Creating the Possibility of Rising Beyond the Boundaries of the Past
The Possibilities Architects: Inspiring Ascending Beyond institute, abbreviated as PAIAB, is a new, innovative institution established to foster synergy in building a possibilities-driven future. It was founded in response to the growing domestic, regional, and even global need for an independent, indigenous, and multidimensional reference in the fields of research, discourse-building, consultation and strategic communication.
By combining strategic research, applied consultation, and constructive framing, PAIAB will provide conceptual and strategic tools for active, effective, and balanced engagement with the domestic, regional and global political and social environment. PAIAB aims to be a manifestation of hope, prudence, and possibility: the possibility to create a future oriented toward human security, development, participation, convergence, and indigenous, self-confident initiatives.
Our research and practice are grounded in the belief that people’s visions of the future act as cognitive frameworks. These frameworks retell the past, shape unconscious interpretations of the present, and guide how individuals perceive and engage with the world. The future that emerges from them carries such influence over human thought and action that it takes the form of a “default future”; a version that dominates our outlook. This default future arises partly from the unexamined continuities of the past and partly from external pressures imposed upon us rather than from conscious human choice. Without a qualitative change in approach, it asserts itself upon our lives and our destiny.
Transformation may indeed arrive by chance, but it can also be pursued intentionally through transformational leadership. PAIAB’s mission is to help make this possible by mobilizing efforts to identify and confront a past that has shaped and entrenched our default future. By authentically engaging with that past, we create the space for liberation: the ability to see and reclaim possibilities once suppressed by that past and the default future it produces. Discovering these possibilities makes extraordinary action possible for us and our stakeholders. The inspiring future that emerges from them becomes a new cognitive framework, not burdened by the past; rather, empowered by it.
With this perspective, PAIAB acts, on one hand, as an independent think tank producing ideas and political, social, and legal analysis while shaping discourses and narratives; and on the other, as a professional consulting group providing specialized services to public institutions, the private sector, entrepreneurs, and civil society to confront the default future and identify and create possibilities.
What distinguishes PAIAB is its deliberate effort to redefine prevailing narratives and patterns—especially in international politics—through an indigenous, responsible, and forward-looking lens. In doing so, it seeks to open new avenues for cooperation, alignment of interests, and collective development through knowledge, dialogue, and consultation.
On this basis, PAIAB defines its core mission in three domains:
1) Independent, policy-oriented analysis – to elevate the quality of public, expert, and intergovernmental dialogue in fields such as transformations in the global order, new opportunities, international law, regional conflicts, security arrangements, and political economy.
2) Specialized and strategic consultation – to support the government’s various organs, the private sector, and civil society in decision-making under high-risk conditions, whether in designing global relations, assessing the implications of economic and trade agreements, or managing crises.
3) Discourse design and promotion of inspiring narratives – which, rather than focusing on threats and remaining trapped in the failures of the past, emphasize cooperation, shared destiny, and common interests.
Endeavors
In line with its stated objectives and methods, PAIAB will pursue activities in the following areas:
• Organizing expert meetings, brainstorming sessions, and exchanges of ideas to produce and publish research reports and policy papers identifying opportunities and challenges, in order to harness the possibilities of ascending beyond the boundaries of the past—particularly in the neighboring region.
• Holding training workshops in areas such as communications management, cross-border opportunity identification, risk reduction, negotiation skills, global relations, international law, and public diplomacy, alongside broader capacity-building programs.
• Providing consultation and advisory services in areas such as risk assessment for investors abroad, strategic scenario design for public institutions, and drafting policy notes on opportunities for multidimensional cooperation, global relations, diplomacy and public diplomacy, developments in international law, and international organizations and regimes.
• Monitoring media narratives, intergovernmental relations, and global and regional issues, and advising governmental and non-governmental actors accordingly.
PAIAB particularly seeks to concentrate its scientific and practical capacities on utilizing opportunities and neutralizing shared challenges, especially in our region. It aims to help establish and promote a model for creating a promising future and for transcending past-bound default narratives by drawing on political, legal, economic, human and cultural resources.
PAIAB does not consider itself merely a research or consulting group. It aspires to be a transformative platform where policymakers, researchers, civil society actors, and economic experts can interact to envision a participatory future built upon constructive and inspiring discourse. Through knowledge production, discourse promotion, consulting services, and facilitation of international interactions, the group will generate new capacities for dialogue, design mechanisms of cooperation, and promote shared understandings of security and development.
Financial Sustainability
To achieve its objectives and preserve its intellectual and operational independence, PAIAB will draw on diverse financial resources, including:
• Individual and institutional memberships.
• Consulting contracts with private and public institutions.
• Training workshops for individuals, enterprises, and public and private organizations.
• Publication of specialized reports and organization of events aligned with its mission.
• Contributions from private sector entities, foundations, and civil society organizations that support PAIAB’s objectives for a better future and the common good, provided that such contributions do not interfere with its mission or policies.