The Center for Modernity Planning and Assessment examines the long-term consequences of political, economic, and social decisions on human societies, governments, and the international order.

Its work is based on the view that human societies are continuously shaped by relationships among individuals, social groups, governments, institutions, and other actors. Changes in these relationships may produce consequences that are not immediately apparent when political or economic decisions are first made.

CenterMPA is particularly interested in the relationship between modernity, governance, authority, human behavior, social relations, conflict, and human security.

Governance and Human Relations

The Center examines the conditions under which people accept authority, cooperate with one another, or enter into political and social conflict.

It is concerned with the possibility that decisions intended to solve immediate problems may, over time, alter relationships among individuals, institutions, and governments in ways that increase complexity and instability.

For this reason, CenterMPA examines not only the objectives of political, economic, and social policies, but also their possible long-term consequences.

The Postwar International Order

A significant part of the Center’s work concerns the international order that emerged following the Second World War.

In Salim Maloof’s analysis, the principles and arrangements established during the postwar period sought to provide a framework through which nations could organize their relations and reduce the risk of renewed global conflict.

The Center examines subsequent changes in the relationships among governments, international institutions, and other legal entities, and asks whether these developments have strengthened the international order or introduced additional layers of authority and governance that may contribute to increasing instability.

The Center does not ask readers to accept this analysis without examination. Its purpose is to present the arguments and invite readers to examine the historical, political, and theoretical reasoning for themselves.

Human Progress and Stability

CenterMPA also examines the conditions necessary for preserving human progress.

Human knowledge, institutions, infrastructure, and material achievements have accumulated over generations. The destruction produced by large-scale conflict can therefore represent not only a loss of human life, but also a reversal of accumulated human progress.

The Center is consequently interested in understanding the conditions under which political and social conflict can be prevented or managed before it develops into destructive instability.

From Philosophy to Analysis

The philosophical questions examined by CenterMPA are connected to the work of its founder, Salim Maloof, including the Mathematical Construct of the Global Human Security Problem, developed between 2002 and 2005.

The mathematical work represents an effort to examine some of these questions through a different analytical framework.

CenterMPA’s subsequent books, papers, articles, and other writings continue to explore the questions of modernity, governance, human behavior, international order, conflict, human security, wealth, power, and human progress.

The purpose is not to provide final answers without examination, but to create a basis for thoughtful debate and principled dialogue.