au service d’Artisans du monde entier en vue d’outiller leurs efforts
pour repenser la paix et proposer de nouveaux modes d’action
Les 14 fiches du dossier
- Conference Report. People Centered Advocacy for Social Change [Lire]
Fiche d’analyse
- Conference Report. Reflection on the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) [Lire]
Fiche d’analyse
- Confernce Report. Fresh Approaches at Water Conservation, Management / Distribution [Lire]
Fiche d’analyse
- Conference Report. Child Rights situation today [Lire]
Dileep Kamats experience at Belgaum. Fiche d’expérience
- Conference Report. Bangalore Peace Committee Experiences [Lire]
Fiche d’expérience
- Conference Report. The Non-violent Movement in France [Lire]
Fiche d’analyse
- Conference Report. Sustainable empowerment in the context of ST (Recognition of Forest) Rights Bill [Lire]
Fiche d’analyse
- Conference Report. Conclusion [Lire]
Fiche de défi
- Peaceful non-violent pressure and resistance can go hand in hand with negotiation and dialogue. [Lire]
India has been described by the Nobel prize winning writer V.S.Naipaul as the land with a million mutinies. In a poor country with a population of more than 1 billion people it is natural to expect many conflicts, some small and a few that are very serious. Fiche d’analyse
- Inter-religious Harmony and Religions for Peace and Transformation [Lire]
India is a country of more than one billion people, the majority of whom are Hindus. But we also have large populations of minorities, with about 150 million Muslims, making this the second largest Muslim population in the world, after Indonesia. There are also many millions of Christians, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists. In recent decades, the conflict between religious communities (referred to as communalism in India) have grown substantially and thousands of people have been killed in these religious conflicts. The future of India is bleak if religious conflicts tear the democratic fabric away and create conditions of civil war. Fiche d’analyse
- Right to Work and the Rural Employment Guarantee Act [Lire]
The 1991 reforms resulted in a reduction in public works programs and employment generating activities, rising input costs while the prices and support of the government declined. This affected rural India badly and lead to a falling agricultural production, and thus a reduced per capita availability of food grains, as well as a decrease in purchasing power. Employment in general is a problem as the labour force has grown faster than the growth of employment. In addition, there is a growing discrimination of women in rural labour with lower wager and a faster overall decline in women’s employment. Thus, with high unemployment rates, increased poverty, starvation deaths, and peasant suicides, rural India suffers a severe crisis Fiche d’analyse
- Child Labour and Child Rights in India [Lire]
Poor children in India begin working at a very young and tender age. Many children have to work to help their families and some families expect their children to continue the family business at a young age. Fiche d’analyse
- HIV and AIDS In India [Lire]
India has had a sharp increase in the estimated number of HIV infections, from a few thousand in the early 1990s to around 5.1 million children and adults living with HIV/AIDS in 2003. With a population of over one billion, the HIV epidemics in India will have a major impact on the overall spread of HIV in Asia and the Pacific and indeed worldwide. Fiche d’analyse
- Water : Scarcity, Conflicts, Conservation and Harvesting [Lire]
The maximum renewable fresh water resource in India is 1,869 billon cubic metres. Alarmingly, this represents only 4 % of the world’s fresh water resources for 16 % of the world’s population. With the population of India slated to touch 1.6 billion by 2050 the annual availability of water per person will further decrease from 1700m3 to 1140m3. Fiche d’analyse
Ateliers de Paix en Inde
The Irenees conference in India (Nov 3-5, 2006). In partnership with Pipal Tree / Fireflies ashram. Venue : Fireflies ashram, Bangalore, India.
Workshop on Mediation and Advocacy in the empowerment process
The purpose of this workshop was to concretely look at fresh non-violent options for the liberation of the poor and the oppressed.
It is clear to all of us that while we need to creatively campaign and confront to bring to focus urgent and critical issues related to poverty and human rights we also need to simultaneously explore ways and means to engage in ’hard dialogue’ in the interests of excluded sections of society. This workshop is to learn more about the ideas and methods related to this dialogue process which will defend and promote the interests of the affected parties and yet gain short and mid terms gains.
How do we mediate through the construction of coalitions of multiple stake-holders who may not see eye to eye on all issues of theory and practice? What are the skills needed for such a process? Is it possible to bring together a variety of stakeholders (Movements, NGOs, government, business, media etc) in the resolution of conflicts related to communal harmony, employment generation, water issues, child rights, adivasi issues, HIV AIDS etc?
This was a workshop on methodology as well as the issue-specific strategies and processes of concretely solving problems through mediation and advocacy.
The issues we propose to address are as follows :
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1/ Communal harmony-conflict resolution ;
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2/ The right to work / employment guarantee ;
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3/ Child rights and child labour ;
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4/ HIV AIDS prevention strategies ;
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5/ Water harvesting, conservation and anti-privatization campaigns.
Workshop programme
2nd November, 2006 - Thursday
06:00 pm : Arrival of the participants
3rd November, 2006 - Friday
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07:00 am : Tea/Coffee
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08:00 am : Breakfast
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10:00 am : Tea/Coffee
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10:30 am - 11:30 am : Inaugural Session
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Siddhartha and Henri Bauer (Irenees, Paris)
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11:30 am - 01:30 pm : Mediation and Advocacy Strategies for Conflict. Resolution and Problem Solving
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Speakers : Sushoba Barve and Ram Esteeves
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Chairperson : Siddhartha
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01:30 pm – 2:30 pm - Lunch
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02:30 pm – 04:00 pm - People Centered Advocacy for Social Change
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Speaker : Amitabh Behar
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Chairperson : Sebastian
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04:00 pm – 04:30 pm - Tea/Coffee
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04:30 pm – 05:30 pm - Role of RTI (Right to Information Act) for Activists to solve Social and Ecological problems*
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Speaker : Cyriac Joseph
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Chairperson : Anugraha John
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05:30 pm – 07:30 pm -
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08:00 pm – 08:30 pm - Dinner
4th November, 2006 - Saturday
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07:00 am - Tea/Coffee
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08:00 am - Breakfast
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09:30 am - 11:00 am - Reflection on the implementation of NREGA programmes
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Speakers: Subash Lomte and Dileep Kamat
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Chairperson : Ram Esteve
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11:00 am - 11:30 am - Tea/Coffee
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11:30 am - 01:00 pm - Fresh approaches at Water Conservation. Management / Distribution.
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Speaker : Vishwanath
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Chairperson : Bhavani Shankar
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01:00 pm – 2:00 pm - Lunch
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02:30 pm – 04:00 pm - Discussion on NREGA
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Subhash Lomte & Dileep Kamat
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04:00 pm – 04:30 pm - Tea/Coffee
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04:30 pm – 06:00 pm - Strategies for Adivasi empowerment in the context of the ST Forest Rights Bill, 2005
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Speakers : Baby Paul & Sommanna
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Chairperson : Ksheera Sagar
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06:00 pm – 07:30 pm - The non-violent movement in France
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Speaker : Elsa Joyeux Bovillon
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Chairperson : Simon Joseph
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08:00 pm – 08:30 pm - Dinner
5th November, 2006 – Sunday
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07:00 am - Tea/Coffee
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08:00 am - Breakfast
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09:30 am - 11:00 am - Bangalore Peace Committee Experience
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Presentation : Anugraha John, Khader
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Chairperson : A. R. Infant & Siddharth
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11:00 am - 11:30 am - Tea/Coffee
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11:30 am - 01:00 pm - Child Rights situation today
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Speaker : Matthew Philip
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Chairperson : Baby Paul
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01:00 pm – 2:00 pm - Lunch
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02:30 pm – 03:30 pm - Interaction with Ramesh Ramanathan (Janaagraha) on issues related to participation, mediation and advocacy.
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Chairperson : Dr. Vinod Krishnan
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03:30 pm – 04:30 pm - Concluding Session – Siddhartha and Henri Bauer.