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Human mobility: the civil society's role
At the present point of globalization with respect to world vital activities, transboundary connections represent one of the most essential factors in strengthening national civil societies. Human mobility has not appeared to be a new phenomenon. Yet over the years, the mobility scales have been growing rapidly.
For all of ambiguousness of the trend, it features a powerful creative potential as related to economics, culture, education and civil society construction in general. However, the globalization consequences have brought its modifications into the transboundary mobility processes. Qualitative growth is observed not only in loading the means of transportation or vital activities' infrastructure for the relocating masses, but even more with respect to social and cultural environment of formerly traditional settlements as well as other processes.
Civil society structures which so far used to take a minor part in interstate dialogue might assist in resolution of transboundary mobility problems facing humanity today.
Main vectors of discussion:
- the effects of the economic crisis on human mobility;
- multiculturalism – successful strategies and obstacles;
- improving legal and administrative conditions and services for mobile populations;
- engaging business and civil society in the management of human mobility;
- Rhodes declaration on international human mobility.
Moderators:
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Bruson McKinley
Co-Chairman of Association for International Mobility (USA)
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Ahmed M. Luqman
Director General, The Arab Labour Organisation (Yemen)
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Gurucharan G.
Joint Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (India)
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Rhodes Forum 2009 -
Panel № 4 Mobility
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Nayla Tabbara - Professor of Islamic Studies and World Religions
Saint Joseph University of Beirut, PhD in sciences of religions,
Secretary of ADYAN foundation
INTRODUCTION:
Theology is by definition the rational inquiry into religious questions. But since it deals with religious issues and questions, it has to take into account the quest of meaning and the tribulations of souls in their estrangement in this world, in their relation to themselves, to God and to others.
Muslim theology sprang out in the first centuries of Islam, when the growing and expanding religion came face to face with other religions, and was questioned about its beliefs. Theology thus started in reaction to the Other, and from discussions with the Other, namely the Christian, the Jew and the Zoroastrian.
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Panel № 4 Mobility
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Takehiro Togo - Former ambassador of Japan to Russia,
senior counselor of Mitsui Global Strategic Studies Institute,
the President of the Academic Council
of the European Center for Peace and Development
Overview
The twenty first century will be characterized by mass movement of people being pushed and pulled within and beyond their borders by conflict, calamity and opportunity. War and human right violations are already scattering millions across the world in search of safety. Climate change and environmental degradation will further exacerbate such trends.
In 1951, the UN Refugee Convention set out the criteria for assigning refugee status to peoples and the Office of UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was established with a mandate to protect and find solutions for refugees. But in the almost six decades since, new patterns of movement, including forms of forced displacement not envisaged by the Refugee Convention have emerged?
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Rhodes Forum 2009 -
Panel № 4 Mobility
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In-Suk Cha, Chair in Philosophy, UNESCO
Former President of The International Council
for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies (CIPSH), Ph.d
Seoul National University
Human beings inhabit the same planet and they do so sometimes in harmony and sometimes in conflict, but the fact of the matter is, they coexist. All human beings are born into a particular community, inheriting a language, a culture, and ways of interacting with other members of the community. And here they connect to each other as fellow beings and develop their individuality through the various modes of coexistence, that is, using Fink’s categories, through love and hatred, domination and subjection, work and play, and death. It is through these modes of coexistence that our understanding of self, society and nature is developed.
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Panel № 4 Mobility