HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS OF THE FORUM

Advances of the Civil Society in the world-wide plane

In the language of the today policy, the Civil Society generally is used like one of the terms of the great dicotomía Civil Society/Been. What means that its extension cannot be determined its meaning and be delimited but it is redefining simultaneously I finish State and delimiting his extension. Negatively, by Civil Society the sphere is understood of the social relations not regulated by the State, understood restrictively and almost always controversialally, like the set of the apparatuses that in an Organized Social System exert the Coercive Power. The origin of the Civil Society repair to August Ludwig von Schlozer (1794) in the difference between “societas civilis sine empire and societas civilis cum empire”, in which, the second expression indicates what in the great dicotomía it is designated with I finish State, in a context in which, not yet the contrast between Society and State has been born and is enough an only one I finish to designate both with an internal distinction in species.

In the most recent Sistémicas theories of the Global Society, the Civil Society occupies the space reserved to the formation of the demands (input) that go to the Political System and which the Political System must have to respond (output). The resistance between the Civil Society and the State is put then as the resistance between amount and quality of the demands and capacities of the institutions to give suitable answers. The subject today so debated of governability of the complex societies also can be interpreted under the light of this dicotomía. A society becomes so more unmanageable at the most increase the demands of the Civil Society and it corresponding does not increase the capacity of answer of the institutions; or rather, with the capacity of answer of the State reaching limits talvez not superable †“fiscal example crisis. On the other hand, the ungovernability generates legitimacy crisis; since the Institutions represent the Legitimate Power in the Weberiano sense of the word, this is, the power whose decisions are accepted and fulfilled in the measurement in which they are considered like emanated of an authority to which the right is recognized to him to make valid decisions for all the colectivity.

In a terrenal and generic concept, for different cultural levels, it is possible to be established that the Civil Society is the space where natural and/or legal people group themselves in a joint effort, it jeopardize by the defense of the communal property; they orient its thought and action, in order to obtain that the governors adopt conducive public policies to the optimization of the resources of the State to reach a sustainable development of excellence and quality with transparency and fairness; making an effort so that to create necessary and sufficient conditions so that the people manage to develop to fullness the totality of their potentialities. Under this order of ideas, one becomes necessary to make solids efforts so that in each one of the countries of the planet fortified organizations exist, responsible and consequent of Civil Society that, in their own operational range, conditions generate that lead towards one better defense of the communal property, that really, earth belongs to all the inhabitants of the planet.

At the present time, the organized world-wide Civil Society is articulating in increasing form and with a protagonism different from those from its génesis. From the summit of River 92 and subsequent summits of United Nations “the UN” and of the Organization of American States “O.A.S.”, they come promoting Resolutions and Agreements tending Mundiales and Hemisféricos to the fortification of the Organizations of the Civil Society, in order to obtain the conscience taking so that the towns of the world have a participation responsible for all the social sectors in the discussion, formulation and implementation of public, conducive policies to obtain a sustainable and incluyente development in benefit of the humanity and its surroundings; like also, creating the necessary, pertinent and sufficient conditions, so that all the citizens of the planet reach to develop to fullness the totality of their potentialities.

Some of these Resolutions and/or Agreements tending Globales and Hemisféricos to fortify the Organizations of the Civil Society, for special reasons, are ignored by the turn governments where a weak Civil Society exists or, in its defect, put under the aims of the people who hold the political power of the respective nation, action that avoids the development and fortification of Independent Organizations of Civil Society and the Belligerent Premises. Generally, these countries are a paradise where the Organizations of Civil Society of some countries proliferate cooperators, replacing the work that could well be developed by the Organizations of Local Civil Society and, consequently, the assigned aid to the country beneficiary, generally, in a high percentage, returns to the country cooperator by means of its Organizations of Civil Society which they have programs and projects in the country beneficiary “typical Example: Honduras Post-Mitch-.

This situation demands greater efforts and a deep reflection from the UN and of the O.A.S., in order that an effective pressure by the most suitable and advisable channels is exerted, in tries to obtain that the countries where these special situations happen deliver true attacks for the fortification of the Organizations of the Local Civil Society; like also, these Organizations of the Local Civil Society must tie with the different expressions from the Regional Civil Society, Hemisférica and Mundial; in order to manage to establish a Network of mutua and shared in common interests in the permanent effort of the defense of the communal property of all the inhabitants of the planet.

The Forum of Civil Society World-wide “FMSC” which I conclude in Geneva 2002, is a good beginning. It is product of the Declaration and the Plan of Action of the World-wide Civil Society Organized, presented/displayed to the General Assembly of the Millenium and to the Summit of the Millenium of the United Nations and the Declaration of the Forum of the Millenium of World-wide the Civil Society where one concludes with the Agreement to create a Permanent Forum of the Global Civil Society, democratically constituted.

Without a doubt some, in the world-wide plane, with the participation of the World-wide Federation of Assemblies of United Nations, “WFUNA”, of the Conference of ONGs of United Nations, the CONGO, CIVICUS, UBUNTU, the Union of International Organizations UOI, and other organizations and local, national and regional networks of the Society Civil and with an ample contribution of representatives of the Agencies of United Nations, the Union Interparlamentaria and observers, has given birth to the World-wide Forum of Civil Society “FMSC” like permanent forum, that two years before was approved in the Forum of the Millenium of the Nations United in New York, has taken a transcendental step for the future democratic joint of the representation of the Civil Society worldwide.

FMSC 2002 has chosen democratically between the present delegates, representing thousands of Organizations of the Civil Society, a World-wide Advice who will be to propose and to determine the other call and plenary control systems of the World-wide Forum between and the procedures of the next FMSC and, possibly, on the subject of the reform of the United Nations among other aspects, in collaboration with the Union Interparlamentaria; in order to treat and to solve problems that single an architecture of world-wide democratic policy can legitimately approach, equipping itself with global democratic institutions that can correct the deficiencies and inequalities of the present globalización. Also he is healthful to recognize that the states members of the United Nations are not all equal ones nor are governed by the same laws, the Organizations of the Civil Society have their concurrent and complementary diversity and objectives that there are to harmonize for communal property in the FMSC that now begins their walking on the germinated thing in the Forum of the Millenium. As they thought Cicerón to it about Rome, Jefferson in the Constitution of the USA. and the federal genitores of the Helvetic Confederation and other attempts, the Civil Society is in the origin of the democracy and the democracy renews and consolidates in the today world from the Civil Society.