Politics
People-centred governance and decision-making, ensuring accountability and transparency
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People-centred governance and decision-making, ensuring accountability and transparency
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This section features initiatives and approaches towards people-centred governance and decision-making, with direct participation, and based on principles of social and environmental justice. This includes initiatives attempting to realize local non-hierarchical systems of decision-making in urban and rural areas, and linkages of these to each other at bio-cultural levels. This would also include collectives or communities that raise non-party political concerns at the local level and beyond, as well as initiatives that enhance accountability and transparency of political bodies. It will include alternative policy frameworks that are based on or promote the alternative economies featured elsewhere on this site, such as meaningful practices and concepts of well-being, instead of the mainstream development model which focuses on economic growth.
VIKALP SANGAM GENERAL ASSEMBLY RELEASED A PEOPLE’S MANIFESTO 2024
The Manifesto, aimed at political parties, government agencies, and civil society organisations and movements at various levels, lists key strategies and actions that need to be taken for just living conditions.
Press Release: 25 Organisations Meet to Discuss Development Alternatives in India
About 40 members of 25 organisations from 12 states of India met at Farmer’s Share, Shoranur, as the General Assembly of the Vikalp Sangam.
A case for conscience and humanity
Wars highlight nationality and ethnicity at the cost of humanity. This piece looks at Ela Bhatt’s household model to move towards a society that cares.
क्या जैव विविधता राजनीति विज्ञान की शिक्षक बन सकती है? (In Hindi)
एक खोज - स्थानीय जैव विविधता में स्थापित शिक्षा कैसे मनुष्यों के बीच समानता, विविधता और समावेशिता के मूल्यों को गहरा कर सकती है|
The ‘Real’ Kerala Story: Tales of Communal Harmony From Ground Zero
Temples and churches hosting Iftar parties and Nabi Dinam, blending of the azaan with temple bells, Muslims helping Hindu families – all these instances add to the state’s already rich traditions.
Dongria Kondh Tribals Take on Corporate Goliaths to Save Forests
The Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti and the MSS are demanding the immediate recognition of Community Forest Rights and Individual Forest Rights of tribals to their forests, as mandated under the FRA 2006.
Mohandas Gandhi speaks to Abdullah Öcalan
On violence, non-violence, and the state
Manipur: a statement of concern and suggestions for peaceful resolution
Our response to the Manipur crisis is based on the fundamental principles of peace and of the wellbeing of all people and of the earth and all its life.
Crisis in India’s bread basket
How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity