An Assembly that foreshadows a Global Parliament is neither a classic
international conference nor a general assembly of the persons having
already taken part in the work of the Alliance. A completely new process
had to be designed. The major challenges that had to be met were: how
to choose the participants; how to link the works of the Alliance and
those of the Assembly; and how to design the progress of the Assembly
and define suitable working methods. Each of these challenges required
innovation. The experimental nature of this venture sometimes generated
difficulty and incomprehension, but will enable us to draw many lessons
for the future.
- Working methods
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The challenges to take up : 
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To get from an international
conference of representatives of civil society to a World
Citizens Assembly that prefigures a World Parliament through
its mirroring of the diversity of world society and through
its ability to produce a summary of strategies for change
for the 21st century and a human responsibilities charter,
a number of obstacles must be overcome, such as the identification
of participants and the establishing of original working methods.
All such obstacles emerged during the Lille Assembly and the
difficulties encountered as well as the deficiencies observed
reflect the vast scale of an ambitious challenge that was
met.
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Process Used to Choose the Participants
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For four hundred participants to reflect
a changing world in all of its diversity, individual and collective
criteria had to be defined so that each participant would
be a true representative of his or her region or socioprofessional
sphere and for there to be a fair balance between regions
and socioprofessional spheres.
As shown by the list of participants, these objectives were
reached. Allies played a determining role in the identification
of potential participants. More than sixty networks played
a part in identifying participants in the regions of the world
where the Alliance had little or no representation.
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