It has not always been easy to differentiate between the vision of the world we want and its values and objectives, and how this vision is expressed. In any case, it is a matter of indicating to what degree each of the following expressions can be shared among all participants.

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01. People from different countries and regions of the globe stem from different cultures and environments. We have to take into account that people in different countries and regions have different cultures and a environment, so we should act carefully according to these different contexts.
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02. We must initiate change locally in order to create a domino effect that will ultimately have a positive impact globally. People around the world must unite and agree on one common goal and work in order to reach that specific goal.
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03. It is a long-term task to rebuild an intimate relationship with nature, and of re-generating harmonious social relations.
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04. It is important to recognize violence in all its forms, from the direct to the structural and the systemic, such as cultural, epistemological and economic violence, as well as ecological and psychological violence.
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05. We want to work towards achieving peace within the world and the environment, between all humans and between us humans and other living beings. Instead of wars and violence, we want a world where peace and harmony are continuously and compassionately reinforced at all levels: individual (inner peace, at the level of the person/self), family, local communities, national society, region, global society and planetary environment.
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07. Instead of nationalism, we want planetary consciousness: awareness that all humans and all living beings on this Earth are interconnected and that the well-being of all is connected to the well-being of each and every one of us.
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08. There is an urgent need to focus on the improvement of our societies with the faith that the now step will lead to an optimally just society, locally and globally.
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09. We all live on one planet earth! In the 21st Century, the world has indeed become one global village, and our answers concerning its future must be global. The world is our home, and we must work together to protect our one unique home.
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10. We want a global society that celebrates and respects life, one that works towards the establishment of life-affirming and life enhancing values and structures.
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Indicate your level of agreement or harmony with each of the following definitions of the world we want that can be shared by all. The following are wishes that have been expressed by participants from different cultures.
11. We want a world:
11.1. Which mutually respects peoples of different villages, communities, countries, and continents.
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11.2. We, the people of the Earth, want a world in which all of us can have our basic needs met. These basic needs are: the need for survival, well-being, belonging, freedom, identity and fun.
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11.3. That offers enough resources for all of the world's inhabitants in a rational and sustainable management system.
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11.4. Where only human intellect prevails in the best sense of the term, and where 'there will be no place for the destructive and dominating appetites of a nation over other nations'.
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11.5. That is free from all forms of tyranny.
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11.6. That is peaceful, unified, and where the barriers between nations will be broken, where each individual will be able to live with dignity and in peace wherever s/he is, a world that can be called “pax terra”.
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11.7. Where people respect and do not damage the Mother Earth which feeds us.
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11.8. Globalization has been seeking to put together pieces which do not fit. It is necessary to build a new world, a world in which there is room for many worlds, a world capable of containing all the worlds.
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11.9. We want a world that pursues the protection of life as the supreme objective.
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12. We want human beings that do not discriminate others on any base and pursue just ends through just means only, having the courage to search Truth and Justice through nonviolent paths.
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13.  All of human beings have the right to live well and the obligation to make others live well.
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14. We must push homo sapiens towards new, freer and grander stages of the environmental and social nature of humanity - we should bring out the homo ludens. As a species, either we mutate towards this superiority or we will face extinction.
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15. The genuine values of identity (culture), security (politics) and sustainability (economics) drive us to question the historical modes of State and market, currently exacerbated by the solely speculative and violent neo-liberalism.
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16. One of the most important objectives is to search for the Truth of the natural and social values and to adopt new symbols, modes of exchange, redistribution and cost-free relationships, for we live in a time of fraud, financial bubbles and global collapse.
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17. Thousands of years of agricultural civilization - our ancient wisdom and heritage - teach us to treat the "unknown" nature and the "unfamiliar" person with serious consideration.
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18. We need a world where the idea of development is completely and profoundly reformed in such a way that it comes to recognize the realities of the contemporary world, including themes such as environmental protection, social justice and human dignity.
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19. We want a society with more solidarity, one that is more rational, more equitable, and better balanced with regards to the opportunities given to each individual, with a better educational system. In order for such a reality to come into existence, we must reduce undesired deviations, illegalities, delinquency, corruption, speculation, drug trafficking, trafficking of weapons and influences, tax fraud, privileges and shameful advantages.
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20. We should put the human being, and the needs of human communities which are organized in society, at the center of our attention on a global and national scale.  All people and human communities should be included in this process.
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Express your level of agreement with the different visions regarding “Think global, act local”
21. We need new spaces of global communication, particularly ones which move away from the vices that the current spaces of global discussion display - in general, they politicize the debate over topics of great interest for all humanity. The creation of such spaces of mediated and direct participation will give rise to a true connection between the global and the local spheres.  It is a matter of making the local globally visible, and of turning the local into a guiding element for the global.
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22. "Think global" refers to analysis, which should always be based on the knowledge that all players everywhere are constrained by having to operate within the framework of the existing world-system. "Act local" means that everyone's political action is always, primarily, "local" - which may mean "national" or may mean even more "local."
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23. To think globally means that we can adopt the sustainable development view and that we DO integrate these concepts into our everyday practices.
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24. “Think Global, Act Local” offers a basic rule for the practitioners of alternatives in all countries. But it is not enough to confront the fact that all the capitalists around the world have united, and their rule is “Think Local, Act Global”.
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25. Think Globally, Act Locally means thinking of the sea of universality in which we all live, and that we resonate with that universality beginning with one’s self.
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26. Caring for the well-being of other people other species is a global thought. Without such a thought, one can make anything from his or her egoistic viewpoint. Companies cannot easily follow ‘neo-liberal economic thought’ if due attention is paid to the impact of their corporate decisions on a worker’s mental health and nature.
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27. A golden rule is that a global thought should be simple, universal, and meaningful - do to others what you would like others to do to you!
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28. A global thought is integral i.e. it combines mind, heart, body and soul. It is not simply rational; it is not simply based on information but it is deeply rooted in human consciousness and emerges from the creative, cultural human WISDOM OF THE EARTH.
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29. The global thought must include the needs of mankind, such as love, freedom, happiness, health and peace.
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30. A global thought should combine the extraordinary and ignored wisdom of our traditional cultures and ancient ways of knowing with modern information, but it needs to be rooted in compassion, not in efficiency alone.
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31. A truly global thought that would be a timely replacement of ‘think globally act locally’ (which seems to condone a focus on the local, especially in wealthier parts of the world) is to align one’s intentions, words and deeds (equally found in ancient Hindu and African “ubuntu” wisdom). It is not just our words and actions but also our intentions and our consciousness that matter.
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32. Promoting the 'Glocal': to the saying "think global, act local" must be added "think local and act global". Between the local and the global must be placed the pilgrimage by sea and land without energetic costs. This implies a fresh appraisal of time, of human movement and activity, which must be more communicative and contemplative than transformative.
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33. Think local – bearing in mind the availability of nearby resources – and act global, that is to say, orientate your actions thinking about the present and the future of those that are near and also far from your immediate horizon because, at the end of the day, there is only one planet and each one of us is responsible for it.
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General comments
Las propuestas no deberian incluir mas de una idea. Es dificil valorar cuando hay acuerdo con una idea y desacuerdo con otra. Ademas, habria que distinguir con claridad las proposiciones de juicios de valor de las proposiciones descriptivas y de las proposiciones que sugieren lineas de accion
Written by M.Firmenich at 13 / 03 / 2010
My submitted comment, below, was left out - no idea why (Sean O'Siochru) Proposal 1: Deliberating on the values of the world we seek is largely a waste of time. Human interactive practices give rise to values, normative or ethical, not the other way around. Values emerge and consolidate in wider society through cultural practices, power dynamics and economic relations. To this extent there is little point to advancing a set of values for an ideal world, still less in imagining they will help to bring it about. We can only guess at what they will be: More important, values will not lead the process of change.
Written by S.O'Siochru at 24 / 03 / 2010
toutes les réponses proposées sont "jutes", avec des degrés plus ou moins heureux de formulation, là n'est pas la question. mais le plus important et "relevant" c'est de pouvoir trouver le ou les éléments ou affirmations qui constituent les "nerfs" , ce qui rend une idée non seulement juste ou acceptable, mais capable d'être motrice, dynamique parce qu'elle attrape un point névralgique. je trouve qu'on ne parle pas assez de la désarticulation des donnes pratiquée comme un moyen de domination. le système présente les faits comme si chacun avait sa propre existence. cacher le lien rend la contestation du monde tel qu'il est construit impossible
Written by N.Chahal at 26 / 03 / 2010
I believe it is really important to deliberate on the values of the world. I don't think us humans can live without values or that they are 'just a reflection of human interactive practices'. Rather, it is values and visions of the future that inform practices in the 'now'. Values as well as particular visions of the future are significant factors amongst all the other factors that are leading the processes of change. For example, prior to a technological innovation (or an economic measure) a justification of why these would be wanted and needed is first necessary. A particular vision of a future is always behind such justification (i.e. it could be the spread of global capitalism or western civilisation as the ideal vision of the future, or some alternative to such vision). Humans always carry within them both certain values as well as particular visions of desired futures - the only difference amongst them is whether they are conscious or unconscious about these values and preferred futures. If we are unconscious about them then we don't really have a choice in deciding which values and futures are more beneficial to us all, individually and collectively. As well, if we are unconscious about them then it is usually dominant values and 'default' futures that are promoted - these in turn are influenced by dominant systems of thinking and behaving (such as patriarchy, capitalism, economic globalisation that serves the interest of the most powerful, to name but a few...). Thus, to reinstate my main point it is crucially important to discuss values and visions - lots of previously considered utopian visions have found their way into reality in some societies (i.e. universal health coverage, education, democracy expanded to include women and lower classes), once they were made conscious/explicit and followed by a concentrated effort by those they inspired.
Written by Ivana.Milojevic at 12 / 04 / 2010
Well articulation of the vision of the world we want by many participants. Here is a late submission: I want to see a world where women and men are able to realise their full potential as economic, social and political actors, can pursue sustainable development, have access and control on natural resources, free to protect their ecology and environment for sustaining their livelihoods and health, free from exploitation, and all discrimination based on religion, race, creed, cast, nationalities and gender, for empowerment of themselves, their families, their communities and global humankind.
Written by S.Islam at 16 / 08 / 2010
Aquí se pretende definir un marco general, así que tampoco podemos esperar mucho de estas recomendaciones. Las observaciones generales aquí hechas por N.Chahal y por S.Islam me parecieron particularmente relevantes.
Written by J.Elissalde at 17 / 10 / 2010
I think it is too altruistic to expect the world to live in peace. As a student of history, I believe that this would be as impossible a task as eliminating human classes in society. What seems to be possible is that conflict and classes may be minimized. A study of the history of the last 200 years shows that this too has been counterproductive. In fact it can be argued that it is due to this unnatural attempt that mankind has been engaged in its most horrendous & consistent exercise of conflict among peoples on virtually all pretexts. Perhaps I am saying something that is offensive for idealists sometimes it is better to get a small fight over and done with instead of postponing it till it becomes a big one. As many parents know it is not wise to let the quarrel between children turn into a family feud. World conflict and contests between cultures and nations need closure just as people need to stop being socially mobile when they have reached the end of their potential instead of being hurt emotionally with continuous failure to rise to the next level when they cannot compete because of physical, emotional, mental, intellectual or spiritual limitations. Perhaps a more realistic and pragmatic goal setting will prove to be more productive and usable as targets for our endeavour.
Written by K.Qadir at 07 / 11 / 2010


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