The Anti-Globalization Breakfast Club
Manifesto for a Peaceful Revolution

This fascinating collection of interviews with leading anti-globalisation activists, offers insights into the extraordinary changes taking place in developing nations and how they are likely to affect the future of the global economy.

They are calling for fairer re-distribution of the fruits of globalization and a humane reduction of its side-effects through sensitivities to local conditional realities. This book brings together the views of many of the world's leading thinkers in alternative policy studies. Their collective views represent a fascinating insight into a growing movement that is slowly but surely affecting the way the world does business.

Acknowledgments. INTRODUCTION Global Meltdown. The Washington Consensus Goes Bust. CHAPTER 1 What's Wrong with the Washington Consensus? It Forces Alien, Irrelevant Models on Developing Societies. CHAPTER 2 The World Needs an Alternative. Confessions of a Former Commercial Lawyer. CHAPTER 3 Grassroots Approaches That Solve Real Problems. Founding an NGO in the Himalayas. CHAPTER 4 The Anti-Globalization Breakfast Club. Emergence of a Global Justice Movement. CHAPTER 5 Time to Revamp the WTO. Joining the Anti-Globalization Breakfast Club. CHAPTER 6 Redefining Contemporary Development. Trash the Ideology and Use What Works. CHAPTER 7 The Environmental Priority. We Are Ruining the Earth Faster Than the Global Economy Is Growing. CHAPTER 8 The Micro-credit Revolution Works. Small Finance Is Beautiful and Can Improve Lives. CHAPTER 9 Begin by Reshaping Values. The "Gross National Happiness" Alternative. CHAPTER 10 Empowering the Marginalized. To Stop Terrorism, Focus on Its Roots. CHAPTER 11 "High Time to Shut Up". Moving Towards Multilateralism. CHAPTER 12 The Revolt Against Cyclical Poverty. Nepalese Maoists Come in From the Cold. CHAPTER 13 Starting From the Villages. In Sri Lanka's Countryside, a Middle Road. CHAPTER 14 The Buddhist Revolution. Why Compassion Should Be Combined With Capitalism. CONCLUSION Enter the Himalayan Consensus. Manifesto for a Peaceful Revolution. Index.