| Citizenship
Article written by Claire Launay: in this text Francisco Gutiérrez analyzes the features and changes of the concept "citizenship" in a globalized context.
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Text from a conference proposed in the framework of a forum on responsibilities organized by a group of social organizations of Cali, Colombia, in May 2005. The author is Luis Eduardo Gama, professor of philosophy at the National University of Bogotá. You can download the complete document below (in (...) | |
Presentation on a methodological booklet: Working experience with the Charter of Responsibilities in Colombia
A path for the exercise of responsibilities – with this title, this publication presents in a straight forward and practical way the road map for those who want to understand or study, promote and build the social utility of exercising human responsibilities in diverse contexts and (...) | |
Each passing day increases the feeling dramatically that a system of world governance is vitally needed, which respects all human beings, all that is living, and the planet as a whole. To act, we have to think, we have to make viable, applicable proposals, now. More than ever, we need to facilitate the convergence of all the thinking and the emergence of the proposals drawn from all cultures. (...) | |
In the 2006 Report we had stated, “One of our major concerns was to avoid that work on the Charter should make sure it would not appear as an abstract philosophical theory that could only be understood by those who are accustomed to this kind of thinking. So we had to review our approach so as not to fall on discussions that only insiders would be interested (...) | |
The United States Social Forum brought more than 10,000 social justice activists to Atlanta, Georgia June 27-July 1, 2007 for workshops, strategy sessions, networking, a film festival, and other cultural events. Intended to be “more than a conference, more than a networking bonanza, more than a reaction to war and repression,” the first US Social Forum was organized with a commitment to “send (...) | |
Proposal paper (first approach) and experience files (selection of practices). | |
General objective
The overall objective is to start up a collective thinking process on the future of the region as part of the planet. Such a process, using a variety of methods, is intended to achieve considerably greater density in discussions, dialog, networking, thinking, cooperation, programs, and joint actions among the different social, cultural, and political actors of Chile, (...) | |
In the city of Bogotá, the current district administration has promoted the development of a “Bogotá Without Hunger” program. One of the components of the program is the institution of community dining halls. In the town Rafael Uribe Uribe an important initiative for the beneficiaries of the program was building the Network of Community Dining Halls, Redecom, which facilitated the articulation (...) | |
In the framework of the convention, 6 meetings were hold between the organizations of the regional platform created to socialize the information on the Charter. Some of these meetings devoted to a debate on the basis of several texts from the Alliance for a plural, responsible and socially responsible world, allowing to better locate and understand the whole process that was at the start of (...) | |
A municipal-administration and citizens’ commitment. The result of a working process with a group of citizens coordinated by the social organization Foro por Colombia, Valle Chapter, and supported by the CINEP, the Citizens’ Pact to Strengthen Public Management and Active Citizenship is a symbol for the community of Puerto Tejada.
For three months (January-March 2006), a group of thirty (...) | |
Narrative report on the events in 2005 in the country and the activities developed in the philosophy of the Charter. | |
A group of members of the Charter regional Committees along with partners were in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at the 2005 Word Social Forum. We were there to listen, participate to workshops and for some to facilitate them, to discuss on the Charter of Human Responsibilities and diffuse it. The workshops have been an opportunity to introduce the ongoing process of the Charter, to allow a debate on (...) | |
Lille, December 2001: the text of a Charter for Human responsibilities is presented to 400 citizens from 120 countries and 25 social and professional backgrounds during the closing ceremony of the World Assembly organised by the Alliance for a Plural, Responsible and United World. Ethics, individual and collective responsibility, dignity, sustainable peace and common good are at the root of (...) | |
Reinforcing public responsibilities in Togo through the Charter of human responsibilities (meeting of July 24th 2004) | |
It will have to be built on a new contract with the society. Its creation requires a strategy for a networked change.
("Université 21 "International Conference, Brasilia, Brazil, November 2003. Introduction in plenary by Pierre Calame)
(document available in French only, see the French version of this (...) | |
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