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Action Steps CONTEXT: Please see the “Initial Projects” page, Basic Data section Outline of IISCCIW's Initial Action Steps and Planning (Summary) In order to accomplish effectively the initiative's foundational planning and initial projects, the IISCCIW needs to continue to build its own organizational, scientific, and physical infrastructures, within the limits presented by the availability of appropriate financial and human resources. With this in mind, the following action steps need to be undertaken (organization-building steps first), so that the initiative can move beyond its "birth" phase--by the end of 2009, approximately. These steps need to be implemented (almost simultaneously and as soon as possible/feasible) in order to build the necessary grounds for developing the needed processes and tools for the IISCCIW's initial two projects (information-gathering/survey and global brainstorming) including: - Planning for and securing "seed funding" from appropriate sources (given our initiative's unique sensitivities and vulnerabilities) for the IISCCIW's "birth phase" activities, roughly projected to become initially operational by the end of 2009; while, also ensuring transparency and accountability, both in planning and also operationally. - Based on the planning grounds prepared already (including the significant international academic relationships built), steps need to be taken to actually operationalize the IISCCIW's first 2 university “bases” in the U.S. and in Iran—More on this in the “Organization” page of this website. - Related to this and as soon as possible, the process of obtaining and organizing the IISCCIW's initial offices (including space, equipment, support staff, etc. — initially part-time) both in the U.S. and in Iran needs to get under way, requiring at least one more trip to Tehran by the project's founder/director (this writer) to build on the work started in his trip last year; so that the project can begin to be further solidified, and also it can begin to be publicized, as appropriate, nationally, regionally, and internationally. - Almost simultaneously, planning (and preliminary pursuit) needs to commence, in order to establish the IISCCIW's next round of university bases in the Islamic world (in appropriate universities, initially for example, in Egypt, Indonesia, India, and South Africa), including the building of further academic/organizational contacts, relationships, and initial collaborations, and also undertaking the needed trips to the respective countries for such “base-preparation” purposes. - Additional required experts and significant actors/policy-players need to be identified, and then contacted appropriately (establishing immediate and longer-term relationships), for the purpose of eliciting their brainstorming, and information-gathering/survey views and inputs, and also to build sustained cooperation in the longer-term. - To make the IISCCIW's information-gathering/survey project easier to begin concretely, this aspect of the work would be implemented country-specifically, using as a starting point the nation-states listed as members of the Islamic Conference Organization (ICO); while with respect to the regions of the world with impact-significant minority Islamic populations, this survey and review would be done still with the help of respective governments, but also with the assistance of appropriate educational institutions and NGOs, as well as all other proper and public sources of relevant information and data. - Planning and initial steps need to start, in order to develop the appropriate tools (and events/processes) needed for our initiative's two initial projects: brainstorming and information-gathering/survey, including: a) An adequate initial data base of information and communication, in conjunction with the much further development of the initiative's web page [beyond its present initial, very rudimentary, Internet launch in early June 2008 herein—its contents authored by the IISCCIW's founder, namely this writer], toward gradually developing a comprehensive resource bank of information and data online; b) An initial "policies and procedures manual" for the organization, its initial 2 projects, and eventually for its 4 pillars; c) Appropriate initial brainstorming questionnaires, protocols, and forms (in English and other languages) as needed; d) At least 3 information-gathering/survey questionnaires of various lengths and topics (short, mid-size, and long), with processing/analyzing procedures; e) Numerous culturally and spiritually appropriate brainstorming conversations and interviews with significant experts; and, f) A number of small and focused interdisciplinary gatherings of expert persons and teams, guided by a select group of appropriate initial "advisors" to the IISCCIW—please see the “Who we are” page of this website. - We need to conduct periodic synthesizing of gathered perspectives, suggestions, and feedbacks (for both of the IISCCIW's initial 2 projects) from relevant experts and players around the world, to then be turned into the initiative's “progress reports.” Longer-Term Planning and Activities (summary)
a) Proposing, assisting, coordinating, and conducting major and smaller research projects and scientific collaborations (international, regional, and country-specific) in all needed fields [interdisciplinary, when appropriate; and also please see the section on our pillars and components], as needed and possible. b) Planning and conducting further international, regional, and country-specific conferences and seminars (interdisciplinary, as appropriate) beyond the project’s initial planning phases, as needed, proper, and possible/feasible, in conjunction with and/or in addition to the following application-level measures [please see the “pillar details” section of this website for for further context], short-term, mid-term, and beyond: - Policy development and policy implementation work, at many levels, involving direct and indirect discourses with various national and international actors, namely, the UN, governments, NGOs, corporations, and other policy-significant religious, cultural, political, and economic actors. - Extensive EFFECTIVE communication, public awareness, and MEDIA work, as needed and possible/feasible, nationally, regionally, and internationally. - People-to-people and group-to-group connections and work, as possible/feasible, to reduce tensions, build trust, further dialogue, manage conflicts, and engender active cooperation (at all theoretical and applied levels) especially at the grass-roots level, among the Islamic world's diverse populations of our interdependent planet.
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