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Some urgent new thinking is needed if any lessons are to be learnt
from the recent disasters. This book brings together the experience
of a number of writers who have worked on, or studied, poverty
alleviation programmes in Asia and Africa.
Each chapter inspires you to work on a particular aspect of your
life, teaches you how to change it for the better through
meditation and a remarkable technique called "The Golden Bridge",
and ends with a prayer affirmation of self-realization to help you
focus and direct your thoughts immediately.
We live in anxious times, all too aware that governments can fail,
markets too collapse and that NGOs, parties and other organisations
in civil society are also prone to lose sight of the common good.
Responsibility and its Avoidance seeks to understand the dynamic
processes through which people struggle to produce a sound
environment, stable trading arrangements, competent governance,
personal security and other aspects of a 'liveable society'. In
Responsibility and its Avoidance, Donald Curtis brings a
practitioner focus as a project manager in development to his
essays, as well as a UK and World citizen concern for current
social dilemmas. He seeks and occasionally finds, enlightenment in
academic theory but, aware that contradictions in governance are as
old as history, sometimes seeks solace in other people's cultures
or in literature. A key finding is that good governance is a matter
of exercised responsibility. What emerged, through the themes of
the various chapters, is that society's attempts to create
constitutions, governance structures and management processes
through which leaders and citizens can exercise responsibility for
the public good, run up against an avoidance paradox. As soon as an
agreed allocation of responsibilities is achieved, with obligations
and commitments set out and accountability processes established,
perverse incentives set in. Common purpose can always be deemed
personally costly, encouraging neglect, manipulation, avoidance or
other forms of negation. The socially concerned citizen must commit
to constant struggle against institutional decay and corruption; so
runs Curtis' thesis: responsibility is not good unless it is
shared.
This work focuses on the military and diplomatic role played by
Major General William S. Graves and the United States Army
expeditionary force sent to Siberia as part of a joint
American-Japanese intervention following the Bolshevik Revolution.
The United States faced a very difficult mission due to the
motivations of the other occupying forces, particularly the
Japanese. As the United States sought to allow some form of
self-determination in Civil War Russia, the American experience
would reflect many of the same issues and troubles that have beset
more recent attempts at nation-building. Japanese expansionism that
would in part lead to war in the Pacific in 1941 was on full
display in Siberia in 1918. General Graves was also in the now
familiar position of having to oversee competing national and
international interests in a war-torn country. The story of the AEF
Siberia and its commander has great relevance in the 21st Century
as it too occurred in a time of political upheaval that seemed to
threaten the fabric of Western society.
Beginning with his own experience of overcoming a lifelong,
excruciating pain and ultimately realizing his personal mission in
life, Dr. Curtis draws upon his many years as a minister of
metaphysics to show readers how to explore the inner consciousness
via 12 vital steps, including relaxation, realization, conviction,
and action.
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