Yesterday’s Post #21, “Problem Solving for Social Evolution,” provides an introduction to social planners of emerging and developing democracies. Using this problem solving technique, based on the three values of social sustainability, will consciously shorten the time needed to develop mature and stable democracies.

After a democratic government has been put into place it is time for social planners to formulate an intention for the long term development of their new democratic society, government and economic/financial sectors. Because social sustainability provides the longest lived vision for any democratic society, social planning must take into account the development of sustainable families, who will eventually provide society with middle class entrepreneurs and social leaders. Planning a sustainable society, government and economy is primarily concerned about embedding the three core values into all organizations so that the nation has a future that is continuing, without internal interruptions. Call it sustainable progress, because that is what it is.

In the early stages of developing a democratic government and society, it is vitally important that social and political planners clearly state their intentions for developing such a society and government. In the first place, it is immediately understood that the political and social rights of citizens must be firmly grounded in the constitution. This will provide the essential foundation for the development of a society that is moving toward stability and social sustainability.

That may sound as though the establishment of individual political rights is “taken for granted.” It isn’t, but planners must ask, “Then what? What will we develop once those political rights are established in our democracy? What is the continuing intention for our nation and societies? Is it to grow and mature so that we can eliminate internal social, political and economic dissension?” Answering that will require using the three core values of social sustainability to design social, political and economic/financial organizations that contribute to the stability and sustainability of that nation.

“It is by the decisions of individuals that our species will be improved or decline. It is by the decisions of organizations that our societies, nations and civilization will be sustained or fail.” Please see the illustration in Post #5. This shows the relationship of organizations to societies, as the cause of societal sustainability or failure.