Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World

World Citizens Assembly
Lille – December 2nd to 10th, 2001

Regional Group

SOUTH EAST ASIA

A.	Introduction
Each one introduce name, country, work and one interesting thing he has experienced that he want to share with others.

B.	Discussion

1.	Prioritise the themes relevant to the region’s situation < in order of priority >
     
·	Governance
1.	Transparency, responsibility and participation at all levels of governance.
2.	Letting NGOs and civil society play a more important role.
3.	Developing links between organizations of civil society
4.	Local development which draws on the Initiatives and cultures of all.
5.	Political Rights
6.	Establishing new mechanisms of Democratic Regulations.

·	Representations
1.	Endorse one’s responsibility as “ cross-cultural intermediaries” in the context of an individual ethics and of a collective ethics and to develop interpersonal exchanges.
2.	Education for Peace/ Training teachers for peace.

·	Biosphere
1.	Governance and environment; finding institutional, political and legal means of managing relations between societies and their environments.
2.	Scientific topics of sustainable development vs. not-for-profit scientific  themes.
3.	Promote industrial ecology as a strategic approach in North-South international cooperation at the service of local development.

·	Socio Economy
1.	Forms of solidarity and economic alternative, from the local to the global levels.
2.	Economic Rights
3.	To guarantee food sovereignty and move towards sustainable food systems.
4.	For new means of regulating and social responsibility of business.

2.	Strategies and follow up

Goal  : To convince SEA Assembly in year 2006. <with the perspective of convincing the SEA Assembly, by people who have experiences in networking, esp. in the fields that the SEA Assembly focus on : governance, sustainable development, water, culture and identity, women <international level>; and the networks of farmers, UNDP,>

1.	Develop conceptual framework <vision> of World Governance, biosphere, Representation, Socio Economy, solidarity for all the perspective of SEA countries.
2.	Papers : technical, case studies.
3.	Fundraising.
4.	SEA Alliance
5.	E group to keep in touch between the organizers, also for discussing < c/o Anthony Chiu >
6.	Attempt to organize 1 meeting every year.

Goal 2 : Individual responsibilities : to continue the work they have done in their countries and also work in the process of the regional alliance.