Seminar: Human Rights, Pluralism and Civil Society

Sitharamam Kakarala will present the summary findings of the PKP working paper on Human Rights, Pluralism and Civil Society – Reflecting on contemporary challenges in India, locating the discussion within the contemporary context of communalism, caste-ism and similar concerns in India. The working paper can be accessed online: http://www.hivos.net/Hivos-Knowledge-Programme/Themes/Promoting-Pluralism/Publications/Human-Rights-Pluralism-and-Civil-Society

The presentation is followed by a critical response by Arvind Narrain (ALF, Bangalore) and a subsequent open dialogue in which seminar participants are invited to share their critical views/thoughts on the issues at debate.

The Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) and the Kosmopolis Institute of the University of Humanistic Studies (the Netherlands) cordially invite you to participate in a dialogue on Human Rights Interventions and Identity Politics in Changing Times. The dialogue is organised in the context of the Pluralism Knowledge Program. The programme aims at forging new spaces of conversation on issues and challenges that emerge between established universal values (eg. secularism, human rights etc.) and the emerging new identity politics. An important objective of the knowledge programme is to facilitate opportunities of critical dialogue of concerned actors that look beyond taking sides and explore new possibilities of critical engagement and democratising transformatory processes. The seminar will start with a brief overview of developments in the overall international program and situate the India program in that context.

The Pluralism Knowledge Program highly values your critical engagement in our ongoing academic – CSO practitioner dialogue and hope that you, and/or others interested from your organisation, will be able to join us this afternoon.