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Aug 2004.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Since thought about the future can not help but enter into our planning of policy, the International relations community should make it an aim to help systematize these thoughts. One way of doing this is by developing a methodology for scenario building. Much extant work on scenario planning shares a key weakness that is well known in traditional socioeconomic planning, namely a tendency to reify current trends. In order to break with this tendency, this article sets out an approach that we call perspectivist scenario building. We also try to illustrate the points made and demonstrate the value added for planners by reflecting in our own experience in participation-oriented scenario work with Norwegian bureaucratsand politician in the framework of a broad-scoped national scenario project for the Norwegian government inthe period between 1998and 2001, called Norway 2030.
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