Over the ages humans have recognised problems they face, and have devised and implemented solutions and strategies to overcome them. But what was the problem and logic behind these strategies, how were they implemented, and what were their outcomes - positive or negative, deliberate or unintended? The Global Strategies and Solutions section of the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is an ongoing attempt to record and map the relationships between any strategies and solutions that humanity actually or potentially uses, in the hopes that a better overall understanding of which would greatly enhance our ability to formulate effective strategies to global problems.
The Global Strategies and Solutions section details this problem and over 32,000 others and the 280,000 relationships between them - from Awarding prizes, Breaking down cultural isolation and Campaigning, to Wishing and Using witchcraft. The strategies presented are those recognized by over 69,000 international organizations including IGOs, NGOs and other bodies (profiled in the Yearbook of International Organizations). Some strategies may be recognized by many organizations, others may only be recognized by loose networks, movements or isolated groups of experts.
| Strategy | Strategy Type |
|---|---|
| Promoting employee responsibility | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Preserving human resources | E: Emanations of other strategies |
| Developing criteria for resource recycling operations | E: Emanations of other strategies |
| Printing colourful community folklore | J: Unconfirmed strategies |
| Creating youth demonstration schools | D: Detailed strategies |
| Preventing salt water floods | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Banning inhumane and indiscriminate weapons | E: Emanations of other strategies |
| Guiding | A: Abstract fundamental strategies |
| Exposing communications scandals | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Networking groups | K: Provisional strategies |
| Demilitarizing international society | D: Detailed strategies |
| Accommodating varied social activities | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Creating cultural montage | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Differentiation | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Saddening | A: Abstract fundamental strategies |
| Establishing resource bank | E: Emanations of other strategies |
| Alienating religious minorities | J: Unconfirmed strategies |
| Industrializing conflicts | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Ensuring accountability | D: Detailed strategies |
| Enriching corporate activity | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Relieving understaffing | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Showing courage | F: Exceptional strategies |
| Distrusting professional services | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Promoting celebrities | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Encouraging hunting | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Surveying employment structures | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Standardizing trade practices | E: Emanations of other strategies |
| Mapping soils | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Integrating marine monitoring programmes | F: Exceptional strategies |
| Monitoring food quality | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Romanticizing communal life | F: Exceptional strategies |
| Promoting ceramic art | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Being considerate | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Finding | A: Abstract fundamental strategies |
| Developing biochemistry | D: Detailed strategies |
| Enabling community response | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Promoting indigenous development | D: Detailed strategies |
| Making covenants for life | J: Unconfirmed strategies |
| Developing programming promotion | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Promising-Contracting | P: Strategy polarities |
| Homogenizing-Diversifying | P: Strategy polarities |
| Listing important town data | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Increasing water storage capacity | E: Emanations of other strategies |
| Organizing co-operative preschool structures | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Insisting on objectification of inner experiences | J: Unconfirmed strategies |
| Sharing christian experience | D: Detailed strategies |
| Educating adults | D: Detailed strategies |
| Concealing evidence | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Meeting women | G: Very Specific strategies |
| Appealing unjust dismissal of workers | J: Unconfirmed strategies |