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Workshop Programme

Learning for Global Democracy (LGD) Workshop

 

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

Welcome from Anand Kumar, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Review of workshop methodology,  Jan Aart Scholte, Warwick University

Learning for Global Democracy: Emergent Workshop Themes

Chair: Moema de Miranda, Brazilian Institute for Social and Economic Analysis

Read a summary of day 1 of the workshop

 

 

Thursday, 2 September 2010

Carlos Vainer and Flávia Braga Vieira, Federal University Rio de Janeiro

‘From the Valleys to Global Forums: Learning for Action in MAB’

Chair:               Anand Kumar, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Discussants:     Peter Aitsi, GHD and Transparency International, Papua New Guinea

                        Faeqa Saeed Alsaleh, League of Arab States, Egypt 

 

Makere Stewart-Harawira, University of Alberta, Edmonton

'Indigenous Ontologies and Post-Imperial Global Learning’

Chair:              Alfred Nhema, Pan African Development Center, Addis Ababa

Discussants:    Amod Kanth, PRAYAS, India

                       Elisa Peter, United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service, France

 

Zhu Jiangang, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou

‘Global-Local Relations in the Huangpu NGO Capacity Building Programme’

Chair:              Heba Raouf Ezzat, Cairo University

Discussants:     David Levi, GrowthWorks Ltd, Canada

                       Danielle Toppin, Sistren Theatre Collective, Barbados

 

Owen Sichone, University of Pretoria

‘Learning Globalism: Opposing Xenophobia in Post-Apartheid South African Civil Society’

Chair:              Alla Glinchikova, Russian Institute of Philosophy

Discussants:     Apolosi Bose, ex-Secretariat for Pacific Communities, Fiji

                       Sandy Schilen, GROOTS International, USA 

 

Elena Vartanova, Moscow State Lomonosov University

‘Digital Citizens and Media Literacy for Global Democracy’

Chair:              Bishnu Mohapatra, Ford Foundation, Delhi

Discussants:     Rinalia Abdul Rahim, Global Knowledge Partnership, Malaysia

                       Mark Wilson, Panos London, UK

                      

Muhammad Ayish, University of Sharjah

‘Transnational Satellite Television and Global Democratic Consciousness in the Arab World’

Chair:              Jessica Byron, University of the West Indies, Mona

Discussants:     Jocelyne Josiah, UNESCO (retired), Guyana

                       Atom Mkhitaryan, Federation of Youth Clubs of Armenia

Read a summary of day 2 of the workshop

 

 

Friday, 3 September 2010

 

Taking Stock: Where Have We Got So Far?

 

Sam Ata, Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission

‘Truth and Reconciliation as a Global Learning Process’

Chair:              Diana Brydon, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg

Discussants:    Marta Cumbi, Community Development Foundation (FDC), Maputo

                       Wang Zhenyao, Ministry of Civil Affairs, China

 

Honor Ford-Smith, York University, Toronto (Jamaica)

‘Memory and Performance as Global Learning in Transnational Jamaican Communities’

Chair:              Sitiveni Halapua, East-West Center, Honolulu/Tonga

Discussants:    Ranjana Kumari, Gender Training Institute, India

                      Savita Singh, Indira Gandhi National Open University, India

 

Donatella della Porta, European University Institute, Florence and Nicole Doerr, Free University Berlin

‘Global Education through Protest: The European Social Forum’

Chair:              Peng Zongchao, Tsinghua University, Beijing

Discussants:     Celita Eccher, International Council for Adult Education, Uruguay

                       Ilya Ponomarev, Russian State Duma 

 

T. K. Oommen, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

‘From Hierarchy to Equality in Knowledge: Situating the Global Studies Programme’

Chair:              Moema de Miranda, Brazilian Institute for Social and Economic Analysis, Rio de Janeiro

Discussants:    Obi Aginam, United Nations University, Nigeria

                       Rabha Alzeera, Al-tajdeed Cultural Society, Bahrain

                                                                      

Learning for Global Democracy: Summing Up

Chair:              Anand Kumar, Jawaharlal Nehru University 

Rapporteur:     Jan Aart Scholte, University of Warwick

Read a summary of the final day of the workshop

 

 

Saturday, 4 September 2010

 

12.30               Meeting the Media, Press Club of India

 

17.30               Public Presentation: Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

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