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 talk about themselves: personal or professional aspects, anything they think that it could be important to know

 say what they are expecting from the forum and from a World Parliament in general

b) World Parliament + the values, principles, and purposes of global governance

 Which values and principles should be included, and which excluded in the statements of a World Parliament and in general for any other global public institution?

 What order or priority would you give to these values and principles, in other words, which of them are more important and which secondary or subjected to others?

 Are we going to change what until now has been called the capitalist system for something different? Or are we going just to reform it instead, with the help of a stronger international law that continuously corrects its worst tendencies, such as marginalization, extreme poverty, social injustice, war, environmental damage, etc.? What would be the place and the limits of a global redistribution system, for a global cooperative economy? What are property, basic human needs, sustainable development, and social welfare?

 What relationship should the World Parliament have with other global institutions, both generalist and sectoral ones?

 What relationship should it have with lower-level institutions i.e. regional and local assemblies? Should such institutions constitute lower echelons in a pyramidal structure?

 How would information, decisions, resources circulate between these different levels? Should these other institutions be set up at the same time as World Parliament? after? before?

 What relationship with the present nation-state institutions? Could the EU model be an example of international building valid for other parts of the world? Etc.

 What should be the nature of all these external relationships of the World Parliament? i.e., What persons, ideas, texts, and orders should circulate between World Parliament and other institutions, in which forms and at which frequency for meetings and other ways of interaction? What possibilities are there to develop a legal shared responsibility between two or more institutions, as established by the principle of active subsidiarity?

b) Internal organization

 Which kind of territorial units (if any) should be represented in a World Parliament? How to deal with the territorial problems represented by some territorial units such as micro-states, minorities, Diasporas, etc.?

 Which kind of sectoral units (if any)? and what kind of interaction with territorial representation i.e. cross-sectoral...? What representation of socio-biological categories: gender and age?

 What kind of representation for all of these units and categories? i.e. demographic, equal number for each unit, or mixed following different equation formulas? How many chambers and what purpose would they serve? How many representatives, depending on how much work and whether it involves being physically present at meetings or Internet-based interaction?

 Should be there political parties? If so, how can they be democratizes? If not, in what other ways can there be a balanced representation of the different currents, ideologies, interests and needs, in order to safeguard plurality as much as possible?

 Should the Parliament propose and plan the development of vast global programs to rid the planet of the present most negative global plagues? How could such programs be developed?

 Should jurisdictions be distributed among different scales of government, or shared? Which ones could be distributed and / or shared, and at which scales of government?

 Which are the representatives’ tasks and what priority or "proportion of their time" would they dedicate to each of them? Which would be formal and informal ways of communication between representatives and others, for each of these possible functions? What use of the media (non interactive) should be developed by the World Parliament?

 What kind of laws should be produced in a World Parliament? What information mechanisms would be set up to make laws? What would the mechanisms be for building laws? How are commissions set up? How many representatives should be participating in each one? How would the law-making be defined: first draft, first amendments, next draft, additional amendments? What part of the work (if any) requires being physical present and what part requires online interaction? What are the plenary sessions (if necessary) for? i.e., voting laws, symbolic events.

 What would be the mechanisms for voting and approving laws? How to deal with different types of majorities, alliances, blockages, etc. by party groups or other groups?

 What relationship and collaboration would there be with a possible area of direct citizen e deliberation? How could this area be constituted? What would be the jurisdiction and responsibilities of direct democracy processes in global decision making?

 How will implementation mechanisms be set up? Who should have executive power? How to develop forms of sanction over nations and peoples that do not respect and develop common resolutions? What kind of economic sanctions and against whom: leaders, whole countries? What (if any) place would there be for a global—or at least regional—dissuasive army? When and how must such an army intervene in conflicts? What place for non-violent strategies be given? etc.

 What’s your evaluation of the forum itself? Make suggestions concerning the facilitation process, the proposed agenda, the technical aspects, etc. Do you find that the arguments exposed by participants are rich and elaborate enough to consider the proposal ready to be circulated in an effective campaign? Do you feel that the format and the contents of summaries and the final document do a good job in developing all the essential points of the entire discussion? Make suggestions concerning further products that could be made as a result of the forum.