Partnership in Action


Art work by Jane Evershed (www.evershed.com)

The Center for
Partnership Studies
P.O. Box 51936
Pacific Grove, CA 93950
USA
Phone 831-626-1004
Fax 831-626-3734
 center@partnershipway.org

 

 

"To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order;
to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order;
to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life;
we must first set our hearts right."

Confucius

The Power of Partnership Politics

Partnership offers a new and often radical approach to the way we look at politics and economics. When we learn to recognize our erroneous assumptions and free ourselves from outmoded and blatantly wrong ways of looking at these pivotal subjects, we suddenly see clearly how politics and economics can be reshaped to better serve our needs. As Riane Eisler points out, social systems such as politics and economics are human inventions and human inventions are subject to change.

The tragic events of September 11 have shown us just how important and inevitable change is. Today with our community becoming a global one, we can no longer consider our politics, economics or social systems in a vacuum. We must work to move all the world in a Partnership direction. For steps in this direction see our article, The School for Violence.

Dr. Eisler has written extensively on these topics throughout her career. Here are a few of her offerings.

What Progressives Can Learn from Regressives

THE CARING FAMILY POLICY AGENDA

The Urgent Need to Reframe and Rethink a Progressive Family Policy Agenda

The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future
This book offers a look at the history of all human social inventions including politics and economics through the lens of the partnership- dominator continuum and offers us a better option for our future.

Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth and the Politics of the Body
As Dr. Eisler points out, politics and economics are deeply entwined in all our cultural ideas and cannot be separated from even our most intimate relationships, for it is there that we learn how to relate to the rest of humanity.

Women, Men, and the Global Quality of Life
This CPS study of 89 countries dramatically reveals the connection between women's rights and a better quality of life for both men and women. It points to policies needed for a partnership future.

 

Partnership Economics

The Alliance for a Caring Economy (ACE) is the newest CPS initiative. A network to develop the foundations for a caring partnership economics is being formed with representatives from government, business, civil society, and academic sectors, including faculty and graduate students at the Case Western Management School, the University of Michigan, and the Bainbridge Graduate Institute.

Economic rules, measures, and policies that recognize the real value of the essential work of caring for children and the elderly, keeping our families healthy, and maintaining a clean and healthy environment, are foundational to the construction of an economics that can meet the challenges we face. These economic inventions will lead to the higher valuing of caring and caretaking in our homes, schools, and workplaces, as well as to the more caring economic and social policies needed to move toward a more equitable, sustainable, and prosperous world.

The technological shift to a postindustrial economy offers an opportunity to reexamine and redefine what is productive work. It opens the door to identifying, developing, promoting, and testing economic inventions that recognize and reward the value of caring and caregiving work in both the market and nonmarket sectors of the economy, whether done by women or men.

To learn more visit our Alliance for a Caring Economy page.
 

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