# Summit

> Summit is mapped as the table beyond borders: it coordinates sovereign actors through law, negotiation, institutions, leverage, and norms.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:international-governance:summit` |
| Family | International Governance & Diplomacy |
| Domain | International |
| Kind | institution |
| Archetypal function | The Table Beyond Borders |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Summit belongs to the **International Governance & Diplomacy** 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

Summit coordinates sovereign actors through law, negotiation, institutions, leverage, and norms, 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 Summit, 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 Table Beyond Borders.** Summit is mapped as the table beyond borders: it coordinates sovereign actors through law, negotiation, institutions, leverage, and norms.

## Gift

enables cooperation and limits some forms of force; through Summit, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

reflects unequal power, veto, selective enforcement, and distance from publics; Summit 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 Summit 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 Table Beyond Borders enters through Summit. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

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

## Game function

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

## Relationships

- **mobilizes — Embassy:** Embassy mobilizes Summit by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **distributes costs to — Mediation:** Summit distributes costs to Mediation by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **enables — Time:** Time enables Summit by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **depends on — Days of Rage:** Days of Rage depends on Summit by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **constrains — Constructive Program:** Summit constrains Constructive Program by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Summit from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Summit 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 Summit: 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

- [Charter of the United Nations](https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/full-text) — United Nations, 1945. International institutional order, sovereignty, security, and cooperation.
- [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.
- [United Nations Peacekeeping](https://peacekeeping.un.org/en) — United Nations, ongoing. Mission, mandates, operations, and limitations from the institution's perspective.

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Engine Output version 1.0.0; generated 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. Sentinel annotations are stored separately in `sentinel/handoffs.json`.
