Other important moments

Copenhagen Social World Summit, 1995
Four continental forums were held in February 1995: in Beijing for Asia, in Rio de Janeiro for America, in Paris for Europe, and in Cape Town for Africa. These simultaneous forums, which preceded the Copenhagen Social World Summit, brought together citizens from more than sixty countries as the image of the emerging global community, both rooted in specific local realities and prepared to (...)

First International Meeting of Alliance Facilitators, Barcelona, 1996 - by Joan Ramon Gordo, Marti Olivella

1997: History of the Alliance’s International Assembly and Continental Assemblies - by Gustavo Marin, Manola Gardez
The objective of this meeting was to prepare for the World Citizens Assembly and for the meetings of the end of the century. At the time, Allies were still planning this passing-of-the-century event to take place in 1999 and therefore it seemed appropriate to organize, two years previous to this date, a preliminary meeting as a step in this collective journey. The 1997 Assembly constituted (...)

1997: Other Documents Related to the Meetings - by Cécile Sabourin, Gustavo Marin, Maurice Cosandey, Morgane Iserte, Philippe Guirlet, Pierre Calame, Ricardo Gómez, Véronique Rioufol
The seven simultaneous meetings—Bertioga-São Paulo (Brazil), Bangalore (India), Barcelona (Spain), Kigali (Rwanda), Roubaix (France), and Algiers (Algeria) and a sixth one that was spontaneously self-organized in Finland—gave birth to a number of workgroups. Following are some of their reports, rooted in the 1997 (...)

First Meeting of the International Facilitation Team of the Alliance: 1999 - by Gustavo Marin, Marti Olivella, Nacéra Aknak Khan

March 2001 - China and India: First Steps to a Newly Opened Dialog - by Gustavo Marin
In 2001, partners in India and in China with the support of the FPH launched a program to gather groups of Chinese and Indians and to lay the foundations of a dialog between citizens of the two countries. China and India, with populations of more than a billion each are the two most populated countries in the world (together they represent two-fifths of the Earth’s population); moreover, (...)

June 2001: Continental Meetings of the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World - by Gustavo Marin, Marti Olivella
Five continental meetings were organized between June 17 and 26 2001, to show the determination to build a new world citizenship at the scale of today’s challenges of today. This set of meetings, which were held simultaneously on the 5 continents, gathered 500 people from 120 countries and were followed by several thousand people on the Web site set up for the event. Simultaneously and in (...)

December 2001 - The World Citizens Assembly: Challenges, Changes, Results - by Pierre Calame

Allies around the World (April 2003) - by Gustavo Marin
This memo presents the Geocultural Path of the Alliance in April 2003. It provides an overall view and makes it possible to draw some conclusions from the experience and the future of the geocultural path of the Alliance. The memo is based on travel reports, meetings, answers to the Call for Initiatives launched by the FPH in May 2002, telephone conversations, articles published on the Web (...)