| Quarterly Newslettre n° 5 | January-March 2006 |
PEKEA NEWSLETTER
IN THIS ISSUE (click on a heading to jump to that section) :
1- Editorial by Yves Berthelot, President of PEKEA
2- 3rd virtual PEKEA meeting in Spanish : EUMED May 2006
3- Individual & Society, PEKEA world conference, DAKAR, 1-3 Dec 2006
4 - Information about Work in progress
5- information about events, conferences around the world
6- Call to members of the Network to join the PEKEA NGO
1- Editorial by Yves Berthelot, President of PEKEA
With this first Newsletter of 2006, it is still time to wish you and your family a year of peace and achievements. Let me also bring you the good news : the UN Committee on NGOs has decided to recommend that PEKEA be granted special consultative status to the UN Economic and Social Council thanks to Ambassador Oswaldo de Rivero who presented our case and the support of friendly countries, among which, France. Let us thank them and let us merit this recognition due to be confirmed by ECOSOC assembly in May.
Precisely, with this accreditation and the decision taken last December by three founding members (Région Bretagne, Département d'Ille et Vilaine et Rennes Métropole) to launch the Club of local governments, partners of PEKEA, we are now equipped for bridging global and local concerns in a dialogue involving representatives of these two worlds. This dialogue should help us to think and act at each level taking into account the realities, dreams and constraints, of the other. The Dakar Conference on "individual and society" will indeed be an opportunity to explore the conflicts of interests between the worlds to which we belong and the ways to overcome them.
Yves Berthelot
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2- 3rd virtual PEKEA meeting in Spanish : EUMED May 2006
For the 3rd consecutive year a virtual meeting on the 4 PEKEA blocks of knowledge is organised in Spanish by EUMED, thanks to its director, our colleague Pr. Juan Carlos Martinez Coll of the University of Malaga, Spain. To get more information and to participate to the:
TERCER ENCUENTRO INTERNACIONAL PEKEA
Economía, Política y Ética
del 5 al 23 de mayo de 2006
Click here http://www.eumed.net/eve/3pekea.htm
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3- Individual & Society, PEKEA world conference, DAKAR, 1-3 Dec 2006
After Santiago conference in 2002 (at ECLAC with UAHC) we decided to organise 4 conferences, each of them focusing on one of the four blocks of knowledge that we need to combine in order to design a new paradigm; this paradigm will enable us to devise the terms of reference for a research programme to build a Political and Ethical Knowledge in Economic Activities. Three conferences have already been held : Rennes 2003 on "societal value", Bangkok 2004 (at ESCAP with DPU) on "our feasible common future"; again in Rennes 2005 on "democracy versus ecocracy"; the next one will take place in Dakar, Senegal, to deal with the theme: "individual and society".
It will be prepared with the cooperation of an international African organisation based in Dakar: CODESRIA. The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (= CODESRIA), which has members in all African countries, is trying to pursue its founding goals : "encouraging the critical evaluation of the theoretical basis, as well as the conceptual and methodological frameworks used in the social sciences, promoting multi-disciplinary approaches and integrating gender analysis into the work of African scholars". More information at http://www.codesria.org (Click here)
The Conference will be organised at "UCAD" : Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar. This university has 11 faculties and numerous research centers (see http://www.ucad.sn/Click here). Our local university counterpart is a world famous research centre : IFAN, Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire,(see http://www.africainformation.net/ifan1.htm Click here) which has been integrated to the University in 1966. Pr Abdou Salam Fall from IFAN has accepted to chair the local organization committee.
The nice and well-equipped conference center of UCAD will host our conference from 1 to 3 December 2006.
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4 - Information about Work in progress
Dear Friends,
I would like to give you a little information about work in progress.
-Our main task is to prepare a sound basis for the Dakar Conference and we will disseminate a call and guidelines for proposal at the beginning of April.
-We have to ask again for Network members to join the NGO, membership is a requisite for for individual members to propose a communication, a paper or a note to a Conference and to have it eventually posted in the website. This is also very important to PEKEA in relation with the rest of society for its credibility. Please help us with this task which is a collective one.
-We are trying to give more visibility to thematic and local groups, thus we will open an entry for that in our website. To all who are involved in such groups, please help!
-The call to other partners of PEKEA within a Club of Local Governments is to be launched widely and we will ask you to act as an intermediary to people you may know in Local Governments in your vicinity. If needed, we may act in coordination with you.
- Following our conference in Rennes 2005, two books are in preparation, one in French and one in English. Thank you to all and especially to authors and reviewers. It is a long process and we would like it could be finished before the Dakar Conference. The original draft papers presented during our previous conference (among them the last one, Rennes 2005) are still available in our website and have been included in the database, so that they can be searched with the search engine.
My best,
Marc Humbert
Executive Secretary
More on past activities : see a brief History
in English Click here; French Click here; or Spanish Click here
To search in the data base
from English Click here; French Click here; or Spanish Click here
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5- information about events, conferences around the world
Territorios rurales en movimiento seminar, Santiago de Chile, 23-26 de abril de 2006, see http://www.rimisp.org/getdoc.php?docid=3555 or
Click here
Contacto : Stefania Tolomeotti:stolomeotti@rimisp.org
Fifth Proximity Congress (Bordeaux, France, 28th to 30th June 2006), call for contribution: see http://beagle.u-bordeaux4.fr/conf2006/callforpapers.php or Click here
Course of local development on line with CEBEM, Centro Boliviano de Estudios Multidisciplinarios (Bolivia) february-march2006: see http://desarrollolocal.cebem.org or Click here
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6- Call to members of the Network to join the PEKEA NGO
PEKEA is a network gathering more than 900 people, in more than 60 countries. 80% of the total, are researchers trained in various disciplines of the human and social sciences, mainly Political Economy, Sociology, Management, Political Science, Philosophy, Geography, Anthropology, Law, History and other 28 different disciplines. Among the other 20%, we count partly with people directly involved in organising economic activities with a different spirit and concretely in a different way that the strict observance of the utilitarian behaviour. An other part is composed of people who are nor researchers nor involved in such organisations but who feel committed to the contents of PEKEA project and who are willing to support it. Among these, some act as an intermediary with their organisation which is a partner of PEKEA: we have reciprocally put a link to each other's website and we give information on our respective works. This has led to build links among thousands of people around the world.
However, in our relation with International, National or Local Governmental Organisations we must present a number of members of our NGO sufficiently high. Last year only 147 individuals paid their membership fee, in total less than 250 members have paid at least once their membership fee. The amount is at the appreciation of any member, there is only an indication of suggested amount according to the monthly income. So we have to ask again for Network members to join the NGO. Membership is a requisite for individual members to propose a communication, a paper or a note to a Conference and to have it eventually posted in the website. Membership allows a special rate to register to all our events and to buy the next books to be published. This is also very important to PEKEA in relation with the rest of society for its credibility. Please help us with this task which is a collective one.
You may send money, make a bank transfer or pay by bank card through the website.
Through the website you may go directly if you
Click here (in English ) or in French please Click here or in Spanish, please Click here
You may also send a cheque in Euros to PEKEA, Maison du Ronceray, 110 rue de la Poterie 35 200 Rennes France,
or make a bank transfer to BPO for PEKEA, Rennes, France, Bank Account n° 910 190 32182 (IBAN: FR76 1670 7000 2091 0190 3218 290 / SWIFT: CCBPFRPPREN).
Thank you very much.
PEKEA NGO bureau.
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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 |