Gulen Movement and global issues: In what way does the world 'need' a movement like the Gülen Movement?

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In what way does the world 'need' a movement like the Gülen Movement?

The circumstances in which we live today necessitate a far better educated, fairer and more peaceful world and the co-operation of civilizations.

The Gülen Movement makes continual investment and conducts a continual search for individual and institutional improvement and development. It works by consensual decision making, rotation of chairmanships in managerial positions, and supervision and inspection of SMOs by boards. It pays due attention to expertise and good counsel. Its participants come together to build and maintain effective and efficient SMOs that meet local needs in many different societies worldwide.

The world seems likely to continue to need human efforts like those of the Gülen Movement. Fethullah Gülen’s thought, which inspires the work of the Gülen Movement, offers intellectual and spiritual resources that help people to meet the challenges of living in the modern world.

Does the Gülen Movement claim to deliver overall transformation in systemic or global issues?

The Gülen Movement does not advance an unrealistic claim to deliver overall transformation in systemic or global issues.

However, its collective action responds, and offers workable solutions, to the local problems and issues which arise from systemic inefficiencies and global concerns. The self-reflexive capacity, competence and efficiency of the Movement give the Gülen Movement the potential to address and tackle the problems of modernity. The Movement helps to formulate solutions at the level of individual autonomy. This potential and autonomy prepare individuals for peaceful development and healthy integration into the contemporary era.

Contemporary societies are complex and change in them can only be managed by education, information, interaction and co-operation. Very little, if anything at all, can be achieved by unilateral action, coercive application of force and the wasting of human life either by bloodshed in war or by economic strangulation. Beneficial and sustainable change entails decisions, choices, accord and co-operation within and between societies and civilizations. In this way only consensually valued projects and policies are achieved. Person by person, project by project, the Gülen Movement is working towards beneficial and sustainable change.

Is the Gülen Movement hiding an intention to make an overall, sudden change in people and/or in the direction of the development of projects?

The Movement does not envisage or intend an overall, sudden change in people and/or in the direction of the development of projects.

The intention is to educate people with patience and dedication over time in order to enable them, in peace, to manage the complexity and plurality they have to deal with.

Decision-making in service-networks is neither centralized nor invisible. Project development decisions are not taken by specific individuals or private groups. As people are allowed to intervene in the decision-making, the process is participatory, and the existence of concealed intent to make sudden changes is not feasible or credible.