About the Center for Modernity Planning and Assessment
The Center for Modernity Planning and Assessment (CenterMPA) was established in August 2017 by Salim Maloof to participate in the global dialogue of ideas and to examine questions concerning modernity, human behavior, governance, authority, international affairs, peace, human security, and the long-term consequences of political, economic, and social decisions.
The Center was founded on the premise that human beings have long relied on reason, philosophy, science, and other forms of knowledge to guide their decisions and improve their condition. Yet those who design political, economic, and regulatory systems cannot live indefinitely to observe all the consequences of the systems they create, the circumstances under which those systems may change, or the conditions under which their original purposes may no longer be served.
For this reason, CenterMPA examines the consequences of humanity’s continuing pursuit of modernization and the changes this pursuit may produce in regulatory systems, political and social relations, and the international order.
The Center also examines a fundamental political question: under what conditions can individuals voluntarily accept limitations on some aspects of their freedom in exchange for the protection of their remaining rights and the preservation of social and political order?
The Intellectual Framework of CenterMPA
CenterMPA’s work examines the relationships among human behavior, personal power, conscience, social relations, governance, authority, conflict, and human security.
A central concern of the Center is that political, economic, and social decisions may create consequences extending far beyond the immediate problems they were intended to address. Changes in governments, institutions, regulatory systems, and international arrangements can alter relationships among people and nations and may contribute either to greater stability or to deeper conflict and disorder.
The Center is also interested in the effects of humanity’s continuing reliance on individual and collective power in the preservation of global human security, including the development of class consciousness as people pursue their interests and seek to improve their condition.
These questions form part of the broader intellectual framework developed through CenterMPA Philosophy, the writings of Salim Maloof, and the Center’s other research and analytical work.
Salim Maloof and the Development of the Work
CenterMPA is presently directed and staffed by its founder, Salim Maloof.
His work brings together an academic background in scientific and engineering disciplines with more than three decades of professional experience liaising with governments, bilateral and multilateral donors, international financial institutions, and organizations within the United Nations system.
His academic studies and research contributed to his interest in complex systems, biological processes, human behavior, and the relationships among different components within a system.
In 1991, he returned to the Polytechnic Institute to continue his doctoral studies in environmental engineering, with a focus on the control of nutrients and biological matter within biological processes. He completed all course requirements for the degree but, in the course of his studies, came to realize that his deeper interests lay in understanding the behavior and dynamics of physical matter.
He then began exploring the possibility of developing a mathematical relationship that he believed was implicated in multidimensional nonlinear dynamics, chaos, and fluid-fracture problems. This led him to study fluid morphology and other complex fluid-dynamic processes that had not been fully quantified.
This exploration contributed to his subsequent interest in examining whether mathematical relationships might also help illuminate questions concerning human behavior, social relations, and global human security.
His subsequent academic and professional experience contributed to a broader investigation into the relationships that may prevent humanity from establishing and preserving political, social, and ethical systems capable of maintaining stability while accommodating the continuing pursuit of human progress.
The Global Human Security Problem
An important part of this investigation led Salim Maloof to develop the Mathematical Construct of the Global Human Security Problem.
The work, developed between 2002 and 2005, represents an effort to examine, through a mathematical and analytical framework, relationships among human progress, crises, conflict, and global human security.
In the original presentation of the work, Maloof argued that the pursuit of progress may generate crises and conflicts and that crises and conflicts may, in turn, influence the conditions under which further progress takes place.
The Center invites scholars, mathematicians, philosophers, and other readers to examine the work, its mathematical structure, its reasoning, and the questions it raises, and to reach their own conclusions.
The Original Presentation — 2005
The original 2005 presentation remains available as the historical record of the work as it was originally presented.
The Theory Revisited — 2026
A revised and updated presentation is being prepared to provide contemporary readers with a clearer introduction to the theory, its mathematical structure, and the questions it seeks to address.
The 2026 presentation is not intended to replace the original work. The 2005 presentation remains the historical primary document, while the revised presentation provides an updated opportunity to examine the theory and the questions it continues to raise.
Applications and Proposals
The work developed through CenterMPA does not consist only of philosophical inquiry or theoretical analysis.
Salim Maloof’s research and writings have also led to applications and proposals intended to examine how broader questions concerning governance, institutional authority, accountability, human security, and international order may be addressed in specific contemporary circumstances.
These applications and proposals represent attempts to apply and test questions arising from the broader intellectual framework of the Center, the Mathematical Construct of the Global Human Security Problem, and subsequent writings.
One example is the Proposal for a United Nations Corruption Index, which examines questions concerning institutional authority, accountability, access to remedies, and the independent examination of international organizations.
The Purpose of the Center
CenterMPA publishes analyses, syntheses, books, papers, articles, proposals, and other work in order to invite examination and discussion of the questions it raises.
The Center does not ask readers, prospective clients, or critics to accept its arguments without examination. It invites them to study the reasoning presented and to determine for themselves whether the work provides useful perspectives for understanding their own concerns and objectives.
The Center also offers specialized advisory, teaching, and training services to selected clients whose interests and responsibilities involve questions related to intellectual, political, and cultural development, governance, international affairs, human security, and the long-term consequences of decision-making.
The purpose of presenting Salim Maloof’s academic background, professional experience, writings, theory, and proposals together is to provide prospective clients with the information they need to judge whether the specialized services offered by the Center are credible and suited to their needs.
Further Work
Readers are invited to explore Salim Maloof’s continuing work through the Center’s collections of:
Books · Short Books · Papers · Articles · Applications and Proposals