Alliance 21: Making Another World Possible
Evaluations, Visions, Proposals, and Projects
Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World
April 2003

The first three parts :

- Evaluation and Vision of the Future
- Proposals and Projects
- Report on the Participatory Process Used for the Evaluation and Future of the Alliance

- The second stage of the Alliance :

• First stage of the Alliance :
  - First Steps
  - Structuring the Alliance
  - Elaboration of the “Proposal Papers”
• Present Assets and Weaknesses
• Perspectives for the Second Stage

THE SECOND STAGE OF THE ALLIANCE

By Pierre Calame pic@fph.fr

First Contribution to a Collective Thinking Process

A/ First Stage of the Alliance: an Attempt to Put Things in Perspective

3. Elaboration of the ÒProposal PapersÓ Ñ Preparation and Staging of the World Citizens Assembly (2000-2001)

The statement by the International Facilitation Team (IFT) in the fall of 1999 of priorities diverging from those drawn up at the start, which the FPH had committed to achieving, generated a crisis situation, materialized by the refusal of the FPH Council to vote, in 2000, the budget to support the development of the Alliance. A new meeting of the IFT in the spring of 2000 produced an ambitious operational plan for 2000 and 2001, including: a major effort to diversify the socioprofessional networks; standardization of the working methods; the establishment of a shorter timetable for drafting a large number of Proposal Papers, elaborating drafts for ethical charters to be applied in different specific spheres; and the organization, on the initiative of the Alliance but with direct involvement of the FPH, of the World Citizens Assembly in December 2001. This Assembly was to be the reflection of the diversity of the world and its composition was, from the geographical and sociological points of view, very different than that of the Alliance. Far from being an ÒAlliesÕ AssemblyÓ made up of Ally delegates, the Assembly opened up, in fact, a new stage of the Alliance.

Those who had been most involved in making the Alliance autonomous felt that this operational plan was intended to bring the Alliance back under the control of the FPH, and in particular, my own. I was suspected of exercising single power.

This climate did not prevent the years 2000 and 2001 from being particularly intense and productive. The diversification of the socioprofessional networks and of the represented world regions introduced new points of view, even though the newly set up socioprofessional networks had the fragility of artificial set-ups. The drafting of the Proposal Papers induced new discipline. Confrontation of the Papers made it possible to determine the main strategic lines of change. The organization of the Assembly enlarged the networks considerably and led to the elaboration of numerous methodological innovations, among others, the use of mapped models. The Assembly itself, in spite of its difficulties, made it possible to reveal unsuspected convergences and to discuss a common ethical referenceÑthe Charter of Human Responsibilities. Under the influence of all these enlargements, the Alliance Web site was considerably improved. Remote-discussion methods via the Internet were diversified and tamed. The World Citizens Assembly marked the end of the moral commitments the FPH had made with regard to the Alliance at its beginning. In 2002, the FPH opened its Òsabbatical periodÓÑwhich had been postponedÑwhich was to allow it to make an assessment of its action and to define its orientations for the period covering 2003-2010. This period could coincide with the second stage of the Alliance.

The FPH clearly stated all of the following as soon as the World Assembly was over: