Towards a Generic Global Issue Statement: Template (original) (raw)
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Towards a Generic Global Issue Statement
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Introduction
As explained in a separate document (Towards a Generic Global Issue Statement: evoking an instructive pattern of unquestionable responses, 2009), the text which follows is the result of an experiment in deriving a generic template for the articulation of controversial issues.
The text which follows is derived from the statement by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran on the occasion of the UN Durban Review Conference on Racism and Racial Discrimination (Geneva, 21 April 2009). Terms in the contents of that statement, as detailed in the separate explanation, have been colour coded according to the system below. In that form they are presented in a separate colour coded version of the original statement.
Those colour coded terms have been replaced in what follows here by generic terms -- identified as the headers below. Potentially, in an interactive mode, this would then allow users to select preferred terms -- notably for problematic issues other than racism. The document could then be "refreshed" with the terms selected by the user. This phase has not yet been activated -- although the original colour coded version indicates how it might appear for one such set of choices.
Any reservations regarding this methodology are provided in the separate explanation. This includes comments on the source document for this experiment, namely the statement by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran.
| Colour coding of references in statement text (below) | Indicative options (menus) |
|---|---|
| Transcendental appeal framework (and exemplars) | 1 |
| Values reference with goals justifying any remedial action taken | 2 |
| Conference reference title of event focusing on the problematic issue | 3 |
| Problematic issue it is desirable to eliminate in light of values | 4 |
| Problematic constituency viewed as primarily sustaining the problematic issue | 5 |
| Complicit forces in sustaining the problematic issue | 6 |
| Problematic actions associated with sustaining problematic issue | 7 |
| Pretext reference as rationale for sustaining problematic actions | 8 |
| Exemplary victims of problematic issue and associated actions | 9 |
| Problematic consequences of sustaining problematic actions | ? |
| ? |