THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM – Just an international happening or still catalyst for a global system change?
The story of the World Social Forum (WSF) began in 2001 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Since 2009, it takes place every two years – recently, it was celebrated in Dakar, Tunis, and Montreal. This year, the WSF returned for the seventh time to its home country Brazil (13-17 March 2018), more specifically to Salvador da Bahia. At its time, the World Social Forum was conceived as a type of counter-event to the World Economic Forum in Davos, that glamorous Swiss ski resort where every year the elites of world politics and economy meet in an exclusive setting in order to exchange views about the future of our planet.