Express to what degree you believe each of these objectives can be shared by all participants.
01. The shared objective today for humanity is to find the way that enables each human being on the planet to live fully human lives – i.e. to live up to their highest human potential as conscious, compassionate, creative, and thoughtful beings - in harmony with each other and with Mother Earth and the Cosmos.
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This should be the ideal shared objective for humanity. 02. Democratic participation, or the decision-making power of the human subject, cannot be limited to the political field. In this sense one can say that our entire social reality is political, beginning with the economy. The principle of democratic participation must be applied to all the sectors of collective life, from the local to the global level.
Indeed we have to make decisions in matters that affect every part of our lives. This includes shared or collective life where decisions have to be made through democratic participation to benefit all. 03. To promote the birth of a new historical subject, not constituted only by the working class but by all the social groups affected in their daily life by the capitalist system: small peasants, women, ethnic minorities, etc.
I am not clear about the message of this statement as we are all affected in our daily lives by the capitalist system including all capitalists. Also not clear if the "historial subject" refers to a society or "class" of society or humanity as a whole.04. Instead of patriarchy, we want gender equity: not only powerful men, but all people (including women, intersex, and transgendered) to have the same opportunities in order to satisfy their own basic needs. It is a matter of offering access and control of the resources to women and men on the part of governments, educational institutions and society as a whole.05. The respect for the fundamental human rights and gender equity would have to be guaranteed in order to obtain prosperity and reinforce the welfare of men and the women in their societies; so that everyone can contribute with what he or she is and has, and that everyone can be covered by the basic need to live with dignity and have access to common goods and rights.06. Grant access to rights – civic, political, social, economic and cultural – for all, without any form of discrimination.
NUEVA REDACCIÓN SUGERIDA: Hacer accesibles los derechos civiles, políticos, sociales, económicos, y culturales, a todas y a todos, en forma amplia y sin mayores discriminaciones, por cierto es un gran desafío en el que debemos perseverar. Pero este objetivo será difícil, muy difícil de alcanzar, si nuestro accionar básicamente se reduce a aspectos declarativos y discrecionales. Las cuestiones operativo-sociales por cierto que también tienen gran importancia, pues si bien es cierto que mucho puede lograrse a través de una mejor y más profunda educación en valores, dejando así las acciones al propio sentir y a la iniciativa de las personas, tampoco podemos caer en la ingenuidad de creer que todo puede basarse en este único pilar, pues ello es una utopía, pues al menos algunos desvíos son inevitables. Pensemos con madurez y racionalidad. Las ciencias básicas y naturales avanzaron gracias a que en ellas se introdujo la medida, la comparación, y el registro descriptivo. Y en las ciencias sociales también podemos introducir y perfeccionar la medida, la comparación, la descripción, la acción correctiva. Claro, en la actual estructura social todo es demasiado caótico y desordenado, como para sin más ni más hacer algo inteligente para cambiar este estado de cosas. Es indudable que hay situaciones sociales sumamente penosas que requieren la intervención y el apoyo del cuerpo social, por humanidad, e incluso por racionalidad pues finalmente todos habitamos el mismo planeta y todos influimos en todos, pero los planes de ayuda no pueden organizarse a impulsos y con más garra que inteligencia, pues se corre el riesgo de no ser eficiente, pues se corre el riesgo de no incidir sobre las situaciones más penosas y vulnerables. Para corregir como se debe la estructura social, para hacer una correcta distribución de recursos y de responsabilidades, para implementar buenos y eficientes planes sociales, no hay otra que poder conocer con gran detalle la situación de cada cual, así como también tener muy buenas estadísticas generales. Y nuestra organización social tiene a la mano una herramienta de uso extendido, y que de ser perfeccionada bien podría servir con la finalidad indicada: Obviamente nos referimos al dinero. Muchas cosas se aclararían, muchas cosas serían más manejables, si poco a poco pasamos de las actuales monedas anónimas a las más perfeccionadas monedas telemáticas.07. Promote the welfare of all, not the welfare of the majority.
je ne voix pas qu'il est possible08. It is necessary to affirm the centrality of ethics as collective and individual behaviour in coherence with the utopia.09. Grand visions must be woven from modest shared aspirations. One grand vision will never unite humanity: one powerful enough to encompass all and sweep problems aside is a perilous illusion. But modest visions among small groups - to raise a decent family, to work with dignity, to be listened to – can coalesce and trickle into every cultural crevice, institution and behaviour. The goal can be to nurture our small visions, weaving them together into flexible, diverse, robust tapestries. Only collective action can achieve this, small groups combining, sharing visions, and moving forward together. 10. Promote a new cultural and social change agenda to a global platform. In the same way that the 80s gave rise to the proposal of a new agenda for information and communication, the increasing atomization of power over the mass media requires a global debate that favors greater spaces of local participation in social discourse and decision-making at economic, political, social and cultural levels.11. Stress should be put on the physical and metaphysical realities of nature as well as the social nature of humanity, as opposed to the empire of the virtual dimension, numerical representation and the merely descriptive image. 12. Enlarging the conscience of the potential for good actions in human beings as a planetary component and as an admirer of the cosmos. 13. To reignite the human scale, - as in the famous motto 'small is beautiful' by Schumacher, that alludes to the values of humility (humus, nature), sustainability, proportionality and quality of life,- and implies the overthrowing of the ideological and massive, generally deductive, and imposing discourse to the existential inductive testimony.14. To recognize the importance of the particular and the plural emerging from the lowest social classes, in order to question the abstract and the general which prevail among the higher classes, who suffer from myopia and insensitivity.15. To promote solidarity amongst different faiths and nationalities, with their varying social components, increasing inclusion and sharing more than exclusion and accumulation.16. To extend and popularize the honest and deep desire of living in equilibrium with nature, without un-measured personal ambition, without an excessive consumption of goods and energy, and with an intelligent structure of shared resources and communal services. 17. To promote respect for cultural diversity, and generate a particular concern for the preservation of languages, traditions, and values deriving from minority groups.18. To identify the basic existencial units that feed life itself would at the same time allow us to navigate our way through the global human complex that, today, is actually the destroyer of vitality.19. To return to the innermost characteristic oikos of mankind (home, in a broad sense: community), there is a need to re-identify, re-invest and re-invent with it. 20. To acknowledge the key pieces of the puzzle and create a new map. This phenomena can be called Autopoiesis (see: Maturana and Varela). Maintaining a global perspective, both act with complex measures to protect life whilst connecting it with other similar efforts on the planet.21. To increase the power of our Networks: to prompt the coordination of environmental experiences in order to reform the social fabric in all of its dimensions. This implies taking into consideration both itinerant and hospitality values.22. Establishing common, shared and transgenerational systems, where communication among three generations - young, adult and third age - becomes a usual practice as much as a reflexive, project-oriented and productive practice. 23. Offering children an education that combines male and female values in harmony with nature and its elements. Without a doubt, the abilities of intuition and imagination combined with new a communicative symbolism that goes beyond language itself will make the appearance of new worlds easier.24. Transition to a global socialism where the accumulation of capital is not the dominant objective. With a new “internationalization” of workers and peoples who shall not be subdued either by capital or the dominant oligopolies, who in turn will have their connections with globalization regulated by the State. 25. Enhance the visibility, duplicate and innovate the emerging initiatives of this "other possible world" that are numerous and varied, although still of small impact on a global scale. We must trust the viral capacity of the Internet (until now so little explored for these objectives) and build new alliances with the younger generations.26. The Scope of Global Social Objectives. Humanity’s shared objectives, of necessity, encompass areas in which global collective action is required to enhance the well being of everyone - as well as areas in which only coordinated action can lead to greater human welfare.27. All objectives seek only to narrow the gap between the one tenth of humanity that lives far beyond its means while the other nine-tenths are struggling to eke out an existence. If we only focus on MATERIAL fulfillment we will keep moving further away from our goal not closer to it. We must incorporate the SOUL and the heart at the centre of our pursuit for humanity's true progress, and for our survival on this fragile planet.28. To respect one’s happiness and help those who are under severe misery – poverty and disaster—without regards to where they live. 29. We should construct our world as a process of sharing between four "generations" - children before work age; persons of work age; those beyond work age; the yet unborn generations. 30. Peace is not merely a state and an absence of war (and other acts of direct physical violence and destruction) but also a process, and a presence of ways of thinking, being and behaving, that prevent or minimize the possibility of violence arising in the first place.31. Removing injustice should be a global objective, but creating the wisdom that leads to this goal belongs to each individual society. This is so, because each society must have a vision of life and an interpretation of reality that allow members to add their perception to the universal perception of a just society. The starting point of this effort would be public reasoning that highlights the uniqueness of each group.32. It is necessary to develop a new model of social justice that organically integrates livelihood, ecology, culture, and education.33. We want open, inclusive and tolerant societies that are long-term and future oriented and yet are also firmly rooted in the present: no big sacrifices (in basic needs, i.e. life, well-being, etc.) are required to fulfill social goals in the near or distant future. 34. Humanity’s shared objectives, by necessity, encompass areas in which our cumulative actions threaten the survival or well being of everyone – this includes much of our shared physical/ecological inheritance.35. We are communicative creatures in search of agreement and harmony and we recreate those "feelings" structures and practices in institutions of great complexity. This is the foundation of many human values. Such basic and common compromises can flourish without hindrance in small groups. But the institutions of social mediation, cultural, economic and political, including the media, and individual development factors, potentially distorting.36. It is required that we accelerate the creation of collective actors at the global level through networks of resistance.37. Put an end to the patriarchal values. States, businesses, the mass media, schools... have to promote measures for the fair distribution of responsibilities within families (education and the looking after of children, domestic tasks; caring for the sick, the old and those with disabilities...) and take concrete measures in support of the family unit. 38. Rethinking the measure of human development. The conceptual frameworks and the dominant mental models that we have internalized regarding development must be revised to allow for a reconsideration of authentic human needs and the cultural and social forms of satisfying them. It involves, at least, that we bear in mind and put to use a plurality of conceptual frameworks and mental models on equal terms.39. Guaranteeing the universal and effective application of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights with an interpretation that is adequate for current times, as well as any and all other instruments recognized by international law that the Human Rights movements have at their disposal. They could be ensured through transparency, awareness, education, access to justice, and all other instruments which make it less profitable for the public offices than the non-efficient application of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights. We also have received proposals for the general objectives of the other topics:
1.5.General objectives of the ecological and demographical systems
1.6.General objectives of the political and security systems
1.7.General objectives of the financial and economic systems
1.8.General objectives of the scientific, educational, cultural and communicative systems
General comments
Unsufficient edition:1.some eclectism and any subordination;
2. unsufficient differentiation between 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4.
3.many repetitions in various forms in place of more detailed argumentation.
4.different level of abstraction;
5. it is uncomfortably to return after sending any comment to continue to form.
Written by A.Buracas at 13 / 03 / 2010
Hace falta reducir proposisciones muy similares y que haya más opciones, es muy difícil discriminar a este nivel de síntesis entre tantas variantes, se termina aceptando casi todas. EL consenso implica también disenso, hay que facilitar que se manfieste la diferencia...
Written by J.Coraggio at 23 / 03 / 2010
Son demasiadas afirmaciones las que hay que valorar, hay mucha repetición, más que menos. En los comentarios podríase enriquecer el diálogo pero con tanta pulverización tomaría mucho tiempo. Parece que la selección previa promete mucho consenso ya de inicio, con riesgo de que el debate, si lo hubiera, se torne ficticio dadas las condiciones abstractas (tecnológicamente planetarias (internet) y lingüisticas ((traducciones/traiciones)en que nos relacionamos. Pero BRAVO por la experiencia, vale la pena.
Written by L.Mendez at 30 / 03 / 2010
La formulation en langue française manque souvent de clarté. Il faudrait la revoir
Par ailleurs, il y'a beaucoup de répétitions
Written by N.M'Jidi at 10 / 04 / 2010
I find some proposal really good, realistic and achievable.
Written by S.Islam at 16 / 08 / 2010
This is indeed a tall order and it seems, occasionally a contradictory one. However, in itself, each of the values stated above are reasonalble. Since difference of opinion is as much an attitude shared by each of the classes, groups and identities mentioned above, the basic questions will be:
1. How to formulate a set of rules of engagement/disagreement which is acceptable to naturally or traditionally adversarial groups or individuals etc.
2. How to enforce the decisions through consensus, enforcement or conflict resolution etc.
Written by K.Qadir at 07 / 11 / 2010
Provide the foundations of knowledge and unrealistic for those who care about communities and create a strong impetus to initiatives to strengthen communities and create new mechanisms work to promote the principle of accounting for the international resolutions and support for the mobilization of public participation and advocacy issues of peace and international justice
Written by dr. bakhita at 17 / 12 / 2010
Making access to information a fundemental issue within the legislative agenda.
Written by dr. bakhita at 17 / 12 / 2010
Making access to information a fundemental issue within the legislative agenda.
Written by dr. bakhita at 17 / 12 / 2010
To find vision and long-term objectives in the areas of democracy, international understanding, human rights environment and communications.
Written by dr. bakhita at 26 / 12 / 2010
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