Regions
🌐Cross-border mistrust; competition over shared resources.
The Regions category is now charted, highlighting how long-standing mistrust and competition can persist through unchallenged mental models — and how regional resilience depends on co-creating new shared narratives and structures.
Cross-border mistrust among neighbouring countries
Assumption: “They will exploit us if we open up.”
Mental model dialogues can build a shared regional identity and trust.
Resource competition (e.g. water, energy)
Story: “If we share, we lose.”
Assumption: “If we cooperate, we become vulnerable. Security lies in control and advantage.”
Self-discipline: Surface historic fears and zero-sum assumptions; Practice mutual scenario-building for shared value creation.
Surfacing this opens space for cooperative resource governance.
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