Policy needs to be grounded upon an uplifting and positive conception of human nature, which stresses the goodness of man, and which attempts to bring about outcomes that improve the quality of human experience and communal life.
"What America should do," a prominent businessman told me, "is shift the conversation from sanctions to engagement, from scolding to giving, and find soft steps to help bring about outcomes that will be beneficial to both Myanmar and the U.S".
It is more that there are sociological or environmental factors weighing on professionals, which encourage them to use assessments to bring about outcomes that are good for the system as a whole rather than being good for the individuals concerned.
In the literature on human resource management (HRM) interventions to improve health workers' performance in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC), hardly any attention has been paid to the question how HRM interventions might bring about outcomes and in which contexts.
Divorce is difficult and will continue to be so for quite some time, but out of this life challenge it also brings about outcomes you may not have thought possible.
The interaction among the contributing factors to import surges often brings about outcomes that are different from the effect of each individual factor.
First, such a view is likely to define just one optimal outcome for people's actions; people's failing to bring about this outcome would then have to count as harming others.
The second point is that having an outcome as an implicit and/or latent collective end is not equivalent to individually explicitly intending to bring about that outcome.
Given that principle, each party believes it has an obligation to make whatever arguments are most likely to bring about that outcome.
The road map for peace, the international plan to bring about this outcome, has become an irrelevance in the broader dynamic of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
