Posted by: purpleslog | April 7, 2008

Actors Types For Conflict and Global Relations

Note: This is a revamps of an earlier post and is in preparation for a new post

All Global Actors are Networks (aka relationships sets) of humans:

SBN state-based network - states or super-state organizations

KBN Kin-based network - people driven by familiar or tribal ties

SEI super empowered individuals or networks of super empowered individuals

MBN meme-based network - people driven by shared beliefs such as religion, culture, political ideology)

GBN Gene-Based or Gene-Influenced Network (reference discussion)

PDN purpose-driven network - e.g. business enterprises, media outlets, NGOs, social entrepreneurial organization, charities, PMC/PSC/PIC

Also:

Mashups - The union of 2 or more actors of different types which I will note with the union operator e.g. MBNuSEI

Overlaps - The intersection of 2 or more actors of different types which I will note with the intersection operator e.g. MBNnSEI

Am I missing any fundamental type of actor here?

Responses

I am adding RLNs (Resource Linked Networks).

Before revisiting this:

- I have ordered and will read “Making Things Work: Solving Complex Problems in a Complex World”
by Yaneer Bar-Yam

- I have ordered and will read “The Exploit: A Theory of Networks” by Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker

- I will re-read CGWs network posts

- I will go through my social network books (The Tipping Point, Six Degrees, Linked, etc.)

- I will revisit Bobbit’s book on the state

Note: Maybe just change “network” to organization in order to simplify the concept.

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