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Title : WSF India - Program Note
Description : Asia Social Forum 2003,
Hyderabad, India,
January 2-7, 2003
Program Note
About the Asia Social Forum
The Asia Social Forum (ASF) 2003 provides a forum for an open
dialogue among the movements opposed to capitalist led globalization.
The only criteria is that the participants are opposed to imperialist
globalization as well as religious sectarian violence, and have a
commitment to democratic values, plurality and peace. The ASF 2003 is
open to the social movements and organizations, networks, coalitions,
alliances and campaigns that are committed to fight against
neo-liberal globalisation and ethnic/caste/religion/gender based
discrimination and who are willing to meet in consonance with the
World Social Forum (WSF) Charter of Principles.
The ASF 2003 is a step towards calling on the movements who work in
Asia and are opposed to neo-liberal globalization to take initiatives
and to collaborate for the start of the WSF process in Asia. The ASF
2003 is being hosted by WSF, India and will be held in the city of
Hyderabad in India from January 2 to 7, 2003. In the World Social
=46orum process the ASF, 2003 is the first Asia level event to be
convened with an understanding that Asian Social Forum event would be
repeated over a period in all the sub-regions of Asia.
The thematic content of Asia Social Forum (ASF) 2003 is defined by
the Charter of principles and the policy guidelines adopted by the
World Social Forum, India. It will be hosted as an open space to the
movements for free discourse, debate, interaction and discovery. It
will try for the participation of a rich diversity of mass
organizations, people=EDs movements and citizens=ED groups. It will
organize the forum as a platform for participatory formulation of
alternatives to the dehumanizing world order resulting from the
policies and practices of neo-liberal globalization. It is conceived
as a process capable of generating a movement of ideas and of
building a development approach based on the vision and strategies
devoted to realizing all human rights for individuals, communities
and people. It will endeavor to contribute to creating a new
political climate of dialogue across differences and sensitize them
of the need to add to the existing repertoire, new ways of resistance.
The World Social Forum was conceived in Brazil as an international
forum against neo-liberal policies and capitalist led globalisation
around the slogan: =ECAnother World Is Possible=EE. The World Social
=46orum (WSF) has emerged in the movements working against capitalist
led globalization as a forum that seeks to provide a space for
discussing alternatives, for exchanging experiences and for
strengthening alliances between social movements, unions of the
working people and NGOs. The Asian Social Forum 2003 is a milestone
in that journey. The process of ASF, 2003, in the WSF spirit, would
be open, inclusive and flexible, and would the movements opposed to
capitalist led globalization working all over Asia. WSF India
believes that another world and another Asia is possible; the ASF
2003 is an expression of this hope.
The Asia Social Forum 2003 provides space for proposing conferences
with participation of 4,000 delegates each and a range of seminars =F1
large and small =F1 and workshops. The WSF India seeks the
participation of mass organisations, social movements and other
groups who would take the initiative and responsibility in organising
such events. The opening and closing sessions, the cultural programs,
public lectures and testimonials are being organised by WSF India.
Thematic Areas
The Asia Social Forum 2003 will be organized around the identified
six thematic areas. Their scope is provided here below in broad
indicative terms only as a point of entry in to the process of
working out more elaborately the agenda for discussion to be proposed
by the participants interested to organize the events in Hyderabad as
a part of the ASF 2003. We give below themes by the programme
committee:
=85 Peace and Security
=85 Debt, Development, Trade, Finance and Investment
=85 Nation State, Democracy and Exclusion
=85 Social Infrastructure, Planning and Cooperation
=85 Ecology, Culture, Knowledge
=85 Alternatives and People=EDs Movements
The organisations who are interested to hold the events being
proposed by them as a part of the ASF 2003 in Hyderabad are requested
to go through the brief notes attached here on each of the proposed
thematic area. In each thematic area, as illustration, the brief
notes indicate the sub-areas and the possible topics. Participants
are free to add under each of the thematic area many more new
sub-areas and topics. Participants are also free to consider even
those topics that cut across the boundaries of proposed thematic
areas for the organization of a dialogue of their choice.
While proposing the events, the participants may go beyond academic
discussions on the impacts of neo-liberal globalisation and also
offer concrete alternatives and strategies of resistance. It may also
include struggles and experience of and victims testimonials to
involve them in the WSF process of an open dialogue.
Participating organisations are invited to formulate the proposed
subject matter of their choice in the shape of conference/panels,
seminars and workshops as a part of the ASF 2003. Participants are
expected to indicate the information details sought in the proposal
format attached to give a clear idea to the organizers of the nature
and content of the event so as it is appropriately in the proposed
overall structure.
Those interested in organising events at the Asian Social Forum
should contact the following address:
Programme Committee
WSF India Secretariat
204, Elite House,
36 Community Centre, Zamrudpur,
New Delhi =F1 110048
Phones: 91-11-6476580, 6473425
email: wsfindia@vsnl.net
url: www.wsfindia.org
=46or specific details about the programme interested groups and
organisations can also contact persons of the programme committee,
whose contact details are provided with the annexure. Detailed
information about facilities, costs, etc. for organising events is
provided in a separate Event Note for the Asian Social Forum.
ANNEXURE
Peace and Security
Capitalist globalisation, accompanied by and/or manifested as
military and other intervention by world powers, has greatly
accentuated the lack of peace and security in the Asian region =F1 but
Asia also has to offer some of the greatest lessons in the stuggle
for other worlds. Asia is one of the key sites in the world today of
the unfolding of capitalist globalisation and of its serial impacts =F1
and also of struggles against globalisation. It has historically
seen some of the most important struggles in history against
colonialism and feudalism and of the formulation of somewhat
independent models of state and nation formation, and also of
interventions in global conflict, including through the Non-Aligned
Movement. And it is today, in these times of the ascendance of
capitalist globalisation, also the site of some of the most
significant struggles for liberation and new nationhood, from
Palestine in West Asia to East Timor in East Asia.
In spite of urgency expressed by States regarding national and
regional security and the pledging of enormous resources, conflicts
have increased the world over. In Asia, individuals, communities and
even whole societies feel more insecure today. After September 11
there has been a sharp increase in militarism and the adoption and
use of draconian laws and measures under the garb of curbing
terrorism.
Conflicts in Asia have today assumed dangerous proportions and
include conflicts between ethnic, religious, sectarian and other
contending groups. Globalisation and the heightened intervention of
imperialism as factors in these conflicts need to be examined in
detail, as must all other factors involved in increasing conflicts
and heightened insecurity.
Security of individuals, communities and societies continue to be
neglected as compared to state security. People are facing severe
threats to livelihood, rights and living standards especially in the
context of globalisation; their protests and demands, particularly
when voiced by peoples' movements, are treated as security threats by
the state, with increasing reliance on the use of force through
police/armies to establish 'order'. These and related aspects require
detailed attention.
Globalisation, unilateral military intervention by powerful
nations/blocs and the growing trend of erosion of national
sovereignty especially of poorer nations have dramatically changed
the security parameters of nations. Overt nuclearisation in South
Asia has given rise to new areas of concern in the region which need
to be addressed.
Suggested areas the Asian Social Forum can explore:
=85 Ethnic/Caste/ Religious/Sectarian Conflicts in the region:
dimensions and factors
=85 Imperialism and Globalisation as factors in
ethnic/caste/religious/sectarian conflicts
=85 Threats to National/Regional Security
=85 Globalisation, Imperialism and Erosion of National Sovereignty:
Implications for national/regional security
=85 Peoples Protests, Demands and State Repression
=85 Fundamentalism, peoples=ED security, civil society, and state
=85 Life and security of Dalits: Responses of civil society and the state
=85 Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Region
=85 Rise in Militarisation
=85 The question of nuclear technologies and people=EDs security
=85 Non-violence and Peace
=85 Lessons from struggles in Asia against colonialism and
imperialism, past and present
=85 Alternative visions and practices in Asia of peace and
security, past and present
Debt, Development, Trade, Finance and Investment
Transnational corporations and governments of rich countries have
used WB, IMF, WTO, ADB, processes like the WSSD and other bilateral
and regional trade, investment and debt discussions to push economic
reforms that have added new dimensions to the process of
socioeconomic and political marginalization of the marginalized.
Structural adjustment programmes, poverty reduction strategies of the
WB, the IMF and the ADB, instead of fomenting development have only
accentuated the macro and micro debt burden of the countries they
have assisted. Furthermore, these institutions with the help of the
State and its arms have legitimized transformation of private debt
into public debt. Under the garb of restricting fiscal profligacy,
these institutions have dismantled the =EBwelfare-state=ED and have
exposed people to the vagaries of the market forces.
With the establishment of the WTO in 1995, trade and trade related
issues (e.g. TRIPs, TRIMs) expanded the rule-based political space
for the multinationals and rich countries to legitimize their
ownership over natural resources, promote industrial agriculture,
export hazardous and genetically modified food and food products,
which in turn has only meant a reduction in political space for the
marginalized. Furthermore, such a system is pushing countries into
generating revenues out of exporting food grains even when a large
section of the society back home is food insecure.
More so, the evolving trade liberalization regime has set in motion a
process where an opaque institution like the WTO is ending up
legitimizing the existence of its counterparts in the financial
world, viz. IMF, WB, ADB et al. Relegating inequities and new kinds
of debt being generated by a complex mix of trade and financial
liberalization, to the background, these multilateral and regional
bodies with the help of the rich club of countries are busy trying to
promote mask their processes and decisions as =ECdevelopmental=EE ones on
platforms like the WSSD.
The articulation of ecological debt has demonstrated that the rich
countries and their financial institutions actually owe an enormous
amount to the South, even after cancellation of the financial debts,
if the historical and continuing ecological debts are accounted for.
The debate on debt is incomplete without interrogating the way in
which global finance has taken control over sovereign processes
during the last three plus decades. The South East Asian economic
crisis that began in 1997 and had its contagion impact on Russia and
Latin American economies has exposed how neoliberal financial
architecture provides the necessary political space to speculative
forces to extract profits at the cost of middle class and the
marginalized.
Mass movements, trade unions, landless labour movements, dalit and
women=EDs groups farmers movements et al are not only launching an
attack against institutions and processes eroding their legitimate
sovereign rights but have also started looking into initiating
alternatives at their own level.
Suggested areas the Asian Social Forum can explore:
=85 Exposing the IMF, WB, WTO =F1 Institutions of Capitalist Globalization
=85 Politics of Aid
=85 Illegitimacy and Burden of Debt
=85 Implementation of Tobin Tax
=85 Agenda 21, WSSD processes
=85 Bilateral and regional trade, investment processes and its impacts
=85 Climate change =F1 Kyoto Protocol
=85 Bio-safety
=85 Dumping of hazardous wastes
=85 Biodiversity
=85 Law of Seas
=85 Scope of selective de-linking with respect to national development
=85 Plans for diffusion of different types of
continental/national/regional/sub-regional and local development
=85 Agriculture and food security
=85 Patterns of industrialization
=85 Physical infrastructure
=85 Livelihoods and Natural resources =F1 access, entitlement etc.
=85 Urban development
=85 Rural development under globalization
=85 Innovative models of sustainable livelihoods
=85 Impact of service sector liberalization
=85 Investment and competition debate at the WTO
=85 NAFTA, bilateral treaties on investment and the WTO
=85 Investment discussions at the WTO and its impact on debt
=85 Alternatives to international financial institutions,
neoliberal processes in trade, debt and finance
Nation State, Democracy and Exclusions
Programmes under this theme seek to highlight the exlusionary effects
of globalisation in its multiple dimensions, analyze the political
instrumentalities that underlie these, explore the forging of
strategies and alliances to counter these processes and celebrate
inclusive visions, practices, institutions, movements and other forms
of popular resistance in Asia.
Globalisation achieves exclusions of various kinds through a variety
of formal and informal operations of power. Erosion of the political
sovereignty of the nation-states, sharp reduction in the powers of
the democratically elected bodies and the corresponding rise in the
powers of the various arms of global establishment are perhaps the
most visible of these instrumentalities. Democratically elected
institutions yielding their power to =EBexpert=ED regulatory bodies or
simply market forces within the domestic arena is but another
corollary of the same process. A shrinking of democratic space within
the nation-states can be seen in the rise of the aggressively
majoritarian and intolerant articulations of the nation and an
increase in the repressive powers of the state, leading to gross
violation of civic and human rights.
The much celebrated onward march of democracy all over the globe in
the last decade has been achieved by emptying the idea of democracy
of substantial outcomes for the people. A formal =EBcheck list=ED model
of democracy prescribed by the Washington Consensus, based as it is
on replication of the institutional form of Western democracies,
hinders imagination about diverse instituional forms and ways of
realising democracy. This empty model overlooks, if not masks, deeper
operations of exlusionary power in the garb of traditional social
practices. It refuses to acknowledge the exclusions built into the
nature of modern media with its concentration of power to channelise
information and shape opinions and tastes. No wonder this model is
vulnerable to attacks on the very idea of democracy in the name of
=EBAsian values=ED as also to the rise or perpetuation of dictatorial
regimes friendly to a uni-polar global governance.
The outcome of these formal and informal operations of power is
accentuation of multiple forms of exclusion for the marginalised
sections (women, dalits, indigeneous peoples, tribals and ethnic
religious, national and other minorites). Globalisation worsens the
conditions of the already marginalised while creating a new class of
the excluded. It creates false opportunities and real deprivation for
these groups while making this process more opaque than ever before.
Withdrawl of safety nets and affirmative action, rise in violence and
discrimination against the vulnurable groups, flattening of social
diversities that puts greater pressure on the minorities to conform
to the dominant view and greater incidence of contrived conflict
that pits these groups against one another are but a few instances of
this exclusion.
Suggested areas the Asian Social Forum can explore:
=85 State, Civil Society and the disadvantaged (Dalits,
indigenous peoples, religious/ethnic/linguistic minorities)
=85 Caste and Descent based Discrimination: Exclusion in Market
and Governance
=85 Community/group specific (dalits, indigenous peoples, tribals
and ethnic religious, national and other minorities) analyses of the
new and emerging forms of exclusion
=85 Gender related exclusions and =EBdouble=ED exlusion of women from
marginalised communities
=85 New and emerging instruments of exclusions (de-reservation of
jobs, deregulation of labour market, privatisation of public sector
etc.)
=85 Changing institutional and legal frameworks for labour and
peasant rights in the context of globalisation
=85 Privatisation, Liberalisation and impact on the disadvantaged
=85 Legitimisation of majoritarianism and
sectarian/fundamentalist/communal values in the political and social
sphere.
=85 Effect of globalisation on legal and institutional frameworks
of decision making (empowering of the executive wing, fracturing of
the federal framework, emergence of non-accountable decision makers)
=85 Violence against and intolerance of various minority groups
and non-recognition of the political aspirations of religious,
linguistic, ethnic or any other minority
=85 Erosion of civil and human rights (new draconian laws,
exclusionary societal practices)
=85 Media as an instrument of exlusion and a space for democratic
struggle (social audit of old and new media, changing content and
form, state-owned media vs. public broadcasting)
=85 Alternative visions, practical experiments and struggles for
inclusive, plural and radical democracy
=85 Resource allocation and backward regions - movements from
separate geographical identities.
=85 Erosion of civil and human rights
Social Infrastructure
What we see today in the garb of globalisation is unique and
unprecedented. Globalisation has come to mean the legitimisation of
neo-imperialist loot. This kind of globalisation is plagued with a
fundamental contradiction =F1 in an age when restrictions on
information flow and flow of goods, services and capital are sought
to be removed, there is a greater concentration of wealth and
knowledge in a few hands. Such concentration is manifest in growing
inequalities. The wide-ranging reversals of social and economic
gains, that we have witnessed in the last decade, have been
unprecented.
The impact of neo-liberal economic policies has been most evident in
the undermining of the social infrastructure. These policies were
designed to clear the path for withdrawal of the State from the vital
social sectors of health, education, food security, etc. The
ideological barrage associated with the =ECreforms package=EE in almost
all developing countries has sought to give primacy and legitimacy to
the virtues of the private sector and the market. This legitimisation
of the state's withdrawal from infrastructural areas, especially
infrastructure in social sectors, is a signal contribution of the
reforms era. In the process, the supposed inability of the state to
sustain funding of education, medical care and public health,
programmes for provision of drinking water, public distribution
system for food and essential commodities, and for other social
security measures, is seeking to acquire general acceptance and truth
value. Neo-liberal policies, notwithstanding the rhetoric, impinge on
the ability and intention of the State to provide for and maintain
social safety nets. Concurrently, sectarian processes negatively
impact the capacity of marginalsed and minority groupings to access
social safety nets.
The withdrawal of the State and the domination of the market in
shaping opinions and promoting specific values is also manifest in
the changing face of the media. Corporate control of the media is
being increasingly promoted to manipulate and manufacture opinion
about policies and processes.
Key areas in the social sector are going to be further targeted as
the WTO regime pushes for negotiations in the area of General
Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). Sectors such as health and
education are sought to be seen as industries under this regime, and
an even more comprehensive retreat by the State is likely to ensue in
these areas.
The Conference on Social Infrastructure and seminars and workshops in
this area could focus on the origin and impact of such policies. They
could also seek to explore alternatives and examples of resistance to
these policies.
Suggested areas the Asian Social Forum can explore:
=85 Entitlements and the "safety net"
=85 Social Security
=85 The marginalised and their access to social security and the safety net
=85 Health
=85 Education
=85 Food Security
=85 Employment, Job Security, Pension Schemes
=85 Media =F1 accountability and control
=85 Alternate paradigms and models of planning
Ecology, Culture and Knowledge
As a result of the operation of the global capital at the national,
regional and global levels, a major threat has emerged for ecology,
culture and knowledge. A significant proportion of people in the
Asian region are critically dependent on natural resources for their
subsistence and well-being and have evolved sophisticated systems of
knowledge to manage these resources. This symbiotic relationship has
also shaped their identities. Deeply entrenched processes of
exploitation as well as dominant processes of national and global
economic development have contributed to a sharp increase in the
insecurity and exclusion of rural communities, particularly the
vulnerable among them. This has contributed to an increase in social
dislocation and social conflicts.
The region's diverse ecosystems and the complex cultures and
livelihoods that they support have also experienced the consequences
of these economic and political processes. The bio-diversity and
knowledge within these systems have been adversely impacted by the
imposition of monocultures, corporate controlled biotechnology and
the increasing commodification and export of natural resources.
Around Asia, many remarkable strategies have been evolved by
community organisations, social movements and engaged researchers to
respond to these multi-faceted challenges. There are a growing number
of people joining these struggles and new forms of resistance are
emerging in these arenas of struggle as conventional notions of
politics, democracy, development and sustainability are confronted.
Historically subjugated communities, tribal and indigenous peoples
and women are reconceptualising community, tradition, culture and
knowledge widening the possibilities of revitalising the movements
for livelihoods, entitlements, social justice and the deepening of
democracy.
In the modernised or semi-modernised segments of societies in the
third world the globalisation process is fast removing the processes
of creation and dissemination of knowledge from the public to private
domain. Culture itself is being commodified. The issues relating to
the international regimes on knowledge, science and technology need
to be addressed. The commodification of culture is being accentuated
through commercially oriented all comprehensive regime on trade in
services.
Suggested areas the Asian Social Forum can explore:
Issues related to the impact of globalisation on ecology in areas such as:
=85 Forests , Land , Air, Water
=85 Biodiversity
=85 Climate change
=85 Ecological conflicts
=85 Energy
=85 Agriculture
=85 Common property resources
=85 Eco-spirituality; religion and environment.
=85 Nationalism and ecology in the era of Globalisation
Issues related to the impact of globalisation on Culture and Knowledge:
=85 Cultural Imperialism and Identities
=85 Corporate control of Media
=85 Media and Democracy
=85 Globalisation and shaping of cultural resistance
=85 Pluralism, Diversity and Harmonious co-existence
=85 Science and Culture
=85 Science, Technology and Imperialism
=85 Biotechnology
=85 Intellectual Property Rights and Patenting
=85 Traditional Knowledge systems
=85 Artisans and knowledge systems
Alternatives and Peoples' Resistance
"Another World is Possible"
The most common response to the opposition to imperialist
globalisation is that there is no alternative. It is important to
bring out that not only are there alternatives, these alternatives
are being pursued today at various levels. The WSF is an assertion
that many worlds are possible that are intrinsically different from
the sterile neo-liberal landscape of pure greed and satiation of a
consumer society.
Today, capital frenetically creates new "needs" -- an alternative
vision of the future must question how much of these needs are
necessary.
The alternatives are not only in terms of objectives, they are also
regarding the trajectory of development. It is necessary to
illustrate other possible trajectories that not only exist but are
continuously coming into practice and in conflict with the
over-arching centralisation of the production process that is the
characteristics of current capitalist globalisation.
The other level of alternatives emerge today from peoples' resistance
and movements. In different parts of the world, different forms of
struggles are taking place to fight globalisation. There is an
international coalition building up against the current neo-liberal
agenda of globalisation. Alternatives being thrown up for building a
different world are required to be shared amongst the activists and
practitioners struggling against neo-liberal globalisation.
At the same time, there exist several burning issues contained in
this resurgence. These include the problematic questions of the
relation of civil movements and of subordinated peoples and nations
to state and nation, both from =EBbelow=ED and within, in the sense of
autonomy, and also as movements cross boundaries and build
transnational solidarity alliances and conduct their campaigns at the
international level, thereby challenging traditional regimes of
sovereignty and representation. Other issues include the
understanding and use of violence, power relations and internal
democracy, gender, class, and caste discrimination within movements,
relations between voluntary organisations / NGOs and popular
movements and relations between =EBnew=ED movements and politics and
=EBold=ED movements and politics.
Suggested areas the Asian Social Forum can explore:
=85 Alienation from nature and common property resources
=85 Alienation from customs and traditional knowledge systems
=85 Alienation of workers /producers from the process of production
=85 Consumer society: structure, role of the media, "need" and "greed"
=85 Visions and politics of lifestyles
=85 Consumption patterns and development paths
=85 Technology/automation and path of development
=85 Community based developmental alternatives to neo-liberalism
=85 Alternatives to centralised corporate production structures
=85 Democracy and de-centralisation
=85 The understanding and use of violence
=85 Power relations and internal democracy
=85 Gender, class, and caste discrimination within movements
=85 Social movements and political parties: the role and their relation
=85 Relations between voluntary organisations / NGOs and popular movements
=85 Relations between =EBnew=ED movements and politics and =EBold=ED
movements and politics
=85 Internal dynamics within movements and between different
sections of those struggling against capitalist globalisation and
communalism
=85 The relations of civil movements and of subordinated peoples
and nations to state and nation from =EBbelow=ED and within, in the sense
of autonomy
=85 The relations of civil movements and of subordinated peoples
and nations to state and nation in the course of transnational
campaigns
=85 Movements in the era of globalisation: local, national and
international
Programme and Theme co-ordinators:
Chairpersons: S.P.Shukla (spshukla@eth.net), Prabhat Patnaik, D.L.Seth
Convenors: Dinesh Abrol (ap1966@hotmail.com), Yogendra Yadav
(lokniti@del3.vsnl.net.in)
Thematic Groups
Peace & Security :
Kamal Mitra Chenoy -- Co-ordinator (chenoy@nda.vsnl.net.in), Srilatha
Swaminathan -- Co-ordinator (rajkisan@datainfosys.net), Praful
Bidwai, Achin Vanaik, Achyut Yagnik, N. D. Jayaprakash, Rama Melkote,
Bela Bhatia
Debt, Development & Trade :
SP Shukla -- Co-ordinator (spshukla@eth.net), Raghav Narasalay --
Co-ordinator (focusind@vsnl.net), Vinod Raina, K.S. Gopal, K. Ashok
Rao, D.R.Pandey
Nation State, Democracy & Exclusions :
Paul Divakar -- Co-ordinator (pdivakar@satyam.net.in), Yogendra Yadav
-- Co-ordinator (lokniti@del3.vsnl.net.in), Kodandram, Rama Melkote,
Chakrapani Ghanta, Vijay Pratap, Ilina Sen, D. L. Sheth, Javeed Alam,
N. D. Jayaprakash
Ecology, Culture & Knowledge :
Smitu Kothari -- Co-ordinator (smitukothari@vsnl.net), Dinesh Abrol
-- Co-ordinator (ap1966@hotmail.com), Siddharth, Sagarika Ghose,
Rajendra Ravi, Narendernath Ozha, Sheila Prasad, Ilina Sen, Mukul
Sharma, P. Sainath, Nitin Pranjape, Anand Patwardhan
Social Sector :
Jaya Velankar -- Co-ordinator (jaya_velankar@tatanova.com), Amit Sen
Gupta -- Co-ordinator (ctddsf@vsnl.com), Jai Sen, K.K. Krishna Kumar,
Ravi, Janardhan Reddy, Sadhana Saxena, Vinayak Sen, Jean Dreze, Anil
Sadgopal, Sanjaya Paula
Alternatives & Peoples Movements :
Sanjay Mangala Gopal -- Co-ordinator, Kavita Srivastava* --
Co-ordinator, Prabir Purkayastha , Vinod Shetty, P.K. Murthy,
Madhusudhan, Javed Alam, Uma, Aruna Roy, Medha Patkar
* to be confirmed
Programme Schedule & Format
Date 9.00 am to 1.00 pm 2.30 pm to 6.30 pm 7.00 pm to 11.00 pm
2nd Jan. Registration Opening Plenary(open to public)
3rd. Jan. Conferences =F1 2 per day(3-4,000
people);Testimonials;=ECOpen Spaces=EE 25 Seminars in
Parallel(200-300 people);50-100 Workshops(50-100 people) Film
Shows;Cultural Performances;TestimonialsOpen spaces
4th. Jan. Conferences =F1 2 per day(3-4,000
people);Testimonials;=ECOpen Spaces=EE 25 Seminars in
Parallel(200-300 people);50-100 Workshops(50-100 people) Film
Shows;Cultural Performances;TestimonialsOpen spaces
5th Jan. Conferences =F1 2 per day(3-4,000
people);Testimonials;=ECOpen Spaces=EE 25 Seminars in
Parallel(200-300 people);50-100 Workshops(50-100 people) Film
Shows;Cultural Performances;TestimonialsOpen spaces
6th Jan. Conferences =F1 2 per day(3-4,000
people);Testimonials;=ECOpen Spaces=EE 25 Seminars in
Parallel(200-300 people);50-100 Workshops(50-100 people) Film
Shows;Cultural Performances;TestimonialsOpen spaces
7th Jan. Closing Plenary(open to public)
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Theme under which the : Peace and security
=EA
event requested Debt, Finance, Trade, Investment and
Development =EA
Nation state, Democracy and Exclusion =EA
Social Infrastructure =EA
Ecology, Culture, Knowledge =EA
Alternatives and People=EDs Movements =EA
Title for Event ______________________________________________
Description ______________________________________________
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Size of hall/ capacity 25 =EA 50 =EA 150 =EA 200 =EA 250 =EA
300 =EA 250 =EA 300 =EA
Required 350 =EA 350 =EA 400 =EA 450 =EA 500 =EA 500+ =EA
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