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The Group on the World Parliament has been managing an electronic forum since October 2002 and co-organized workshops in the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India. The electronic forum brought 415 persons together from 70 countries, who have been discussing the different aspects of a project for a World Parliament and for democracy at a planetary scale. Some of the issues discussed have been:

What are the values and principles for building a world community? What is the role of each of the international institutions in the map of global governance? How can we imagine a body that is able to represent and to combine, democratically, the complexity of the human family? How can this institution be representative, legitimate, and organized on a day-to-day work basis? What strategies are needed to build a world democracy? What are the first steps that the participants of an electronic forum could take to implement some of these strategies?

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Forum : Proposal for a World Parliament for the Twenty-first Century (October 2002 - October 2003)

In our present times of globalization a whole set of problems involving the entire planet is being put on the table. We are facing these problems but have not yet been able to find common answers. Both the selfishness of some and the indifference of many allows, among other disasters, extreme poverty to coexist with opulence, wars to kill millions of persons, the environment to react in the form of unpredictable disasters, individualism to lead people to shirk their responsibilities and hypnotize them with false consumption paradises. Our planet is like a drifting ship without a helm. (...)

VI. Second Stage (May - October 2003) and Follow-up to the Project - Germà Pelayo -
V. A Few Proposals Produced by the Debate
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From ‘Westphalia’ To ‘Seattle’: Long-Term Trends In Global Governance
:: Kimon Valaskakis :: February 2007 ::

This paper argues that we are at a dangerous junction in human history where the institutions and mechanisms that we have set up to govern Planet Earth are in danger of collapsing. This threat is all the more disconcerting because we live in an era of unparalleled affluence and prosperity. What is missing is an updated global governance system to harness the great promise afforded by globalisation and technological change. At stake is the very foundation of the present world order based on the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. This initially European Treaty which ended the Thirty Years War (...)

Participants :: February 2006 ::

373 Abdellah El Hairach - MoroccoAlter Forum Ada CHAMBERGO - Peru Akiko OGINO - Japan Alain COCQ - France Alain LACHAND - France Alanna HARTZOK - United States of AmericaHeart Rights Institute Alejandra Liora ADLER - United States of America Alejandro Javier CASANOVA DOMINGO - Spain Alessandro PONCE DE LEON - Brazil Alexander - Russian Federation Alonso GÓmez VÉlez - ColombiaCorporación Instituto Refugio de Amor Altagracia (Chilo) Villarreal - MexicoCoalición Rural Amine EL KABBAJ - Morocco Amir FARMANESH - Iran Amran Hussain - United KingdomAbul Lais Foundation Andres SEBILI - Argentina (...)

A World Parliament for Social Justice, Disarmament and Peace.
:: Arnaud Blin :: Rob Wheeler :: Germà Pelayo :: May 2002 ::

Letter of invitation to the second phase of the electronic forum of the World Parliament (2003 May - December) Here is the general agenda: Jun 1/20, a) Introduction of the new participants, b) continuing with the topic of April: next steps for creating a World Parliament, and c) exchange of personal and local activist experiences. Jun 20/Jul 15, What a WP Could Achieve and Why It Is Needed, depending of your experiences and interests, or also in the point of view of your culture and traditions. Jul 15/Sep 15, Deliberative systems: both for agreeing in the list of discussion and (...)

For a Parliament of the Peoples of the World
:: Gustavo Marin :: February 2002 ::

Statement to the Parliamentarians and Local Elected Officials round table at the Dialogues for the Earth conference organized by the International Green Cross and the Earth Council in Lyons (France) from February 21 to 23, 2002 One of the main proposals resulting form the World Citizens Assembly held in Lille (France) in December 2001 was to launch the idea of preparing a Parliament of the Peoples of the World. This claim for a new representative body of citizens on a world scale had already emerged at the end of World War II. The perspective of preparing a Parliament of the Peoples of (...)

Experience Reports on Implementing Citizens Conferences
:: Olivier Petitjean :: July 1998 ::

This document was drawn up on the basis of the the documents compiled for a meeting of the Alliance Workshop "Political Renewal," held in Brussels in 1998 on the theme of citizens conferences. Other Experience Reports from the DPH (Dialogues for the Progress of Humanity) data base have been added. This document has been made after the documents compiled for a meeting of the workshop "Renewal of Politics " of the alliance that was held in Brussels in 1998 on the theme of the conferences of citizens. Some other sheets from the DPH basis (Dialogues for the Progress of the humanity) has (...)

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