Framing social change management in three movements: NGO formation, ethics of transfer, and an economic SOCS praxis for conflict resolution

Framing Social Change in Three Movements is an umbrella collation of praxes in the field of ethnonational conflict resolution. These papers advance the work of conflict resolution in specific ways. In the first paper, the sense of project ownership is created by the participants who had hitherto been in conflict. Two parties work their way from polarization to an ethic of responsibility for each other and conclude the conflict resolution process by forming a non-governmental organization to sustain their coexistence and continued collaboration. In this respect, seeking common ground occurs at the end of the process and not at the beginning.;The second paper provides a praxis for an ethical project transfer from third party facilitators to members of the fractured community so that the appropriation of agency and sustainability is maintained from the very beginning of the intervention to the very end. This second paper is a modified formal grounded theory. It is modified because it is bifurcated. One side provides the conceptual basis for this extension of formal grounded theory; the other side, the external field of reference that addresses a way of granting agency to a fractured community and allowing sustainability to evolve without colonizing them. In this respect, one side is phenomenological in philosophical orientation, the other side meta-ethnographic. The two sides come together to produce an ethic of project transfer from a third party to the indigenous people. In this approach to social change management, project transfer is not an addendum, but a vital part of an organic whole.;In the third paper, a SOCS model that considers the Situation, Options, Consequences and Simulation of the best option chosen has been deployed to link non-economic decision making to economic decision using observations of variations in human development in the face of such macroeconomic issues as external debt, corruption, economic freedom and rate of growth of GDP. Interdisciplinary conflict resolution teams that include development or transition economists can therefore have a frame to guide their respective but interdependent efforts in ethnonational conflict resolution. The SOCS decision model with a mathematical correlate is decisively a practitioner scholar's praxis and not part of a hypothesis-driven verification research intervention.