Interim Structure (#9 below) has already been put into operation (with establishment in Costa Rica of the Interim Leadership Council) and being refined with experience as we go.

Further Definitions

1. Bills, law stuff, lobbying
• International lobbying UN etc. regional organizations
• info to new country campaign on bills, campaigns in other countries
2. Education / Teaching / Academy / BePeace
• Database of all kinds of Peace workshops / Training
• Promoting and developing Peace Academies / providing material
3. Multicultural diversity resource bank
• How to approach different cultures and communicate with them
• Learning / ideas from others cultures
4. Science and Research
• Researching “world-view shifts”. Root cause prevention
• Peace methods like “Global Coherence Project” www.glcoherence.org
5. Key Alliances & Fundraising
• Building strategic relationships
• Fundraising methods and actual fundraising
6. Integration and Intention
• Budget, strategic intention / direction, holding the whole

The 7 + 6 seats

• The person in the council are invited to form a “group of interest” and thereby the “spokesperson” of the group.
• It is strongly recommended for the efficiency and continuity of the council, that it is the same person, who attended the meetings.

In effect, the major outcome of this group was the production of what became to be called the Interim Leadership Council (ILC). This showed a remarkable convergence with the group meeting on the more permanent structure (Birger’s group) and we then merged our results. The flip-charts from group 9 show a schematic that was refined in collaboration with Birger’s group and that became the ILC. The chart proposes representation from 6 global regions and all critical functions, some of them merged.

Around the chart are some keywords on vision and process. We proposed:

1. Meetings by teleconference or by using a virtual office software allowing for visual contact, retrieval and review of documents, etc.
2. Paid part-time secretary to manage Secretariat
3. Separate meetings for functional areas with reports to the ILC who, in turn, reports to the field.
4. Consensus (to be defined) would be the decision-making model with rotating meeting facilitation
5. Periodic newsletters to the field
6. Opportunities for alternates for each position on the ILC
7. Opportunities for new membership on the ILC by those not at the Summit.

The first ILC teleconference is October 13, 2009.

Submitted by Saul Arbess