OPUS global report

On or about 8th January 2014, under the guidance and coordination of OPUS, Listening Posts aimed at providing a snapshot of the societal dynamics of each country at the dawn of 2014, were held in twenty seven different countries around the world.These were all reported in a similar format (see ‘Britain and the World at the Dawn of 2003’ in Organizational & Social Dynamics 3 (1): 165-169), researched and analysed by the authors, to produce this Global Report.

The authors self-defined their task as follows. To research and analyse the National Reports with a view to:
(a) Identify common themes arising within the twenty seven reports;
(b) Explore relationships between themes and to reduce these down to major or dominant themes;
(c) Collate supporting information from the reports for analysis of these themes; and
(d) Formulate hypotheses arising there from.

For the sake of brevity this report will only document the major interrelated themes identified, followed by an analysis and hypotheses regarding each.