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National seminar on Ethnicity and Conflict Resolution in a Multi-Cultural Society
Posted Date: 28 Jan 2008 Resource Type: Articles/Knowledge Sharing Category: General
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Posted By: Bala Member Level: Diamond
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A THREE-DAY NATIONAL SEMINAR on Ethnicity and Conflict Resolution in a Multi-Cultural Society:Canadian and Indian Perspective
February 02-04, 2008
Organised by:
Indo- Canadian Studies Centre
Assam University, Silchar
Sponsored by:
Shastri Indo- Canadian Institute, New Delhi
Seminar sub- themes:
· Religion, Culture, Ethnicity and Conflict Resolution
· Globalization vis-à-vis Ethnic Conflict
· Governance, Ethnicity and Conflict Resolution
· Role of Language and Literature (oral/ written) in Conflict Resolution
· Role of Technology and Media in Conflict Resolution
· Resource Sharing and Conflict
· Women and Conflict Resolution
PRELUDE
The concept of ethnicity is rooted in the idea of social groups, marked especially by shared nationality, tribal affiliation, genealogy, religious faith, language, or cultural and traditional origins. The term today occupies a seminal place in the national and international socio-economic, socio-political, and socio-cultural spectrum in the context of unrest in various forms, like insurgency and ethnic clashes in different parts of the world. In the context global environmental degradation sustainability of nature centric traditional means of livelihood is at stake.
Both India and Canada being the abode of multiple ethnic identities and Diasporas, the eruption of conflicts and their resolutions remained inherent to their collective experiences. In a more and more globalised world, the assertion of ethnic identities and the whole issues associated with the phenomenon tend to thwart the projects of global homogenization, which needs a serious study through an exchange of ideas.
During the centuries the ways and modes of ethnicity and ethnic conflict have varied and altered according to the circumstances, but have not vanished as a phenomenon in general. With the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa, ethnicity and ethnic conflict have quite often reached new qualities with far reaching effects. Given the spread of modern transport and communication technologies and their impact on the dissemination of information (news, films, reports from migrants and refugees etc.) these conflicts can no longer be said to exist only locally, but often they affect the lives of people globally.
Modern technologies of destruction and communication are of importance for an understanding of the ubiquity, increased frequency and intensity of ethnic conflict, which, as soon as it flares up, is publicized by the mass media and has thereby become a special reality in the late 20th century. The Internet - as one of these new communication technologies - certainly has its share in these processes, especially in the context of globalizing social relations of any kind.
In the light of the subject raised above, the proposed seminar entitled "Ethnicity and Conflicts Resolution in a Multi-Cultural Society: Canadian and Indian Perspective ", intends to offer a platform for a collaborative study of the dynamics of ethnicities in the two countries and all the related issues, which definitely will help to understand and tackle the problems associated with that.
Chaiperson:
Prof. Abhik Gupta
Department of Ecology & Environmental Science
Assam University, Silchar
+91-3842-270952/270824(O)
09435175395
Email. Abhik.eco@gmail.com
Convener:
Dr. Dipendu Das
Reader,
Department of English
Assam University, Silchar- 788011.
91- 3842-270968(O),264521(R).
09435172416
Email. dipenduds@yahoo.co.in
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