A Radical Change in Our Conception of Democracy and in Its Practice
Arnaud Blin
- 07 April 2003
Proposal for a World Parliament for the Twenty-first Century
Monthly Summary 5 (March 10 - April 7, 2003): Generating a Movement for World Democracy and a World Parliament. Some strategies
A social, solidarity and locally-based economy, condition of a sustainable development durable
Alain Laurent & Martine Théveniaut (Alliance Internationale des Territoires)
- 15 October 2005
Example of responsible tourism at a local level in Djibouti : ALTICOBA21
Democratic governance for Europe
Alessandro Guiglia
- 01 September 2000
The authors, after acknowledging the lack of democratic legacy in the European Union, investigate topics such as the citizenship, the identity and the governance systems.
Experience Sheets of the Workshop of Territories
Olivier Petitjean
- 03 December 1998
This document contains 31 experience sheets from the workshop of Management of the territories. The sheets of this document are extracted from the DPH data base (Dialogue for the Progress of the Humanity). This file has been constituted on the basis of the compilation of experiences coordinated by Ina Ranson, at
File on the micro and the macro scale
Terresa Cerveau, Morgane Iserte (FPH)
- 11 May 2000
Within the framework of the collective program Economic initiatives for a solidarity society and fight against exclusion at the FPH, a working group on the link between the micro and macro scale has been meeting since 1995.
Formations, Territories, and Governance: The Challenge of Networks and an of an International Experience Bank
Pierre Calame (FPH=Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le Progrès de l'Homme)
- 02 December 1999
This text presents the difficulties met by civil servants in developing experience-sharing networks among local public services.
International Finance and Solidarity: Towards a global banking network of solidarity
Henri Rouillé d'Orfeuil
- 01 August 2002
Presentation of the concept of a global social finance network.
L'intégration régionale en Afrique
Pierre Calame (FPH=Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le Progrès de l'Homme)
- 01 October 2000
Elements of responses on the regional integration by young Burundians
La capacité d'initiative des territoires et des hommes
Pierre Calame (FPH=Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le Progrès de l'Homme)
- 01 December 1998
This text introduces the dimensions of the new functions that have the territory.
Le territoire, brique de base de la gouvernance du futur
- 01 October 2000
The territories' management appears to be at the foundation for tomorrow's governance. It is today confronted to a double requirement: to make possible new ways of systemic management, and to build a level of apprenticeship of citizenship.
Les réseaux sont une modalité essentielle d'organisation collective pour un monde responsable et solidaire
Daniel Garcia (Ouvertures)
- 01 October 2000
Pierre Calame's interview published in the review "Ouvertures" (Dec98) is about the notion of network.
Local Authorities or Local Facilitation
Roger Winterhalter (Collège autorités locales)
- 02 November 2001
Proposal Paper of the Socioprofessional Network of Local Authorities: Local Authorities or Local Facilitation
Pour un processus interafricain de dialogue sur la décentralisation et l'intégration africaine
Pierre Calame (FPH=Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le Progrès de l'Homme)
- 01 October 1999
This note presents the organisation of the debate on decentralisation and African integration, the first in West Africa and the second in Central and Eastern Africa. This article exposes the objectives and the possible methodologies for such processes.
Questions on Governance and Active Subsidiarity
Pierre Calame (FPH=Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le Progrès de l'Homme), Pierre CALAME (FONDATION CHARLES LEOPOLD MAYER POUR LE PROGRES DE L'HOMME)
- 11 January 1999
A debate has been organised in November 99 for the publication of the book " L'état au Coeur ". This debate had lead to this 21-question text on challenges of today's governance : What does mean governance ? Can governance principles be considered as universal ? ...
Solidarity-Based Cooperation Networks
Euclides Mance
- 01 January 2003
This article begins by defining the notion of the network, and then of solidarity-based co-operation networks, providing a description of their historical development, current position and importance.
Summary: Territory: between the high, the low, the short, the long, the fast, the slow, the internal and the external; the ideal level for essential conciliations
Martine Théveniaut Muller et Alain Laurent (Alliance Internationale des Territoires)
- 15 October 2005
Concept paper written for the WSSE Dakar, Senegal meeting (Nov 19-21, 2005).
Territorial Integrated Management and Local Development: Some Approaches
Paul Makedonski (Instituto de Desarrollo Urbano -Cenca-)
- 01 June 2000
The author exposes the different academic approach to the question of space (geopolitics, neo-classic school, theory of the externality, structuralism) and he demonstrates its lack of relevance for the problem in the Andes. He stresses that the research carried on integrated territorial management in the Andes can open new perspectives.
Territories and Sustainable Development, Adaptation or Change of Paradigm ? Consequences for the Local Institutions
Pierre Calame (FPH=Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le Progrès de l'Homme), Pierre CALAME (FONDATION CHARLES LEOPOLD MAYER POUR LE PROGRES DE L'HOMME)
- 01 June 2001
This article develops the following thesis : territories will be essential for tomorrow's governance in the sense that it will answer this two essential necessities : 1) combining policies and actors in an integrated approach ; 2) combining scales of governance from local to global.
The African Charter of Partnership between the inhabitants and the local authorities
Pierre CALAME (FONDATION CHARLES LEOPOLD MAYER POUR LE PROGRES DE L'HOMME)
- 23 May 2000
The African Charter articulates a series of principals necessary to allow a thorough partnership between inhabitants and local authorities.
The Future of the Big Territorial Entities
Pierre Calame (FPH=Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le Progrès de l'Homme), Pierre CALAME (FONDATION CHARLES LEOPOLD MAYER POUR LE PROGRES DE L'HOMME)
- 30 October 1998
Reflection seminar of the general secretaries; Strasbourg 29-30/09/98
The Territory, a Place of Relations: Toward a Community of Linkage and Sharing
Yves De Morsier, Paul Makedonski, Ina Ranson
- 01 September 2001
The Territory, a Place of Relations: Toward a Community of Linkage and Sharing
The principle of active subsidiarity : reconciling unity and diversity
Pierre Calame (FPH=Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le Progrès de l'Homme)
- 12 February 1998
In this article Pierre Calame explains the necessity of adopting the principle of active subsidiarity. In fact this concept offers new ways of understanding and articulating contemporary problems and allows the elaboration of innovative propositions.
The shift from micro to macro
Pierre Calame (FPH)
- 15 November 1998
A debate on the question of transition from local experiences to national policies.
To Invent alternative forms of local development: debate summary
- 14 February 2005
Summary of the main contributions to the debate "To Invent alternative forms of local development", of the workshop Territories.
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