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From: Michel J. Menou ([email protected])
Date: Sat Sep 14 2002 - 11:12:51 AST

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>From: Goutham Menon [SMTP:[email protected]]
>Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 2:05 PM
>Subject: CFA- IUCISD - Mumbai, India Symposium December 2003
>
>13th International Symposium of the Inter-University Consortium for
>International Social Development
>Mumbai, India. December 29, 2003 - January 2, 2004
>Hosted by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences
>
>1st Call for Abstracts
>
>Towards Democratic Pluralism: Challenges for Social Development in the
>21st Century
>
>Social development in the 21st century will have to face the challenge
>of pluralism. The philosophy of democratic pluralism, as different from
>pluralism in other political contexts, recognizes that diverse
>communities in democratic nation-states have varied interests. These
>groups, it is argued, have legitimate democratic rights of
>decision-making and self-determination in matters that affect their
>lives, as these diversities contribute to the viability of the human
>society.
>
>Some advocates of democratic pluralism maintain, for example, that
>respect for pluralism involves the need for decentralizing sectors of
>the economy and polity based on communities' rights to natural resources
>and to plan their own development, respecting traditional knowledge and
>culture consonant with the values of social equity, sustainability,
>social justice and peace. Others counter this argument, suggesting that
>the value placed on pluralism must be balanced by unifying elements in a
>society so that pluralism does not devolve into sectional conflict.
>
>The 13th IUCISD International Symposium will explore the array of
>issues, challenges, and options with which students and advocates of
>social development have to wrestle with in their quest for a more humane
>and just social order in the twenty-first century within the context of
>democratic pluralism.
>
>We are particularly interested in receiving abstracts that highlight
>the following sub-themes:
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EXTRACTS
> * Information Technology and its role in creating open
> societies
> * The info-rich / info-poor divide - Implications of
> unbalanced growth in IT access
>
>We encourage all those interested in the symposium to visit
>http://www.iucisd.org/india2003 for more details. We also request
>that you subscribe to the Listserv group set up for the symposium, since
>we plan to use that medium to disseminate information in a timely
>fashion. To subscribe to the Listserv:
>
>* Send an email to [email protected]
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>
>We are making every effort to have a truly productive and invigorating
>program to benefit our participants. And we hope you will join us in
>this endeavor.
>
>With regards,
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Goutham M. Menon Rekha Mammen
>Univ of South Carolina Tata Institute of Social Sciences
>[email protected] [email protected]
>Symposium Co-Chair Symposium Co-Chair

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