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International Meeting Process for Debate and Proposals on Governance
Coordinated by the IRG, the International Meeting Process for Debate and Proposals on Governance seeks to identify and understand both the actual sources of power legitimacy (traditions, religions, relationship with the sacred, laws, etc.) and their interactions, within the world’s different sub-regions. In more general terms, the objective is to analyze the constructive, meaningful articulations between these sources of legitimacy so as to foster the development of a shared social regulation system within a given society.
Initiated in 2007 in Bamako (Mali), the meeting process then proceeded to explore the African continent, thus resulting in the international meetings of Polokwane and Pretoria(South Africa) in 2008, Arusha (Tanzania) in 2009, Yaoundé (Cameroon) in 2010, and Tunis (Tunisia) in 2012. The process also expanded out of Africa and to date has included events in Lima (Peru) in 2009 and Saarbrücken (Germany) in 2011. It will lead us, at the end of November 2012, to Addis Ababa (Ethiopia).
This activity is supported by the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for the Progress of Humankind (FPH) and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Meeting Process is coordinated by the IRG and benefits from the support of local partners.
Highlight: Tunis Meeting
The Tunis Meeting is the fifth stage of the “International Meeting Process for debate and proposals on governance” for Africa. It focused on the five North-African countries represented in the meeting (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia).
As for our previous meetings, we searched out a crossing of views, cultures, fields, and actors.
About fifty civil society, private sector, religious, political and institutional representatives, and leading figures etc. came from the North African region, Turkey, Europe, South and North America, and Sub-Saharan Africa to share their experiences. The current climate in the region confirms the urgent need to identify processes and vectors of legitimate democratic governance.
Addis-Ababa Meeting
The Addis-Ababa Meeting was an intercultural and interactor conference. Its aim was to open up discussions on managing diversity in public action and cooperation programs.
The meeting seeked to achieve the twin objectives of :
- Providing practical experiences and testimonies relating to the management of diversity, both on the African continent and others such as Europe and Latin America. These testimonies were in part be constituted by the five previous stages of International Meeting Process.
- Discussing proposals for the management of diversity in the Constitution and Human Rights fields.
Colloquium note of the Addis Ababa meeting
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