Collective learning from calls for global action
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چکیده
This document was originally prepared for the planning meeting in January 1981 of the Planetary Initiative for the World We Choose (described;n this issue, pages 7.10. and 11-14). Despite Its many J/mltations, it identifies concerns which need to be borne in mind when reflecting on the meflts of any new proposal for action at this time. The proposals emergmg from the recent Casablanca Forum of NGOs (November 1981) are a case in point (see pages 18-25). as is the Club of Rome's new Forum Humanum project and the Stuttgar1 proposal (pages29-33). The World Forum of Transnational Associations (Brussels. 1980) must of course also be seen in this light.
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