What is the Barcelona Consensus?
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The aim of this project is to reach a consensus on proposals of how to make more desirable worlds possible as well as suggest actions for concreted social transformation.
It will count on the participation of 250 experts, gender-balanced and from the different geocultural areas of the globe, who will form a deliberative online community which is at once intercultural, multi-sectorial, multilingual and plural.
Throughout 2010 the 300 participants will contribute by sending in and evaluating proposals in relation to the five broad global issues:
1. Values and objectives of the world we want,
2. Resources and population,
3. Politics and security,
4. Economics and finance,
5. Communication and culture.
It is an attempt to question the rules of global organization, that should guarantee the sustainable coverage of the basic needs of the entire world population.
In May 2011, a first version of the resulting Consensus will be approved in Barcelona at a meeting of the most active participants. The draft has been presented at the World Social Forum in Dakar (Senegal), and will be presented in other international gatherings, in order to influence governments and public opinion.
During 2011 the Barcelona Consensus Declaration and the proposals that reach the greatest level of agreement will be widely publicized in different media. The network will be further strengthened and the applied methodology improved, and a Global Social Consultation will be launched to collaboratively select an Action for a Common Transformation amongst World Social Forum actors and organizations from all over the world.