About the Asia Social Forum
The Asia Social Forum (ASF) 2003 provides a forum for an open dialogue among the
movements opposed to capitalist led globalization. The only criteria is that the
participants are opposed to imperialist globalization as well as religious
sectarian violence, and have a commitment to democratic values, plurality and
peace. The ASF 2003 is open to the social movements and organizations, networks,
coalitions, alliances and campaigns that are committed to fight against
neo-liberal globalisation and ethnic/caste/religion/gender based discrimination
and who are willing to meet in consonance with the World Social Forum (WSF)
Charter of Principles.
The ASF 2003 is a step towards calling on the movements who work in Asia and are
opposed to neo-liberal globalization to take initiatives and to collaborate for
the start of the WSF process in Asia. The ASF 2003 is being hosted by WSF, India
and will be held in the city of Hyderabad in India from January 2 to 7, 2003. In
the World Social Forum process the ASF, 2003 is the first Asia level event to be
convened with an understanding that Asian Social Forum event would be repeated
over a period in all the sub-regions of Asia.
The thematic content of Asia Social Forum (ASF) 2003 is defined by the Charter
of principles and the policy guidelines adopted by the World Social Forum,
India. It will be hosted as an open space to the movements for free discourse,
debate, interaction and discovery. It will try for the participation of a rich
diversity of mass organizations, peoples movements and citizens groups. It
will organize the forum as a platform for participatory formulation of
alternatives to the dehumanizing world order resulting from the policies and
practices of neo-liberal globalization. It is conceived as a process capable of
generating a movement of ideas and of building a development approach based on
the vision and strategies devoted to realizing all human rights for individuals,
communities and people. It will endeavor to contribute to creating a new
political climate of dialogue across differences and sensitize them of the need
to add to the existing repertoire, new ways of resistance.
The World Social Forum was conceived in Brazil as an international forum against
neo-liberal policies and capitalist led globalisation around the slogan:
Another World Is Possible. The World Social Forum (WSF) has emerged in the
movements working against capitalist led globalization as a forum that seeks to
provide a space for discussing alternatives, for exchanging experiences and for
strengthening alliances between social movements, unions of the working people
and NGOs. The Asian Social Forum 2003 is a milestone in that journey. The
process of ASF, 2003, in the WSF spirit, would be open, inclusive and flexible,
and would the movements opposed to capitalist led globalization working all over
Asia. WSF India believes that another world and another Asia is possible; the
ASF 2003 is an expression of this hope.
The Asia Social Forum 2003 provides space for proposing conferences with
participation of 4,000 delegates each and a range of seminars large and small
and workshops. The WSF India seeks the participation of mass organisations,
social movements and other groups who would take the initiative and
responsibility in organising such events. The opening and closing sessions, the
cultural programs, public lectures and testimonials are being organised by WSF
India.
Thematic Areas
The Asia Social Forum 2003 will be organized around the identified six thematic
areas. Their scope is provided here below in broad indicative terms only as a
point of entry in to the process of working out more elaborately the agenda for
discussion to be proposed by the participants interested to organize the events
in Hyderabad as a part of the ASF 2003. We give below themes by the programme
committee:
Peace and Security
Debt, Development, Trade, Finance and Investment
Nation State, Democracy and Exclusion
Social Infrastructure, Planning and Cooperation
Ecology, Culture, Knowledge
Alternatives and Peoples Movements
The organisations who are interested to hold the events being proposed by them
as a part of the ASF 2003 in Hyderabad are requested to go through the brief
notes attached here on each of the proposed thematic area. In each thematic
area, as illustration, the brief notes indicate the sub-areas and the possible
topics. Participants are free to add under each of the thematic area many more
new sub-areas and topics. Participants are also free to consider even those
topics that cut across the boundaries of proposed thematic areas for the
organization of a dialogue of their choice.
While proposing the events, the participants may go beyond academic discussions
on the impacts of neo-liberal globalisation and also offer concrete alternatives
and strategies of resistance. It may also include struggles and experience of
and victims testimonials to involve them in the WSF process of an open dialogue.
Participating organisations are invited to formulate the proposed subject matter
of their choice in the shape of conference/panels, seminars and workshops as a
part of the ASF 2003. Participants are expected to indicate the information
details sought in the proposal format attached to give a clear idea to the
organizers of the nature and content of the event so as it is appropriately in
the proposed overall structure.
Those interested in organising events at the Asian Social Forum should contact
the following address:
Programme Committee
WSF India Secretariat
204, Elite House,
36 Community Centre, Zamrudpur,
New Delhi 110048
Phones: 91-11-6476580, 6473425
email:
wsfindia@vsnl.net url: www.wsfindia.org
For specific details about the programme interested groups and organisations can
also contact persons of the programme committee, whose contact details are
provided with the annexure. Detailed information about facilities, costs, etc.
for organising events is provided in a separate Event Note for the Asian Social
Forum.
ANNEXURE
Peace and Security
Capitalist globalisation, accompanied by and/or manifested as military and other
intervention by world powers, has greatly accentuated the lack of peace and
security in the Asian region but Asia also has to offer some of the greatest
lessons in the struggle for other worlds. Asia is one of the key sites in the
world today of the unfolding of capitalist globalisation and of its serial
impacts and also of struggles against globalisation. It has historically seen
some of the most important struggles in history against colonialism and
feudalism and of the formulation of somewhat independent models of state and
nation formation, and also of interventions in global conflict, including
through the Non-Aligned Movement. And it is today, in these times of the
ascendance of capitalist globalisation, also the site of some of the most
significant struggles for liberation and new nationhood, from Palestine in West
Asia to East Timor in East Asia.
In spite of urgency expressed by States regarding national and regional security
and the pledging of enormous resources, conflicts have increased the world over.
In Asia, individuals, communities and even whole societies feel more insecure
today. After September 11 there has been a sharp increase in militarism and the
adoption and use of draconian laws and measures under the garb of curbing
terrorism.
Conflicts in Asia have today assumed dangerous proportions and include conflicts
between ethnic, religious, sectarian and other contending groups. Globalisation
and the heightened intervention of imperialism as factors in these conflicts
need to be examined in detail, as must all other factors involved in increasing
conflicts and heightened insecurity.
Security of individuals, communities and societies continue to be neglected as
compared to state security. People are facing severe threats to livelihood,
rights and living standards especially in the context of globalisation; their
protests and demands, particularly when voiced by peoples' movements, are
treated as security threats by the state, with increasing reliance on the use of
force through police/armies to establish 'order'. These and related aspects
require detailed attention.
Globalisation, unilateral military intervention by powerful nations/blocs and
the growing trend of erosion of national sovereignty especially of poorer
nations have dramatically changed the security parameters of nations. Overt
nuclearisation in South Asia has given rise to new areas of concern in the
region which need to be addressed.
Suggested areas the Asian Social Forum can explore:
Ethnic/Caste/ Religious/Sectarian Conflicts in the region: dimensions and
factors
Imperialism and Globalisation as factors in ethnic/caste/religious/sectarian
conflicts
Threats to National/Regional Security
Globalisation, Imperialism and Erosion of National Sovereignty:
Implications for national/regional security
Peoples Protests, Demands and State Repression
Fundamentalism, peoples security, civil society, and state
Life and security of Dalits: Responses of civil society and the state
Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Region
Rise in Militarisation
The question of nuclear technologies and peoples security
Non-violence and Peace
Lessons from struggles in Asia against colonialism and imperialism, past and
present
Alternative visions and practices in Asia of peace and security, past and
present
Debt, Development, Trade, Finance and Investment
Transnational corporations and governments of rich countries have used WB, IMF,
WTO, ADB, processes like the WSSD and other bilateral and regional trade,
investment and debt discussions to push economic reforms that have added new
dimensions to the process of socioeconomic and political marginalization of the
marginalized.
Structural adjustment programmes, poverty reduction strategies of the WB, the
IMF and the ADB, instead of fomenting development have only accentuated the
macro and micro debt burden of the countries they have assisted. Furthermore,
these institutions with the help of the State and its arms have legitimized
transformation of private debt into public debt. Under the garb of restricting
fiscal profligacy, these institutions have dismantled the welfare-state and
have exposed people to the vagaries of the market forces.
With the establishment of the WTO in 1995, trade and trade related issues (e.g.
TRIPs, TRIMs) expanded the rule-based political space for the multinationals and
rich countries to legitimize their ownership over natural resources, promote
industrial agriculture, export hazardous and genetically modified food and food
products, which in turn has only meant a reduction in political space for the
marginalized. Furthermore, such a system is pushing countries into generating
revenues out of exporting food grains even when a large section of the society
back home is food insecure.
More so, the evolving trade liberalization regime has set in motion a process
where an opaque institution like the WTO is ending up legitimizing the existence
of its counterparts in the financial world, viz. IMF, WB, ADB et al. Relegating
inequities and new kinds of debt being generated by a complex mix of trade and
financial liberalization, to the background, these multilateral and regional
bodies with the help of the rich club of countries are busy trying to promote
mask their processes and decisions as developmental ones on platforms like the
WSSD.
The articulation of ecological debt has demonstrated that the rich countries and
their financial institutions actually owe an enormous amount to the South, even
after cancellation of the financial debts, if the historical and continuing
ecological debts are accounted for.
The debate on debt is incomplete without interrogating the way in which global
finance has taken control over sovereign processes during the last three plus
decades. The South East Asian economic crisis that began in 1997 and had its
contagion impact on Russia and Latin American economies has exposed how
neoliberal financial architecture provides the necessary political space to
speculative forces to extract profits at the cost of middle class and the
marginalized.
Mass movements, trade unions, landless labour movements, dalit and womens
groups farmers movements et al are not only launching an attack against
institutions and processes eroding their legitimate sovereign rights but have
also started looking into initiating alternatives at their own level.
Suggested areas the Asian Social Forum can explore:
Exposing the IMF, WB, WTO Institutions of Capitalist Globalization
Politics of Aid
Illegitimacy and Burden of Debt
Implementation of Tobin Tax
Agenda 21, WSSD processes
Bilateral and regional trade, investment processes and its impacts
Climate change Kyoto Protocol
Bio-safety
Dumping of hazardous wastes
Biodiversity
Law of Seas
Scope of selective de-linking with respect to national development
Plans for diffusion of different types of
continental/national/regional/sub-regional and local development
Agriculture and food security
Patterns of industrialization
Physical infrastructure
Livelihoods and Natural resources access, entitlement etc.
Urban development
Rural development under globalization
Innovative models of sustainable livelihoods
Impact of service sector liberalization
Investment and competition debate at the WTO
NAFTA, bilateral treaties on investment and the WTO
Investment discussions at the WTO and its impact on debt
Alternatives to international financial institutions, neoliberal processes in
trade, debt and finance
Nation State, Democracy and Exclusions
Programmes under this theme seek to highlight the exlusionary effects of
globalisation in its multiple dimensions, analyze the political
instrumentalities that underlie these, explore the forging of strategies and
alliances to counter these processes and celebrate inclusive visions, practices,
institutions, movements and other forms of popular resistance in Asia.
Globalisation achieves exclusions of various kinds through a variety of formal
and informal operations of power. Erosion of the political sovereignty of the
nation-states, sharp reduction in the powers of the democratically elected
bodies and the corresponding rise in the powers of the various arms of global
establishment are perhaps the most visible of these instrumentalities.
Democratically elected institutions yielding their power to expert regulatory
bodies or simply market forces within the domestic arena is but another
corollary of the same process. A shrinking of democratic space within the
nation-states can be seen in the rise of the aggressively majoritarian and
intolerant articulations of the nation and an increase in the repressive powers
of the state, leading to gross violation of civic and human rights.
The much celebrated onward march of democracy all over the globe in the last
decade has been achieved by emptying the idea of democracy of substantial
outcomes for the people. A formal check list model of democracy prescribed by
the Washington Consensus, based as it is on replication of the institutional
form of Western democracies, hinders imagination about diverse instituional
forms and ways of realising democracy. This empty model overlooks, if not masks,
deeper operations of exlusionary power in the garb of traditional social
practices. It refuses to acknowledge the exclusions built into the nature of
modern media with its concentration of power to channelise information and shape
opinions and tastes. No wonder this model is vulnerable to attacks on the very
idea of democracy in the name of Asian values as also to the rise or
perpetuation of dictatorial regimes friendly to a uni-polar global governance.
The outcome of these formal and informal operations of power is accentuation of
multiple forms of exclusion for the marginalised sections (women, dalits,
indigeneous peoples, tribals and ethnic religious, national and other
minorites). Globalisation worsens the conditions of the already marginalised
while creating a new class of the excluded. It creates false opportunities and
real deprivation for these groups while making this process more opaque than
ever before. Withdrawl of safety nets and affirmative action, rise in violence
and discrimination against the vulnurable groups, flattening of social
diversities that puts greater pressure on the minorities to conform to the
dominant view and greater incidence of contrived conflict that pits these
groups against one another are but a few instances of this exclusion.
Suggested areas the Asian Social Forum can explore:
State, Civil Society and the disadvantaged (Dalits, indigenous peoples,
religious/ethnic/linguistic minorities)
Caste and Descent based Discrimination: Exclusion in Market and Governance
Community/group specific (dalits, indigenous peoples, tribals and ethnic
religious, national and other minorities) analyses of the new and emerging forms
of exclusion
Gender related exclusions and double exlusion of women from marginalised
communities
New and emerging instruments of exclusions (de-reservation of jobs,
deregulation of labour market, privatisation of public sector etc.)
Changing institutional and legal frameworks for labour and peasant rights in
the context of globalisation
Privatisation, Liberalisation and impact on the disadvantaged
Legitimisation of majoritarianism and sectarian/fundamentalist/communal values
in the political and social sphere.
Effect of globalisation on legal and institutional frameworks of decision
making (empowering of the executive wing, fracturing of the federal framework,
emergence of non-accountable decision makers)
Violence against and intolerance of various minority groups and
non-recognition of the political aspirations of religious, linguistic, ethnic or
any other minority
Erosion of civil and human rights (new draconian laws, exclusionary societal
practices)
Media as an instrument of exlusion and a space for democratic struggle (social
audit of old and new media, changing content and form, state-owned media vs.
public broadcasting)
Alternative visions, practical experiments and struggles for inclusive, plural
and radical democracy
Resource allocation and backward regions - movements from separate
geographical identities.
Erosion of civil and human rights
Social Infrastructure
What we see today in the garb of globalisation is unique and unprecedented.
Globalisation has come to mean the legitimisation of neo-imperialist loot. This
kind of globalisation is plagued with a fundamental contradiction in an age
when restrictions on information flow and flow of goods, services and capital
are sought to be removed, there is a greater concentration of wealth and
knowledge in a few hands. Such concentration is manifest in growing
inequalities. The wide-ranging reversals of social and economic gains, that we
have witnessed in the last decade, have been unprecented.
The impact of neo-liberal economic policies has been most evident in the
undermining of the social infrastructure. These policies were designed to clear
the path for withdrawal of the State from the vital social sectors of health,
education, food security, etc. The ideological barrage associated with the
reforms package in almost all developing countries has sought to give primacy
and legitimacy to the virtues of the private sector and the market. This
legitimisation of the state's withdrawal from infrastructural areas, especially
infrastructure in social sectors, is a signal contribution of the reforms era.
In the process, the supposed inability of the state to sustain funding of
education, medical care and public health, programmes for provision of drinking
water, public distribution system for food and essential commodities, and for
other social security measures, is seeking to acquire general acceptance and
truth value. Neo-liberal policies, notwithstanding the rhetoric, impinge on the
ability and intention of the State to provide for and maintain social safety
nets. Concurrently, sectarian processes negatively impact the capacity of
marginalsed and minority groupings to access social safety nets.
The withdrawal of the State and the domination of the market in shaping opinions
and promoting specific values is also manifest in the changing face of the
media. Corporate control of the media is being increasingly promoted to
manipulate and manufacture opinion about policies and processes.
Key areas in the social sector are going to be further targeted as the WTO
regime pushes for negotiations in the area of General Agreement on Trade in
Services (GATS). Sectors such as health and education are sought to be seen as
industries under this regime, and an even more comprehensive retreat by the
State is likely to ensue in these areas.
The Conference on Social Infrastructure and seminars and workshops in this area
could focus on the origin and impact of such policies. They could also seek to
explore alternatives and examples of resistance to these policies.
Suggested areas the Asian Social Forum can explore:
Entitlements and the "safety net"
Social Security
The marginalised and their access to social security and the safety net
Health
Education
Food Security
Employment, Job Security, Pension Schemes
Media accountability and control
Alternate paradigms and models of planning
Ecology, Culture and Knowledge
As a result of the operation of the global capital at the national, regional and
global levels, a major threat has emerged for ecology, culture and knowledge. A
significant proportion of people in the Asian region are critically dependent on
natural resources for their subsistence and well-being and have evolved
sophisticated systems of knowledge to manage these resources. This symbiotic
relationship has also shaped their identities. Deeply entrenched processes of
exploitation as well as dominant processes of national and global economic
development have contributed to a sharp increase in the insecurity and exclusion
of rural communities, particularly the vulnerable among them. This has
contributed to an increase in social dislocation and social conflicts.
The region's diverse ecosystems and the complex cultures and livelihoods that
they support have also experienced the consequences of these economic and
political processes. The bio-diversity and knowledge within these systems have
been adversely impacted by the imposition of monocultures, corporate controlled
biotechnology and the increasing commodification and export of natural
resources.
Around Asia, many remarkable strategies have been evolved by community
organisations, social movements and engaged researchers to respond to these
multi-faceted challenges. There are a growing number of people joining these
struggles and new forms of resistance are emerging in these arenas of struggle
as conventional notions of politics, democracy, development and sustainability
are confronted. Historically subjugated communities, tribal and indigenous
peoples and women are reconceptualising community, tradition, culture and
knowledge widening the possibilities of revitalising the movements for
livelihoods, entitlements, social justice and the deepening of democracy.
In the modernised or semi-modernised segments of societies in the third world
the globalisation process is fast removing the processes of creation and
dissemination of knowledge from the public to private domain. Culture itself is
being commodified. The issues relating to the international regimes on
knowledge, science and technology need to be addressed. The commodification of
culture is being accentuated through commercially oriented all comprehensive
regime on trade in services.
Suggested areas the Asian Social Forum can explore:
Issues related to the impact of globalisation on ecology in areas such as:
Forests , Land , Air, Water
Biodiversity
Climate change
Ecological conflicts
Energy
Agriculture
Common property resources
Eco-spirituality; religion and environment.
Nationalism and ecology in the era of Globalisation
Issues related to the impact of globalisation on Culture and Knowledge:
Cultural Imperialism and Identities
Corporate control of Media
Media and Democracy
Globalisation and shaping of cultural resistance
Pluralism, Diversity and Harmonious co-existence
Science and Culture
Science, Technology and Imperialism
Biotechnology
Intellectual Property Rights and Patenting
Traditional Knowledge systems
Artisans and knowledge systems
Alternatives and Peoples' Resistance
"Another World is Possible"
The most common response to the opposition to imperialist globalisation is that
there is no alternative. It is important to bring out that not only are there
alternatives, these alternatives are being pursued today at various levels. The
WSF is an assertion that many worlds are possible that are intrinsically
different from the sterile neo-liberal landscape of pure greed and satiation of
a consumer society.
Today, capital frenetically creates new "needs" -- an alternative
vision of the future must question how much of these needs are necessary.
The alternatives are not only in terms of objectives, they are also regarding
the trajectory of development. It is necessary to illustrate other possible
trajectories that not only exist but are continuously coming into practice and
in conflict with the over-arching centralisation of the production process that
is the characteristics of current capitalist globalisation.
The other level of alternatives emerge today from peoples' resistance and
movements. In different parts of the world, different forms of struggles are
taking place to fight globalisation. There is an international coalition
building up against the current neo-liberal agenda of globalisation.
Alternatives being thrown up for building a different world are required to be
shared amongst the activists and practitioners struggling against neo-liberal
globalisation.
At the same time, there exist several burning issues contained in this
resurgence. These include the problematic questions of the relation of civil
movements and of subordinated peoples and nations to state and nation, both from
below and within, in the sense of autonomy, and also as movements cross
boundaries and build transnational solidarity alliances and conduct their
campaigns at the international level, thereby challenging traditional regimes of
sovereignty and representation. Other issues include the understanding and use
of violence, power relations and internal democracy, gender, class, and caste
discrimination within movements, relations between voluntary organisations /
NGOs and popular movements and relations between new movements and politics
and old movements and politics.
Suggested areas the Asian Social Forum can explore:
Alienation from nature and common property resources
Alienation from customs and traditional knowledge systems
Alienation of workers /producers from the process of production
Consumer society: structure, role of the media, "need" and
"greed"
Visions and politics of lifestyles
Consumption patterns and development paths
Technology/automation and path of development
Community based developmental alternatives to neo-liberalism
Alternatives to centralised corporate production structures
Democracy and de-centralisation
The understanding and use of violence
Power relations and internal democracy
Gender, class, and caste discrimination within movements
Social movements and political parties: the role and their relation
Relations between voluntary organisations / NGOs and popular movements
Relations between new movements and politics and old movements and
politics
Internal dynamics within movements and between different sections of those
struggling against capitalist globalisation and communalism
The relations of civil movements and of subordinated peoples and nations to
state and nation from below and within, in the sense of autonomy
The relations of civil movements and of subordinated peoples and nations to
state and nation in the course of transnational campaigns
Movements in the era of globalisation: local, national and international
Programme and Theme co-ordinators:
Chairpersons: S.P.Shukla (
spshukla@eth.net), Prabhat Patnaik, D.L.Seth Convenors: Dinesh Abrol (
ap1966@hotmail.com), Yogendra Yadav (
lokniti@del3.vsnl.net.in) Thematic Groups
Peace & Security :
Kamal Mitra Chenoy -- Co-ordinator (
chenoy@nda.vsnl.net.in), Srilatha Swaminathan -- Co-ordinator (
rajkisan@datainfosys.net), Praful Bidwai, Achin Vanaik, Achyut Yagnik, N. D. Jayaprakash, Rama Melkote, Bela Bhatia
Debt, Development & Trade :
SP Shukla -- Co-ordinator (
spshukla@eth.net), Raghav Narasalay -- Co-ordinator (
focusind@vsnl.net), Vinod Raina, K.S. Gopal, K. Ashok Rao, D.R.Pandey Nation State, Democracy & Exclusions :
Paul Divakar -- Co-ordinator (
pdivakar@satyam.net.in), Yogendra Yadav -- Co-ordinator (
lokniti@del3.vsnl.net.in), Kodandram, Rama Melkote, Chakrapani Ghanta, Vijay Pratap, Ilina Sen, D. L. Sheth, Javeed Alam, N. D. Jayaprakash
Ecology, Culture & Knowledge :
Smitu Kothari -- Co-ordinator (
smitukothari@vsnl.net), Dinesh Abrol -- Co-ordinator (
ap1966@hotmail.com), Siddharth, Sagarika Ghose, Rajendra Ravi, Narendernath Ozha, Sheila Prasad, Ilina Sen, Mukul Sharma, P. Sainath, Nitin
Pranjape, Anand Patwardhan
Social Sector :
Jaya Velankar -- Co-ordinator (
jaya_velankar@tatanova.com), Amit Sen Gupta -- Co-ordinator (
ctddsf@vsnl.com), Jai Sen, K.K. Krishna Kumar, Ravi, Janardhan Reddy, Sadhana Saxena, Vinayak Sen, Jean Dreze, Anil Sadgopal, Sanjaya Paula
Alternatives & Peoples Movements :
Sanjay Mangala Gopal -- Co-ordinator, Kavita Srivastava* -- Co-ordinator,
Prabir Purkayastha , Vinod Shetty, P.K. Murthy, Madhusudhan, Javed Alam, Uma,
Aruna Roy, Medha Patkar
* to be confirmed
Programme Schedule & Format
Date 9.00 am to 1.00 pm 2.30 pm to 6.30 pm 7.00 pm to 11.00 pm
2nd Jan. Registration Opening Plenary(open to public)
3rd. Jan. Conferences 2 per day(3-4,000 people);Testimonials;Open Spaces 25
Seminars in Parallel(200-300 people);50-100 Workshops(50-100 people) Film
Shows;Cultural Performances;TestimonialsOpen spaces
4th. Jan. Conferences 2 per day(3-4,000 people);Testimonials;Open Spaces 25
Seminars in Parallel(200-300 people);50-100 Workshops(50-100 people) Film
Shows;Cultural Performances;TestimonialsOpen spaces
5th Jan. Conferences 2 per day(3-4,000 people);Testimonials;Open Spaces 25
Seminars in Parallel(200-300 people);50-100 Workshops(50-100 people) Film
Shows;Cultural Performances;TestimonialsOpen spaces
6th Jan. Conferences 2 per day(3-4,000 people);Testimonials;Open Spaces 25
Seminars in Parallel(200-300 people);50-100 Workshops(50-100 people) Film
Shows;Cultural Performances;TestimonialsOpen spaces
7th Jan. Closing Plenary(open to public)
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