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Front Page
Dictionary of World Power
Since the end of the last century, the world has been facing a set of challenges that the existing institutions are unable to address and solve. This is a fact, and it has been confirmed over the past thirty years by a succession of all kinds of crises. Citizens have found that the beautiful ideal of freedom regularly preached by free-market sycophants is just a facade set up to conceal the altar of greed. In this extensive work by ten enthusiastic writers (only available in Spanish for the moment), the Forum for a new World Governance explores, has tried to capture, and analyzes these changes, convinced that the answers to these crises must be provided by citizens themselves. |
Greetings!
We are very pleased to announce the release of our Dictionary of World Power—314 pages offering 108 entries on the critical themes of world governance (water, world democracy, hunger, energy resources, etc.) to which we added a few biographies, a few very old or very new concepts, a few key movements, and a few surprises for you to discover. It is only available in Spanish for the moment, but if you read Spanish, do take a look! We are also happy to inform that we co-organized a “civil-society dialog” meeting with Civil Society Organizations from China, South America, and Europe in Beijing last May, which issued, for you to read, a joint statement suggesting new ways for civil societies to link up around the world, also an opportunity for us to present one of the CSOs that participated in the meeting. Echoing the need for civil societies to connect globally and showing that we are not alone, is the Civil Society Politics Manifesto being disseminated by the Centre for Civil Society in Australia. FnWG Team |
Cities for All: Proposals and Experiences for the Right to the City
This book is a response to the call to unite under the Right to the City as a banner of the struggle against neoliberalism. It gives the floor to a wide range of actors fighting for this right. The variety of views, discourses, cultures, and experiences are the guiding themes of this publication. Different ideas are articulated and their differences made to converge toward the same goal: the right to the city. It shows how city dwellers are affected in their daily life by: lack of access to land and services; tenure insecurity; evictions for numerous reasons—privatization, property speculation, mega-projects and mega-events; power abuse and trafficking; the deregulation of public spaces; and urban planning in the interests of the few.
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Allende Hoy
In honor of Salvador Allende, we offer you a speech he made shortly before the September 11, 1973 coup d’état in Chile, 40 years ago last month, set to music and images by the artists of the “Salvador Allende’s 100 years” recital. A moment of emotion and food for thought on a key event in world governance …
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Civil Society Politics Manifesto
Around the world politics is in disrepute. It has become detached from society, unresponsive to its needs. It seems incapable of solving the big economic, social and environmental challenges of our time. Public leadership remains important, but politics is everywhere discredited. In Western societies, politics no longer inspires, cynicism rules, and citizens feel powerless. In post-communist societies, initial enthusiasm for democracy has given way to detachment and cynicism. Citizens feel powerless. In emerging democracies, citizenship is fragile, institutions are weak, and corruption abounds. Citizens feel powerless. This is a global problem.
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Transfinancial Economics
The Transfinancial Economics model claims that new largely monitored non-repayable money could be created electronically by special transparent funding mechanisms, or Facilitation Banks. This could notably fund environmental, and socio-economic projects of high ethical value. The aim of all this is also to give powerful financial incentives to businesses that could profit with genuine projects, and more importantly help save the planet and its people as far as possible from extreme weather events due to global warming.
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Second Meeting of the China, Europe, and South America Dialog Group: Civil Societies Moving Forward for Change
Dialog and coordination among different actors worldwide are crucial for building democratic global governance. There is more collaboration among organizations all over the globe, but these do not always aim to raise a common voice to fill the political vacuum left by globalization. The China, Europe, and South America Dialog Group is taking this direction, and at the end of a meeting last May in Beijing it prepared a joint statement on what needs to be changed in how peoples interact globally (statement also available in Chinese).
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World Protests 2006-2013
In recent years the world has been shaken by protests. From the Arab Spring to the “Indignados” The main grievances and causes of outrage are: - Economic Justice and Anti-Austerity: 488 protests on issues related to reform of public services, Although the breadth of demand for economic justice is of serious consequence, the most sobering A profile of demonstrators reveals that not only traditional protesters (eg. activists, unions) are Who do protesters oppose? An analysis of main protests in the period 2006-2013 shows that The set of policies needed at the national and global levels to address the grievances described in this This study analyzes 843 protests occurring between January 2006 and July 2013 in 87 |
The Forum for a new World Governance launched the World Governance Index (WGI) project in 2008. The idea was to develop a “tool” that would allow the players in charge of governance to visualize emerging issues and problems and help them to reflect on the necessary solutions.
In this issue of the FnWG newsletter, we are offering the 2011 WGIs for Nicaragua and Costa Rica, two neighboring countries in Central America, as compared to their respective 2008 WGIs. Interesting to note that although Costa Rica’s WGI declined between 2008 and 2011, its ranking increased, which probably says something about the state of world governance.
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The IGM map and indicators are also available in Chinese.