Recente inhoud op Pala

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

During the heydays of apartheid, Flanders featured one of the world’s most archaic pro-apartheid lobbies. Something more fundamental was at work than language affinity. The Action Committee on Southern Africa managed to constitute a broad-based coalition in Flanders to better hit where it hurt.

This Q & A reveals how European experts responded and advised very differently from their peers in many West Pacific countries. Europeans – and the whole world – are paying the highest price for what may be the biggest blunder of the 21st century.

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.