Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This paper positions project management as the core architecture of ethical governance in the twenty-first century—where legitimacy depends not on ideology, but on disciplined structure. Through the case of the Legal International Medical Marijuana Initiative (LIMMI) linking Libya, Jamaica, and California, it reframes project management as a cognitive scaffold for rebuilding sovereignty in post-conflict and post-colonial systems. Drawing from Larson and Gray’s project life-cycle model and UNESCO’s AI in Education frameworks, the study demonstrates how trauma-informed leadership and AI-supported compliance architecture can restore institutional trust, transparency, and operational coherence. By integrating cognitive literacy with ethical project discipline, LIMMI functions as a living prototype for cross-border legitimacy and sustainable recovery. The argument concludes that project management, when embedded with ethical intelligence and supported by AI verification, constitutes the scaffolding of sovereignty— transforming chaos into structure, and policy into lived stability.
Authors: Kathleen Erica Eberhardt, Barry Thompson
Institution: Aspen University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7116656540