Theme: Agendas and roadmaps
Articles in English related to this theme:
The New Roles of States and Territorial Scales
What Europe does the world need?
¤ Pierre Calame ¤ 6 June 2010
We often find ourselves asking the question: what Europe do we want? The time may have come to look at the question the other way round, and ask ourselves: what Europe does the world need?
Does the world even need Europe? It would be fair to say that today’s mood is one of disillusionment, and that the prospects for the European Union do not look very heartening. For its founding fathers, building the European Union was a major feat. They saw the Union as the means to move beyond the (...) read more
Videos
Videos of the Governance and Ressentiment Seminar
¤ FnWG Team,
Traversées ¤ 23 September 2009
The "Governance and Ressentiment" seminar was held in Iquique, Chile, on December 5 and 6, 2008. It brought together various actors and intellectuals of the South Cone to work on the theme of ressentiment, which is rooted in the reality of the region and is also relevant globally. It was organized by CORAYUN and by the FnWG in the framework of a process leading to a South Cone Citizen Assembly.
Speeches and interviews are in Spanish and in French only.
The meeting (Spanish & French, (...) read more
The Architecture of World Governance
Rethinking Global Governance
¤ Arnaud Blin,
Gustavo Marin ¤ 2 January 2008
After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, there are some who believe that the future of architecture of global politics will require setting up a global-governance system. The global-governance issue is characterized by the shift from a scenario where the power of the states is regulated to avoid disequilibrium and maintain the status quo, to one where international law and the role of international institutions need to be redefined in terms of their real arbitration potential in the (...) read more
The UN Reform and the Alterglobalization Movement
¤ Gustave Massiah ¤ 28 February 2005
The United Nations are at a crossroads. They have not really proven to be unworthy, they simply have not been at all convincing. Their reform is a critical issue, with several possible responses. For some, the United Nations should become the political system of neoliberal globalization. For the author, the issue is rather to define and to implement radical reform of the institution. The starting hypothesis is that the alterglobalization movement is the driving agent for broader alliances (...) read more
Conflict Resolution and Sustainable Peace Building
Persistent corruption in low-income countries requires global action
¤ Transparency International ¤ 26 September 2007
The gap between the perceptions of the levels of corruption in rich countries and poor countries is always so clear: this is what emerges from the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2007 published by Transparency International. Developed countries and developing countries must share the responsibility in reducing corruption by cutting off both the supply and the demand for corruption.
The Corruption Perceptions Index 2007 analyses the perceptions of the level of corruption in the public (...) read more
Universal, Plural and Quality Education, and Citizen Education
Can We Close the Education Gap?
¤ Global Future ¤ September 2007
The right to an education is recognized as one of the most fundamental human rights, benefiting individuals and strengthening whole communities and civilizations. Access to education for all is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and national laws. In Millennium Development Goal 2, governments have pledged to ensure that all girls and boys complete a full course of primary schooling; Goal 3 and the "Education For All" goals (...) read more
Education International’s Response to the Global Monitoring Report 2006 on "Literacy for Life"
¤ Education International ¤ September 2006
The world is more than five years, one third of the total period, on its way towards achieving Education For All (EFA), one of the Millennium Development Goals. In light of this, the UN Global Monitoring Report (GMR) 2006 examines progress on making the goals on EFA - set down at the World Education Forum in Dakar in 2000 - a reality.
Education International (EI) decided in 2000 to annually produce a report which would provide an update on progress made and challenges still ahead with (...) read more
Environmental Governance and Managing the Earth
Global Environmental Governance: Elements of a Reform Agenda
¤ Adil Najam,
Mihaela Papa,
Nadaa Taiyab ¤ 14 May 2007
"Elements for a Reform Agenda" is the third and last chapter of the e-book "Global Environmental Governance: A Reform Agenda," published in 2006 by the International Institute on Sustainable Development. In this chapter, the authors suggest that there seems to be a consensus around five main goals in relation to global environmental governance (GEG): (1) leadership by outstanding and competent institutions commanding the respect and support of high-profile world leaders; (2) knowledge, (...) read more
Citizens’ Reappropriation of Politics
Civil Society’s Impact on the Multilateral Sphere: Lessons Learned and Future Directions
¤ Montréal International Forum ¤ 13 March 2007
This is a report of Forum International de Montréal’s (FIM) Annual Forum "Civil Society’s Impact on the Multilateral Sphere: Lessons Learned and Future Directions", held in March, 2007 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Forum objectives were to: define the challenges and opportunities facing future Civil Society Organization/Non Governmental Organization (CSO/NGO) relations with multilateral bodies and systems; identify the present and emerging governance issues and priorities arising from these (...) read more
Sustainable Development and the Humanity-Biosphere Relationship
Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead
¤ Paul Raskin,
Tariq Banuri,
Gilberto Gallopín,
Pablo Gutman,
Al Hammond,
Robert Kates,
Rob Swart ¤ August 2002
This path-breaking book presents a fresh vision for a sustainable world. It describes the historic roots, current dynamics, future perils, and alternative pathways for world development. It advances one of these paths, Great Transition, as the preferred route, identifying strategies, agents of change, and values for a new global agenda. The planetary phase of history has begun, its ultimate shape profoundly uncertain. Will global development veer toward a world of impoverished people, (...) read more
Economic Governance and Globalization
A World Alliance against Social Apartheid
¤ Gustavo Marin ¤ 6 March 1995
This text summarizes the conclusions from four "continental forums" held in February 1995: in Beijing for Asia, Rio de Janeiro for America, Paris for Europe, and Cape Town for Africa.
These simultaneous forums, which preceded the Copenhagen Social World Summit, brought together the citizens of more than 60 countries and are the image of a world citizenship in formation, rooted in specific local realities and ready to take up contemporary challenges on a worldwide scale at one and the same (...) read more
