QUESTIONS

65 years after the historical 1955 Bandung Conference, is there any change in global order in all its dimensions (cultural, ecological, economical, political and spiritual dimensions)? In what sense Bandung constitutes a rupture and a continuity of historical global order? Is colonialism dead and decolonisation completed? Is the position of centre and peripheries of capitalism stable or moving? Does development means following the centre? Did multipolarism replace bipolarism? Does Bandung constitute a bifurcation in the trajectory of historical world system? Is the notion of division East-West and North-South still relevant? Is the notion of class struggle still useful? Does the end of Cold War mean the end of potential World War? Did new hegemons replace the old ones? Why does the armament technology continue to develop? Who do take benefit of the armament industries and trade? What is the place of individual living being, human as well as animal and vegetation, in this changing world? Is there any chance for the poor, the weak, the disadvantaged, to improve their state of being in peaceful way? Is there any role of humanities, art, culture, architecture, literature, religion, spirituality in directing the global change?

SUB-TOPICS

Special sessions/Roundtables/Workshops/Panels will be organised on the following topics in connection with THE RISE OF ASIA:

Africa

Art and Literature

Asia

Central & Eastern Europe

Central & South America and Caribbean

BRICS

Digital Development

Ecology, Urbanisation, Architecture

Gender and Women Issues

Religious Issues

Social and Solidarity Movements

Western World

GUIDELINES See more details at http://www.bandungspirit.org/