22-23 July 2009

In a regime such as China's Party-State, it is very difficult to find elements of a civil society comparable to those of western countries. In addition to the role that the diaspora could play from outside the country, certain spaces exist at the fringes of the established power that are made use of by unofficial social movements, and which have a significant strength. The Party itself is experimenting with new ways of democratising decision-making. These processes need to be identified, and their future influence assessed.

India is a democratic country that has the second largest population in the world after China, and a very complex pluralism of cultures, languages, customs, social structures and beliefs has to be reconciled and made compatible. It is important to study the role of the social movements in the framework of the centrifugal forces currently in play.

South-East Asia is a region about which we know little; an area where civil society and social movements play a supreme role in the governance of diversity and in the containment of fundamentalism.

Featuring the participation of well-known experts from Asia and Europe, this course has been designed to analyse in what way civil society – both in its emerging and its consolidated form – influences the governability of very complex societies in a region that will very soon become the demographic, economic and political centre of the world.

Course director:
Seán Golden, Director of the Institute for International & Intercultural Studies (UAB) and of the Asia Programme of the CIDOB Foundation

Coordination:
Laura Vea, Institute for International & Intercultural Studies (UAB)

Registration and enrolment:
CUIMPB Summer Courses
Tel. 933 017 555. E.mail: info@cuimpb.cat

Grants:
Apply for free enrolment onto the course by sending your CV to Oriol Farrés, assistant to the Asia Programme of the CIDOB Foundation (ofarres@cidob.org). The title of your e-mail should be “Beques CUIMPB Àsia”

For more information:

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