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Transition

Why the World Social Forum and other movements are failing to shape another world.

One year and a half into the COVID-19 crisis and slowly beginning to see the end of the tunnel, messages are still spread about the necessary changes in ‘the system’ to which this crisis will surely lead. But what changes? And what ‘system’? And how ‘necessary’ are they?

Society should overcome ‘silo’ thinking and leave our deeply rooted mental models reflected in policy sectors. This is the Chair’s Summary of a SDG Workshop organized by the Club of Rome EU-Chapter and European Public Policy Advisors in wich Dirk Barrez (Pala.be) participated.

Our commercialized media are no longer a lever for change, transformation or transition. And so-called education doesn’t bring about any fundamental change, let alone the necessary transitions of our failing systems. So, let's talk about solutions.

Action research confronts the Transition Network Civil Society with some challenges. Civil society organisations seem to lack the power to realise system-wide solutions – for example to regain the grip of society on the banking system after the financial crisis – or to push the political and economic world into that direction.