From Systemic Incoherence to Global Life Coherence: A Life-Value Onto-Axiological Critique of International Institutions and Pathways to Regenerative Governance | ChatGPT4o

This white paper offers a comprehensive critique of five major international institutions — the United Nations (UN), International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, World Trade Organization (WTO), and World Health Organization (WHO) — through the lens of Life-Value Onto-Axiology (LVOA). By applying the Primary Axiom of Value, which defines value as that which enables the universalizable development of life capacities without depriving others of the same, the paper exposes the systemic life-incoherence embedded in institutional logics. It identifies five recurring meta-patterns of dysfunction — money-value supremacy, elite governance, siloization, epistemic reductionism, and crisis management without transformation — across all institutions examined. The paper then proposes a bold and necessary re-grounding of global governance based on regenerative principles, participatory sovereignty, and life-coherent metrics. A new global architecture is outlined, including the formation of a Regenerative Global Commons Council and the adoption of institutional life-value metrics. The work serves as both a rigorous philosophical critique and a practical framework for those seeking to co-create a civilization where life, not abstraction, is the measure of all value.

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Watch “Kofi Annan interviewed at the Graduate Institute” on YouTube

The Graduate Institute Geneva Published on Apr 19, 2018 12 April 2018 | Interviewed by Zeinab Badawi for the BBC’s HARDtalk programme, former UN Secretary General and Graduate Institute alumnus Kofi Annan discusses escalating tensions between the United States and Russia and the UN’s role in preventing conflict. Filmed at Maison de la Paix on… Read More