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Barcelona Consensus: Global Issues

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We consider that the five key topics - the five global issues - can generate systemic ideas around a new global organization.

Our discussions will focus on:

  1. The world we want (values system)
  2. The finite world we have (ecologic system)
  3. Inquire on how we would like to organize this world (political system)
  4. How we economically finance it (economic system)
  5. How we would like to communicate (communicative system).

Analysis which derives from a single focus, or from a multitude of problems, often leads to a loss of the global view necessary to precipitate a global shift at the level of the opportunity which has been created by the current global crisis.

The process cannot be limited to discussing proposals to fight the financial crisis, nor can it discuss all of the problems raised by our social organization, or the impact of the global crisis. Its aim is to focus on the values and objectives, as well as the rules of the game of the ecologic, political, economic and communicative systems, particularly with a global perspective.

The questions related to each key topic are meant to offer some support on how to focus the proposals, and are not meant to be answered one by one.