The imperial context and the business perspective have been ideologically reinforced, over time, through five disciplines, each with a set of taken-for-granted beliefs about people and society that hold the current system in place. These beliefs marginalize community and its restorative capacity, and they are decisive in creating the structures that channel our thinking and our actions. They inform how we live together as a society. If we want to create a new context for community restoration we have to see clearly the current dominant context through the eyes of certain core disciplines.

These disciplines are the main support for the context or container for how we attempt to make things better. All together these have become the intellectual building blocks of empire. One by one we can rearrange them.