
GLOBAL WSF PROCESS and GLOBAL WSF FAMILY
Global WSF process is a set of independent and autonomous processes that have in common being inspired by the WSF process initiated in 2001 in Porto Alegre en Brazil
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Global WSF process (GWSF) is a notion that has been affimed in International council WSF Meeting in Tunis in December 2022
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This notion comprises:
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Social forum processes ( see a generic proposed description of asocial forum process) , among which :
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- WSF process , with 15 worldscale events over 22 years, described by WSF principles as a open space of encounters
This process is facilitated by International Council IC WSF
For each event there is aslo a specific organizaing commitee,
WSF2024 will be next event
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- Others thematic, regional, national, social forum processe , with their respective facilitating committees, that can be applying to be member entities of IC-WSF, in order to contribte wiht their facilitating experience in the WSF process facilitation. They can also be active in the Cohesive dialogue about Global WSF
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Among those social forum processes , there is APSF process, and possiblty soon ISF/WSFindia process there is also for instance Iraq social forum process and Palestine social forum process
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see here a Global WSF calendar of events, distinguishing social forum process "events" ( "events" are cluster of "activities" held in intercommunication process in a sae short period of time) and other "events" ( that are not announcing to be build according to WSF principles, even though there might be some proximity)
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These social forum processes are intrcommunication processes that are NOT deliberative "as a whole", taking place in an open space , see the WSF principle 1 and 6 , of course organizations participating can make decisions in their own name see the WSF principle 7.
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- Social assembly processes, which contrarry to social fourm processes, are intercommunication processes which are deliberative as a whole. This is a new part of the Global WSFprocess, in exploration and development. A first social assembly process, named " World Assembly of Struggles and resistances of the WSF" is being developed since Tunis meeting. Such assembly processes can find or develop representation in IC to contribute to the cohesive dialogue in global WSF process/family
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Facilitating committees of each process is deemed to act so that each process in the Global WSF process /family respects autonomy of others processes. Internatonal council o fWSF IC-WSF can be a place where to hold dialogue between those committees that can be present in IC WSF ( eg facilitating committee of APSF is member entity of IC WSF) - Those processes participating voluntarily and constructively in such a Cohesive dialogue in autonomies in the context of GWSF through participation in IC WSF can be described as Global WSF family , which is a subset of processes inside the GWSF process notion.
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As shown in diagram below a same organization can participate in, or can contribute to facilitation of, various social intercommunication processes in the Global WSF context
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It is also mainly from below, through acts of participation of organizations participating in them, such as organizing activities , describing initiatives , or attending sessions of social assemblies, that the various social processes in the Global WSF family are being connected together
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See here notes from a meeting held in september 2020 when an articulation group form iCWSF has been convening representatives of 15 faciltation committes of existing social forum processes
http://openfsm.net/projects/ic-extended/online-202009-ampliado2-extension