WSF 2001 and WSF 2002 – Porto Alegre, Brazil
- The Production of Wealth and Social Reproduction
- Access to Wealth and Sustainability
- Civil Society and the Public Arena
- Political Power and Ethics in the New Society
WSF 2003 – Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Democratic Sustainable Development
- Principles and values, human rights, diversity and equality
- Media, culture and counter-hegemony
- Political power, civil society and democracy
- Democratic world order, fight against militarism and promoting peace
WSF 2004 – Mumbai, Índia Themes
- Democracy, Ecological and Economic Security
- Discrimination, Dignity and Rights
- Media, Information and Knowledge
- Militarism, War and Peace Transversal themes:
- Imperialist globalisation
- Patriarchy
- Casteism, Racism and Social Exclusions
- Religious sectarianism, Identity Politics, Fundamentalism
- Militarism and Peace
WSF 2005 – Porto Alegre, Brazil Terrains:
- Assuring and defending Earth and people’s common goods – As alternative to commodification and transnational control
- Arts and creation: weaving and building people’s resistance culture
- Communication: counter-hegemonic practices, rights and alternatives
- Defending diversity, plurality and identities
- Human rights and dignity for a just and egalitarian world
- Sovereign economies for and of people – Against neoliberal capitalism
- Ethics, cosmovisions and spiritualities – Resistances and challenges for a new world
- Social struggles and democratic alternatives – Against neoliberal domination
- Peace, demilitarisation and struggle against war, free trade and debt
- Autonomous thought, reappropriation and socialisation of knowledge and technologies
- Towards construction of international democratic order and people’s integration Transversal themes:
- Social emancipation and political dimensions of struggles
- Struggle against patriarchal capitalism
- Struggle against racism and other types of exclusion based on ancestry
- Gender
- Diversities
Polycentric WSF 2006
Polycentric WSF 2006 – Americas venue and 2nd Americas Social Forum – Caracas (Venezuela) Thematic Axes:
1.Power, politics and struggles for social emancipation
2. Imperial strategies and peoples’ resistance
3. Resources for and rights to life: alternatives to the predatory model of civilization
4. Diversities, identities and worldviews in movement
5. Work, exploitation and reproduction of life
6. Communication, culture and education: alternative and democratizing dynamics Transversal axes:
- Gender
- Diversities
Polycentric WSF 2006 – Asia venue – Karachi (Pakistan)
A. Imperialism, militarization and armed conflicts in the region and peace movements
i. Peace Initiatives; India- Pakistan, Burma-Thailand, Palestine-Israel, Iraq, Iran-West + US, Afghanistan
ii. Imperialism, Wars, Resistance movement, Militancy, Weapons.
iii. State entrenched violence and other militaristic tendency.
iv. Militarization of state and society.
v. Armed insurgencies.
vi. Nuclear disarmament, demilitarization.
vii. Humanism and peace.
viii. Colonization of civil society by armed forces/military
ix. Affectees of wars and nuclear tests.
x. Terrorism and sectarian violence.
xi. Local disputes as conflicts.
xii. Insurgencies
xiii. Smalls arms and lights weapons proliferation.
xiv. Militancy and violence: Women and children/Children in Armed conflicts.
xv. Social policing by religious parties/groups
xvi. Rise and promotion of ethnic and sectarian groups by states
xvii. Impact of 9/11 on global societies, regional and local forces
B. Natural resources Rights, peoples’ control & privatization, and Trans- boundary disputes
i. Natural resources: Water, Gas, minerals, fishing, grazing, forests, Petroleum, other natural resources.
ii. Privatization, closure of industries, retrenchment of labor and curtailment of labor rights.
iii. Water distribution and conflicts.
iv. Land rights.
v. Control over resources (natural, revenue/fiscal, human resources, )
C. Trade Development and globalization
i. Trade-WTO – SAFTA; Asia-pacific Issues, Trade Free and Trade Union Free Zones.
ii. IMF and WB and other IFI’s control of economies.
iii. GM technology and non-organic food production and distribution.
iv. Post modern age analysis of globalization.
v. Regional common trade.
vi. Impact of neo-liberal and globalization policies
vii. Growing poverty and inequalities (among regions, provinces and classes), rural poverty and rise of extreme poverty
D. Social Justice Human Rights and Governance
i. Democracy; de-Institutionalisation of Political systems, Support of Military govt/regimes.
ii. Poverty, Children, Women, Minorities and Human rights issues.
iii. Fundamental rights of expression, speech.
iv. Political victimization.
v. Rights of divided families especially India and Pakistan.
vi. Socialism as an alternative to capitalism.
vii. People’s friendly health policies and inventions.
viii. Issues of social justice and governance.
ix. Child and women trafficking and sexual exploitation.
x. Prisoners across borders.
xi. Labor rights – right to work in trade free zones.
xii. Minorities rights.
xiii. Free labor movements.
xiv. Corruption of state institutions.
xv. Economical rights
xvi. National rights
xvii. Historical rights
xviii. Forms of Bonded labor
xix. Education, health care
xx. Devolution and decentralization
E. State and religion, pluralism and fundamentalism
i. Distortion and indoctrinization of history.
ii. Religious intolerance and oppression against minority community.
iii. State, religion, fundamentalism, tolerance and minorities.
iv. Religious fundamentalism and its promotion.
F. Nation, nationalities and ethnic and cultural identifies
i. State entrenched violence and other militaristic tendency.
ii. Nation, Nationalities, State and Identities.
iii. Culture as expression and political statement.
iv. Media as an instrument of corporate forces.
G. Development strategies, poverty unemployment and displacement
i. Women in conflict zone.
ii. Displaced people; internally conflicts and mega projects.
iii. Socialism as an alternative to capitalism.
iv. Development strategies, mega projects and displacement.
v. Poverty reduction strategies and approaches.
vi. Development Assistance and Conditionalisation
vii. Land rights.
H. Peoples’ movements and alternative strategies
i. People movements, livelihood, rights based and self-determination.
ii. Fisher folk, challenges and problems.
iii. Indigenous people and rights.
I. Women, patriarchy and social change
i. Women in conflict zone, prisons and immigration.
ii. Honor killings and women as victim of militarism.
iii. Militancy and violence: women and children.
J. Environment, ecology and livelihoods
iv. Role of IFIs and degradation of environment
v. Pollution of water bodies and land
vi. Dams and barrages
Problems of mega cities (Infrastructure, environment, transport, housing, violence, uncontrolled influx of population.
Polycentric WSF 2006 – Africa venue – Bamako (Mali)
1. War, safety and peace
2. Globalized liberalism : apartheid in worldwide scale and impoverishment
3. Marginalization of the continent and its peoples, migrations, violation of economic, social and cultural rights
4. Aggression against rural societies
5. Alliance between patriarchalism and neoliberalism and marginalization of women’s struggles
6. Culture, media and communication : critical thinking and reconstruction, symbolic violences and exclusions
7. Destruction of ecosystems, biological diversities and control of resources
8. International order: United Nations, international institutions, international rights/law, reconstruction of the South front
9. International trade, debt and social and economic policies
10. Alternatives that will allow advances in democracy, social progress and respect for peoples’ sovereignity and international law.
updated on 02/09/2010
