Our Six Spheres of Activity
Message from Ervin Laszlo, founder and president of The Club of Budapest, co-founder of the WorldShift Foundation and president of its board of trustees.
The Club of Budapest is Founding Member
of the Global Marshall Plan Initiative
12/03/2009 - 12/09/2009
The 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions
Make a World of Difference: Hearing each other, Healing the earth
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Statement 1: Parliamentary democracy has come to the verge of its capacity.
Statement 2: The greatest potential power in the world is civil society—but in fact it is a sleeping dragon.
We support the transition from today’s parliamentary democratic systems to participative democratic civil societies all over the world, which are no longer ruled by politicians, but wisely administered by well wisdom-educated professionals, based on the fundaments of egalitarian consensus principles. In a participative civil society the common guidelines are maintained by parliaments of prudent delegates, who don’t possess political power, but present and negotiate the will of their mandating regions instead.
A new culture means a completely new form of political constitution. This raises serious questions such as: How can security and protection against violence be established without militarism or getting addicted again to controls? What shall we do with the arsenals of weapons all over the planet and what with the people deeply in love with them? It is hard to imagine a completely new, truly participative society without any prohibitive laws and prisons.
We support the establishment of successful new communities. We will collect and promote best practises of participative forms of sociality in order to remove the reasons for poverty, for injustice and greed—and to abolish the fear of those evils arising from poverty, injustice and greed.
Participation means to encourage and to empower everyone who wants to contribute to the welfare of civil society. We want to reframe the word “citizen” so that we don’t always have to put “planetary” in front of it to signify that we speak of citizens of the earth, a privilege we all share by birth. Civil society in this respect equals the super-organism humankind.
An example for this field of action is the “Parliament for the Future“, which comes into life at the moment in Germany.