Value-Systems based Governance. Functional Democracy. Revisiting democracy with a model based in memetics and shaped by the rich history of the human journey, with special focus on the Middle East.

1. POLITICAL SCIENCE / World /Middle Eastern
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EMERGE!ELZAS.MAALOUF
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a culture to emerge and
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Emerge! The Rise of Funct
Future of the Middle East
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chology and design conc
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mentor Don E. Beck esta
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FROM THE FOREWORD BY DR. DON E. BECK
“This book is the definitive authority not only on the
political future of the Middle East,
but also on the evolution of democracy itself.”
“In Elza Maalouf’s book Emerge! she puts the voter first and redefines democ-
racy through a functional lens . . . If you want to understand the complexity
of Middle Eastern politics and what’s needed to resolve this historic conflict
you must read this book.”—HOWARD PUTNAM, former CEO Southwest Airlines
and Braniff International and author of The Winds of Turbulence
“Elza Maalouf’s insightful study, Emerge!, reveals exactly how humanity is re-
organizing from youthful, competitive, win/lose political economies to evo-
lutionarily mature collaborative models fitting the unique needs of different
cultures. I highly recommend this book, not only to leaders in the Middle
East, but also to conscious politicians in the West.”—ELISABET SAHTOURIS,
evolution biologist, futurist; author of EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution
The Middle East keeps inching closer by the day into a collective chaos. It
seems as though oppression, inequality, and violence have been systemically
embedded into the very makeup of its societies. How can the people take
charge of their own inalienable rights to freedom, equality and prosperity—to
keep from backsliding into the grasp of feudal, unhealthy ideologies as they face
an increasingly interconnected world? continued on front flap
ELZA MAALOUF is one of the foremost
experts on the memetics of the Middle
East who pioneered the use of the value-
systems framework and Integral Theory
practices in Middle Eastern politics and
business. She is the cofounder of the Cen-
ter for Human Emergence Middle East, a
think tank that reframes existential issues
facing the region through the prism of
value-system memes. She was named as
one of today’s brightest minds by Enlighten-
Next magazine. In 2011 she was elected to
be a member of the Evolutionary Leaders in Service to Conscious Evolution, an
organization made up of the leading global minds in the fields of science, spiri-
tuality, and related studies with the primary purpose of advancing the
conscious evolution of humanity.
Maalouf is also the founder of the Integral Insights Consulting Group (IIC), an
advisory that brings research on the theories of human potential to bear on
organizational challenges and opportunities. The IIC Group is dedicated to the
multi-faceted development of individuals, teams, and organizations.
TiffanyAllenPhotography
“In the midst of the global chaos, comes a book that offers great hope for the future
of the Middle East. It is a powerful and enlightened rethinking of a region seeking a
new renaissance.”—JEAN HOUSTON, PhD, best-selling author of A Passion for the Possible;
co-Founder of the Human Potential Movement
ELZA S. MAALOUF
Foreword by Don E. Beck, PhD
The Rise of Functional Democracy and the
Future of the Middle East
EMERGE!

2. SURVIVAL
SENSE:
Do
what
you
must
to
stay
alive.
No
governing
system.
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
TRIBAL
ORDER;
KINSHIP
&
SAFETY.
Clan
leader
or
Za’eem.
Individual
votes
are
not
encouraged.
Group
allegiance
to
3rd
level
leader,
or
4th
level
ideology.
5%
of
Current
Global
Popula=on
under
value
system
(VGPS)
POWERFUL
SYSTEMS;
FEUDAL
EMPIRE/DOMINATION.
Votes
go
to
the
feudal
lords.
Descending
voters
are
eliminated
from
poli=cal
process.
Patriarchal.
No
clear
Na=onal
PlaDorm.
Rich
get
richer
poor
get
poorer.
33%
VGPS.
ABSOLUTE
ORDER;
BIRTH
OF
NATION-­‐STATES.
Winning
party
rule.
Votes
maHer
to
the
“One
Party”
that
has
all
the
right
answers.
Power
of
Ins=tu=on
prevails
over
the
power
of
Individual.
Heavy
hand
of
government.
27%
VGPS.
GLOBAL
ORDER;
HOLONIC
DEMOCRACY
&
GLOBAL
GOVERNANCE.
Will
appear
aPer
the
values
of
the
7
level
system
are
realized.
Seeking
the
common
good
in
response
to
global
problems.
Whole-­‐earth
networks.
0%
VGPS.
ENTERPRISING
SYSTEMS;
2-­‐PARTY
OR
MULTI-­‐PARTY
DEMOCRACY.
Corporate
Na=ons.
Economic
status
sets
power
ra=os.
Federal
governance
with
full
right
to
states
and
provinces.
Poli=cs
are
to
the
strategic
advantage
of
winner.
24%
VGPS.
INTEGRATED
SYSTEMS;
FUNCTIONAL
DEMOCRACY
&
BIG
PICTURE
VALUES.
Governance
that
fits
the
Value
systems
profiles
of
a
culture.
Stra=fied
systems
designed
with
input
from
the
Indigenous
Intelligence.
Balance
of
government
&
private
sector
based
on
func=onality.
3%
VGPS.
EGALITARIAN
ORDER;
SOCIAL
DEMOCRACY.
Coali=on
governments
empowered
by
humanitarian
values.
Equal
access
to
resources
by
all
people.
Votes
are
important,
but
losing
par=es
s=ll
have
important
voice.
System
votes
for
gender
equality
&
social
programs.
8%
VGPS.
Func'onal
Democracy
&The
Eight
Levels
of
Human
Existence

3. The
Psychosocial
DNA
of
PoliDcs
The
MEMEtocracy
Framework;
What
Makes
Democracy
Func'onal
FORMS
OF
FUNCTIONAL
DEMOCRACY
LEVEL
OF
HUMAN
EXISTENCE
PERCENT
GLOBAL
POPULATION
IN
EACH
SYSTEM
(VGPS)
BENEVOLENT
MONARCHY
ORDERED
AUTOCRACY
TWO
&
MILTI-­‐PARTY
DEMOCRACY
SOCIAL
DEMOCRACY
*
SOCIAL
DEM
FUNCTIONAL
DEMOCRACY
*
FUNCTIONAL
DEMOCRACY
HOLONIC
DEMOCRACY
*
HOLONIC
DEMOCRACY

4.
ERA
DOMINANT
VALUE
SYSTEM
CULTURAL
EXPRESSION
AL-­‐
JAHILIYA
(PRE-­‐ISLAM)
Tribal-­‐Heroic
Values
(Second
&
Third
Level
Systems)
PURPLE/Red
Bands
of
Nomads
leading
simple
lives.
Tribes
used
as
mercenaries
by
conquering
empires
ISLAMIC
RENAISSANCE
Religious
Fourth
level
values
mixed
with
Second,
Third
and
some
Fi[h
level
values
that
inspired
scienfic
discoveries.
PURPLE-­‐Red-­‐
BLUE-­‐orange
Islam
follows
in
the
tradion
of
Hellenisc
philosophy/
Intellectual
discourse
and
inclusion.
In
Andalusia,
Muslims,
Chrisans
and
Jews
lived
in
harmony.
Culture
thrived
while
Europe
stagnated.
(open
system
along
the
spiral
of
development.
AL-­‐GHAZALI
DOCTRINE
Fourth
Level
values
with
Islamic
content.
Quran
is
the
word
of
God
(closed
the
Fourth
level
system
to
non-­‐
Quranic-­‐based
input).
Closed
BLUE
Al-­‐Ghazali’s
Incoherence
of
the
Philosophers
brings
the
scienfic
interpretaon
of
the
Quran
to
an
end.
Begins
the
Islamic
stages
of
exclusion
and
leaves
out
advancement
not
based
in
Islam.
Future
progress
relies
on
the
content
of
the
Quran
as
a
“full
living
system.”
Religion
dominates
the
enre
fourth
level
system
slowing
emergence.
END
OF
RENAISSANCE
&
DECLINE
OF
OTTOMAN
EMPIRE
Odomans
ruled
from
exploive
3rd
level.
Kept
culture
in
2nd
level,
repressed
expression
of
3rd
level.
No
naonal
Plaeorm
to
build
higher
complexity.
PURPLE-­‐RED-­‐blue
Religious
freedom
and
preservaon
of
local
tribal
customs
as
long
as
taxes
were
paid
and
order
is
kept.
No
empire-­‐wide
investment
in
scienfic
endeavors
and
human
capacies.
Failed
to
adopt
5th
level
industrial
values.
Lost
90
%
of
territory
as
Europe
advanced
with
Industrial
Revoluon
and
alternave
trade
routes.
FRAMING
ARAB
HISTORY
THROUGH
MEMETICS
&
VALUE
SYSTEMS
300
BC-­‐
1900
AD

5.
ERA
DOMINANT
VALUE
SYSTEM
CULTURAL
EXPRESSION
COLONIAL
MANDATES
Imposed
a
non-­‐indigenous
Fourth
level
system
&
the
Western
Fourth
level
concept
of
Naons.
Non-­‐
Indigenous
Blue
Surface
expression
of
Western
modernism.
Placed
tribes
and
religious
sects
against
each
other
for
territorial
dominance
within
arbitrary
borders
of
newly
created
naons.
Devalued
the
meaning
of
democracy
ARAB
NATIONALISM
A
unhealthy,
Non-­‐Indigenous
Fourth
level
system
collapsed
culture
to
Third
level
dictatorships.
RED-­‐blue
Inspired
youth
to
seek
Pan-­‐Arab
identy
through
Baath
and
other
movements,
before
creang
naon-­‐states
in
each
country
and
the
instuons
to
support
it.
Built
primarily
on
the
Arabs
knack
for
the
rhetoric
and
the
presence
of
a
common
enemy.
ERA
OF
DICTATORSHIPS
Heroic/Feudalisc
Third
level
values
with
modern
weapons
and
money
from
oil
or
foreign
aid.
RED-­‐purple
Rose
from
the
ashes
of
failed
Arab
Naonalism.
Corrupon,
repression
and
blame
on
the
far
enemy.
No
capacity
for
self-­‐
introspecon.
Descending
voices
eliminated
or
forced
to
leave.
CHAOS
IN
THE
INFORMATION
AGE
Third
level
Al-­‐Qaeda
evolves
into
Third-­‐Fourth
level
ISIL
with
strategic
aim.
No
Fourth
level
instuons
in
sight.
RED-­‐Unhealthy
BLUE-­‐orange
15
minutes
of
Arab
Spring.
One
person
one
vote
elected
radicals.
Baath
Army
reborn
as
ISIL
without
the
secular
cover.
Virtual
jihad
recruitment
with
global
reach.
Using
social
media
to
make
Jihad
adracve.
Begin
bloody
hero
journey
into
a
new
Arab
Renaissance
with
respect
for
Instuons.
FRAMING
ARAB
HISTORY
THROUGH
MEMETICS
&
VALUE
SYSTEMS
1900
AD
-­‐
PRESENT

6. PEACE Perspectives
• Peace
in
Beige:
I
Stay
Alive
“Survival
InsDncts”
• Peace
in
PURPLE:
We
are
Safe
“Spirit
Voices”
• Peace
in
RED:
I
Rule
“Conquest”
• Peace
in
BLUE:
We
have
Order
“Mandates-­‐Order”
• Peace
in
Orange:
I
Thrive.
“NegoDaDons”
• Peace
in
Green:
WE
are
Equal.
“Dialogue”
• Peace
in
Yellow:
I
Care
and
DO
“Natural
Design”
• Peace
in
Turquoise:
We
Conscioucize
“Flows”
just
emerging….

7.
Indigenous
Intelligence
(II)
is
the
muldimensional
capacity
of
an
individual
or
a
group
in
a
specific
society
to
interpret
its
value-­‐system’s
complexity
to
non-­‐naves.
It
informs
governance
by
assessing
the
life
condi=ons
of
the
people
and
the
challenges
they
face.
IIEs:
Indigenous
Intelligence
Experts
• Naves
of
the
territory.
Speak
the
language,
know
the
customs,
and
understand
the
culture
and
all
subcultures
in
it.
• Thinking
is
an
open-­‐system
with
high
cognive
abilies.
• Shaped
by
the
first-­‐hand
experience
of
own
transion
from
zealots
and
flamethrowers.
• Insncvely
discern
complex
paderns
by
idenfying
the
process
to
evolve
naturally.
• They
understand
the
complexity
and
the
uniqueness
of
the
indigenous
challenges
that
brought
the
culture
to
its
current
status
of
desolaon.
• They’re
strategic
and
systemic
in
their
thinking
and
believe
in
efforts
that
can
be
sustainable
for
their
culture
The
Indigenous
Intelligence
Defined

9. Ssppp
MEMEtocracy’S
5-­‐DEEP
STRATEGY
TO
MIDDLE
EAST
PEACE
L I F E
C O N D I T I O N S
M E M E T I C
C O D E S
M I N D S E T S
A N D
W O R L D
V I E W S
S Y S T E M S
&
S T R U C T U R E S
BEHAVIORS
AND
ACTIONS
T
O
W
A
R
D
S
A
M
O
R
E
P
E
R
F
E
C
T
P
E
A
C
E
TOWARDS
A
MORE
PERFECT
DESIGN
UN
&
Co

13.
PALESTINE
DEPARTMENT
OF
INTEGRATION
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©
CHE-­‐Mideast
2012-­‐2013
Integrang
The
Efforts
of
:
q 4200
NGOs
Western/Local
q Public
Sector
q Private
Sector
Meme'c
Profiles
of
Pales'nians:
including
Value-­‐Systems/Mindsets/Belief
Systems

14. Naon
Building
Conference
Bethlehem,
PA
2/2/2008

15. Kenesset-­‐
Jerusalem
Arab-­‐Israeli
Deputy
Speaker
Tel
Aviv
University

17. Blue
Print
for
Indigenous
Design
A
Viable
Pales'nian
State
Bethlehem-­‐2/2/2008

18. ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
T he Mid dle East Beyond the Age of Oil, a Mem etic Anal ysis
?
The Center for Human Emergence Middle East
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FROM THE FOREWOR
“This book is the definitiv
political future o
but also on the evolut
“In Elza Maalouf’s book Emerge! she p
racy through a functional lens . . . If y
of Middle Eastern politics and what’s
you must read this book.”—HOWARD
and Braniff International and author of T
“Elza Maalouf’s insightful study, Emer
organizing from youthful, competitiv
lutionarily mature collaborative mod
cultures. I highly recommend this b
East, but also to conscious politician
evolution biologist, futurist; author of Ea
The Middle East keeps inching clo
seems as though oppression, inequ
embedded into the very makeup of
charge of their own inalienable rights
keep from backsliding into the grasp o
an increasingly interconnected world?
ELZA MAALOUF is one of
experts on the memetics o
East who pioneered the use
systems framework and Int
practices in Middle Eastern
business. She is the cofounde
ter for Human Emergence M
think tank that reframes exis
facing the region through
value-system memes. She w
one of today’s brightest minds
Next magazine. In 2011 she w
be a member of the Evolutionary Leaders in Service to Conscious
organization made up of the leading global minds in the fields of
tuality, and related studies with the primary purpose of ad
conscious evolution of humanity.
Maalouf is also the founder of the Integral Insights Consulting G
advisory that brings research on the theories of human potent
organizational challenges and opportunities. The IIC Group is ded
multi-faceted development of individuals, teams, and organization
TiffanyAllenPhotography

19. Numbers Tell the Story
“The
Middle
East
is
the
richest
region
in
the
world
with
the
poorest
people
in
it.”
Ø Total
2012
World
Bank
GDP
for
enre
MENA
region
$2.9
Trillion
(less
than
GDP
of
the
2
largest
states
in
the
US)
Ø 80%
of
populaon
lives
on
under
$5
a
day,
more
than
half
of
the
region
in
poverty
Ø Illiteracy
rates
35-­‐45%,
women
60-­‐70%.
Ø UNEMPLYOMENT:
A. Women
with
high
school
degrees
83%
B. Women
with
college
degrees
27%
C. Millennials
30%
+
Ø Region-­‐wide
annual
per
capita
income
is
$684.
Third
from
last
place
between
Zimbabwe
and
Cameroon
Ø Without
oil
(73%
of
current
revenues),
region’s
per
capita
income
in
last
place.

20.
1. Creating the Memetic profile of a country
a. Selecting the Indigenous Intelligence Experts
b. Identifying prevailing value systems & Life Conditions.
c. Understanding the nature of conflicting views, intra v. inter-conflict.
d. Putting it all in perspective. The ACE Model.
2. Designing governance that fits; empowering people from
half-value system above where culture is.
3. Creating a culture’s Superordinate Goal; the future pull.
4. Aligning all stakeholders to serve the Superordinate Goal.
a. Reforming government practices
b. Reforming the educational system(s)
c. Creating resilient and globally inclusive economic policies
THE
ARAB
MEMOME
PROJECT
A
Func=onal
Democracy,
Whole
System’s
approach
to
Middle
Eastern
Emergence

21. Habitat
for
a
New
Consciousness
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2012-­‐2013
Prepare
The
EcoSystem
for
Emergence

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