... and conflict management ?

Perhaps this is stating the obvious, but just as our current governance models often lead to conflict, an ideal (or more ideal) governance model should help buffer and neutralise conflict.

From that position the question is how to get from here to there, and that's what keeps me going. There are the many dissections and analyses, case studies, theories and applications, models, systems, and approaches. These spring up within a plethora of different socioeconomic and culturally specific settings, further adding to the complexity.

There are certain principles, such as inclusion (ownership), accountability and transparency, and so on (please remind me of the rest). Something I have become very consumed by lately is the relationship between governance and sustainability. Hopefully we can all agree that decades of misuse have not diminished the importance and meaningfulness of that word.

A young idea for me but fundamentally poor governance wastes resources. This waste often materialises as conflict in various forms at various scales. This wasteful, inefficient governance can not lead us to a more sustainable model of social organisation.

So to turn it around, does sustainability offer a specific value proposition to stakeholder X that might cause them to be more open to embrace the principles of good governance (i.e. true consultation and inclusion, proactive transparency and reporting/accountability, etc)? I wonder. And how to take yet another theory and do something useful with it?!