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  • The World Social Forum (WSF) is often considered a key manifestation of an emerging global civil society. Formed to be the civil society alternative to the business-oriented World Economic Forum, the WSF was organized and held its first meeting in 2001 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Studies; World Social Forum]

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