Short cv 010310:    peter waterman, jacob v.d. doesstraat 28,2518xn the hague, netherlands. tel/fax: 31-(0)70-363-1539  global solidarity dialogue: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/glosodia (inactive)global solidarity dialogue website: www.antenna.nl/~waterman/ (inactive)archive: http://blog.choike.org/eng/category/peter-waterman. email: [email protected]  Curriculum vitae Peter Waterman (London 1936) retired as Senior Lecturer after nearly 30 years at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, 1998. He was successively associated with the Labour Studies and the Politics of Alternative Development Strategies programmes. In his earlier years he was English editor of World Student News (Prague 1955-8), was a labour educator with the World Federation of Trade Unions (Prague 1966-9), and taught World Contemporary History at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria (1970-72). Peter has a Diploma in Social Sciences from the union-linked Ruskin College (1963), and a Batchelor’s in Politics, Economics and Philosophy from Queen’s College, Oxford (1965). He has an MSocSci in West African Studies from Birmingham University (1972), and completed his PhD on Nigerian trade unionism in Non-Western Sociology, Nijmegen University (1983). In the 1980s he founded the International Labour Education, Research and Information Foundation and edited/published the Newsletter of International Labour Studies.  From around 1985 he has specialised on study of the new labour and other internationalisms, and on (computerised) communications and culture in relation to such. Since 2002 he has concentrated on the relationship of trade unions to the ‘global justice and solidarity movement’, particularly the World Social Forum.  Peter has had fellowships, visiting positions and other attachments to universities in the UK, Spain, US, South Africa, Mexico and Peru. Currently he spends several months a year in Peru, where his partner, the international feminist writer/activist, Gina Vargas, lives. He has published in English, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Swedish and other languages. He is widely present on the Web, particularly at http://blog.choike.org/eng/category/peter-waterman.   Recently Peter has been writing his autobiography, co-editing a book series (with Jai Sen, of Cacim, New Delhi), World Social Forum: Challenging Empires http://www.cacim.net/twiki/tiki-index.php?page=CACIMHome, and publishing, on paper and online, compilations of his own work, in both Spanish and English.Having launched, in the later-1980s, the ongoing international dialogue about ‘Social Movement Unionism’, he is now promoting the idea of a ‘Global Labour Charter’. He is also active in the 2009-10 debate, discussion and dialogue about a Fifth International on Znet and elsewhere.  .