Records of Alliance Forums (1996-2003)
Alliance forums began early: in 1996! In 1997, the Alliance conducted its first experiment in "remote participation" for the December 1997 World Alliance Assembly (Bertioga, Brazil; Algiers, Algeria; Bangalore, India; Roubaix, France; Kigali, Rwanda). After that, the first moderated, multilingual, structured forums were started ...
Forums are now commonplace, even though the moderated, structured, multilingual forums available in the Alliance remain unique.* The Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World began making forums a means for continuous and productive communication as early as 1996. If you are curious and interested, you can see the records of these early discussions here. Under "Recommended Selection" you are given details and tips on what might be most interesting to read.
Following are also reports on just a few of the debating forums conducted between 1996 and 2003.
* Click here for information on the methodology used for these forums.
 Recommended Selection of Early Alliance Forums
- by Marina Urquidi
Alliance Forums began early: in 1996! In 1997, the Alliance conducted its first experiment in "remote participation" for the December 1997 World Alliance Assembly (Bertioga, Brazil; Algiers, Algeria; Bangalore, India; Roubaix, France; Kigali, Rwanda). Then the first moderated, multilingual, structured forums were started...
Forums are now commonplace, even though the moderated, structured, (...)
Pax Forum (December 2001 - June 2002)
- by Marina Urquidi
Building Peace: The Need to Understand, So We Can Act
An International Internet-based Debate on Peace Building
The September 11 attacks in 2001 forced many people around the world into deep questioning about the world we live in, our own, individual place in it, and what our actions can or cannot lead to. We wished to move beyond casting blame and denouncing inept leadership. We felt it was (...)
First Public e-Debate on the Future of the Alliance (February 2002 - June 2003)
- by Marina Urquidi
From April to October 2005 and on an initiative of the FPH, which was both the initiator of the Alliance and its practically sole financial backer for ten years, Allies, their friends, and their partners were asked to look at the possibility of instituting a Charter for the Alliance. At the end of this consultation, the FPH judged, in light of the low participation in the consultation, that (...)
Forum for the Cross-evaluation of Proposals for a Responsible, Plural, and United World (October 2002 - July 2003)
- by Marti Olivella
Before the summer of 2002, the team of Nova, Barcelona Center for Social Innovation, responded to the Call for FPH Initiatives with the proposal to undertake a collective process for the reading and cross-evaluation of the “Proposal Papers” and the “Breakthroughs” published in 2001, in order to produce a consensual analytical summary. The knowledge and evaluation of the proposals undertaken to (...)
Debate on a Proposal for a World Parliament for the Twenty-first Century (October 2002 - October 2003)
- by Rob Wheeler
In our present times of globalization a whole set of problems involving the entire planet is being put on the table. We are facing these problems but have not yet been able to find common answers. Both the selfishness of some and the indifference of many allows, among other disasters, extreme poverty to coexist with opulence, wars to kill millions of persons, the environment to react in the (...)
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