Grantzilla PRM-C v.2: From California Regional De-escalation to Institutional Coordination in Libya
Year: 2026
Type: report
Abstract: PRM-C did not begin as an abstract institutional framework. It developed through repeated attempts to restore communication across situations in which I had become isolated or alienated from people, organizations, and institutions at home and internationally. The earliest turning point came when members of the Jamaican reggae industry, which had largely excluded me after my earlier work as a reggae revival pioneer, contacted me through a marketing email for the first time in approximately six years. From there, the emerging framework expanded into efforts to de-escalate violent clashes in Libya. It was then applied in an American university setting to moderate a dispute between university administration and a student who had received a physician’s recommendation for an AI-writing disability accommodation. Shortly afterward, the framework was put into practice in Butte County, California, as part of my transition from criminal diversion back into the roles of business owner, family member, and property owner, including efforts to address harms I attribute to local authorities through a restorative-justice approach. PRM-C’s relationship with Libya therefore predates its later formalization as a California regional de-escalation framework. After I was told by the FBI to seek assistance through contacts in Libya, the country became part of the framework’s developmental history. Its return to Libya in PRM-C v.2 is therefore not a new application imposed from outside, but a continuation of a much earlier relationship in the evolution of the model. Over time, these experiences revealed the same recurring structural problem across very different environments: conflict becomes harder to resolve when people and institutions lack a shared method for separating facts, interpretations, emotional reactions, responsibilities, and lessons learned. Libya presents the same coordination problem at a larger scale. PRM-C v.2 therefore adapts the framework for use among Libyan institutions, municipalities, civil-society actors, professional communities, and other stakeholders seeking a structured process for communication and de-escalation without requiring political uniformity. The accompanying Memorandum of Understanding is not a political settlement and does not require agreement on contested questions. It establishes a voluntary procedural commitment: participants agree to communicate through a common framework, protect institutional autonomy, identify areas of factual agreement and disagreement, document decisions, and preserve channels for continued cooperation. The objective is modest but consequential: Do not require people to agree before they can work together. Give them a reliable way to work together while disagreement remains. In this form, PRM-C becomes infrastructure for institutional trust rather than another attempt to manufacture consensus. An Arabic reader recently asked what comes after the framework: where is the continuing plan, charter, and practical mechanism that turns these principles into measurable action? That question helped define the next stage of development. The progression documented here is: Jamaica reconnection → Libya de-escalation → university application → Butte County restorative-justice application → PRM-C v.1 formalization → return to Libya → request for an implementation mechanism → PRM-C v.2 + Memorandum of Understanding This developmental sequence is significant because PRM-C v.2 was not produced simply by applying an abstract model to Libya. The framework evolved through application, dialogue, and response to an identified implementation need. The archive includes selected contemporaneous materials documenting that development, including organizational records, correspondence, institutional materials, public communications, development notes, and the final PRM-C v.2 documents. Among the historical materials is a February 2020 IRS name-change request documenting the transition to Rastafari Center Inc. and the author’s stated mission, business activities, cannabis work, Jamaica connections, and international aspirations at the time. It is included for historical context; assertions within the letter reflect the author’s contemporaneous account. The archive also includes the Rastafari Center County Annual Update to the Butte County Board of Supervisors, June 21, 2021, as part of the documented California context from which the regional de-escalation framework developed. PRM-C v.2 builds upon the earlier PRM-C regional de-escalation framework: Eberhardt, K. E. (2026). PRM-C REGIONAL DE-ESCALATION 14642281. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21323221 What began as an effort to restore communication across fractured relationships has become a framework for helping institutions remain capable of working together through disagreement while healing fractured relationships.
Author: Eberhardt, Kathleen Erica
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7168086121