GTC’s program is designed to address the conceptual, unity, and participation impediments to the emergence of a global citizens movement. Our activities fall into three corresponding areas: vision, collaboration, and mobilization. These are mutually reinforcing aspects of a holistic strategy for enhancing the coherence and impact of a growing movement for systemic change.
Vision
Building on three decades of research and dialogue, GTC convenes scholars and practitioners to provide collective responses to core questions about the future.
- Where are we going? Investigating the state of the future in light of structural trends, critical world developments, and the evolution of the global movement.
- Where do we want to go? Elaborating the broad contours of visions of another world compatible with GT principles and consistent with quantitative simulations of social-ecological dynamics and planetary limits.
- How do we get there? Examining ways transformative system change might emerge and play out, the role of key actors, the character of a GCM, and priority actions.
Collaboration
GTC fosters trust, synergy, and strategic alignment among issue-oriented and place-based activists and organizations.
- Great Transition Network: Expanding and diversifying our network of scholars and change agents.
- Strategic nodes: Convening major civil society actors from key sectors and regions to foster consensus on vision and strategy with the aim of enhancing collective impact on policy.
- Alliance building: Engaging with other systemic change initiatives to nurture mutual trust, alignment, and support.
Mobilization
GTC raises public awareness of the urgent need for a transformative shift and amplifies pragmatic visions of a hopeful future.
- Outreach material: Creating multi-platform content for reaching and energizing concerned citizens everywhere.
- Communication: Mounting outreach campaigns to raise public awareness and increase civic engagement.
- Leadership development: Creating educational material and web-based support for promising change agents; supporting proposals to establish new strategic nodes.
