I was born in 1937 into a white, upper-middle-class family in Longview, Washington, a small timber-industry town of some 25,000 people immersed in what I understood to be conservative values of love of family, community, peace, justice, and nature.

I grew up […]

Responding to September 11, 2001

by David C. Korten

In our hour of sorrow, fear, and anger
may America have the wisdom
to know the difference between justice and vengeance,
and the courage to chose justice. 

The horrific and unconscionable September 11, 2001 (911) terrorist attack on the United States that destroyed the World […]

During the period from its founding in 1990 to roughly 1997, the Forum was at the forefront of civil society efforts to challenge the destructive role and policies of international development agencies like the World Bank and IMF. Much of our work centered on networking and communicating the ideas of many of the leading international […]

PCDForum Campaign IV: Challenging the story that social order must be imposed either by a domineering government or by monopolistic global corporations (2002 to 2009).

[See the The Forum and the Economic Story Revolution]

The New Story: Although we humans we have […]

PCDForum Campaign II: Challenging the story that corporate globalization is advancing universal prosperity, peace, and democracy (1992-2001). 
[See the The Forum and the Economic Story Revolution]

The Book: When Corporations Rule the World, (1995, 2001, 2015). The New Story: The consolidation of global corporate power […]