Members of the network at a nonviolent resistance conference in India
Stellan Vinthagen January 15th, 2010
Some members of the Resistance Studies Network will be participating in an antimilitarist conference in Ahmadabad, India during the next coming two weeks. Activists and scholars from around the world will meet to discuss the profiteers of war and international and local nonviolent resistance. It is about the connections between forced removal of local communities, the transnational corporations’ resource extraction and military production, the war machine and our possibilities to forge transnational collaboration to resist such anti-human processes.
The conference is organized by the War Resisters International. Among the key speakers are the world renouned author and anti-militarist activist Arundathi Roy, toghether with Medha Patkar from the resistance movement NBA against the Narmada dam project and Ashis Nandy, a famous gandhian author. You find more information about the conference here.
Depending on time and Internet availability we hope to give a report during the conference. Stay tuned!
“There is an inescapable link between the globalisation-induced displacement, dis-employment and dispossession that are results of internal wars and ravage local, traditional and indigenous natural-resource based communities everywhere. There is a linkage between these and the monstrous international wars – whether they are fought in Afghanistan, Iraq, Congo or Somalia. The biggest challenge therefore is to build alliances that are local and global at the same time, and those that not only resist injustice but also present alternatives.”Â
Medha Patkar
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