Three folding nicanor perlas biography

THE LANGUAGE OF A NEW TRI-POLAR WORLD

Nicanor Perlas (3) is a leading social activist originally based at the Centre for Alternative Development Initiatives in the Philippines, who has recently published, and has since 2011 been promoting (4) Mission Impossible: Sow Courage, Harvest a New World. As such he has taken the principles of the "Threefold Commonwealth", originally proposed by Rudolph Steiner in the 1920s, and adapted them for our contemporary times.

In the process he has established a Global Network for Social Threefolding.

Civil society for him then, understands that society as a whole has three realms: the economic, the political and the cultural. It realizes that it dwells in the cultural realm, the public sector occupies the political realm, and the private sector the economic one. It sees that it can wield cultural power to achieve its ends just as effectively as governments wield political and businesses yield economic power t