Exchange Platform 25-27 August Schedule

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1 Pathway to a Well-Being Society scenario, 25-27 August 2011, Bangkok

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International Exchange Platform

RE-THINKING PROPERTY: Pathway to a Well-Being Society scenario?

25-27 August 2011

Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok

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Thursday 25 August 2011

TAKING STOCK

08:30-09:00 Registration.

09:00-09:25 Invocation WelcomeTranslation into Thai of all plenary sessions available.

y Surat Horachaikul, Director School for Wellbeing Studies and Research (5 min.)

y Katsumi Kakazu, Director General, The Japan Foundation, leading sponsor (5 min.)

y Wallapa & Hans van Willenswaard, on behalf of the organizers (10 min.)

the Well-Being Society scenario projectof the School for Wellbeing Studies and Research

y [Surin Pitsuwan (Thailand), Secretary General ASEAN (5 min. video statement?)]

09:25-09:45 Introduction to the Exchange Platform and its participatory format

y Jost Wagner, Process Consultant/Facilitator: Explanation of the exchange platform format;self-introductions of the participants (20 min.)

09:45-10:30 Keynote presentations: Who Owns the Earth? Exploring the roots of our legal, economicand cultural systems.

The Threefold Nature of SocialTransformation

y Nicanor Perlas (Philippines), Founder CADI (Centre for Alternative Development Initiatives);

Right Livelihood Award Recipient (20 min.)

Re-thinking Property: a Pathway towards SocialTransformation?

y Ramaswamy Sudarshan (India), Legal Policy Advisor, UNDP (15 min.)

y Q&A (10 min.)

Moderator: Sharan Srinivas, Programme Manager, Right Livelihood College, Penang, Malaysia

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Welfare State, Market Economy or Well-Being Society?

Introduction:

Keynote presentation: Beyond Market and State

y Ms. Silke Helfrich (Germany) Commons Strategy Group (20 min.)

Talk show-discussion on global transformation:

Can we expect a shift towards new economics in our present decade?

Merging old principles, or the creation of a new alternative?

y Jean-Pierre A. Verbiest, Country Director Asian Development Bank, Thailand Resident

Mission (10 min.)

y Kavaljit Singh, Public Interest Research Centre, India (10 min.)

y Ms. Rosana Tositrakul, Senator, Thailand (10 min.)

y Discussion (40 min.)

Moderator: Surat Horachaikul, Director, School for Wellbeing Studies and Research


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12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:30 Paradigm World Caf(including break)

Re-thinking Property: public property in the hands of nation-states; private property ruled bycorporations; can a shift to more care for common property by civil society emerge?

Which social transformation movements do we expect to break through in our present

decade? Why do you think so? With what result?Three rounds of sharing in changing small groups (World Caf) culminating in plenaryexchanges.

Facilitator: Jost Wagner

16:30-17:00 Closing session and planning of next day

Facilitator: Jost Wagner

17:00-18:30 Reception with finger food

20:00-22:00 Public event (optional)organized by student group

* Film:

y Betting on Laos with Sombath Somphone

y Multi-media presentations (please suggest)

Friday 26 August 2011

ADVANCE THE THINKING

08:30-09:00 Registration and space for morning reflections; informal planning.

09:00-09:10 Opening by Facilitator (10 min.)

09:10-10:20 Keynote speeches:Common property, land reform, food security towards wellbeing-driven economics?

Land Property Policies in Bhutan: inspiring a re-think of western assumptions

y Dasho Karma Ura President, Centre for Bhutan Studies; independent thinker on Gross

National Happiness (20 min.)

Towards a WorldTransition Organization?

y Christian Arnsperger Universitee Catholique de Louvain, Hoover Chair of Economic and

Social Ethics, Belgium/Germany (20 Min.)

y Discussion (20 min.)

Moderator: Surichai Wungaeo, Director, Peace and Conflict Studies Centre, ChulalongkornUniversity; Advisor of the School for Wellbeing Studies and Research

10:20-10:40 Introduction toMarketplace of HappinessWorkshops +Resource Persons of Session I JostWagner and Workshop Conveners.

10:40-11:00 Coffee Break


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11:00-13:00 Marketplace of Happiness - Workshop Session I

Titles and resource persons are proposed new workshops and resource persons can beadded. In italicproposed workshop conveners.

1. Governance transitions: How do societies change? How does property relate to other majorpoliticalfactors? How can we shape our role as change facilitators? Epicenters of change:local, regional, global? Francois Bafoil, Suthipand Chirativat, Ramaswamy Sudarshan, Ms.

Amara Pongsapich,Surat Horachaikul, Guo Peiyuan, Sutichai Eamcharoenying

2. Scenario-building: a powerful path towards transformation Nares Damrongchai, SebastienTreyer, Pun-Arj Chairatana, Jost Wagner, David Crookall

3. Outlines of a new economy? Kavaljit Singh, Rae Kwon Chung, Christian Arnsperger,Apichai Puntasen, Nakamura Hishashi, Prida Tiasuwan, Ms. Silke Helfrich, Jacques-chaiChomthongdi

4. Development in the Mekong Region: walking our own Path or following Big Brothers?Sombath Somphone, Chea Vanath, Daw Seng Raw, Sotha Ros, Chalida Tajaroensuk andothers

5. Alternative indicators towards paradigm shift: Health Impact Assessment (HIA) and theNational Progress Index in Thailand (in Thai language translation in English) Decharut

Sukkamnoedand team, Healthy Public Policy Foundation; Thailand Reform Committee

6. Youth and Transformative Education Yoshiyuki Nagata, Sharan Srinivas, SomboonChungprampree, and students of the International Relations course at ChulalongkornUniversity, other faculties and universities

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Workshops Session II(including break)

1. Welfare State, Market Economy or Well-Being Society. Towards a new Third Way? SocialSystems Design in Asia Nicanor Perlas, Jean-Pierre A Verbiest, Surichai Wungaeo,Takayoshi Kusago, Hans van Willenswaard

2. Transition of global regulatory frameworks: supporting cultural integrity of regions, countriesand peoples? Dasho Karma Ura, Krista Nadakavukaren, Francois Bafoil, ChristianArnsperger, Kavaljit Singh

3. Engaged Spirituality and a future economy based on gender balance. The female factor inshaping well-being policies Ms. Cheah Vanath, Ven. Dhammananda, Ms. AmaraPongsapich, Ms. Padmawadi Suziki, Ms. Sarinee Achavanuntakul, Ms. Chalida Tajaroensuk

4. ICT for the Well-Being Society: (based on highlights of international workshop, 16-17 August,organized by the Centre for Ethics of Science and Technology) Craig Smith, SorajHongladarom, Michel Bauwens, Chitphong Kittinaradorn, business leaders ICT sector

5. Land Reform in Thailand (in Thai, translation in English) Jarin Boonmathya and others

6. Organic Agriculture: the Heart of Global Transformation. Towards anagro-ecology policy forAsia? Sombath Somphone, Daycha Siripatra, Ong Kung Wai, Ms. Khesang Tshomo, Ms.Kingkorn Narintarakul Na Ayudhaya, Ms. Wallapa van Willenswaard, Hans van Willenswaard

16:00-17:00 Plenary Consultation

17:00 Free Evening

19:30-21:00 Drafting Action-Research Plan in small group (outline has been distributed prior to theexchange platform)


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Saturday 27 August 2011

MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER

08:30-09:00 Registration

09:00-09:20 Mental preparation for concluding session: Jost Wagner (with Change Initiative video).

09:20-10.20 Strategic steps towards an alternative development scenario.

Addresses, introductions, advice, initiatives, group consultations and open discussion:

y Rae Kwon Chung Director, Environment and Sustainable Development Division, UN-ESCAP; Councilor, World Future Council.

y Takayoshi Kusago Professor Social Systems Design, Kansai University, Japan

y OTHERS

10:20-10:30 Each table formulates five key ideas to make the paradigm shift happen

Process facilitator: Jost Wagner

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:30 Strategic Action-Research Plan for Our Decade 2010-2020: The Great Turning?*

Presentation

11:30-12:30 Closing ceremony with final comments

Concluding keynote speech

The Wisdom of SustainabilitySulak Sivaraksa Thai public intellectual, socially engaged Buddhist activist and Right Livelihood

Awardee. Recipient of the Niwano Peace Prize 2011. Advisor of the School for Wellbeing Studiesand Research.

12:30-14:00 Farewell Lunch

*David Korten 2006 The GreatTurning. From Empire to Earth Community.

Monday 29 August 2011

REACHING OUT

16:00-18:00 Press Conference and discussionat the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand (FCCT) (tobe confirmed)


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Organizers: School for Wellbeing Studies and Research / Suan Nguen Mee Ma social enterprise

Leading sponsor: The Japan Foundation

Sponsors: Thailand Research Fund

Chulalongkorn University; Chula Global Network

Heinrich Boell Foundation

Right Livelihood College, Penang, Malaysia

Sciences Po, Paris

Universitee Catholique de Louvain, Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics, Belgium

CCFD Terre Solidaire, France

A Reader with background information will be made available: central documents will be the report of the

International Commons Conference in Berlin, November 1-2, 2010. And the Youth Future Manifesto, 18September 2010, formulated during the global gathering of Right Livelihood Awardees Changing Course,Reclaiming Our Future in Bonn, Germany.

The Manifesto For A Different Economy resulting from a creative meeting, Paris, 13-15 April 2011, withglobal partners of CCFD Terre Solidaire, France a major international NGO will be circulated forreflection.

Participants of the international exchange platform Re-thinking Property. Pathway to a Well-Being Societyscenario? will be supported to make suggestions for a Strategic Action-Research Plan for Asia in line with theabove documents. The Manifesto For A Different Economy emphasizes pluralism as a fundamental value.

We intend to present the Manifesto and Strategic Action-Research Plan in a Press Conference.

Process Consultant/Facilitator(supported by Heinrich Boell Foundation): Jost Wagner, The Change Initiative.

Exchange Platform 25-27 August Schedule

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