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This is the sixth forum in a special discussion series entitledThe World We Want, which focuses on the search for real solutions that will lead to a better world. Participants explore the following questions:

Is there a new "open source'"approach to solving social dilemmas? How are cooperation, collaboration and whole-systems partnerships changing the paradigm of social action? How can big visionary ideas like this one be made concrete?

We all dream of a world without conflict and massive inequity, of ideologues that admit other ways of thinking than their own, of analysis and criticism that puts forward solutions, of policies that propose bolder answers to the world's great problems, some of them planet-threatening. We look for answers, for ideas, and for real solutions that will lead to a better world. We want to be part of that world, and this program is an expression of those aspirations.

The World We Want is also the title of a new book by Peter Karoff, which picks up where his previous book, Just Money: A Critique of Contemporary American Philanthropy ends. It draws on the collective wisdom and experience of creative philanthropists, social entrepreneurs, activists, and others who have thought about ways to promote the public good; the doers, the change makers, the innovators and the catalysts for social action in society.