by Francine Mestrum
Eng/Esp/Fra
Group on metodology:
- Substantive questions to be discussed in the seminar:
- The international Renewal Group (www.foranewwsf.org) has made substantive proposals for a ‘new WSF’ almost two years ago. Boaventura de Sousa Santos also introduced a structural proposal for this current discussion. It seems to me that if we want to ‘respect our diversity’, as we claim, it would be good to invite this renewal group to present and explain its proposals.
- Other points that should be discussed:
aa. What can be – if there is any – strategic relevance of the WSF in the current (geo)political situation, considering our goal remains to build ‘another world’. How can social movements contribute?
- Should the WSF become, next to being the ‘open space’ it has always been and will remain to be, a global political subject with its own voice (or several voices – see proposal for the consensus group)