  With a view to the ongoing Bologna project
(www.arXiv.org/pdf/nlin.AO/0109025) general organizing principles of emergent
structures in social systems are being discussed with a view to the meaning of
decentralization. It is proposed to introduce decentralization as a principle
for organizing emergent structures in a generic way utilizing aspects of the
insight gained by the Santa Fe school dealing with self-organized criticality.
The techniques utilized come from graph theory, category theory, and in
particular quantum gravity, which bear a strong potential for a multitude of
applications in research fields with a significant interdisciplinary scope.
This is especially important for applications in the organization of social
systems which usually call for an interaction of logic and hermeneutic.
