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On or about 7th January 2009, under the guidance and coordination of OPUS, Listening Posts, aimed at providing a snapshot of the societal dynamics of each country at the dawn of 2009, were held in twenty-six different countries around the world (Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy (two reports), Peru, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, South Africa (two reports), Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the USA and the 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-eight reports;
exploring relationships between themes and reducing these down to major or dominant themes;
collating supporting information from the reports for the 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.