Giuseppe Caruso

Este artículo trata de un caso de gestión de conflictos en el FSM 2004. Se discuten brevemente las razones de la explosión del conflicto y se establece la relación entre las mismas y la falta de prácticas proactivas claras y coherentes de integración en el proceso de organización del Foro. La discusión se centra en los esfuerzos para negociar el conflicto generado por las reclamaciones expresadas por Ahmed (un miembro de la comunidad musulmana india), quién alega que él y su comunidad se sienten excluidos del proceso de organización del FSM. El documento indica de qué manera pueden prevenirse estos conflictos diseñando cuidadosamente desde el principio estrategias coherentes de divulgación y aplicando regularmente prácticas de inclusión. El núcleo del argumento se centra en las estrategias de gestión del conflicto en el caso del incidente descrito. Se exponen y examinan las limitaciones de esas prácticas. La investigación muestra cómo las deficiencias principales de las estrategias ...

... publ.), World Social Forum : Challenging Empires, New Delhi, The Viveka Foundation, p. 148-160 ... article aborde un cas de gestion de conflit au sein du Forum social mondial (fsm ... GiuseppeCaruso « Gestion du conflit et pratiques hégémoniques au sein du Forum social mondial ...

... 1 Giuseppe Caruso is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Global Governance ... of networked events taking place in the four corners of the planet during 2010, activists convened ... A new paradigm, a new way of conceptualizing the struggle for a better world, is ...

The World Social Forum (WSF) is the world’s largest activist network to date. Its global, regional, national, and thematic events have gathered since 2001 millions of participants and thousands of civil society and social movement organisations. Its cosmopolitan vision is built on resistance to the planetary domination by neo-liberal globalisation. This paper unpacks WSF’s cosmopolitan project and reflects on its vision of emancipated individuals, convivial communities, and a just planetary society in harmony with the environment. In its open organisational space, WSF’s cosmopolitan project develops while in the process of political action rather than prior to that. At the same time, power dynamics, ideological cleavages, and pragmatic concerns about organisation and strategy challenge WSF’s ability to pursue its goals. However, it is these internal tensions that make WSF’s cosmopolitan project both more difficult to achieve and more realistic than claims of universal unity among all its participants.

This chapter is about a specific social movement organisational form, the open space. I discuss how (and if) the open space contributes to shaping and sustaining the World Social Forum’s (WSF) resistance against the neoliberal inflection of globalisation. At the same time, I consider how (and if) it does so (as claimed by its funders and advocates) by providing an arena to engage and work through the  differences, conflicts and ambivalences at play in large instances of collective resistance.

The WSF 2004 was held in Mumbai, India. It was the first to be organised outside Brazil but the WSF Indian Organising Committee (IOC) faced the challenges related to this new endea-vour with reassuring and inspiring overall maturity. The lessons learnt in India will constitute ...