ABSTRACT
A name that recurs frequently throughout this book is that of Greenpeace. Alongside Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders and others, it is one of those international, “new social movements” that took root in the 1960s and 1970s. We begin this chapter with a description of the “case” of Greenpeace, its origins, and specificity. In the second section, we take a closer look at the growth of social movements in general, their emergence and shaping. In the third section, this growth will be related to the metaprinciple of self-organization, which has been elaborated on in recent years. This will complete our basic scheme. We have already discussed the role of permanent mutation and feedback loops in complex adaptive systems. In this part, we have outlined synergy formation, pattern emergence, and selforganization.
