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Dear friends,

At the turning of the year, traditionally a time of hope, we confront a grim truth: we’re in a world of trouble. Like a many-headed monster spewing conflict and chaos, the growing global “polycrisis” destabilizes and undermines our world, darkening our psyches. It emerges from a political and economic system adept at creating problems but inept at finding solutions, thereby spreading a zeitgeist of fear, despair, and reaction.

Still, the polycrisis also sparks social energy for building a civilization centered around people, peace, and planet. Active on countless fronts, this heterogeneous rising could coalesce into a mighty force, redirecting the historical trajectory from Barbarization to Great Transition.

But so far that emergence has not happened. Deeply fragmented, the many-faceted movement remains enfeebled by lack of shared vision and coherent strategy. We need to come together as a global citizens movement (GCM)—a polycentric ecology of associations under a canopy of common purpose.

The urgent task is to bring this critical social actor, now waiting in the wings, to the center of the global stage. But how? The new GTI Forum, asking What’s Next for the Global Movement?, examines possible next steps toward crystallizing a GCM. Our panel of strategists offers rich food for thought and bold agendas for action.

Carry it on,

Paul Raskin
GTI Director

Visit us at www.greattransition.org