The Forum’s aim is to create a permanent structure for international political and cultural debate... annual assemblies and regional sessions to examine the challenges of the new century. The WPF is not, however, just an annual meeting of eminent and auth
By ALAN CLENDENNING The Associated Press Wednesday, January 27, 2010; 11:42 AM PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil -- Brazil's first working-class president got a hero's welcome at the World Social Forum, wowing 10,000 leftists with a vow to reproach the planet's busin
"In 1959, a group of scholars and practitioners founded the International Studies Association (ISA) to pursue mutual interests in international studies. Representing 80 countries, ISA has over 4,000 members worldwide and is the most respected and widely k
Sumaira Sagheer Toor, Masters Dissertation, MA in Global Media and Postnational Communication, School of Oriental and African Studies, London. This study enacts a three-pronged relationship between transnational communications, participatory democracy and
Global capitalism finances anti-capitalism: an absurd and contradictory relationship. "Another World is Possible", but it cannot be meaningfully achieved under the present arrangement. A shake-up of the World Social Forum, of its organizational structure,
Hervé Bourlard, from Idiap Research Institute ("an independent, non-profit research foundation specializing in multimedia information management and in multimodal man-machine interaction").
Tuomas Ylä-Anttila, doct dissertation "Politiikan paluu. Globalisaatioiliike ja julkisuus" Vastapaino 2010. The study proves many common assumptions about the Global Justice Movement wrong. Rather than being a marginal actor, the movement is the initiato
There is a less-discussed parallel process of thematic city-wide popular assemblies that were established to deal with issues that are not neighbourhood-specific, such as environment, education, health and social services and transportation. Six thematic