The following paper has been written by Isidor Marí, Arts and Humanities professor at Open University of Catalonia, Santiago Castellà, Public Law professor at the Ramon Llull University and Josep Bargalló, vice-president of the Fundació Josep Irla. The text shows the shortcomings and progress in constructing an equitable multilingualism on a local and global scale, a truly valuable objective to achieve. The authors underline the key elements which will drive the process of moving towards this objective. The challenge is to ensure that globalisation becomes capable of building a democratic system of governance which defends the richness of diversity at the same time.
This paper was presented at the conference under the same name which took part in Barcelona on October 25, 2013.