Angie Zelter, Trident Ploughshares (UK):

• How to create physical and mental spaces to enable alternative ways of living and being on the planet to grow and prosper without interference from corporations/military?
• How to persuade the implementation of international law and the International Criminal Court, the UN and other institutions to act in the long-term interests of the majority of people on the planet?
• How to encourage broader alliances between similar movements in other countries to enable any pressure that we may be bringing in our particular region to be multiplied?

Annika Flensburg, Kvinna till Kvinna (Sweden):

• Why does it seem so difficult for women to participate on equal terms as men when it should be so easy?
• Why is culture and traditions so often used as an excuse to erode woman's human rights?
• Why is the international community so often sidelining women's rights in peacekeeping processes at the same time as they promote democracy and human rights in general?
• Why is sexual and reproductive rights so infectious?
• Why is there a backlash today - at the same time as the link between the spread of HIV/Aids and woman's limited chances to negotiate safe sex has been made clear (for example)?
• What do sexual and reproductive rights challenge?
• Why isn't woman's organisation seen as a political - often alternative - force?

Inge Genefke, Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims (Denmark):

• How can it be that in spite of:
  1. the UN Convention against Torture (with definition of Torture and five articles against impunity)
  2. the UN document: the Istanbul Protocol, a Manual for medical Doctors and Lawyers on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or degrading Treatment or Punishment
there are still very few torturers who are brought to court and still nearly no leading torturer - the one who gives the orders - (with one notorious exception: Augusto Pinochet) who has been prosecuted and punished?

Ida Kuklina, Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia (Russia):

• Why there is widening gap between the practice and the paradigm(s) of development?
• Do we understand the changes which are changing the world with increasing speed? What kind of survival is left for outsiders of development?
• It is possible that my view on modern development is distorted as I inevitably am inside Russian realities. But what about Africa, for example?

Helena Norberg-Hodge, Ecology & Culture (UK):

• What is the connection between terrorism, poverty and environmental decline?
• What are the foundations for an economics of happiness, peace and sustainability?
• How can we best control multinational corporations?

Tapio Mattlar, Finnish Village Action Movement (Finland):

• How could alternative thinking become more common and how could people of the world have more information about the alternative ways of life?
• Is the centralism of the settlement - living in cities instead of villages - a necessity for the desirable development?
• Is the quality of life better in the areas where there are a lot of people close to each other?
• Are people healthier and happier if they can work about as much both mentally and physically?

Stephen Corry, Survival International (UK):

• Is the concept of 'collective' rights, now denied by many governments, fundamental to human society?
• Is 'progress' often used as a euphemism for 'colonialism'?
• How can minorities be protected when democratic governments appeal to, and represent, the majority?

Sonam Dawa, Ladakh Ecological Development Group (India):

• How can small communities escape the onslaught of market economy?
• How can small communities benefit from global tourism while retaining their identity and preserving the environment?

PK Ravindran, Kerala Sastra Sahithya Parishat (India):

• How to ensure community control of natural resources?
• What are the ways of strengthening local economy by people's participation?
• How can a decentralised power structure help local communities in planning and development?

Michael Succow (Germany):

• How could we promote the creation of an ecological security council with veto power in the UN?
• How can nature protection get rid of the image of being a mere impediment?
• How can we overcome the illusion that technical progress will solve the world's environmental problems?
• How can we make people better educated on ecological issues?
• What can we do against the ecological alienation of elites?
• How do we reach the courage necessary for worldwide nature and environmental protection?
• How do we make our economies value (and monetarise) ecological services?

Jim Duehring (USA):

• How do we deal with the human fatigue and distrust of scientific research of health matters?
• How do we engage the spiritual resources of our communities in addressing environmental concerns?
• How do we advocate holistic change for our planet and the peoples of this earth without engaging in partisan political rhetoric?

Patrick van Rensburg, Education with Production (Botswana):

• What will inform and sustain an education process that can achieve the following goals:
  1. to be provided for everyone up to the highest level each is capable of?
  2. to identify the capabilities of everyone and to develop these to enable each to participate fully in - and benefit themselves and others fully, from - an enhanced social, cultural, political, and economic life of their community and country?

Frances Moore-Lappé, Small Planet Institute (USA):

My premise is that the Far Right in the U.S. has been very successful in framing its platform within a moral vision that has growing appeal. Their impact far exceeds the U.S. borders.

The question:

• How do progressives get better at framing our vision so that it is seen as coherent, powerful and practical, not soft and unrealistic or simply a string of issues/demands?

Rosalie Bertell (Canada):

• How can we transfer all of the media and government promoted "fears" (terrorism, other nations, other religions, other cultures, etc) which seem to keep us paralyzed and accepting of all encroaches on our freedoms, and develop instead "fears" of losing our freedoms, star war domination, and global oppressions, which would energize us and set us on roads of constructive action?

John FC Turner (UK):

• How can we make that 'profound simplification (without which) the world around us would be infinite undefined tangle that would defy our ability to orient ourselves and decide upon our actions'?
• In the knowledge, of course, that 'This desire for simplification is justified, but the same does not always apply to the simplification itself'. As Primo Levi (in The Saved and the Damned) goes on to say, what one attempts 'is a working hypothesis, useful as long as it is recognised as such and not mistaken for reality'. Can we ask the 'right questions' without a sufficiently clear picture of the paradigm in which it is set?