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. These workshops resulted in the drafting of sixty
Proposal Papers, which were presented for the first time in Lille, then
at the World Social Forum of Porto Alegre in January 2002. The
World Assembly identified common priorities for change on the basis
of the concerns of the different socioprofessional groups and the different
regions of the world, and outlined the contents of a strategy for change
for the twenty-first century. It also discussed and amended the Charter
of Human Responsibilities, the indispensable complement to the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and the Charter of the United Nations. It
demonstrated that there exists a will for dialogue within the global
society that is beginning to take shape and it calls for subsequent
action in different regions of the world and in different circles.
- The Axes of the Alliance and those of the World Citizens Assembly
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The sixty Alliance Proposals Papers,
resulting from the Workshops, Socioprofessional Networks and
Continental Assemblies, formulate about 1,500 proposals for
change and action in all realms of human activity, from ethics
to governance and from the economy to the protection of the
biosphere. These proposals are of variable importance and many
convergences appeared among proposals from different sources.
They were reorganized around about twenty axes.
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World citizens assembly : challenges, course
of events, results
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In Lille, France, from the 2nd to the
10th of December 2001 the first World Citizens' Assembly was
held, prefiguring a Planetary Parliament with its goal of
developing dialogue within a world society represented in
all its geographical and socio-professional diversity. Representing
an important step in the building of the Alliance for a Responsible,
Plural and United World, the World Assembly provided a framework
for a process of identification of common priorities for change
based on the concerns of the different socio-professional
milieus of the different regions of the world. It also was
the setting for the drawing up of a Charter of Human Responsibilities,
a necessary adjunct to the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights and the United Nations Charter. It allowed to set up
the contents of an agenda for the 21st century. It demonstrated
the desire to see new forms of dialogue appear within a world
society in the making. It can serve as inspiration and reference
in the methodological field for the future of the Alliance,
in particular setting up regional citizens' assemblies. It
gave birth to the Planetary Parliament that it prefigured.
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