Agenda

Given today's panoply of technologies and gathering of resources, the aim is to start to understand participants' insights, ideas and opinions about the question: "Under which conditions should a supranational or international organisation (IO) be allowed to possess which operational power?".

"IO" in this context can be any organisation, structure or other decision-making entity that can gain a certain capability to assert results or outcomes against the will of those impacted. 

In order to tackle the question, we will open the conversation by breaking it down:

1. If an IO has either a structure that renders course correction impossible, or the capability to dry out all action and influence that takes another directionality than the IO's fundamental goal in the form in which it is manifested at a certain point in time and toward a certain audience, how does it prevent risk and damage onto itself?
2. How do/can individuals and communities enforce any rules against undesired impacts of such capabilities, any institutional design or blueprint tackling the prevention, detection, diagnosis, removal of related causal process, the mitigation of impacts, the redress of incurred impacts, justice, assurance of non-repetition, learnings out of each experience, application of the thus acquired knowledge and conservation of that knowledge?
3. Which combination and extents of which capabilities entail which generation of which risks to human functions and how do these impact decision makers?"

Said capabilities can be hard or soft operational capabilities.