WCC to explore economic alternatives at World Social Forum

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Viable alternatives to the international financial architecture responsible for the current global financial and economical crises will be among the topics explored by members of a World Council of Churches (WCC) delegation at this year's World Social Forum.

Taking place 27 January to 1 February 2009 in Belem, Brazil, the ninth World Social Forum (WSF) will gather some 80,000 participants from civil society organizations from all over the world, according to its organizers. Under the emblematic motto "Another World is Possible," the WSF is the main manifestation of the "alter-globalization" movement, which seeks to promote alternative, value-based forms of international integration.

Out of a long-standing tradition of monitoring with a critical eye the evolution and consequences of economic globalization, and in view of the recent global financial meltdown, the WCC and its ecumenical partners participating at the WSF seek to think outside the box and propose viable ways to reform the global financial architecture.

"From a Christian perspective there is no system so sacred that it could not be changed," says Dr Rogate Mshana, WCC executive for Poverty, Wealth and Ecology. How could today's global finances be changed will be the subject of a number of ecumenically-sponsored workshops and seminaries within the WSF programme (for details see media contact below) ...

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