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ExtractConference Synthesis Teivo Teivainen A background paper [see the previous paper in this volume] was . . prepared and presented by Walden Bello. The panel was also composed of Susan George, ATTAC, France; Peter Wahl, WEED; Aurelio Vianna, Rede Brasil sobre Instituções Financeiras Multilaterais; and Roberto Bissio, Social Watch. Maude Barlow, from the Council of Canadians, participated as a discussant. The Conference chair and facilitator was Teivo Teivainen, Network for Global Democratization. At the request of the World Social Forum Organizing Committee, the facilitator had prepared a page of questions which was distributed to the panellists before the conference and is reproduced here: If we want to create a different world, we have to imagine and construct the institutional features of alternative futures. First, we need to ask to what extent existing institutions can be reformed. And to what extent we need to create new global or transnational institutions. What...

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