The Worlds Citizen Assembly took place in Lille, France, in December 2-10, 2001. Attended by four hundred participants representing a fair balance of the different regions of the world and of the different socioprofessional spheres, the Assembly foreshadowed a Global Parliament. This was not an isolated event, but the culmination of a large number of international workshops that had been organized according to themes, regions or socioprofessional networks within the framework of the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World. Five other preparatory continental meetings have been organized between June 17 and 26, 2001, in India, Ecuador, Romania, Tanzania and Lebanon.