The problem and its solution

A. Crisis

We are now afflicted with a global crisis of sustainability.

B. Complication

We are further troubled by the prevailing compartmentalized division and narrowed vision of human scholarship.

C. Solution

It means that we are in need of a wider, non-reductionist yet robust intellectual lens to enable us effectively addressing the problems of unsustainability.

Method to bring about the solution

C. The creation of that intellectual capability

The research monograph titled ‘The Intellectual Structure of Sustainability’* produced this intellectual capability through the formation of the theory of integrated knowledge creation. This theory unearthed the foundation of the scholarship of sustainability as a new avenue of knowledge for effectively addressing the problems of unsustainability.

B. Knowledge, produced on these totalities

Hence, the provision of an effective intellectual treatment of sustainability would necessitate the creation of our intellectual capability for the production of sound knowledge on the totalities of the concerned things/realities.

A. Totalities of things/realities

The problems of unsustainability exist in the totalities of things/realities.

*A. M. M. Maruf Hossain. (2025). The Intellectual Structure of Sustainability. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle UK, https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-0364-4196-8

Mission, and areas of work

While the advancement of this new avenue of knowledge, i.e., the scholarship of sustainability forms a part of the mission of Center for Integrated Knowledge Invention (CIKI); CIKI, in aiming to effectively address the crisis of sustainability, undertakes activities in five areas that are vital for our quest to achieve sustainability:

  1. Research: To solve the problems of unsustainability through the exercise of the scholarship of sustainability

  2. Education: To design effective curricula regarding sustainability by remodeling the prevailing paradigm in light of the scholarship of sustainability, and the production of sustainability-related training modules for a variety of societal and industry-based needs

  3. Public participation: To promote mass ownership of ‘sustainability thinking’

  4. Commitment-to-action: To facilitate commitment-to-action at the public sphere

  5. Human development: To facilitate human development in areas pertinent to efficiency and cognitive-creative flourishment

The dissemination of new, effective knowledge in the following forms constitute a vital part of CIKI’s work in all five areas of its focus: