How the Charter works
The Four Papers
Four papers carry the Charter into practice. Each one either understands or builds, in the Civic layer of institutions or the Mythos layer of meaning, and all four rest on the Charter.
Being rewrittenEach paper is being rewritten to match Draft 2. Earlier editions are not linked here because their roles differ.
Red Paper
See the divide
What is really driving this conflict?
Practiced at zynxlogic.com
Black Paper
Find common ground
What can every side check, and how will we decide?
Practiced at zynxsecs.org
White Paper
Teach the method
How does everyone learn these skills?
Practiced at zynx.online
Blue Paper
Renew together
What keeps cooperation alive across generations?
Practiced at leap-gras.com
Red Paper: See the divide
What is really driving this conflict?
- What it carries
- Diagnosis at three scales: the mind, the nation, and relations between nations. The Seven Questions of Conflict. Early-warning signs of escalation.
- What it must not do
- Presume any political or cultural perspective is defective.
- Practiced at
- zynxlogic.com
- Status
- Being rewritten for Draft 2
Black Paper: Find common ground
What can every side check, and how will we decide?
- What it carries
- Rules of evidence: shared measures, verification, evidence tiers. Rules of decision: triadic reasoning, Door C, staged commitments, periodic review.
- What it must not do
- Present a hypothesis or metaphor as fact, or assume a process is legitimate on its own.
- Practiced at
- zynxsecs.org
- Status
- Being rewritten for Draft 2
White Paper: Teach the method
How does everyone learn these skills?
- What it carries
- Reasoning and science literacy, τ and plain-text ASCII Physics, AI as a sparring partner, media literacy, de-escalation skills.
- What it must not do
- Teach what to think instead of how, or treat a convention as universal truth.
- Practiced at
- zynx.online
- Status
- Being rewritten for Draft 2
Blue Paper: Renew together
What keeps cooperation alive across generations?
- What it carries
- Leap Day and its local festivals, cultural literacy, shared human projects, rituals of recognition, many calendars side by side.
- What it must not do
- Confuse unity with cultural or ideological conformity.
- Practiced at
- leap-gras.com
- Status
- Being rewritten for Draft 2
One loop at two speeds
The four papers run as one loop: see the divide, find common ground, teach the method, renew together, then see again.
- Every four years: the Leap-Cycle
- Each year leads with one paper, and Leap Day closes the cycle with a public Epoch Report. Cycle I begins on Leap Day, February 29, 2028. The Leap-Cycle is how Zynx reviews itself in public; other communities may take it up as an optional module, and no government is asked to run on it.
- As long as a dispute needs: the Synthesis Process
- Real conflicts keep their own clocks. The seven steps below can be used by any community, school or mediator, each led by one paper.
The Synthesis Process
Seven steps turn a dispute from a contest of power into a process. The steps loop back whenever new evidence arrives.
- Observe (Red). Establish what happened, gather evidence, identify who is affected, and separate verified facts from allegations.
- Understand (Red, with Blue). Map each party’s interests, fears, needs, histories and identities, how each sees the other, and where power lies.
- Model (Black). Identify root causes, incentives, feedback loops, risks and uncertainties.
- Generate (Black). Develop several options, including a Door C beyond the two opening positions, staged agreements and shared arrangements.
- Negotiate (Black, with Blue). Use voluntary dialogue, qualified mediation, agreed procedures and protection against coercion.
- Implement (Black, with White). Specify commitments, owners, funding, timelines, verification and remedies, and train the people who carry them out.
- Evaluate and adapt (All four). Measure results, hear affected communities, correct failures, and pass the lessons to the next diagnosis.
An optional module. The Seven Questions of Conflict, the limits of triadic reasoning and the evidence behind each intervention are in Annex A of the Charter.