Béla H.

Bánáthy
Béla Heinrich Bánáthy (Hungarian: Bánáthy Béla; December 1, 1919 – September
Béla Heinrich Bánáthy
4, 2003) was an Hungarian-American linguist, and Professor at San Jose State
University and UC Berkeley. He is known as founder of the White Stag Leadership
Development Program, established the International Systems Institute in 1982,[1]
[2][3][4]
and was co-founder of the General Evolutionary Research Group in 1984.

He grew up in largely rural Hungary and served in the Hungarian military during
World War II. When Russia invaded Hungary in April 1945, he and his family fled
to Allied-occupied Austria and lived in a displaced persons camp for six years. In
1951, they emigrated to Chicago, sponsored by the Presbyterian church. Within the
year his former commanding officer suggested to the U.S. government that they hire
Bánáthy as a Hungarian instructor at the Army Language School in Monterey,
California. While living in Monterey, he founded the White Stag Leadership
Development Program.

His program gained national attention, and the Boy Scouts of America conducted
research into incorporating leadership training into its programs. The Boy Scouts of
Béla H. Banathy at the 40th
America's Wood Badge and junior leader training programs had until then focused
anniversary celebration of the White
primarily on Scoutcraft skills, not leadership. William "Green Bar Bill" Hillcourt
Stag program in 1998
among others resisted the change.
Born December 1, 1919
After 20 years, Bánáthy left the renamed Defense Language Institute and went to Gyula, Hungary
work for the Far West Laboratory for Research and Development in Berkeley and
Died 4 September 2003
later San Francisco. He retired from Far West in 1989 but maintained an active
(aged 83)
interest in social systems and science, including attending many conferences and
Chico, California
advising students and others in those fields. In 1992, he helped restart the Hungarian
Scout Association within his native country.In 2003, Bánáthy and Eva moved to live Nationality Hungarian-American
with their son Tibor in Chico, California. After a brief and unexpected illness, Citizenship United States
Bánáthy died on September 4, 2003.[4] Occupation Educator, systems
scientist, professor,
author
Known for Founded the White
Contents Stag Leadership
Biography Development
Active in Scouting Program, International
Military service during World War II Systems Institute, co-
Life in displaced persons camp founder of the
Emigrates to the United States
General Evolutionary
Begins teaching Hungarian language
Research Group,
Professional life president of the
White Stag Leadership Development Program
International
Systems science
Federation for
Large complex systems
International Systems Institute Systems Research
General Evolutionary Research Group from 1994-98

Final years Spouse(s) Eva Balazs

 See also Children Béla, László (Leslie),
Publications Robert, Tibor
References
Further reading
External links

Biography
Béla Bánáthy was born in 1919 inGyula, Hungary, as the oldest of four sons. His father Peter was a minister of the Reformed Church
in Hungary and his mother Hildegard Pallmann was a teacher.[5] Peter Bánáthy had earned the honorary title Vitéz for his service
during World War I, and Béla, as his oldest son, inherited the title.[6]

Active in Scouting
When Bánáthy was about six years old, their family informally adopted Tamas Feri. Tamas was about 13 years old and from a poor
gardener's family. Tamas took Bánáthy on his first overnight camp out with his patrol to a small forest near Gyula. Bánáthy's father
became the Scoutmaster of the "small scouts" troop (similar to American Cub Scouts). When Bánáthy was nine years old, he became
the troop leader.[7][4]

The family moved about 84 kilometres (52 mi) from Bánáthy's birthplace of Gyula, to Makó, Hungary, about 202 kilometres
(126 mi) southeast of Budapest. He joined the regular scout program of the Hungarian Scout Association and "Csanad Vezer" Troop
92. During the 1930s, the troop had more than 50 Scouts and 30 "small scouts". They held their monthly troop meetings on Sunday in
a large gimnazium and met weekly every Saturday as a patrol. Bánáthy reported: "Our weekly patrol meetings focused on scoutcraft
[7]
and Scout spirit and guiding us to move through the various stages of advancement in rank."

The Hungarian Scout program had four stages. During the first three years, Bánáthy advanced three stages. The last stage required
Bánáthy to earn 25 merit badges. This last stage was called Turul, after the mythical bird of Hungary.[7] From spring to fall, as
weather permitted, the patrol had many outings. Every summer the troop went on a two- to three-week long summer camp.[7]
Bánáthy and his troop attended the4th World Scout Jamboree in 1933. Up until this time, he had intended to follow his father into the
ministry, but changed his mind.[5]

Bánáthy later wrote,

The highlight of the Jamboree for me was meeting Baden Powell, the Chief Scout of the World. One day, he visited
our camp with the Chief Scout of Hungary, Count Pál Teleki (who later became our Prime Minister), and the chief of
the camp staff, Vitez Kisbarnaki Ferenc Farkas, a general staff officer of the Hungarian Royal Army. A few years
later he became the commander of the Royal Ludovika Akademia (when I was a student there). In the 1940s, he
became the Chief Scout of Hungary. (I was serving on his staff as head of national junior leadership training.)

For me the Jamboree became a crucial career decision point. I resolved to choose the military as a life work... There
were two sources of this decision. One was my admiration of Lord Baden-Powell, and his life-example as a hero of
the British Army and the founder and guide of scouting. The other was the influence of Captain Varkonyi, a staff
officer of the Jamboree, who was assigned to our Subcamp. We spent hours in conversation about scouting and the
military as a career, as a major service in the character development of young Hungarian adults. After the Jamboree
[7]
we corresponded for a while. By the end of the year I shared my decision with my parents.

While at the Jamboree, Bánáthy briefly met Joseph Szentkiralyi, another Scout from Hungary. Hungarian Sea Scout Paul Ferenc
Sujan and American Maurice Tripp also attended. More than 20 years later, these three men collaborated in helping Bánáthy build a
leadership program for youth in the United States.
Also in 1933, Bánáthy attended the regional patrol leader training week. Later in 1934, Bánáthy and six other members of his troop
traveled to the National Jamboree in Poland. They camped in a large pine forest and visited Kraków and Warsaw. The Polish
government hosted a banquet for all of the Scouts in the Presidential Palace.[7] In 1934, he was awarded the best notebook prize of
the national spring leadership camp and in 1935, he was invited to serve on the junior staff of the same camp at Hárshegy,
Budapest.[7] In 1935, the troop traveled to the Bükk Mountains in northeastern Hungary for their summer camp. As a Senior Patrol
leader, Bánáthy and two others took a bicycle tour in advance of the summer camp to preview theamping
c site.[7]

Military service during World War II

In 1937, Bánáthy entered thehu:Ludovika Akadémiaas was the custom for young men aspiring to military careers.[5] In 1940, at age
21, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the armored infantry. Later that year he met his future wife Eva Balazs.[8] The
peace-time Hungarian Army received very little training.[9] Bánáthy served two tours on the Russian front in World War II as an
armored infantry officer. The Hungarian Army expanded rapidly from an initial force of 80,000, but when fighting started, the rank-
and-file of the army had undergone only eight weeks of training.[9]

In 1941, Bánáthy's unit advanced as part of German Army Group South to within 140 kilometres (87 mi) of Moscow, during a severe
November ice storm. In 1942, as a soldier in the 109,000 strong Second Hungarian Army (Second Magyar Honved), Bánáthy
returned to the Russian front. They fought in the Battle of Voronezh at the Don River bend, supporting the German attack. They were
charged with protecting the 8th Italian Army's's northern flank between the Novaya Pokrovka on the Don River to Rossosh,[10] part
of the larger force defending the drive by the German 6th Army against Soviet General Vasily Chuikov's 62nd Army, which was
defending Stalingrad. Bánáthy was seriously wounded during the action, and he returned from the front to Budapest where he spent
[5][11]
seven months recuperating. He married his fiancé, Eva Balazs, with his arm in a sling on December 5, 1942 in Budapest.

Bánáthy was promoted as a junior officer of the Royal Hungarian Army and served on the faculty of the Ludovika Akademia under
his mentor, Commandant Colonel-General Kisbarnaki General Farkas. Farkas sought a volunteer to teach junior leader training at the
academy and Bánáthy volunteered. Farkas also asked Bánáthy to organize a Scout Troop for young men, 19 years and older, which
was a common practice within the Hungarian Scout Association at the time.[12]:133–134 Bánáthy became committed to training the
young men in officer's leadership skills; he served as the voluntary national director for youth leadership development and a member
[13]
of the National Council of the Hungarian Scout Association.

In July 1944 Farkas was Commander of the Hungarian VI Army Corps, which had been garrisoned at Debrecen. He replaced General
Beregfy, who was loyal to the fascist Arrow Cross Party. During that month, Farkas' VI Army Corp was instrumental in repelling a
Red Army attack across the Carpathian mountains.[14] On 15 October 1944, Farkas was named commander of the Pest bridgehead
and Government Commissioner for Evacuation.[14][15] In early November 1944, the first Russian units appeared on the southeastern
edge of Budapest.[16] As an associate of Farkas, Bánáthy likely had advance notice of the Russian advance. He also knew he would
likely be executed if captured. Bánáthy was able to get his wife Eva, one-year-old son Béla and two-week-old son László out of
Budapest. Bánáthy's family, along with other officers and their families, found shelter at first in farmhouses, and later in bunkers,
caves, and trenches.

When the Hungarian Second Army was disbanded on 1 December 1944 due to a lack of equipment and personnel, the remaining
units of the Second Army, including Bánáthy's, were transferred to the Third Army. The Siege of Budapest began when the city was
encircled on 29 December 1944 by the Red Army. Bánáthy fought with the remainder of his unit against the Russians until after
Budapest fell on 13 February 1945. The Axis was striving to protect the last oil fields they controlled in western Hungary around
Lake Balaton. By late March 1945, most of what was left of the Hungarian Third Army was surrounded and destroyed about 40
kilometres (25 mi) to the west of Budapest in an advance by the Soviet 46th Army towards Vienna.[17] The remaining shattered units
fought on as they retreated progressively westward through theTransdanubian Mountainstowards Austria.

Bánáthy's family and others of the remainder of his and other military units made their way west, along with tens of thousands of
other refugees, about 250 kilometres (160 mi) into Austria, trying to stay ahead of advancing Russian troops. Temperatures through
the time of their flight remained near 0 °C (32 °F).
Life in displaced persons camp
Bánáthy reunited with his family in Austria. As the war ended and Austria was
occupied in April 1945 by the French, British, Soviet and US military forces, the
family was placed in an Allied displaced persons camp. They were housed in a
single 6 by 10 feet (1.8 by 3.0 m) room in a wooden barrack; it served as their
bedroom, kitchen, living room and firewood storage area. Food was extremely
scarce and at times they subsisted on around 600 calories per person per day.[18]
They were among 1.4 million displaced persons in Austria at the time[19] during a
worldwide food shortage as a result of the war. Food was also severely restricted by Refugee family in their quarters in
punitive U.S. policies including directive JCS 1067. In 1947 German citizens were Bavaria after the war ended in 1945.
surviving on 1040 calories a day, but the Allies were also suffering from food
shortages.[20]

Bánáthy later traded for milk to give two-year-old Béla and one-year-old László enough protein. As extremely little food was
available in the camps, in early 1947 his wife's twin sister came from Hungary to take their older two sons back to live with the older
sister. The Pallendal family, Bánáthy's in-laws, was well-educated and relatively wealthy, so they had access to more food than what
was available in the camps. They intended to return the Banathy boys to their parents within a year. Beginning in early 1948, when
the Cold War ensued, it became virtually impossible for refugees or displaced persons to cross from the border of one country into
another, or even from one Occupation Zone to another.[21][22] The Pallendal family could not return the two boys from behind the
Iron Curtain.[5]

In 1948, shortly after their third son Tibor was born, the Banathy family was moved to another camp, near a Marshall Plan
warehouse. Bánáthy was assigned to unload sacks of wheat from railroad cars. He contacted the World Scouting Movement for
assistance and began to organize scouting in the DP camps. During 1947, Bánáthy was named the Hungarian Scout Commissioner for
Austria; he led training for Hungarian Scout leaders along with his former commanding officer Farkas.[23] He was ordained by the
World Council of Churches and became minister for youth among Hungarian refugees. Banathy served as director of religious
[5]
education of the Protestant Refugee Service of Austria, was editor of a religious youth service and of a Scout publication.

In 1948 Bánáthy's fourth son Robert was born. Bánáthy soon found work as a technical draftsman in the statistical office of a U.S.
Army warehouse.[5][24][13] In 1949, with help from a Swiss foundation, Bánáthy assisted in establishing and was selected as the
President of the Collegium Hungaricum, a boarding school for refugees, at Zell am See near Saalfelden, Austria.[4] In the same year,
the Communist government in Hungary seized the businesses belonging to the Pallendal family. Because they were members of the
[25]
social elite, the Communist government considered them to be a political threat.

In 1951, in what was a common practice during this time,[26] the Hungarian Police arrived at dawn to seize the Pallendal family
home and arrest and deport the family from Budapest. Seven-year-old Béla and six-year-old László Banathy, along with their
Pallendal grandmother and two aunts, were put aboard a freight train and sent toward Russia. The train stopped occasionally and a
few hundred people were forced off at rural towns. The Pallendal family was ejected in eastern Hungary. There an uncle located them
and hid them from authorities in a small village.

Emigrates to the United States

In January, 1951, the student body of the Presbyterian McCormick Theological Seminaryin Chicago sponsored Béla, Eva, Tibor and
Robert Banathy as refugees to the United States.[24] Bánáthy lived with his family at the Seminary, where he worked nights 60 hours
a week shoveling coal to fire the Seminary furnace. At the same time, he was studying English from a book. He occasionally
preached at nearby Hungarian churches. His wife found work as a machine operator and Tibor, their third son, entered American
public school.[11]

Begins teaching Hungarian language

When World War II ended, General Farkas was designated as the U.S. Army's liaison to former Hungarian prisoners of war. In 1951
he recommended Bánáthy as a Hungarian language instructor, and Bánáthy was invited to teach at the U.S. government's Army
Language School in Monterey, California.[23] Bánáthy moved to Monterey in June 1951, a pivotal change in his life. At the Army
Language School, he met Joseph Szentkiralyi (Americanized as St. Clair), the founder of the Hungarian Department. They soon
figured out they had met at the 4th World Scout Jamboree in 1933. The wives of the two men also realized they had been girlhood
friends in grammar school in Budapest.[24] Using her experience managing the Pallendal family restaurant in Budapest before World
War II, Eva took work as a waitress in a restaurant on the Monterey Peninsula. Bánáthy served as President of his local Parent-
Teacher Association and on the board of the localRed Cross.[5] In the same year, Paul Ferenc Sujan, another former Hungarian scout,
joined the language school faculty.[27]

On February 28, 1956, Bánáthy was naturalized as a United States citizen. After
nine years of separation, and repeated failures to get his sons repatriated from
behind the Iron Curtain, Bánáthy obtained help from Dr. Eugene Blake, President
of the National Council of Churches; Representative Charles M. Teague; Ernest
Nagy, Vice Consul in the U.S. Legation in Budapest; Hulda Neiburh of the
McCormick Theological Seminary; and Howard Pyle, deputy assistant to
President Dwight D. Eisenhower.[28] He was finally able to arrange for 13-year-
old Béla and 11-year-old László to emigrate to the United States[5] A photograph
of the two boys greeting their mother was featured inLife Magazine.
Eva Bánáthy greets her 11-year-old son
Carrying pictures of their parents, two Hungarian brothers arrived László at San Francisco International
Airport on September 17, 1956. They
at New York International Airport, Idlewild, Queens, yesterday...
were separated in 1947 when László
The pictures are necessary because the boys... have not seen their was one year old, when the boy and his
mother and father for nine years.[29] brother were taken by her twin sister to
live with their family in Hungary.

The boys were greeted by their parents at San Francisco International Airport at
1:10 a.m. The boys' release marked the first time since the Cold War that anyone under 65 years old had been allowed to leave
Hungary to be reunited with family.[28]

Professional life
Bánáthy was an educator, a systems and design scientist, and an author. At the Army Language School, he taught in the Hungarian
language department, later becoming its chairman.

White Stag Leadership Development Program

In 1957 Bánáthy began enlarging a concept for a leadership development program. As Council Training Chairman in the Monterey
Bay Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, he received strong support from the Council Executive and Council Executive
Board for his proposal to train boys in leadership skills. He was assisted by fellow Hungarians Joe Szentkiralyi (aka St. Clair, Chair
of the Hungarian Language Department at the Army Language school) and Paul Sujan (Hungarian Language Instructor at the Army
Language school); Fran Peterson (a member of the National Council and a Scoutmaster from Chular, California); and Maury Tripp (a
Scouter from Saratoga, California, a member of the National Council, and a research scientist).[23] "Lord Baden-Powell was my
[24]
personal idol and I long felt a commitment to give back to Scouting what I had received", Bánáthy said.

As part of his master's degree program in counseling psychology at San José State University, he wrote a thesis titled "A Design for
Leadership Development in Scouting".[30] This book described the founding principles of the White Stag program, which was later
adapted by the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America.[31] Prior to Bánáthy's work, the adult Wood Badge and the junior
leader training programs had focused on teaching Scoutcraft skills and some aspects of the Patrol Method. His research and findings
on teaching principles and competencies of leadership had a huge impact on these two programs, shifting their focus to leadership
skills.[32][33]
Some individuals on the national staff and many volunteers across the nation
resisted the idea of changing the focus of Wood Badge from training leaders in
Scoutcraft to leadership skills. Among them was William "Green Bar Bill"
Hillcourt, who had been the first United States Wood Badge Course Director in
1948.[34] Although officially retired, he had many loyal followers. He was
adamant that Wood Badge should continue to teach Scoutcraft skills and tried to
persuade the national council to stick to that tradition, but his objections were
ignored.[23]

The leadership competencies Banathy articulated became the de facto method for Joe St. Clair, Fran Peterson, Maury
Scout adult and junior leader training.[35] (In 2008, the White Stag program Tripp, and Béla H. Bánáthy at theWhite
celebrated its 50th anniversary.) In 1960, the Monterey Bay Area Council Stag Leadership Development Program
Indaba held at Fort Ord, California,
recognized Béla for his exceptional service to youth and awarded him the Silver
during November 1962. These four
Beaver.[36] men, along with Paul Sujan, helped
develop new junior leader training and
In the 1970s, due to the success of the White Stag program, Bánáthy was Wood Badge programs that for the first
appointed to the Interamerican Scout Committee and participated in three time focused on leadership skills, not
interamerican "Train the Trainer" events in Mexico, Costa Rica, and Scoutcraft leadership skills.
Venezuela.[5] He guided their national training teams in designing leadership
development by design programs. Béla also taught in Sunday School and was on
the Board of the United Methodist Churchof the Wayfarer in Carmel, California.

Systems science
In the 1960s Bánáthy began teaching courses in applied linguistics and systems science at San José State University. In 1962 he was
named Dean and Chairman of the East Europe and Middle East Division at the Army Language School, overseeing ten language
departments. In 1963 he completed his master's degree in psychology at San Jose State University, and in 1966 he received a
doctorate in education for a transdisciplinary program in education, systems theory, and linguistics from the University of California
in Berkeley. During the mid-1960s Bánáthy was named Chair of Western Division of the Society for General Systems Research. He
published his first book,Instructional Systems, in 1968.[4][5]

Large complex systems

During the 1960s and 1970s, Bánáthy was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and as he continued teaching
at San Jose State University. In 1969, he left the renamed Defense Language Institute and became a Program Director, and later
Senior Research Director and Associate Laboratory Director, at the Far West Laboratory for Research and Development (now
WestEd) in Berkeley (later moved to San Francisco). He "directed over fifty research and development programs, designed many
curriculum projects and several large scale complex systems, including the design and implementation of a Ph.D. program in
educational research and development forUC Berkeley".[8][5][4]

In the 1970s and 1980s, he focused his research on the application of systems and design theories and methodologies in social, social
service, educational, and human development systems. In the 1980s he developed and guided a Ph.D. curriculum in humanistic
systems inquiry and social systems design for theSaybrook Graduate School.[8][5][4]

International Systems Institute

In 1981, he founded the International Systems Institute[1] (ISI), a non-profit, public benefit scientific and educational corporation in
Carmel, California, USA. He organized its first meeting atFuschl am See, Austria in 1982.[1][8]
Banathy introduced a unique and never-before used approach to organizing the International Systems Institute conferences. Banathy
observed that in traditional conferences, a few usually well-respected or prestigious individuals would apply to present "pre-packaged
new ideas" to others. In typical conferences, presenting almost always carries more prestige than listening; the few presenters share
their wisdom with the many. This one-to-many or "hierarchical knowledge distribution system" slowed the sharing and spreading of
ideas about which many people cared deeply if not passionately, as there was always limited opportunity for interchange among
participants. This interaction was usually wedged into the interstices of the formal schedule in the form of informal, spontaneous
gatherings for which no record existed.[1]

The notion that presenting is more important than listening aroused lifelong antipathy in Bánáthy. When he formulated the leadership
competencies of the White Stag Leadership Development Program in the 1960s, he described the passing of knowledge from one to
, not the teacher.[31]
another as "Manager of Learning". He wrote extensively about how the focus should be on the learner

Bánáthy advanced a different vision for conferences, one that would allow everyone to fully engage. He proposed that everyone be
given the opportunity to prepare and distribute papers to all participants in advance of the conference. And instead of listening to
speeches, conference attendees took part in extended, non-hierarchical conversations about the conference papers. The conference
proceedings were the result of these conversations. Bánáthy felt strongly that systems scholars from all over the world should be
given ongoing opportunities to engage in extended conversations so they might put their expertise "actively into the service of
humanity worldwide".[1]

Bánáthy wrote: "We aspire to reap the 'reflecting and creating power' of groups that emerge in the course of disciplined and focused
conversations on issues that are important to us and to our society". Participants at International Systems Institute gatherings have,
since the original meeting organized by Bánáthy in 1982, organized them around this principle and referred to them as
"conversations".[1]

General Evolutionary Research Group

In 1984, Bánáthy was co-founder with general evolution theorist Ervin László and others of the initially secret General Evolutionary
[2] A member of the Society of General Systems Researchsince the 1960s,
Research Group, or General Evolutionary Research Group.
he was Managing Director of the Society in the early 1980s, and in 1985 he became its president.[1] He then served on its Board of
Trustees. During the 1980s, he served on the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Systems Research.[2] In 1989,
he retired from Far West Labs and returned to live on the Monterey Peninsula. He continued to serve as Professor Emeritus for the
Saybrook Graduate School, counseling Ph.D. students. He also continued his work with the annual ISI international systems design
conversations, and authored a number of articles and books about systems, design, and evolutionary research. He served two terms as
[5]
president of the International Federation of Systems Research during 1994-98.

He coordinated over twenty international systems research conferences held in eight countries, including the 1994 Conversation on
Systems Design conversation held at Fuschl Am See, Austria, sponsored by the International Federation of Systems Research.[8][37]
He was also honorary editor of three international systems journals: Systems Research and Behavioral Science, the Journal of
Applied Systems Studies,[38] and Systems. He was on the Board of Editors of World Futures,[39] and served as a contributing editor
of Educational Technology.[8]

Final years
In 1992, Bánáthy, a long-standing member of the Hungarian Scout Association Abroad (Külföldi Magyar Cserkészszövetség),
traveled from his Monterey, California home in the United States to Hungary following its renewed freedom. There, he helped restart
.[23]
the Hungarian Scout Association within his native country

Bánáthy spent considerable time during the last few years of his life caring for his wife Eva in their home in Carmel, California. She
had been in poor health for a number of years after a stroke. In the summer of 2003 Bánáthy and his wife moved to live with their son
Tibor in Chico, California. After a brief and unexpected illness, Bánáthy died on September 4, 2003. He and Eva had been married 64
years at the time of his death.[4]
See also
Béla A. Bánáthy Magyar Cserkészszövetség Systemics
Debora Hammond Saybrook Graduate School and Systems theory
International Federation for Research Center Systems thinking
Systems Research Systems philosophy

Publications
Bánáthy wrote and published several books and hundreds of articles. A selection:

1963, A Design for Leadership Development in Scouting , Monterey Bay Area Council, Monterey , California.
1964, Report on a Leadership Development Experiment , Monterey Bay Area Council, Monterey , California.
1968, Instructional Systems, Fearon Publishers. ISBN 978-0-8224-3930-1
1969, Leadership Development — World Scouting Reference Papers, No. ,1Boy Scouts World Bureau, Geneva,
Switzerland.
1972, A Design for Foreign Language Curriculum, D.C. Heath. ISBN 978-0-669-82073-7
1973, Developing a Systems View of Education: The Systems Models Approach, Lear Siegler Fearon Publishers.
ISBN 978-0-8224-6700-7
1985, with Kenneth D. Bailey et al. (ed.), Systems Inquiring: Applications, Volume II of the Proceedings of the
Society for General Systems Research International Conference. Seaside, CA: Intersystems Publications.
1991, Systems Design of Education, A Journey to Create the Future , Educational Technology, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
ISBN 978-0-87778-229-2
1992, A Systems View of Education: Concepts andPrinciples for Effective Practice,Educational Technology,
Englewood Cliffs, CA. ISBN 0-87778-245-8
1992, "Comprehensive Systems Design in Education: Building a Design Culture," in: Education. Educational
Technology, 22(3) 33–35.
1996, Designing Social Systems in a Changing World , Plenum, NY. ISBN 0-306-45251-0
1998, Evolution Guided by Design: A Systems Perspective,in Systems Research, Vol. 15.
1997, A Taste of Systemics, The Primer Project, 2007.
2000, Guided Evolution of Society: A Systems View, Springer ISBN 978-0-306-46382-2
2000, The Development of the AgoraWebsite: Personal Communication to Agora Stewards,International Systems
Institute, Asilomar Networked Democracy Group, Pacific Grove, CA.
2000, Agora Structure, International Systems Institute, Asilomar Networked Democracy Group, Pacific Grove, CA.
2000, Bio: Personal Communication to Agora Stewards,International Systems Institute, Asilomar Networked
Democracy Group, Pacific Grove, CA.
2000, Story: Personal Communication to Agora Stewards,International Systems Institute, Asilomar Networked
Democracy Group, Pacific Grove, CA.
2000, Reflections: The Circle of Agora Stewards,International Systems Institute, Asilomar Networked Democracy
Group, Pacific Grove, CA.
2000, Guided Evolution of Society: A Systems View, Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York.
2002, with Patrick M. Jenlink, "The Agora Project: the New Agoras of thewenty-first
T Century," Systems Research
and Behavioral Science
2002, with Gordon Rowland, "Guiding our evolution: If we don't do it, who will? "
2005, with Patrick M. Jenlink,et al. (ed.), Dialogue as a Means of Collective Communication (Educational
Linguistics), Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York. ISBN 978-0-306-48689-0
2007, with Patrick M. Jenlink,et al. (ed.), Dialogue as a Means of Collective Communication(Volume 2), Kluwer
Academic/Plenum, New York. ISBN 978-0-387-75842-8

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Further reading
Bánáthy, Béla H. & IFSR Staff (1994). "Béla H. Banathy". IFSR Newsletter. Vienna, AUT: International Federation for
Systems Research. 13 (2; July [no. 33]). Retrieved 26 March 2017.
Gordon Dyer, "Y3K: Beyond Systems Design as we know it" , in: Res-Systemica, Vol. 2, 2002.

External links
Autobiography: Béla H. Banathy, at White Stag Leadership Development, 4 September 2003.
"Guides and Teachers: Béla H. Banathy", Evolve

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