. . . for with freedom come responsibilities. Nelson Mandela

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder. Paul Valéry

The world is for the public good, such is the Great Way. Confucius

Theme: Social organisation

Territorial Representation ¤ Sustainable development goals ¤ Transports and communications ¤ Adaptation ¤ Agendas and roadmaps ¤ Agribusiness ¤ Agriculture ¤ Agroecology ¤ Alter-globalization ¤ Alterity ¤ Anarchism ¤ Arms industry ¤ Autocracy ¤ Autonomy ¤ Banks ¤ Basic needs ¤ Biodiversity ¤ Blue helmets ¤ Capitalism ¤ Cinema ¤ Cities ¤ Citizen movements ¤ Citizen participation ¤ Citizenship ¤ Civil disobedience ¤ Civilizational paradigms ¤ Climate changes ¤ Climate refugees ¤ Coercion ¤ Collegial governance ¤ Common Agenda ¤ Common but differentiated responsibilities ¤ Commons ¤ Complexity ¤ Conflict resolution ¤ Conformism ¤ Constitutional process ¤ Construction of narratives ¤ Consumption patterns ¤ Control of the market ¤ Cooperation ¤ Cooperative ¤ Corporate social responsibility ¤ Corporations ¤ Cosmopolitanism ¤ Cross-cultural relations ¤ Decent work ¤ Decentralization ¤ Degrowth ¤ Democratic globalization ¤ Democratization ¤ Diplomacy ¤ Direct democracy ¤ Disarmament ¤ Disaster management ¤ Discourse analysis ¤ Ecnomic diversity ¤ Eco-solidarity economy ¤ Ecological economics ¤ Economic globalization ¤ Economic justice ¤ Education ¤ Efficiency ¤ Electoral democracy ¤ Emancipation ¤ Empire ¤ Empowerment ¤ Energy governance ¤ Energy ¤ Environmental governance ¤ Equal dignity ¤ Equality ¤ ESC rights ¤ Ethics ¤ Ethics ¤ Evolution of the role of the state ¤ Extractivism ¤ Extraterritorial obligations ¤ Fighting poverty and inequalities ¤ Financial crisis ¤ Financial governance ¤ Financing the transition ¤ Fist nations ¤ Food security ¤ Food sovereignty ¤ food ¤ Forests ¤ Freedom of expression ¤ Friendship ¤ Future generations ¤ G8 + G20 ¤ Gender relations ¤ Global action ¤ Global civil society ¤ Global de facto powers ¤ Global democracy ¤ Global ethics ¤ Global finance ¤ Global identity ¤ Global knowledge ¤ Global law ¤ Global mobilization ¤ Global programme ¤ Global taxes ¤ Glocalization ¤ Green economy ¤ Health governance ¤ Health ¤ Health ¤ Horizontal relations ¤ Human responsibilities ¤ Human rights ¤ Human security ¤ Humanity-biosphere relationship ¤ Humankind ¤ Hunger ¤ Imperialism ¤ Indexes ¤ Indignados ¤ Individual commitment ¤ Information and Communication Technology ¤ Institutional Cooperation ¤ Institutional coordination ¤ Intellectual property ¤ Interdependence ¤ International financial institutions ¤ International institutions ¤ International Law ¤ International trade ¤ Internet Governance ¤ Justice ¤ Knowledge society ¤ Land grabbing ¤ Land management ¤ Land rights ¤ Law ¤ Legal infrastructure ¤ Legitimacy ¤ Living well ¤ Local development ¤ Low-carbon economy ¤ Market economy ¤ Media culture ¤ Media ¤ Media ¤ Meetings ¤ Migrations ¤ Military expenditure ¤ Millennium Development Goals ¤ Minority ¤ Mitigation ¤ Mobilization ¤ Money ¤ Multi-stakeholder processes ¤ Multidimensional crisis ¤ Multilateral agreement ¤ Multilateralism ¤ Natural resources ¤ Negotiation processes ¤ Neoliberalism ¤ New institutions ¤ Newly advanced economies ¤ Non-state actors ¤ North-South relations ¤ Nuclear ¤ Outer space ¤ Pachamama ¤ Pandemy ¤ Peace building ¤ Pensions ¤ Peoples’ assemblies ¤ Perspectives and scenarios ¤ Perspectives and scenarios ¤ Player networking ¤ Political innovation ¤ Polyarchy ¤ Power relations ¤ Precautionary principle ¤ Privatization ¤ Production sectors ¤ Productivism ¤ Property ¤ Psychology of leadership ¤ Public goods ¤ Public services ¤ Publiic policies ¤ Quality education ¤ Racism ¤ Rapid intervention force ¤ Redistribution ¤ Reducing emissions ¤ Reform of the UN ¤ Refugees ¤ Regional institutions ¤ Regional integration ¤ Religions ¤ Relocalization ¤ Responsibility to protect ¤ Responsibility ¤ Responsible science ¤ Ressentiment ¤ Right to food ¤ Right to housing ¤ Right to information ¤ Rights ¤ Rio+20 ¤ Risk management ¤ Role of regions ¤ Role of the armies ¤ Role of the experts ¤ Rural area ¤ Rural world ¤ Science and citizenship ¤ Science ¤ Self-organisation ¤ Sharing economy ¤ Small-scale farming ¤ Social and economic policies ¤ Social contract, charter ¤ Social innovation ¤ Social movements ¤ Social organisation ¤ Sociocultural diversity ¤ Solidarity patterns ¤ Solidarity ¤ Sovereignty ¤ Sovereignty ¤ Spirituality ¤ Sports ¤ Standards ¤ Strategy of chaos ¤ Subsidiarity ¤ Sustainable City ¤ Sustainable society ¤ System’s relevance ¤ Taxes ¤ Territorial management ¤ Territorial scales ¤ Territory ¤ Terrorism ¤ Time Management ¤ Trade unions ¤ Transitions ¤ Transnational Corporations ¤ Transparence, accountability ¤ Treaty, convention ¤ Ubuntu ¤ United Nations ¤ Unity-Diversity ¤ Values and principles ¤ Views on Global Governance ¤ Vulnerable group ¤ War ¤ Water ¤ Welfare society ¤ Westphalian system ¤ Work ¤ World citizenship ¤ World government ¤ World parliament ¤ World state ¤ World-governance building strategies ¤ WTO ¤ Harmony ¤ Constitution, Law ¤ Rights of Mother Earth ¤ Diplomacy ¤ Waste management ¤ Humanism ¤ Leviathan ¤ New educations ¤ Common security ¤ Nation state ¤ Federalism ¤ Geopolitics ¤ Violence management ¤ History ¤ Freedom ¤ Nationalism ¤ Rationalism ¤ Sovereignty ¤ Superpower ¤ Debt ¤ world-modernity ¤ Democratic cosmopolitarian movement ¤

Articles in English related to this theme:

Citizens’ Reappropriation of Politics

Binding Chaos
¤ Heather Marsh ¤ 10 November 2015
The world is long overdue for a completely new system of governance. Every political system we have tried has proven incapable of protecting human rights and dignity. Every political system we have tried has devolved into oligarchy. To effect the change we require immediately, to give individuals control and responsibility, to bring regional systems under regional governance, allow global collaboration and protect the heritage of future generations, we need a new political model. (...) read more

Reclaiming the ASEAN Community for the People
¤ ASEAN Civil Society Conference, ASEAN People’s Forum ¤ 21 April 2015
On the occasion of the forthcoming 26th ASEAN summit to be held in Kuala Lumpur and Langkawi, Malaysia, on April 24-28, 2015, we are publishing here the ASEAN Civil Society Conference and ASEAN People’s Forum statement, adopted previously as a result of a regional consultation. "We, the civil society of Southeast Asia, guided by the principles of human rights, democracy, good governance, rule of law, non-discrimination, substantive equality, progressiveness and non-retrogression, remain (...) read more

How to break out the system trap. A model to support conversations for a more strategic activism.
¤ Micha Narberhaus ¤ 29 June 2014
The purpose of this paper is to learn about and improve our system change (Great Transition) strategies to overcome our inequitable growth-obsessed global economic system as well as the globally spreading culture of consumerism and marketisation of nearly every sphere of life. read more

Economic Governance and Globalization

The One Party Planet
¤ The Rules ¤ 9 November 2015
So just who is in charge of this planet? Is it a small group of people with one plan? A large group of people with lots of competing plans? Several groups of people? Does it even make sense to think of ‘control’ in these terms at all? This short pamphlet is an attempt to answer this question. The case I make is, yes, it not only makes sense to think of control in these terms, but it is essential. Those of us who believe in the potential for vastly less inequality and poverty, and a richer, (...) read more

Environmental Governance and Managing the Earth

Campaign for People’s Goals for Sustainable Development
¤ 28 June 2014
This grassroots and social movements’ campaign recognizes that sustainable development cannot be achieved without addressing the structural causes of inequality, poverty and environmental degradation. read more

Managing Territories, Cities, and the Rural World

Cities for All
¤ Ana Sugranyes, Charlotte Mathivet ¤ 2 June 2013
This book is a response to the hope and to the call to unite under the Right to the City banner, giving the floor to a wide range of actors fighting for this right. The wide variety of views, discourses, cultures, and experiences are the guiding themes of this publication.Different ideas are articulated and their differences converged toward the same goal: the right to the city as a banner of the struggle against neoliberalism. This is not an ideological abstraction. What is presented are (...) read more

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Retrieving and Valuing Other Ethical Pillars: The Concept of Buen Vivir*
¤ Ricardo Jiménez ¤ 17 July 2011
Table of contents • Kachkaniraqmi: “We are here, we are still” • Overcoming extreme and facile views • Origins of originality • Essential principles • Materiality of life • Qhapac Ñan • Buen Vivir *The literal English translation is “good living,” but it is important to observe that buen vivir is itself an imperfect Spanish approximation of the indigenous Ecuadorean Kichwa term, sumak kawsay. Meanwhile, in Bolivia, a similar concept stemming from the Aymara Indian cosmovision and language—suma (...) read more

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