Europe

Catalan Group

The Catalan geocultural group is active from 1996. At the moment he is active in the following issues:

- Contribution to the participative methodology of the WSF
- Promotion of the Non-violent Peace Forces

During these last years it has also carried out the following projects:

- Transversal forum for evaluating proposals for a responsible and solidary world
- Promotion of the project "Castell per la Pau" in Figueres, Catalonia
- Forum Rethinking Society

Below is the list of all the workgroup's referred Web sites

The Intercultural Resources Centre on Nonviolence
:: admin:: Nova. Center for Social Innovation :: 21 February 2008
Visit the The resources center is an on-line, open and multilingual space for sharing and building common knowledge on nonviolence and peace building. Here you will find a digital data base with hundreds of resources: books, articles, webs, bibliographical references, videos, interviews... (...)

About Nova
:: admin:: Nova. Center for Social Innovation :: 7 December 2007
Nova - Center for Social Innovation, promotes social innovation with popular participation and intercultural dialogue to help to generate alternative socioeconomic models to globalization, a culture of peace based on civil alternatives of defense and a more sustainable and participatory (...)

:: Articles ::

The First International Meeting of Facilitators
:: Marti Olivella :: Joan Ramon Gordo :: December 2003 ::

This document is the final report of the first international meeting of animators of yards, groups géoculturels and colleges of the alliance. This meeting was organized in Barcelona in 1996 This document is the final report of the first international meeting of animators of yards, groups géoculturels and colleges of the alliance. This meeting was organized in Barcelona by Marti Olivella and My Gordo of EcoConcern. It understands: a presentation of the alliance and Ecoconcern a presentation of the project "Innovative Propositions to reconsider the Society" the findings and (...)

Global cross-synthesis :: October 2003 ::

Provisional summary of the Forum for the Cross-evaluation of Proposals for a Responsible, Plural and United World. Before the summer of 2002, the team of Nova, the Barcelona Centre for Social Innovation, in response to the Call for Initiatives by the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for the Progress of Humankind, presented a proposal to undertake a collective reviewing and cross-evaluation process of the Proposal Papers and Breakthroughs of the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World published in 2001. The aim was to produce a consensual cross-summary. This summary could (...)

Forum for the Cross-evaluation of the Proposals for a Responsible, United and Plural World :: September 2002 ::

This document is an invitation to participate in this Forum for the Cross-evaluation of Proposals for a Responsible, Plural and United World, in order to know and evaluate the Proposals elaborated by the diferent groups of the Alliance. The procedure of participation is detailed and availble in French, Spanish, English, Portuguese and Catalan. In the course of the last 4 years, dozens of groups that are part of the Alliance for a Responsible, United and Plural World have put together some 60 Proposals Papers and Breakthroughs, that were presented at the World Citizens Assembly (Lille, (...)

Action For Peace: Drums For Peace
:: Feliu Madaula i Canadell :: June 2002 ::

The Drums for Peace are an initiative promoted by NOVA Center for social Innovation to make hear other sounds, other voices, new ideas and proposals, in a diverse clamor of drums, saucepans sounds,... in order to fight for peace. The Drums of Peace are an initiative promoted by NOVA Center for social Innovation to make hear other sounds, other voices, new ideas and proposals, in a diverse clamor of drums, saucepans sounds,... in order to fight for peace. With the 9/11 attacks we reactivated the idea and its need became more evident. At the end of September the first drums were beaten in (...)

Contact
Marti Olivella This Workgroup is active

Main Web Site
Nova. Center for Social Innovation

Other related Web sites
Project of transformation of Sant Ferran Castle, in Figueres (Catalonia) in a "Castle for Peace" March for the Culture of Peace Nova - Terra. Alternatives to Globalisation. Non Violent Peace Forces - Catalonia 4 Web sites: + details