Causal Layered Analysis
Description
"Causal Layered Analysis (abbreviated as CLA) is an approach and a technique used in foresight to shape the future more effectively. CLA may be used when debating all types of issues, collectively or individually. It works by identifying different levels of analysis to create coherent new futures. The four levels are core to CLA: the litany, the social/systemic causes, the discourse analysis that legitimizes and supports the worldview, and underpinning that worldview, the myth/metaphor deeply linked to culture and long-term history."
(http://www.metafuture.org/library1/2019/CLATOOLBOX2017FUTURIBLES.pdf)
Bio
of the founder of the methodology, i.e. Sohail Inayatullah:
- Currently the UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies at the Islamic Science University of
Malaysia (USIM), Sohail Inayatullah is a professor at Tamkang University (Taiwan) and at the Melbourne Business School (Australia). He is also an adjunct professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast (Australia) and a professorial fellow at the Centre for Strategy and Policy Studies (Brunei Darussalam). Professor Inayatullah has worked extensively with governments, international corporations, and non-governmental organizations around the globe. A CLA pioneer, Sohail Inayatullah has written and edited numerous books, special issues of journals, refereed journal articles, anthology chapters, and editorial pieces. He is also the director of Metafuture.org, an international futures think-tank."
(http://www.metafuture.org/library1/2019/CLATOOLBOX2017FUTURIBLES.pdf)
