The Encyclopedia
of World Problems
& Human Potential

Monopoly of competence for intervention in the future

Name(s):

Monopoly of knowledge to predict the future

Claim

Leaders tend to endeavour to maintain a monopoly of power over directing the future of their people, endeavouring to inspire their followers to accept a view of a perfect world which awaits them, whilst ensuring that the people remain totally dependent on the leadership to get them there. Leaders, especially autocratic leaders, reveal to their followers not more than the immediate next step in any changes towards the better society. The leaders are thus free to propose any course of action as being part of the unrevealed plan required to achieve the ends which all are agreed are desirable.

Broader

Monopolization of knowledge

Aggravates

Temporal deprivation ^{[in 3 loops]}

Manipulative knowledge

Inadequacy of available knowledge for articulation of appropriate policies

Aggravated by

Political dictatorship

Strategy(ies)

Projecting vision into social process

Operating a monopoly

Strengthening competence for intervention in the future

Limiting competence for intervention in the future

Value(s)

Type

(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems

About the Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, the Encyclopedia is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.

The initial content for the Encyclopedia was seeded from UIA’s Yearbook of International Organizations. UIA’s decades of collected data on the enormous variety of association life provided a broad initial perspective on the myriad problems of humanity. Recognizing that international associations are generally confronting world problems and developing action strategies based on particular values, the initial content was based on the descriptions, aims, titles and profiles of international associations.

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The Union of International Associations (UIA) is a research institute and documentation centre, based in Brussels. It was established in 1907, by Henri la Fontaine (Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1913), and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science.

Non-profit, apolitical, independent, and non-governmental in nature, the UIA has been a pioneer in the research, monitoring and provision of information on international organizations, international associations and their global challenges since 1907.

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