Everyone Has a Seat, No One Has the Power
How the Grovne Conference gave birth to a fragile global institution, the paradox of the World Forum.
Grovne, Sedunn— When over a dozen heads of state and top diplomats gathered at the Tillava Old Factory in Grovne in early March 2017, they were convened not just by a king, but by a shared sense of institutional failure. The result, the World Forum, bills itself as a deliberative, consensus-first body designed to prevent conflict and coordinate global crises. But its origins, structure, and political compromises make the Forum as much a political experiment as an institution, one whose very design may prevent it from achieving its loftiest goals. The Grovne delegates didn’t just build an institution, they built a table wide enough for everyone, but bolted to the floor.