Alliance for a responsible, plural and united world

World citizens assembly
Lille – December 2-10, 2001

Regional Group

WEST AFRICA

Themes chosen by the participants :
	1/ Sustainable development, economics, science and technology
	2/ Local and global governance
	3/ Ethics, responsibility and humanism
	4/ Ethical, religious and community conflicts
	5/ Education and communication

Account of the continental African meeting in Dar-Es-Salaam, preceded by the African caravan for peace and solidarity which collected ideas and experiences…
- At the end of the meeting, an African charter for peace and solidarity was produced and the idea of an African network for peace and solidarity was launched.
- An African charter for a partnership between inhabitants and local communities in Africa was made up for ‘Africities’ in May 2000.
- Farmers World Forum in Yaounde next Mai.
- African parliament of the young in Nairobi in October 2002

1/ Sustainable development, economics, science and technology
-	Local development : land, water, soils, energies, financing.
-	Science and technology for sustainable local development.
-	Industrial ecology for local development.
-	Alternative systems of production and consumption when confronted to rare resources and a fragile environment.
-	To struggle against the poverty and unemployment of the young.
-	To develop health systems for all.
-	Cancellation of the debt.

2/ Local and global governance
-	Transparency, responsibility and participation at all levels of the governance
-	Management of the relationship between the societies and their environment
-	Partnership between the public and the private sector
-	To re-found the State
		- To control the consequences of international cooperation
-     Genuine regional integration

3/ Ethics, responsibility and humanism
-	To develop an ethic of responsibility
-	To promote political, economical, cultural and social rights for the dignity and well-being of populations.
-	To struggle against all kinds of discrimination and exclusion : slavery, xenophobia, segregation, and so on…
-	Acknowledgement and reparations for the damage and harm due to slavery and colonization.

4/ Conflicts and a culture of peace
-	The respect of the unity and diversity of cultures
-	To promote the respect and tolerance between cultures
	
5/ Education and communication
-    An education for all that prepares the persons and societies to face the challenges of the Africa of the XXIst century :
		. to democratize education
		. to teach how to learn in order to understand and undertake projects
		. to teach peace and citizenship
-	Free media for world understanding, democratic control and citizen action

ACTION PROGRAM
-	To set up a regional workshop on industrial ecology and local development (tragedy)
-	To identify, back up and reinforce existing information resources in order to set up a dynamical information-exchange system (CRI)
-	To set up an active school for peace whose goal is research, training and intervention during conflict-ending processes (Messan)
-	To set up pressure groups for the cancellation of the debts, economical policies, transparency, State refounding, and so on…
-	To backup and reinforce sub-region integration processes from the base.
-	To organize a yearly university dialogue (west Africa universities) with an ‘essays fair’ (research works)
-	The creation of an observatory for financial transparency and against the impunity of bribery crimes, embezzlements, and so on...
-	To organize a meeting for the restitution and comprehension of Lille’s works.
-	To promote African cultures through the new means of communication