Caravan: Newsletter of the Alliance for a Responsible and United World (Volume 6, August 2000)

Number 6

August 2000

Contents

	From Readers
	Editorial
	Mohawk people
	ASSEMBLY 2000-2001
	· Unity in Diversity
	· Panorama
	· Procedures
	· Join IFT
	Alliance in Motion
	Views on the Alliance
	YOUTH WORKSHOP
	GLOBAL GOVERNANCE WORKSHOP
	The Artist
	Acknowledgements

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Assembly 2000-2001
Panorama of the 2000-2001 Assembly

Geocultural Path | Topical Path | Collegial (Socioprofessional) Path | Communication

Following is a display of the Workshops and dynamics taking part in the Alliance 2000-2001 Assembly. It includes the topics and activities developed through the Geocultural, Topical, and Collegiate (Socioprofessional) Paths, with the support of communication tools.

It is important to highlight that a number of these Workshops are focusing on the work and dynamics conducted either by specific groups of the Alliance, or in movements and processes that have dynamics of their own, broader and/or earlier, but complementary to those of the Alliance and convergent with them.

This display:

gives visibility to the active Topical, Collegiate and Geocultural Workshops to which it is already possible to contribute;
highlights areas of possible cross-Workshop research and exchanges;
identifies the aspects and dynamics that need to be reinforced.

The brief description of each Topical, Collegiate, and Geocultural Workshop includes its main coordinators, as well as the dynamics to which it is linked. We are however aware that this list is neither complete nor fully representative.

Therefore please forgive us for any error or omission and don't hesitate to contact us to give us your reactions, and suggest changes and additional information. We intend to publish in the next issues of Caravan completed and diversified updates of this display as the process goes on.

If you would otherwise like to get involved in one or another of these Workshops, please contact the Workshop coordinators directly, whose details are in the Alliance Directory.

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The three Paths of the Alliance

Since the beginning, the Alliance has opted for e three-path structure:

The Geocultural Path reflects the diversity of places and focuses on the challenges of a township, a region, a country, or a continent.

The Topical Path reflects the diversity of the challenges that Humankind is facing for the twenty-first century.

The Collegiate Path reflects the diversity of social and professional backgrounds. Colleges facilitate the connection among people and movements that, within a given field, are concerned with their responsibility to the consideration of the future.

Alliance Workshops

Workshops designate all the Topical, Collegial, and Geocultural Workshops in progress in the Alliance.

Some Topical and Collegial Workshops are closely linked (for example The Media and Journalists or Yin Yang and Women), Even though their networks and thinking overlap, they cast different perspectives, with the Colleges reflecting the concerns of a field on its role and reponsibilities to society and the challenges of the present world, while the Topical Workshops gather all persons and movements, regardless of their field, focused on meeting a specific challenge that humankind is facing. Thus, the Journalists College includes journalists wishing to examine their role in the construction of a more responsible and united world, while the Topical Workshop on the Media includes any person or movement involved in thinking and research for proposals on the position and the role of the media in the twenty-first century.

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Geocultural Path

Africa

The African Caravan started out from Cape Town (South Africa) on June 26, 2000 and will travel across the continent for one year. It is due to end in Arusha (Tanzania) in June 2001.

David Gakunzi and the Centre International Martin Luther King are in charge of continental coordination, with 6 regional teams in charge of following each of the stages of the Caravan:

Southern Africa: Mediation and Transformation Practice (Sedick Crombie), Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (Jeffrey Ndumo), Christian Council of Mozambique (Lucas Amosse), Non Violent Action and Strategy for Social Change (John Stewart and Masawuko Marawucha), Afronet (Gideon Mudenda)
Central Africa: Louise Yanga, Dieudonné N'koum, Doul'Art (Marilyn Douala-Bell)
African Gulf region: GARED (Markoua Dadjo), GRAPAD (Aurélien Atidegla), Théophile Amouzou, Gustave Assah.
Western Africa (inner): REMED (Youssoupha Gueye)
Northern Africa: AREA-ED (Mounir Bencharif, Mohamed Benguerna), Nadia Aissaoui, Nacera Aknak-Khan, Ligue africaine des Droits de l'Homme (Azzedine Abdelmadjid)
Eastern Africa: APP (Michael Ochieng), APT (Michael Owiso), Gerald Wanjohi, CIMLK.

The Americas

A series of small, regional meetings are planned for America, leading to a continental meeting in June 2001. This dynamics will be supported by several regional groups:

Andean America: Eulalia Flor (CEPSI)
Central America, the Caribbean, and Mexico: Silvio Marzaroli, Guillermo Michel
Southern Cone: Laura Maffei (CTERA), Marcos Arruda, Hermila Figueiredo (PACS), Hamilton Faria, Betty Grimberg (Polis) and the other members of the Sao Paulo Group.
Northern America: Cécile Sabourin, Claire Sabourin, Martin Mujica, Isabel Faubert-Mailloux.

Asia - Oceania

Three complementary dynamics are being developed in Asia - Oceania:

Siddhartha and the organization Pipal Tree in Bangalore (India), with the support of Bishop Labayen (Philippines) and Kiwi Tamasase (New Zealand), are facilitating the work of a network of organizations and individuals in India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, the Philippines, New Zealand, and Australia, leading to the organization of a continental meeting in June 2001 in Bangalore.
SAFTA, the South Asia Facilitation Team of the Alliance, (Sarfaraz Khan, Nacera Aknak-Khan, Makarand Paranjape, Rajendra Mulmi) comprises young people from India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh. They will organize a series of events and meetings between August 2000 and February 2001, preliminary to a continental Youth Assembly in June 2001.
In China, a specific dynamics is being set up around Yifeng Zhao in Inner Mongolia and the Yanjing Group in Beijing (Chen Jiaying).

Europe

In Europe, The Roads towards European Citizenship process, which was set up in March 2000, is planning the organization of four meetings in June 2001. The process is coordinated at the Foundation for the Progress of Humankind by Manola Gardez-Rauss and Betty Nguyen. The meetings are organized around national dynamics and the following topics:

Democratization: Sandro Guiglia and Elise Massicard
Work: Hans Harms and Hugues Puel
Environment: Yannick Barret and Matthieu Calame
Migration: Cyril Kretzschmar and Roger Winterhalter

Arab World

In the Arab World, the Cultural Council of Southern Lebanon (Habib Sadek and Ziad Majed) is to launch a newsletter to circulate and exchange ideas.

Coordination team for the continental dynamics

Martí Olivella, Laia Botey and Carme Tarrida of Nova-CIS in Barcelona (Spain) are backing up the different continental dynamics to facilitate their coordination and help them to implement the aspects they have in common (media attention, links among the various June 2001 Assemblies, etc.).

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Topical Path

Values and Culture Axis

Art and Society (Hamilton Faria)

Charter for a Responsible, Plural and United World (Edith Sizoo)

Education (Laura Maffei)

Intercultural Dialogue (Agustí Nicolau)

The Media (Marlène Tuininga and Olivier Robert for Europe and Siddhartha for Asia)

New Information and Communication Technology (Alain His, assisted by Valérie Peugeot and supported by Daniel Pimienta, Alain Ambrosi and Ricardo Gomez)

Promoting A Citizens' Science (Frédéric Piguet)

Sustainable Development and Inter-Generation Relations (Benoît Derenne, Fondation pour les Générations Futures)

Training of Engineers and Academics (Michel Falise)

Yin Yang - Man-Woman Relations (Nadia Aïssaoui, with the support of Caroline Brac, Claudine Drion, Rosa Lavecchia, Edith Sizoo, Marlène Tuininga, and Louise Yanga)

Socio-Economy of Solidarity Axis

The Socio-Economy of Solidarity Axis is coordinated by a small steering committee made up of Marcos Arruda, Laurent Fraisse, and Philippe Amouroux, in association with the workshop coordinators

Business and Solidarity (Martial Cozette)

Fair Trade (Humberto Ortiz and Pierre Johnson, with the support of Federico Ceratti, Michele Papagna, Lavinia Sommaruga, and Claire Sabourin)

Finances in Solidarity (Renée Chao Beroff and Humberto Ortiz, with the support of Elisabeth Bourguinat)

Financial Markets (Paul Dembinski)

Food Security (Francisco Menezes, with the support of Sophia Murphy and Pierre Vuarin; within the APAM network)

International Trade, WTO, and Citizens' Regulation (Joseph Rocher, with the support of Mark Ritchie and Pierre Vuarin; this Workshop is involved in building a device for monitoring the World Trade Organization (WTO) at the international level: Global Citizens; it is part of the dynamics of the world network APAM - Agricultures Paysannes, Alimentation et Mondialisation - Family farming, food and globalization)

Responsible Tourism (Dora Valayer)

Social Currency (Heloisa Primavera)

Socio-economy in Solidarity (Humberto Ortiz and Laurent Fraisse)

Tax Policy, Redistribution, and Social Welfare (Jean Vidaud for France

Women and an Economy in Solidarity (Cécile Sabourin, with the support of Annie Berger and Madeleine Hersant)

The Socioeconomic Axis intends to launch a number of additional workshops: Consumption; Debt; Economic Policy, Ideology, and the Geocultural Dimension; Growth and Sustainable Development; Production and Investment; Work, Employment and Activity.

In addition, the world network APAM - Agricultures Paysannes, Alimentation et Mondialisation (Family farming, food and globalization) is coordinating a number of workshops and work groups related in particular to agriculture, food, and the rural world (Silvio Marzaroli, Jeannot Minla M'fou, and Pierre Vuarin). It will hold, in the course of the 2000-2001 Assembly process, two important events: the world Social Forum of Porto Alegre in January 2001 and the International Forum on World Food and Regulation in Havana, in June 2001.

Governance and Citizenship Axis

Conversion of the Arms Industries (Richard Pétris)

Decentralization, Future of the State, Regional Integration Integrated Territorial Management (Paul Maquet Makedonski; with the support of Yves de Morsier and Ina Ranson for Europe)

Global Governance (Pierre Calame and Jérôme Vignon)

Governance, Citizenship and Social Movements (Pierre William Johnson, Ziad Majed and Manola Rauss, with the support of Christophe Derenne, Sandro Guiglia, and Hans Harms in Europe, David Gakunzi in Africa, Mohamed Ali Moukalled in the Arab World, Ecio Bertellotti and Roque Espinosa in Latin America, Wang Yi and Chen Yiajing in China, and Ramu and Lalita Ramdas in India)

Indigenous and Farmers' Organizations, Democracy, and Civil Society (Marie-Rose Mercoret, Jeannot Minla M'fou and Silvio Marzaroli; within the APAM network)

Integrated Territorial Management (Paul Maquet Makedonski; with support of Yves de Morsier and Ina Ranson for Europe)

Land and Farming Reform (Michel Merlet with the support of the APAM network)

Nutrition and Public Policy (within the APAM network)

Regional Integration and Globalization, with, as main working angles: food, agriculture, fishing, and the rural world (within the APAM network)

Training of Social Leaders (Fernando Rosero and Pierre Vuarin; within the APAM network)

Humanity-Biosphere Axis

Agriculture and Sustainable Development (within the APAM network)

Biodiversity, GMOs and the Refusal of Privatization of the Living (Robert-Ali Brac de la Perrière; within the APAM network)

Environmental Education (Yolanda Ziaka)

Energy (Mycle Schneider, with the support of Julie Hazeman and Bernard Laponche)

Forests (Luis Felipe Cesar, assisted by Olivier Ranke and Yannick Barret for Europe)

Industrial Ecology (Suren Erkman)

Sustainable Water Management (Larbi Bouguerra)

Sustainable Soil Management (Rabah Lahmar)

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Collegial (Socioprofessional) Path

Academics (Eva Egron-Polack, Franz Eberhard, Michel Falise)

Artists - Writers (Hamilton Faria for the world and Latin America, assisted by Marilyn Doula-Bell in Africa and Fazette Bordage in Europe)

Business Leaders (Yves de Bretagne for France)

Excluded and Precarious (Brigitte Carraz for Europe)

Family Farmers and the Rural World (Bara Goudiaby and Silvio Marzaroli; within the APAM network; a world farmers' meeting is planned September 2001)

Financiers (Paul Dembinski)

Fishers (Sebastien Mattews and Pierre Verrault; a World Fishers' Forum will be held in October 2000)

Inhabitants Organizations (Joël Audefroy)

Journalists (Siddhartha and Pradeep Sebastien, with the support of Marlène Tuininga and Olivier Robert for Europe).

The Military - Peace-makers (Richard Pétris, with the support of Gustavo Marin)

Publishers (Michel Sauquet)

Religious Leaders (Jean Fischer, John Taylor, and Catherine de Bretagne, assisted by the work group "Inner Being and Spirituality" conducted by Antoine Girin)

Scientists (Frédéric Piguet)

Stockholders (Antoine Duchemin)

Teachers (Laura Maffei)

Territorial Authorities (Roger Winterhalter for Europe)

Young People (Nacera Aknak-Khan for international coordination; this College also has more than ten regional coordinators: Sterling Lambert and Ethan Gelber for northern America; Sarfaraz Khan and Rajendra Mulmi pour South Asia; Soraia Mello and Eduardo Rombauer for Brazil; Tijana Zivanovic for the Balkans; Fabrice Coppin Mediterranean Europe; Grainne Kelly for northern Europe; Gustave Assah and Dieudonné N'koum for western and central Africa; Brett Solomon for Australia-Oceania; Michael Owiso pour eastern Africa)

Women (Nadia Aissaoui, with the support of Caroline Brac, Claudine Drion, Rosa Lavecchia, Edith Sizoo, Marlène Tuininga, and Louise Yanga)

The following Colleges are to be developed: Professional Executives and Experts; International Organizations; Nongovernmental Organizations; Workers; Philosophers; Political Leaders; Health and Social Workers

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Communication

Alliance Web Site (Ethan Gelber and Elizabeth Guffey)

Caravan (Philippe Guirlet)

Database (Philippe Amouroux and Gustavo Marin)

Directory (Hermila Figueiredo, with the support of Aurélien Atidegla for western Africa)

Enlarged International Facilitation Team Forum (Véronique Rioufol and Olivier Petitjean)

Publication of Proposals Files (Olivier Petitjean and Michel Sauquet, with the support of an intercultural network of publishers, will publish the Dossiers in several languages (English, Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Spanish, French, Portuguese, etc.) and in several countries)

What's New? (Pierre William Johnson)

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