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{{TOCright}}'''Cooperation''', '''co-operation''' or '''coöperation'''<ref>The third variant is now somewhat rare. This is a rare example of a [[diacritic]] not borrowed from any foreign language, but purely of English origin (compare the original French coopération). See the [[list of English words with diacritics]] for other examples</ref> is the practice of individuals or larger societal entities working in common with mutually agreed-upon goals and possibly methods, instead of working separately in competition, and in which the success of one is dependent and contingent upon the success of another.

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|caption_skyline = Old Fort, Corfu City, as seen from the top of the New Fort.

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|prefec = [[Corfu Prefecture|Corfu]]

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|mayor = Sotirios Micallef

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|website = [http://www.corfu.gr/ www.corfu.gr]

However, co-operation may be ''coerced'' (forced) or voluntary (freely chosen), and consequently individuals and groups might co-operate even although they have almost nothing in common qua interests or goals. Examples of that can be found in market trade, military wars, families, workplaces, schools and prisons, and more generally any institution or organisation of which individuals are part (out of own choice, by law, or forced).

'''Corfu''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: ''Κέρκυρα'' - ''Kérkyra'') is a city in north-western [[Greece]]. It is the capital and main town of the island and [[Corfu Prefecture|prefecture]] of [[Corfu]]. The city is a major tourist attraction, and has played an important role since the Venetians. The city has become known as a ''Kastropolis'' (Castle City) because of its multiple castles.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.corfu.gr/en.htm |work=Municipality of Corfu |title=Home Page |accessdate=2007-03-30 |publisher=www.corfu.gr}} </ref> In [[2007]], the old town of the city was inscribed on the [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage List]].<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6248244.stm</ref>

===Cooperation vs. competition===

==Town==

While cooperation is the antithesis of competition, the need or desire to compete with others is a common impetus that motivates individuals to organize into a group and cooperate with each other in order to form a stronger competitive force.

The town of Corfu stands on the broad part of a peninsula, whose termination in the Venetian [[citadel]] (Παλαιό Φρούριο in Greek) is cut off from it by an artificial fosse formed in a natural gully, with a salt-water ditch at the bottom, that serves also as a kind of marina. The old city having grown up within fortifications, where every metre of ground was precious, is a labyrinth of narrow streets paved with cobblestones, sometimes tortuous but mostly pleasant, colourful and sparkling clean. These streets are called "kantounia" ([[Greek language|Greek]]: καντούνια) and the older ones sometimes follow the gentle irregularities of the ground while many of them are too narrow for vehicular traffic. There is promenade by the seashore towards the bay of Garitsa (Γαρίτσα), and also a handsome esplanade between the town and the citadel called "Liston" ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Λιστόν) where upscale restaurants and European style bistros abound. The name Liston came from the English "List on" meaning the list of the vendors' fare, in other words the menu.

Coöperation in many areas such as farming and housing may be in the form of a [[cooperative]] or, alternately, in the form of a conventional [[business]].

==Climate==

Corfu city's climate is Mediterranean. The summers are warm with moderate humidity, and temperatures reaching 33 Celsius. The winters are mild and temperatures around on or above 10 Celsius.

Many people support cooperation as the ideal form of management of human affairs. In terms of individuals obtaining goods and services, rather than resorting to theft or confiscation, they may cooperate by trading with each other or by altruistic sharing.

==History==

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Certain forms of cooperation are illegal in some jurisdictions because they alter the nature of access by others to economic or other resources. Thus, cooperation in the form of [[cartel]]s or [[price fixing|price-fixing]] may be illegal.

==Government==

Corfu is the capital of the Corfu Prefecture.

A few mechanisms have been suggested for the appearance of cooperation between humans or in natural system

===Mayors===

Up until 1866, Corfu had no mayors. This list starts from 1866 and on.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.corfu.gr/en/menu/profil.htm |title=History of Municipality of Corfu |publisher=www.corfu.gr |work=Municipality of Corfu |date=2005-09-20 |accessdate=2007-03-30}}</ref> [[Image:KerkyraDimarheio.jpg.JPG|thumb|265px|Corfu Town Hall]]

*Nikolaos V. Manesis (1866 - 1870)

*Christodoulos M. Kiriakis (1870 - 1879)

*Georgios Theotokis (1879 - 1887)

*Michael Theotokis (1887 - 1895)

*Aggellos Psoroulas (1895 - 1899)

*Dimitrios Kollas (1899 - 1911)

*Ioannis Mavrogian (1914 - 1925)

*Spiridon Kollas (1925 - 1951)

*Stamatios Dessilas (1951 - 1959)

*Panagiotis Zafiropoulos (1959 - 1964)

*Spiridon Rath (1964 - 1967)

*Konstantinos Alexopoulos (1974 - 1975)

*Spiridon Rath (1975 - 1978)

*Ioannis Kourkoulos (1979 - 1990)

*Chrisanthos Sarlis (1991 - 2002)

*Alexandros Mastoras (2003 - 2006)

*Sotirios Micallef (2007 - present)

===ConsulatesThe Prisoner's Dilemma===

Even if all members of a group would benefit if all cooperate, individual self-interest may not favor cooperation. The [[prisoner's dilemma]] codifies this problem and has been the subject of much research, both theoretical and experimental. Results from [[experimental economics]] show that humans often act more cooperatively than strict self-interest would seem to dictate.

Corfu is home to many foreign [[consul (representative)|consulates]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.corfu.gr/en/menu/tourism.htm |title=Municipality of Corfu: Tourism: Consulates |date=2007-02-23 |accessdate=2007-03-30 |publisher=www.corfu.gr |work=Municipality of Corfu}}</ref>

One reason for this may be that if the prisoner's dilemma situation is repeated (the [[Iterated_prisoner%27s_dilemma#The_iterated_prisoner.27s_dilemma|iterated prisoner's dilemma]]), it allows non-cooperation to be punished more, and cooperation to be rewarded more, than the single-shot version of the problem would suggest. It has been suggested that this is one reason for the evolution of complex [[emotion]]al and [[social behavior]] in higher animals.

*{{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[Great Britain]]: 2 Alexandras Av & Menekratous St. Corfu 49100, Tel: [phone]

*{{flagicon|Austria}} [[Austria]]: 3 K. Zavitsianou St. Corfu 49100 , Tel: [phone]

*{{flagicon|Belgium}} [[Belgium]]: 44 Alexandras Av Corfu 49100, Tel: [phone]

*{{flagicon|France}} [[France]]: 22 I. Polyla St. Corfu 49100, Tel: [phone]

*{{flagicon|Germany}} [[Germany]]: 57 Guilford St. Corfu 49100, Tel: [phone]

*{{flagicon|Denmark}} [[Denmark]]: 4 Ethnikis Antistasis Corfu 49100, Tel: [phone]

*{{flagicon|Switzerland}} [[Switzerland]]: Corfu Palace Hotel Corfu 49100, Tel: [phone]

*{{flagicon|Ireland}} [[Ireland]]: 20A Kapodistriou St. Corfu 49100, Tel: [phone]

*{{flagicon|Italy}} [[Italy]]: 10 Alexandras Av. Corfu 49100, Tel: [phone]

*{{flagicon|Cyprus}} [[Cyprus]]: 8 Sotiros St. Corfu 49100, Tel: [phone]

*{{flagicon|Norway}} [[Norway]]: 7 Donzelot St. Corfu 49100, Tel: [phone]

*{{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[Netherlands]]: Kapodistriou & 2 Idromenon St. Corfu 49100, Tel: :[phone]

*{{flagicon|Finland}} [[Finland]]: Hotel Annaliza Pirgi Corfu 49100, Tel: [phone]

*{{flagicon|Portugal}} [[Portugal]]: Hotel "Ermones Beach" Corfu 49100, Tel: [phone]

*{{flagicon|Spain}} [[Spain]]: 3 Sofokleus Dousmani St. Corfu 49100, Tel: [phone]

*{{flagicon|Sweden}} [[Sweden]]: Skaramaga Sq. Corfu 49100, Tel: [phone]

Another reason might be that humans are by nature socially co-operative beings, who, at least as infants, and usually thereafter, cannot survive without co-operating - although with maturation they gain much more choice about the kinds of co-operation they wish to have.

==Culture==

There are four main conditions that tend to be necessary for cooperative behaviour to develop between two individuals:

===Architecture===

* An overlap in desires

* A chance of future encounters with the same individual

* Memory of past encounters with that individual

* A value associated with future outcomes

==Twin=See Citiesalso===

* [[collaboration]]

*{{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Krusevac]], [[Serbia]] (19-10-1985)<ref name=twins>{{cite web |url=http://www.corfu.gr/en/menu/profil.htm |date=2005-09-20 |accessdate=2007-03-30 |publisher=www.corfu.gr |work=Municipality of Corfu |title=Twinned Cities}}</ref>

* [[mutual aid]]

*{{flagicon|Cyprus}} [[Paphos]], [[Cyprus]] (5-7-1992)<ref name=twins/>

* [[teamwork]]

*{{flagicon|Cyprus}} [[Famagusta]], Cyprus (13-8-1994)<ref name=twins/>

* [[game theory]]

*{{flagicon|Germany}} [[Meissen]], [[Germany]] (26-9-1996)<ref name=twins/>

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*{{flagicon|Germany}} [[Troisdorf]], Germany (4-10-1996)<ref name=twins/>

*{{flagicon|Cyprus}} [[Asha Cypriot town | Asha]], Cyprus (3-5-1998)<ref name=twins/>

*{{flagicon|Italy}} [[Brindisi, Italy]] (21-5-1998)<ref name=twins/>

*{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Vathi, Samos]] Greece (29-7-1998)<ref name=twins/>

*{{flagicon|Italy}} [[Carovigno]], Italy (7-5-2000)<ref name=twins/>

*{{flagicon|Italy}} [[Verona]], Italy (August 2000)<ref name=twins/>

*{{flagicon|Slovenia}} [[Koper|Koper/Capodistria]], [[Slovenia]] (7-12-2000)<ref name=twins/>

*{{flagicon|Albania}} [[Sarandë]], [[Albania]] (12-7-2001)<ref name=twins/>

*{{flagicon|Cyprus}} [[Tremetousia]], Cyprus (9-12-2001)<ref name=twins/>

*{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Ioannina]], [[Greece]] (21-12-2002)<ref name=twins/>

===References===

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* ''[[The Evolution of Cooperation]]'', [[Robert Axelrod]], Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-02121-2

*''[[The Selfish Gene]]'', [[Richard Dawkins]] (1990), second edition -- includes two chapters about the evolution of cooperation, ISBN 0-19-286092-5

* ''[http://www.newconversations.net/communication_skills_workbook_summary_and_toc.htm The Seven Challenges: A Workbook and Reader About Communicating More Cooperatively]'', Dennis Rivers, fourth edition, 2005 -- treats cooperation as a set of skills that can be improved.

*Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert T. Boyd, Ernst Fehr (eds.), ''Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life'' (Economic Learning and Social Evolution). MIT 2005

*John McMurtry, "How Competition Goes Wrong." ''Journal of Applied Philosophy'', 8(2): 200-210, 1991.

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*[http://www.corfu.gr City of Corfu Website]

* PDF [http://www.rheingold.com/cooperation/CooperationProject_3_30_05.pdf The Cooperation Project: Objectives, Accomplishments, and Proposals] [rheingold.com Howard Rheingold's project with [http://www.iftf.org/ Institute for the Future].

* cooperation platform for transport research (scientific) [http://www.etra.cc more]

* [http://www.imprology.com/games/viewallgames.html The Far Games] A list of games using theatrical improvisation to encourage collaboration and distributed leadership

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