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On the road towards the first Citizens’ assemblies of 2010...
Five Citizens’ Assemblies are well on their way in Europe, in Asia, in Oceania, in the Mediterranean, in the Latin American Southern Cone and in Africa’s Sahel - Sahara !
Here you will find a summary of the different Assemblies’ news as well as some elements to help you understand their contexts, their aspirations and advances.
» Find out what Citizens’ Assemblies are, their history and their paths
» All the assemblies are starting to share tools and a common calendar. Learn about their schedules and perspectives
News
» Asia
The Asian Citizens’ Assembly actively took part in the International Peace Festival organized in Chandigarh, India, from September 27 to October 1, 2009. This gathered over 1000 young people from various Indian states and from Pakistan, around a series of activities and manifestations, focused on promoting disarmament and peace. Characters such as Dr. Subba Rao, also known as living Ghandi, were also present +
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» Europe
In 2009, the election of the new, deeply renewed European Parliament –65% new parliamentarians- has allowed European civic networks to express what they expect of Europe much more precisely. What is missing in Europe is not precisely movements. On the contrary, these compete to exist, to lead, while they are still amazingly dispersed. Next year the European Assembly will have the chance to pull the different movements together and to make contact with new parliamentarians +
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» Oceania
“The challenge is to bring people out of silos’” stated one participant of the NGO Waterscape. This phrase symbolically summarizes the path reached by the intersection of the gathered actors’ views, perspectives and diversity. It leads to the border of concepts, to search for new definitions and management systems for water governance +
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» Southern Cone
The general coordination team got together on May 29, 2010 in Santiago, to define the program, ethics, criteria and organization methods of the assembly to be held in the emblematic city of Iquique, in the north of Chile. The 250-participant trip is imagined aboard four buses advancing toward this Chilean city from each of the four Southern Cone countries, in the form of travelling caravans. This document debates the proposal and launches the meeting’s essential preparation process +
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» Mediterranean
The first Mediterranean Citizens’ Assembly was celebrated in Valencia (Spain) between July 2 and 4, 2010, around the following motto: “Citizens’ dialogs: institutions and citizenship in the Mediterranean”. Economists, jurists, philosophers, political representatives, feminists, university students, businessmen, and representatives of public institutions from eighteen Mediterranean countries got together around four thematic issues: 1. Thinking the Mediterranean space, 2. Mediterranean citizenship, 3. Building a lasting space for peace, and 4. Current and future challenges in the Mediterranean +
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» Sahel Saharan
The Sahel-Saharan Assembly’s facilitators’ team begin a new traveling citizens’ campaign by the end of February, 2010! Enriched by the conclusions reached at the facilitators’ meeting in November 2009, the team takes up the road of the caravans again but with new perspectives, mainly the Assembly’s thematic deepening and socio-professional widening +
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