Fw: H-ASIA ICIRD 2012: Towards an ASEAN Economic Community (AEC): Prospects, Challenges and Paradoxes in Development, Governance and Human Security, Chiang Mai Univ., July 26, 2012

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Prospects, Challenges and Paradoxes in Development, Governance and Human
Security, Chiang Mai Univ., July 26, 2012

> H-ASIA
> November 16, 2011
>
> ICIRD 2012: Towards an ASEAN Economic Community (AEC): Prospects,
> Challenges and Paradoxes in Development, Governance and Human Security
> Chiang Mai, Thailand, July 26, 2012
> ***********************************************************************
> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> ICIRD 2012: Towards an ASEAN Economic Community (AEC): Prospects,
> Challenges and Paradoxes in Development, Governance and Human Security
>
> Location: Thailand
> Conference Date: 2012-07-26
> Date Submitted: 2011-11-14
> Announcement ID: 189758
>
> ICIRD 2012 will bring together various concerned groups,
> multi-disciplinary scholars and graduate researchers, as well as
> activists, state and non-state actors, NGOs, development workers, regional
> institutions and fellow citizens and non-citizens, in order to discuss the
> prospects and challenges for plans to move towards an ASEAN Economic
> Community, as well as some of the contradictory ideas being proposed. The
> outcomes of the conference will help foster a wider and deeper
> understanding of the AEC, plus help inform the public, and prepare people
> for the changes ahead and to cope with any unforeseen consequences.
>
> According to the Bali Concord II, the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)
> should become an integrated economic area by 2015, brought forward from
> the previous target of 2020. Although ASEANs vision has the community
> underpinned by three pillar institutions, namely the ASEAN Economic
> Community (AEC), the ASEAN Security Community (ASC) and the ASEAN
> Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC), much emphasis has been placed on the
> prospective growth in economic development and trade in the region.
> Supporters of this single market and single production base idea have been
> active within the concerned state agencies, especially the Ministries of
> Foreign Affairs and Commerce and their equivalents. A number of academic
> institutions and experts on economic development, international relations
> and regional economic integration have also come out in defense and
> support of the move towards an AEC, citing the benefits to be gained by
> the nations involved. However, concerns about and criticisms of this move
> have started to circulate among scholarly activists, non-state actors,
> NGOs, local and transnational civil societies.
>
> Points of concern with regard to development issues include regional
> disparities, uneven development, the impacts of large-scale infrastructure
> development on sustainable livelihoods, the enclosure of local resources,
> new forms of resource governance and accumulation by dispossession. With
> regard to international governance, the roles of state and non-state
> actors have been questioned in terms of the issues of democratization,
> privatization, participation, people-centered governance and transnational
> mobility and regulations, and on the human rights front, concerns have
> been raised regarding the rights of non-citizens, identity crises, health,
> food safety, sovereignty, feminization of labor and non-traditional
> security. It is clear these uncertainties and unresolved issues need to be
> addressed before the AEC becomes institutionalized. Needless to say, the
> larger economic conglomerations are already talking about an AEC plus one,
> three and even six, as the presence of China in particular, is already
> being felt around the region.
>
> Objectives: 1. To provide a deeper and more rounded understanding of
> regional development under the AEC;
> 2. To challenge the premise of economic integration and trade
> liberalization;
> 3. To examine the human landscape and humanization of development; and
> 4. To offer a forum for concerns to be heard and tackled seriously.
>
> Participants:
> - Scholars
> - NGOs
> - private sector associations
> - researchers
> - state agencies
> - regional institutions
> - local people
>
>
> ICIRD 2012 Office
> Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development
> Faculty of Social Sciences
> Chiang Mai University
> Chiang Mai 50200
> THAILAND
>
> Phone: +66 (0)53-943595-6
> Fax: +66 (0)53-893279
> E-mail: rcsd [at] cmu.ac.th, rcsd.cmu [at] gmail.com
> Visit the website at http://www.icird.org/2012/index.html
>
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