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Proceedings on 2nd International Workshop on Race and Hegemony |
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Thursday, 09 July 2009 |
ARENA organized the 2nd International Workshop on "Race and Hegemony Asia" on June 24, 2009 in National Human Rights Commission in Seoul, Korea; the workshop was organized in collaboration with The Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung (FES) and Korea Democracy Foundation (KDF).
There were 12 invited speakers and commentators from Korea, India, Singapore, Burma, Phillipines, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Germany. In the one day workshop over 100 students, migrant activists and researchers participated.
The workshop endeveoured to address the following key issues:
How has the mainstream notion of race been applied to in the Asian context?
§ Is race a relevant category for struggles of social justice in Asia or is it a more relevant category to understand the roots of various identity based discrimination in Asia?
§ How hegemonic western notion of development in Asia has been informed by race and how does it racialized population from less developed countries in Asia?
§ How has colonialism, racism, western hegemony racialized “pre-modern” identities like caste and tribe within and among Asian nations/states?
§ How can these topics be incorporated into social activism and activism related training programmes?
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Proceedings of Peace and Right to Resist: Exploring New Dimension of Rights for Peace in Asia |
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Thursday, 09 July 2009 |
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On 16th and 17th May, ARENA in collaboration with May 18 Memorial Foundation, sucessfully organized the 2nd International Workshop on Peace as Human Rights in Asia in Gwangju, South Korea. There were 6 invited speakers from Korea, Thailand, India, Taiwan and Nepal. During the disscusions around 50 people participated ovr two days.
The workshop endevoured to address the following key issues:
§ What are the implications of human rights approach to peace (HRP) for Asia as a region?
§ What are the implications of HRP to the mainstream security paradigm such as threat perception and need of protection from insecurity?
§ What challenges do the conflict situations in Asia pose to human rights groups?
§ What are the more useful agenda for action and solidarity that would contribute better to peace-building efforts?
§ What are the implications of HRP to those working for democracy, alternative development and alternative vision?
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Peace and Right to Resist |
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Saturday, 16 May 2009 |
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Peace and Right to Resist: Exploring New Dimension of Rights for Peace in Asia
-2nd International Workshop on Peace as Human Rights in Asia --
16-17 May 2009, Gwangju, Korea
Organized by ARENA
Hosted by May 18th Memorial Foundation
Background and Objectives
Intra state conflicts make for Ninety per cent of armed conflicts in recent times and conflict sites are civilian arenas. Here mostly civilian casualties occur; rape is a weapon of war; militias represent ethnic and religious groups and the state is party to a conflict with a section of its own people. The lines between the period of conflict and post conflict blur, since conflict ends for some and continues for others in different forms- like increased violence against women; violence to keep refugees from returning; increased marginalization for most. In these circumstances there is urgent need to re-think peacebuilding.
There has been a debate between differing paradigms of peace and security and a choice between these is made by states, policy makers and institutions. The paradigm of national security has dominated the practice of states while an alternate is the human rights and human security approach. This conference proposes that both these models offer radically different conceptualizations of peace, security, democracy, and development. The two paradigms offer different explanations on the root causes of conflicts and on how peace has to be negotiated. Both paradigms propose different methodologies and envisage different processes and end results. This conference will examine the human rights approach to peace both by taking up case studies from countries as well as looking at different discourses for peace, peacekeeping and conflict resolution. |
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