- Assessment of Lille
- Circulation of the Proposal Papers and the Charter
- The discussion forums
- Regional and Thematic activities
- Call for Initiatives
- What about 2003?

Information
The Web site of the Alliance keeps a record of all these initiatives. Among others, it has published the work achieved at the World Citizens Assembly, and an evaluation form for the Charter of Human Responsibilities was made available on line. The Web site now has an international facilitation team to develop it, the Directory of the Allies is being continuously updated and an electronic mailing list has been opened to share Alliance information with all the Allies and their friends.

- Calendar of activities in 2001
- Continental meetings
- The World Citizens Assembly
- Archives of the EIFC forum
- Proposal Papers
- Articulation between the Proposal Papers and the WSF 2002
- Forum pax on Building Peace
- Workgroup on a Socio-economy of Solidarity
- Forum on World Parliament
- Call for Initiatives
- Journey to Palestine
- Web site of the Allies of the South Cone
- Web site of the Drums for peace
- Forum for the development of the Web site of the Alliance
- Subscription to the Alliance information mailing list

2000-2001 were years of extraordinary activity for the many Workshops and Groups of the Alliance. During those two years, the Allies organized scores of meetings in all the regions of the world, focused mainly on the collective elaboration of nearly sixty Proposal Papers and the Charter of Human Responsibilities. The five Continental Meetings in June 2001 (in Ecuador, India, Tanzania, Romania, and Lebanon) constituted an important stage of this process, which culminated with the holding of the World Citizens Assembly in Lille, France, in December 2001.

Assessment of Lille:

- The e-forum of the EIFC (Enlarged International Facilitation Committee), facilitated by the organization Novacis in Barcelona, has kept the facilitators of the Workshops and Groups of the Alliance in contact with each other, and on this forum, they have undertaken a first assessment of the Alliance’s developments since 1994.

- The main lines of the assessment of the World Citizens Assembly of December 2001 in Lille, France, were determined by the results of a questionnaire in five parts that was addressed to all of the participants.

Circulation of the Proposal Papers and the Charter

- The Proposal Papers were circulated throughout the whole of 2002. The first versions were published in the form of booklets last November by the publishers’ network in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, and Arabic.

- A cross-cutting assessment of the proposals elaborated by the Alliance Workshops was also launched by Novacis. Every week, the proposals elaborated on one theme are open to discussion in several languages, collecting the Allies’ opinions and their new ideas.

- The different Social Forums (World or Regional) were all opportunities for a broad circulation of the Proposal Papers and the Charter of Human Responsibilities, in particular at the WSF of Porto Alegre, the Social Forum in Argentina, and the European Social Forum in Florence, Italy.

- A new version of the Charter that has incorporated consideration of all the comments made in Lille in December 2001 and throughout 2002, is now available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. They are currently being translated into about twenty other languages.

The discussion forums

- In December 2001, the electronic forum on “Building Peace” was launched by a team of Allies backed by the School of Peace (Grenoble, France). The forum went on for six months and mobilized close to 200 citizens from all regions of the world.

- Throughout all of 2002, the Workshops of the Economy of Solidarity Workgroup continued their activities. Some of the forums related to this work area have been reopened in view of producing an articulation among the various themes that have been dealt with.

- In October 2002, a team of Allies launched an electronic forum on the possibility of holding a World Parliament. This initiative had been developing throughout 2000-2001 and the need to hold an in-depth discussion on the subject had been discussed at the Lille Assembly in December 2001.

Regional and Thematic activities

Allies throughout the world have undertaken numerous new initiatives. Three of these are presented below and the others are presented in the Alliance Web site section “Call for Initiatives.”

- Seeking to respond to an emergency situation, a group of Allies went to Palestine in April 2002. There, contacts were established with a number of Palestinians and Israelis to contribute to the reinforcement of peace initiatives in the region.

- In June, more than forty Allies of the South Cone organized a regional meeting in Rio de Janeiro, to evaluate the path traveled so far by the Alliance, and to continue to develop the Alliance in the region.

- The Facilitation team of the Alliance in West Africa met in Dakar in August 2002, from where it launched a working program that will continue throughout 2003. The Allies of this region have opened an e-forum to discuss proposals on the economy of solidarity, the new technologies, governance, and the fight against slavery, in particular against the trafficking of children.

- Allies continued their progress in India, China, and Southeast Asia. Several meetings were held in this vast region on the search for dialogue within the interreligious conflicts, on the sustainable management of water, and on the position of family farmers in the local economy and in the global economy.

- In the Balkans, Allies have begun to constitute a regional network in Albania, Macedonia, and Kosovo.

- The Drums for Peace sounded again in September 2002 in Brazil. Thousands of young people played drums in their schools and in public places in many Brazilian cities. The Brazilian Allies are determined to pursue and to enlarge this initiative to include more people.

Call for Initiatives

A Call for Initiatives was launched in May 2002 by the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation. To date, more than 25 initiatives have been backed, facilitated by old and new Allies in various regions of the world, working on a variety of themes and belonging to various socioprofessional groups and networks. One of the particular characteristics of the new initiatives is the search for greater articulation among the different themes that have been worked on and for the actors capable of implementing the proposals that have been drawn up. Such cross-cutting research is present in several initiatives in various regions of the world.

What about 2003?

The year 2003 looks promising.
Significant work on the collective elaboration of an Agenda for the 21st century has begun. It would be good for as many Allies as possible to participate in this effort. It requires a cross-reading of the Proposal Papers and enhancing the Charter of Human Responsibilities on the basis of cross cultural, thematic, and socioprofessional points of view. The new pages of the Alliance are being written …

In January 2003, the third World Social Forum in Porto Alegre will be once again an opportunity to circulate the work that has been accomplished to date and to reinforce the many different initiatives under way for a world that is fairer, and more responsible, plural, and united.