| Quarterly Newsletter n°2 | April - June 2005 |
PEKEA NEWSLETTER
IN THIS ISSUE (click on a heading to jump to that section) :
1- Words from the Executive Secretary
2- “Democracy and Economy”, PEKEA International Conference, Rennes 4–6 Nov 2005
3- DPU use of PEKEA collective funding
4- Focus : Ekta Parishad
5- Electronic meeting of the Governing Board
6- Local Government Partnership
7- PEKEA Partners’ Conference Calls
1- Words from the Executive Secretary
PEKEA is a project in progress.
We started as informal in 2001 and decided to set up a formal organisation at our first conference in Santiago de Chile in September 2002.
It has been done in March 2003 and our website gives information about our orientation and perspectives and all papers we have discussed are available.
Step by step, we are trying to build this new knowledge, organising discussions and workshops and conferences. The last two examples of our walk :
a) In Spanish we have still time to propose a paper and to interact in a “virtual” meeting, thanks to Juan Carlos Martinez Coll, to be held in Spanish from 5th to 25th May 2005.
2º Encuentro Internacional PEKEA sobre Economía, Política y Ética
Inscripciones e informaciones: http://www.eumed.net/eve/pekea/index.htm(Click here)
b) PEKEA as a Non Profit Organization has just filled an application for a consultative status to the United Nations – Economic and Social Council. It will be considered for recommendation by the Committee in 2006 (Currently, there are 2613 NGOs in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council).
What is the consultative status? It would enable PEKEA to make a contribution to the work programmes and goals of the United Nations by serving as technical experts, advisers and consultants to governments and Secretariat. We would also be invited to attend international conferences called by the U.N., General Assembly special sessions, and other intergovernmental bodies.
Thus we have still an exciting work ahead.
Let’s go.
Marc Humbert.
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2- “Democracy and Economy”, PEKEA International Conference, Rennes 4–6 Nov 2005
Our next International Conference and General Assembly will take place from 4th to 6th November in Rennes, and will be hosted by University of Rennes 2.
On the PEKEA website(Click here), more information will be available from May the 1st on, with sub-themes, key speakers and a list of workshops and also with the registration form.
en français:Click here
en castellano:Click here
We remind you that every proposal is warmly welcomed, and that you have to send a tentative title before the end of May. Abstracts must be sent at the latest before the end of July to be checked by the scientific board.
On November the 3rd, at the same place, under the leadership of CODESPAR (Comité de Développement Economique et Social du Pays de Rennes) is organised, in French, a seminar with workshops about the assessment of the “societal” value delivered by Non Profit Organisation, with case studies and new tools of “societal” accounting. You are welcome to participate to this seminar when coming to PEKEA international meeting.
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3- DPU use of PEKEA collective funding
Please don’t forget to pay your membership fee
Thanks to your generosity through your membership fees, and in accordance with our Governing Board, we made a first bank transfer to DPU University in the end of March.
Mr Tatree Nontasak, Assistant President of International Networking Development in DPU, conveyed thanks from DPU and Thai people to PEKEA collective contribution and explained us the way DPU is using it: “Because it is an educational institution, DPU has chosen to support the rebuilding of a school in Phang Nha Province, one of the areas most severely damaged by the Tsunami. The school, Ban-Nam-Khem school, was extensively damaged and parts of it destroyed. DPU staff and students are collaborating to help rebuild the school and various facilities. More needs to be done, and PEKEA's kind offer of assistance would provide further assistance in restoring essential educational facilities in this area.”
This heartening message reinforces us in our will to keep up our commitment until the end of 2005.
To pay you membership fee and give further help please follow the below instructions :
You May either use a Bank Card on internet
(in English : Click here)
(en français : Click here)
(en castellano : Click here)
Or send a cheque in Euros to PEKEA, Maison du Ronceray, 110 rue de la Poterie 35 200 Rennes France,
Or send a bank draft to BPO for PEKEA, Rennes, France, Bank Account n° 910 190 32182 (IBAN: FR76 1670 7000 2091 0190 3218 290 / SWIFT: CCBPFRPPREN).
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4- Focus : Ekta Parishad
This new item will be devoted, in every issue, to one of our partner’s actions in order to have a better understanding and knowledge of each other’s activities.
Fot this issue we will give information about Ekta Parishad in India.
Ekta Parishad has been founded by Rajgopal P.V., a member of PEKEA network. Its aim is to fight for People’s Rights over livelihood resources. A “jeep yatra” has been organized in central Madhya Pradesh from 11th to 17th March, 2005: In the name of the landlessness, and on the basis of non-violent actions, Rajgopal P.V. flagged off and led the yatra to fight against tribal land alienation and for a true land distribution.
Please go on Ekta Parishad website for more information: http://www.ektaparishad.org/(Click here)
This action addresses the question of the economic and social rights and the role that they have in the functioning of economic activities. During the next PEKEA conference a workshop will be devoted to discussions and analyses of this topic with an international comparison.
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5- Electronic meeting of the Governing Board
According to our constitution the Governing Board of PEKEA is holding a meeting twice a year, one during the international conference and the other after six months. Up to now we have used the electronic meeting as it is possible according to our constitution; we would prefer a flesh to flesh meeting but we have no financial possibility to organise it. Such a meeting is open for two weeks long to facilitate interaction between members.
A Minute of this electronic meeting that was organised in April, will be sent to all of our members by the 1st of May 2005.
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6- Local Government Partnership
President Yves Berthelot wrote in a message to the Governing Board : “I believe that it is at the local level that alternative policies can be conceived and tested. It is also at the local level that democracy can go beyond elections”.
This assertion is at the root of PEKEA creation, and we will have the launching of a “club of local governments partners of PEKEA” during our next international Conference in November in Rennes. A few cities and other local Governements in France ( Cities of Rennes, Nantes, Paris, Lille. Brittany, Ille de France, Pays de la Loire Regions, Ille et Vilaine Département) are already in the launching process. Anyone able to convince a local government anywhere is welcome to contact us. Alain Yvergniaux on our Governing board is organising the process and we must thank him very much.
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7- PEKEA Partners’ Conference Calls
We will open a special page on our website to give indications about conference calls from NGO and Research Centres and other partners of PEKEA or for conferences that seem interesting according to PEKEA spirit. Don’t hesitate to send us indications and recommend some conferences.
- ASAE:
The 5th International Conference of Asian Society of Agricultural Economists (ASAE) entitled “Prospects of Asian Agriculture in New Millennium” will be held on 29th -31st August 2005 at University of Sistan and Baluchestan Zahedan – Iran. Therefore all the researchers and scholars in universities, institutes and international agencies working on the field of Agricultural and Resource Economics can send abstract of their recent works to the secretary of 5th conference. Please go to the online web: http://www.asae2005.com/(Click here)
- VIEM:
The V International Economics Meeting, VIEM, organized by the Centro de Investigaciones Económicas de Córdoba (CIEC, Córdoba`s Center for Economic Research, or the CIEC Foundation) will take place at the University of Buenos Aires' School of Law, August 10-12, 2005, under the emblem “From Economic Humanism to the New Society.”
More on the online website: http://www.fundacionciec.org.ar/(Click here)
- AFSCET – UES:
The 6th European Congress on Systems Science will take place at the ENSAM (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers), Paris, with the patronage of UNESCO, on September 19-22, 2005.
For further informations on the programme, the call for papers and the organization of the congress, see the AFSCET website: http://www.afscet.asso.fr/(Click here)
- DEBATE:
The DEBATE foundation (Estudios de tendencies socio-culturales) organizes a summer course dedicated to “The welfare state in Spain and Switzerland: economic and social aspects” with the patronage of the Federal Department of Finance, the Spanish Embassy and UNED (Université Nationale d’Enseignement à Distance).
It will take place in Bern, on June, 16-18, 2005.
More informations on Calenda, a social sciences calendar: http://calenda.revues.org/nouvelle5241.html(Click here)
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| PEKEA President: Yves BERTHELOT yves.berthelot@unog.ch Executive Secretary: Marc HUMBERT Marc.Humbert@univ-rennes1.fr Scientific VPdt : Theotonio DOS SANTOS theotoni@terra.com.br Treasurer: Danièle BENEZECH daniele.benezech@univ-rennes1.fr |
PEKEA Newsletter Chief editor : Wei
WANG |