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Some values are ethics, solidarity, liberty, democracy
Ababacar DIOP
Tuesday, November 12, 2002 6:23 PM
ººº Abstract: Some values and principles could be: the ethical values,
solidarity, the liberty, the transparency, the democracy. The WP could be the
modern reproduction of the trees of words of Black Africa, where all
differences used to be solved, in presence of everybody or of their
representativesººº
Which values and principles for a World Parliament? It is definitely there a
big question.
It seems necessary to me in a first time to call on the ethical values. Indeed,
for a WP we need a foundation, and some strong pillars to sustain it. The
ethical values can help to it.
These are values whose lacking will become fatal to the World Parliament. For
this reason, such values must occupy a central place in the pyramid of the WP.
Solidarity is the second of the values for a WP. A world without solidarity
becomes a jungle where the law of the more will always be the best one. That’s
why this universal value must be one of the pillars of the pyramid.
Otherwise, there are some principles that should to be mentioned for a WP.
Liberty, transparency, democracy... Indeed, the liberty is fundamental for a
WP. Someone have sustained "the community of the ideas", such a point of view
seems to me going in opposition to the liberty of the ideas. To make from ideas
a community seems to me wanting to kill the liberty of the ideas.
I evoke the democracy because I reside in a continent where it is a rare good,
I mean, Africa. Indeed, you will agree with me that the democracy lacks in the
South and especially in Africa.
That is why I insist on this principle for a WP. We knew in black Africa the
tree of words. Indeed, it was under the tree that all differences used to be
solved in presence of everybody or of their representatives.
I dream that the WP was the reproduction in modern times of our trees of
words.
Ababacar Diop
WP21 Alliance Forum on a World Parliament for the 21st Century
E-mail : world-parl@forums.alliance21.org
Fax 1 717 264 5036
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