CIAO DATE: 10/2010
September 2010
his report is intended to catalyse debate on current approaches to tackling a wide range of challenges - including global poverty, climate change and biodiversity loss. Whatever the success of civil society organisations in beginning to address such challenges, these often seem to be intractable or worsening. Throughout this report such challenges are referred to, collectively, as ‘bigger-than-self' problems. This is to distinguish them from another class of problem: one that it is clearly in an individual's immediate self-interest to invest energy and resources in helping to tackle (for example, an insensitive development in their neighbourhood).
Resource link: Common Cause: The case for working with our cultural values [PDF] - 1.1M