academic, "TRANSFORMING:  Applying Spirituality, Emergent Creativity, and Reconciliation."  The book is a collection from 18 authors who comprised the Integrative Peacebuilding Project, a multi-year initiative of collaborative research and generative dialogue, now housed at U. of Ottawa. The connecting theme is a deep dive into Complex Adaptive Systems theory and practice for meeting the unprecedented global challenges that face us now.  My chapter is the concluding chapter--about the climate crisis-- titled "Sacred Diplomacy as The Adjacent Possible Praxis:  Transforming Peacebuilding to Meet the Challenges of a Warming Planet." </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 9:43 AM <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_7554933918275220104WordSection1"><p>Merle,<u></u><u></u></p><p>Is this man a member of your ”pod”? Is this what comes to your mind when  you think of systems thinking?  Insofar as we can tell from this one chapter, does he make a strong case for that sort of thinking? <u></u><u></u></p><p><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344553210_The_concluding_chapter_from_my_forthcoming_book_SPRINGER_Contemporary_Systems_Thinking_Book_Series_-_IMMERSIVE_SYSTEMIC_KNOWING_-_ADVANCING_SYSTEMS_THINKING_BEYOND_RATIONAL_ANALYSIS_httpswwwspringerco" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344553210_The_concluding_chapter_from_my_forthcoming_book_SPRINGER_Contemporary_Systems_Thinking_Book_Series_-_IMMERSIVE_SYSTEMIC_KNOWING_-_ADVANCING_SYSTEMS_THINKING_BEYOND_RATIONAL_ANALYSIS_httpswwwspringerco</a><u></u><u></u></p><p>Nick <u></u><u></u></p></div></div>- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.<br>Center for Emergent Diplomacy<br><a href="http://emergentdiplomacy.org" target="_blank">emergentdiplomacy.org</a></div><div>Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA</div><div></div><div><br>mobile:  (303) 859-5609<br>skype:  merle.lelfkoff2<br></div><div>twitter: @merle110<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>