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Human Development
Human Development is a central problem and strategy of alternative anthropology, and constitutes the basis for the rise of alternative systems capable of successfully managing the global imperative.
The problem of human development is the reality of human underdevelopment and the systematic frustration of human potential through exclusion, obfuscation of information, and denial of screens of opportunity and access to critical resources necessary for human development to proceed. This is directly related to the problem of structurally embedded and reinforced assymmetry in resource distribution.
The strategy of human development represents the systematic attempt to devise coherent and integrated means for the realization of greater human potential, through the promotion of education, systems of work and production, effective anti-structural systems, systems of habitation and human ecological adaptation, and systems of integration and conflict mediation.
Human development carries on upon multiple levels simultaneously, both within the lifeworld of the individual human being, and at different levels and strata of human society. The stratification of human society is dramatically changing in terms of its profile and social topography, and has been under continuous change deep into human prehistory. If we take any accurate and detailed historical Atlas, we will notice over time constantly shifting boundaries and ethnocultural groupings and identities. This is true of any region we come to understand in the world.
It is important in the implementation of human development systems to operate and attempt to articulate alternative systems upon multiple levels of integration. One of the main objectives here is the provisioning of auxiliary and supplemental contexts that are viable and productive for the cultivation of alternative human development. These context must be seen as empowering and enabling of people at both individual and social levels, providing resource bases, educational frameworks and the know-how to begin articulating new systems and to bring greater human potentials to realization.
The links to the primary portals of this framework are found below:
