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Shared Instruments and Work´s methods
1. Instruments
The Terre Citoyenne web site offer greater visibility to the Alliance and its partners, and has gived life to its membership to a international working community. It has started a dynamic sharing of texts and documents in relation with the project Coredem (Confederation of Resources for Global Democracy). Is reflected by the actions carried out: The Reñaca encounter (Chile), the Contag Congress, etc., valuing the available documents. It have allowed to introduce the presence of video documents (Global Café). It is also a place of discussion learning, in the private area of the site, on more specific themes and linked to email.
2. Methods and process of shared work
This alliance involves organizations and institutions are involved. But his strength is in personal relationships of trust between people. It's in the relationship, in the discovery of others, their feelings, their reactions, their actions and projects, that larger projects in regions, countries and internationally can be builded.
The practice of "learning journey" implemented by the “Sustainable Food Laboratory” has allowed us to make a qualitative leap in the methods of work in connection with various themes. We had developed methods of ground meeting. But a new approach of "visit workshop" where people take the time to confront their feelings and the surprises before their ideas became a method we have developed on several occasions in recent years (workshop-visit before the WSF in Porto Alegre, the Brazilian countryside; workshop-visit on fishing in China; workshop-visit around Lake Victoria in Kenya; workshop-visit included during the Reñaca meeting in Chile on "Universities and Popular Education"; Mini-Lab in China on sustainable food systems in 2008; Food Lab conference in USA in September 2008; workshop in Mexico organized by Agter on local management of natural resources in 2008, etc.). This method is a fundamental element of encounter between people, creation of presence, building of trust and imaginary prior to any work or common project.
This is an interactive dynamic from a reference text, following precise rules, to advance research processes or knowledge. The result of group interaction around a theme intended to lead to a relatively short publication (about a hundred pages), which can accompany all interactions, to visualize the evolution of the debate and to highlight the conclusions reached. Read more.
A presentation of Global Café in the meeting on social leaders and University (Chile. december 2008)...
We had developed the project "International University Terre Citoyenne" as an umbrella for initiatives in different places, as validation of some training processes, as a mean to develop exchanges on this topic. Already, during our last coordination meeting in Nant, we relied in the presence of several people invited that carried experiences and analysis proposals, we held a series of conferences in their own houses during two evenings.
Different approaches to capitalize were also used, such as "butterflies" operations (APPM, Rencontre des paysans et pêcheurs du Mercosur, Forum mondial de la Réforme Agraire, Forum des pêcheurs, Forumdes cultures dites illicites). The sharing tool of Coredem, of wich Terra Citoyenne is a member, is also a process and a tool which is also Earth Citoyenneest an approach and a tool. The documents for consultation in the resources of our website are also valued in the Coredem, a confederation of websites for a worldwide democracy wich brings partenaires together with a charter, a search engine and a wiki. |
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Terre-Citoyenne est membre de la coredem