A multi-stakeholder process is not necessarily a threefolding process , since all three key institutions are not always represented in such a process. But this is not a threefolding process, because all three key institutions are not represented. The very term multi-stakeholder leads to fuzziness and an unhealthy mixing of the representatives of the different realms of society. In threefolding, substance is complete if the different dimensions of development are present. As we have seen, business brings in the economic dimension.
Governments bring in the political dimension of development.
And civil society brings in the cultural, social, ecological, human, and spiritual dimensions of development. Of course, all the dimensions of development cannot be achieved in the very beginning. But they must be consciously taken into account in the process and substance of threefolding. Kinds of and Stages in Threefolding Threefolding, as described above, cannot manifest in a complete way during its first appearance in social life . There are different kinds of threefolding and there are different stages through which authentic threefolding will have to pass.