# Dual Power

> Dual Power is mapped as the break: it seeks to defeat, replace, or render unreproducible an existing order.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:armed-struggle-revolution:dual-power` |
| Family | Armed Struggle & Revolution |
| Domain | Conflict |
| Kind | strategy |
| Archetypal function | The Break |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Dual Power belongs to the **Armed Struggle & Revolution** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

Dual Power seeks to defeat, replace, or render unreproducible an existing order, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Dual Power, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The Break.** Dual Power is mapped as the break: it seeks to defeat, replace, or render unreproducible an existing order.

## Gift

can rupture entrenched coercive arrangements; through Dual Power, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

normalizes violence, centralizes secrecy, and reproduces domination; Dual Power can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use Dual Power to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The Break enters through Dual Power. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Dual Power becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**leverage.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Dual Power; another player names a countermove. Initiative 1.

## Relationships

- **depends on — Tyrannicide:** Tyrannicide depends on Dual Power by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **institutionalizes — Revolutionary Vanguard:** Dual Power institutionalizes Revolutionary Vanguard by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **distributes costs to — Precedent:** Dual Power distributes costs to Precedent by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **translates into — Attorney General:** Attorney General translates into Dual Power by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Dual Power from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Dual Power is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Dual Power: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [Revolution](https://www.britannica.com/topic/revolution-politics) — Encyclopaedia Britannica, ongoing. Comparative conceptual background; supplement with case-specific scholarship.
- [Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court](https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/Publications/Rome-Statute.pdf) — International Criminal Court, 1998. International criminal jurisdiction and definitions.

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