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On or about 9 January 2008, under the guidance and co-ordination of OPUS, Listening Posts aimed at providing a snapshot of the societal dynamics of each country at the dawn of 2008 were held in twenty-one different countries around the world (Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Holland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Serbia, South Africa (two Reports), Spain, Switzerland, USA, and UK). These were all reported in a similar format (see ‘Britain and the World at the Dawn of 2003’ in Organizational & Social Dynamics, 3(1): 165-169), researched and analysed by the authors to produce this Global Report.
The authors self-defined their task as follows. To research and analyse the National Reports with a view to:
identifying common themes arising within the twenty-one Reports;
exploring relationships between themes and reducing these down to major or dominant themes;
collating supporting information from the Reports for analysis of these themes; and
formulating hypotheses arising therefrom.
For the sake of brevity this Report will only document the major interrelated themes identified, followed by an analysis and hypotheses regarding each.