| Quarterly Newsletter n°4 | October- December 2005 |
PEKEA NEWSLETTER
IN THIS ISSUE (click on a heading to jump to that section) :
1- Message from Yves Berthelot, President of PEKEA
2- News from a stimulating world conference: Rennes (4- 6 Novembre)
3- Administrative News from our Executive Secretary
4 - An engine to search among the hundreds of papers of previous PEKEA
1- Message from Yves Berthelot, President of PEKEA
With the fifth Conference in Dakar next year, PEKEA will conclude its first cycle of activities. The number of adherents to the PEKEA ambition grows steadily, the quality of contributions received improves. People from different backgrounds and different cultures are now able to work together and are pleased to do so. This confirms PEKEA's initial intuition and therefore PEKEA has to go ahead.
In the near future, PEKEA needs more interaction with citizens involved in the economic or political life to grasp the problems they face and the difficulties they encounter due to the recipes imposed by the dominant economic thinking. In the longer term, PEKEA should build on its network and accumulated material to contribute to the creation of an alternative to the present development paradigm.
To achieve such an ambitious objective, PEKEA has to mobilise more financial and intellectual resources through a greater involvement of its supporters.
Yves Berthelot
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2- News from a stimulating world conference: Rennes (4- 6 Novembre)
In Rennes about 300 people have participated to the different sessions of this 4th world conference on the theme "Democracy and Economy"
Stimulating papers have been written (they are still on the page of the conference, they will be included in the general database at the end of December, see point 4 below); plenary sessions and parallel workshops as well have been an opportunity to stimulating discussion.
You may still download the papers direcly choising in the pages you may display by clicking here after
Click here (in the English part of the website)
Click here (dans la section française du site )
Click here (en la parte en castellano del sitio )
Delegates from 16 countries have been able to join; some friends, from 4 countries at least, had to stay home as the French Embassy did not accept to deliver to them a visa.
Panels of discussion have been organised with participants from different cultures and nations and different backgounds, academics from various disciplines and activists. This was very rich and delagates were pleased by the quality and the intensity of the debates.
During the GA, President Yves Berthelot and the PEKEA members approved the idea that the following key concept-words emerged respectively from the second, third and fourth Conferences: Fraternity (2003), Responsibility (2004), Citizenship (2005). They give the main thrust of the debates.
It is now time to prepare the next conference in DAKAR. Quoting President Yves Berthelot, it reads like this. Looking ahead, the 5h conference in Dakar in 2006 will mark the end of a first cycle. Then, will come the time of taking stock of this first step, assessing the method of work and designing a programme for the next four years. It is proposed that the Scientific Board, building upon the analyses accumulated, elaborate the lineaments of new paradigms for development and a programme of work, during a one week closed seminar in fall 2007. The paradigms will be discussed at the 6 th World Conference and the programme of work adopted by the 5th General Assembly.
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3- Administrative News from our Executive Secretary
1) PEKEA Network is pursuing its extension and we are now more than 924 backers of our Argument from more than 68 countries. See the latest statistics on the website :
Click here
And you may watch the world of PEKEA around the planet on a Map :
Click here
2)Each PEKEA backer will receive an updated list of her or his fellow members living in the same country as her or him and will be invited to exchange with others and contemplate the idea to form a local group. Invitation also to disseminate information about PEKEA project.
And to join the NGO as an active member paying the membership fee.
Payment is possible on the net:
You May either use a Bank Card on internet
Click here (in English )
Click here (en français )
Click here (en castellano )
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).
3)A Call is being launched by Alain Yvergniayx to set up a Local Government Club. Each PEKEA backer is invited to inform local governments, their staff or their reprensentative of this opportunity.
4) ECOSOC will examine our application to the consultative status at the end of January 2006; our representative to the committee session will be Dr Oswaldo de Rivero.
Marc Humbert
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4 - An engine to search among the hundreds of papers of previous PEKEA
Open use for every visitor of our website of a beta version of a search engine is now available :
http://www.pekea-fr.org/search.php Click here
And you may find any text by using any word, linked among others to
author's name, title, title of session if any, Conference, and, within the text itself. A list of available papers will be displayed according to your request and by clicking on the full title of the one you choose, you will get it straight away on your screen.
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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 |