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So far most of the means for the domination of a conflict have been directed towards the total domination of the enemy and in particular towards taking the initiative over him. By combining the works of Idries Shah and Francisco Varela we suggest here to add to this conventional dimension of strategy a rather non conventional one consisting in the modeling of conflicts as autonomous entities which can be targeted and destroyed. Domination and the taking of strategic initiative then require not only the capacity to destroy enemy forces but also the unconditional capacity to destroy any declared conflict. In conclusion we suggest that such a war against war be federated by William Jame's “moral equivalent of war” along with the psychology of a total resistance in the sense of Hans von Bach.
Keywords: Stratégie, Intelligence Économique, systèmes de systèmes (SdS), Aide à la décision, Knowledge Management, Théorie des jeux, Dissuasion, Résistance totale, Guerre asymétrique, Sciences de la Paix
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Native languages in Canada are closely tied to memory and territory. Their weakening or disappearance, along with the decrease of the oral transmission of knowledge, has therefore directly impacted the set of semiotic and epistemological codes on which cultures rest. Split between their language of origin and the country's majority languages, and lacking any political or legislative leverage, communities have progressively lost their means to self-fulfillment. In the Canadian linguistic divide, French-speaking Native communities have found themselves doubly marginalized. Today, artistic creations play a crucial role in the renewal of movements focused on transmission, mediation, and dialogue; they make the unspoken visible and open up new possibilities of expression. For the artists, speaking the language and referring to its reality is an act through which the collective imagination is reclaimed and a spatial and historical anchoring is reactivated. The contributors to this journal's latest and decidedly polemical section examine these realities and lift the veil on certain lines of thought that have been ignored or too quickly discarded.
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The question of the purposives of education, although universal, is still temporal. Whatever the wording, the questions of “Who” (what type of person) do we want to train? “Why?” “For what?” cannot be ignored once we refer to “leading” someone towards something, but the answers varied according to the societies that asked them. The contemporary reflection on the “Who” to train requires an examination of the world in which we live, beyond the simple reiteration of slogans that accompany the phenomenon of globalization, gimmicks or the knowledge economy. The complexity of the world today makes a multi-facetted examination necessary, allowing us to understand our reality. The joining of economic, political, geopolitical, sociological and anthropological points of view, as well as those of technology and epistemology, is needed to excavate the zones of shadow and light of the “New World”. At the end of this examination, it is proposed that the purpose of education be to teach understanding and relating, calling both on reason and sensitivity, on the sensible and the felt, which allow Man to rediscover meaning as the place of his unity.
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Keywords: Municipalisme, Écologie, Éducation