Gustavo Marín, a Chilean-French economist and sociologist, is noted in particular for his key role in the creation and development of the longstanding international network, the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World. He was Director of the world-governance think tank, the Forum for a new World Governance (FnWG) from 2007 to 2015. He is currently retired.

Political prisoner under Pinochet's military regime in Chile

Born on April 24, 1950, in

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, in northern

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. Today, he is married and has four children. Of

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and

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descent, he was a student at the School of Sociology of the Catholic University until 1970. He quit school to live with the

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people in southern Chile, where he was one of the main organizers of a widespread movement to recover land that had been taken away from the Mapuche communities by colonizers. He resisted against the coup led by Augusto Pinochet on September 11, 1973, and stayed underground until April 1974, when he was captured by the military intelligence services. He was detained for several months in the secret jails of the dictatorship then sentenced to a 20-year prison term by a military court. He was adopted by

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and other Human Rights organizations, which allowed him to be evacuated to France in November 1976.

A political refugee in France

As a political refugee in France, he began working in 1977 as a telephone installer, while pursuing his higher education. He obtained a PhD in Economics from the

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8. From 1983 to 1986 he worked in the Development Department of the

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. He returned to Chile through Argentina in 1986. There, he worked at Pries-Cono Sur (South Cone Regional Social and Economic Research Program, a research network in economic, social, and political fields), as Coordinator of research centers, universities, labor unions, and NGOs in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and Uruguay.

Works in 1988 and 1991

During this period, he published the following books, widely used as sources in academic works: * ''Los grupos transnacionales y la crisis'', Editorial Nueva América, Buenos Aires, 1988. * ''Estado autoritario, deuda externa y grupos económicos'', with Patricio Rozas, Ediciones Chile América CESOC, Santiago, 1988. * ''El endeudamiento bancario de los grupos económicos, su incidencia en la crisis de pagos y las políticas des Estado de Chile'', with Patricio Rozas, PRIES CONO SUR, Santiago, 1988. * ''El mapa de la extrema riqueza: 10 años después'', with Patricio Rozas, Ediciones Chile América CESOC, Santiago, 1989. * "Chile Hacia el Siglo XXI: Crisis del Capitalismo y Recomposición de las clases sociales," ''Documentos de Trabajo'' no. 43, PRIES CONO SUR, Santiago, 1991.

International solidarity network and the World Social Forum

In 1992, he returned to France and worked as Head of the Future of the Planet Program at the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for the Progress of Humankind, an independent foundation instituted under Swiss law and based in Paris. He has been Head of Programs at the same foundation since 2002. He was one of the organizers of the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World and was a founding member of the International Council of the

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Worldwide publication of his personal and political accounts

His ''Relatos íntimos de José Peralta'', a personal account of his political activity and detainment, was published in Chile by Ediciones Tiempo Nuevo in 2003 and re-edited by Ediciones AYUN in 2009. It has been translated: * into Portuguese, published in Brazil by Escrituras in 2003 * into English, published in India by Pipal Tree in 2004 as ''Singing in the Prison Shower'' * into Chinese, published by Xinhua Press in 2006, and * into French, published in Morocco by Tarik Editions in 2007 as ''Résistance et Espoir au Chili 1973 - 2007''.

Other activities and new world-governance think tank

Gustavo Marín has organized seminars and conferences on themes related to democracy, civil society, and governance in China, India, Iran, Lebanon, Mauritania, Rwanda, South Africa, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, France, Spain, among other countries.His involvement with civil-society movements in the Middle East, for instance, led him to be part of a group of human-rights activists protesting Israeli Defense Force operations, as reported by Gelfond, L. (2002), "Foreign rights activists protest IDF restrictions", in ''Jerusalem Post'', April 15. Late 2007, he launched, jointly with Arnaud Blin, the Forum for a new World Governance (FnWG), of which he was Director until April 2015. He published more than thirty Proposal Papers, and together with Arnaud Blin and a dozen collaborators he co-authored the ''Diccionario del Poder Mundial'', published in Spanish by the Chilean edition of ''Le Monde Diplomatique'' and in French by the publisher Nuvis under the title ''Dictionnaire de la gouvernance mondiale''.

References and footnotes

External links

; Short selection of articles by Gustavo Marín on the Internet
"A World Alliance against Social Apartheid"
(1995). Forum for a new World Governance.

(2004). Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World.
"Reforming the United Nations and Redefining Politics"
with P. Calame (2005). World Social Forum.

(2006). Alternatives.

(2006). Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World.
"Inventing a New World Governance Now"
with Arnaud Blin (2009). Forum for a new World Governance. {{DEFAULTSORT:Marin, Gustavo 1950 births Chilean activists 20th-century Chilean economists Living people Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni University of Paris alumni People from Antofagasta Chilean people of Aymara descent Chilean people of Quechua descent Chilean prisoners and detainees Prisoners and detainees of Chile Chilean exiles 21st-century Chilean economists Chilean sociologists