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Les idees emergents del Fòrum Barcelona 2004
Logotip del Fòrum Barcelona 2004 During the 141 days of Forum Dialogues, many important figures from civil society and the worlds of culture and academia, covering a range of political perspectives, passed through Barcelona. The chance to hear people with a deep and first-hand knowledge of the main problems and areas of current debate also enabled a list of emerging ideas to be compiled, ideas that will help us to address many key questions and understand and respond to the challenges and opportunities facing the world in coming years. This list of ideas will not only improve our understanding of many current problems, but will also highlight issues that, although not currently regarded as being of primary political, social or media concern, will draw our attention in years to come. In this regard, the Forum will have acted as a privileged space of information. Moreover, this list of ideas provides a link to the major concepts, where more detailed information can be found.

NOTE: The content of this document reflects the ideas and opinions of those individuals who participated in the various Dialogues. These opinions are not necessarily consistent with those of the Forum organization itself.

 

Culture, identity and diversity Governance and participation
  · Ecolinguistics: Diversity and sustainability
· The ecology of language
· The language of peace
· Culture as a key factor in human development
· Cultural co-habitation
· Combining: A model of intercultural co-existence in the modern, plural
  city

· The East: Modernization vs. Westernization
· Intangible tourist heritage
· Globalization and cultural resistance
· Nationalism from a distance
· Cultural networks for tackling cultural globalization
· The right to cultural diversity
  · Civil diplomacy
· Multilateralism in the face of the G1
· The democratic effects of globalization
· A participative youth culture
· Social movements—the driving force behind international
  organizations

· New forms of worldwide participative democracy
· Voluntary agencies as the driving force behind social policy
· Local empowerment: Global city, local government
· The immediate reform of the United Nations
· Taking on global responsibilities by drawing on the experiences of
  civil society

       
Economics and human development Urban environments and territory
  · Social wealth vs. “vulgar” wealth
· Flexi-security
· Unsustainable globalization of labor
· Union solidarity
· Model of economic growth in networks
· Per capita happiness in tourist destinations
· Microcredits: The backbone of social development
· An economy of solidarity
· Social entrepreneurs
· Socially and environmentally responsible corporations
· The intergenerational society
· Despairing youth
· Cultural indicators for measuring human development
· Intergenerational equality
· Right to a basic income
· Corruption, mafiocracy and poverty
· Global central bank
· The two faces of sport: Olympic values vs. market values
 

· Creative capital as a city asset
· The city: An educational space for human rights
· Sustainable cultural cities
· Dissociated space
· Architecture on a pretext
· Hyperplace
· Architecture of the context
· Urban density: the dual city
· Recycling land
· Transition towards an urban world
· Dignifying sub-standard housing
· Urban sustainability

       
Women Environment and natural resources
  · Exploitation in the globalized chains of clothes manufacturing
· The new masculinity
· North-South cooperation and women
  · Petrolization of water: blue petrol
· Managing increased weather disasters
· Providing sustainable energy
· The demand for sustainable energy
· Building without destroying
· The biosphere as a model of globalization
· Resisting the food dictatorship
       
Peace, justice and human rights Educació, ciència i coneixement
  · UN green helmets
· The culture of mediation
· Refugees: active agents in reconstruction
· The struggle against impunity
· Lasting peace
· The new economy of terror
· Corruption as a violation of human rights
· Security through development aid rather than arms
· Human security rather than national security
· Seguretat humana en comptes de seguretat nacional
· Peace is developed through dialogue
· The principle of demanding human rights
  · Drets de 4a generació: l’accés a la informació
· Ciència moderna vs. Coneixement científic local
· Esport i educació: alternativa d’integració, desenvolupament i cultura
  de la pau
· Ètica i avenços científics: la bioètica
· Alfabetització en un nou univers simbòlic
· La unicitat natura-cultura
       
Health and sanitation Human movements
  · The medicalization of healthcare
· Healthcare as a basic human right
· Undesired effects of humanitarian aid in third world
  healthcare systems
· The parachuting in of development
· Exploiting health, the use of performance-enhancing drugs and
  technological enhancement
  · The challenge of integration as a source of change and development
· The local, bilateral and multilateral management of migrations
· The macrostructure of intellectual migration
       
Religions and spirituality Communication
  · No to violence in the name of God: Self-criticism and transformation
· Bringing fundamentalism under the wing of interfaith dialogue
· Water for all: A universal and religious principle
· Spirituality and action in response to poverty and fragmentation
· Protecting refugees: a job for the religions
· From tribal religion to an interconnected faith
  · The news as a military spectacle
· Embedded journalists
· The media: factories of news production
· Symbolic racism
· The gap between reality and communication