"A Global Research/Knowledge Strategy and Partnership for Implementation"
Chulalongkorn University Research Institute Network (CURIN)
Place: Room 701 Chaloem Rajakumari 60
Building, Chulalongkorn University
Date: 25th March, 2016
Time: 09.00 a.m.- 04.15 p.m.
Building, Chulalongkorn University
Date: 25th March, 2016
Time: 09.00 a.m.- 04.15 p.m.
In the current era, globalization, modernization and development in Thailand and Southeast Asia has proceed with various ramifications including: conflicts emerging from various inequalities, such as control over and access to natural resources; and differentiated opportunities and impacts linked to global negotiations on trade, investment, and climate change. The consequences of these fundamental problems, alongside many others, have produced the circumstance where human beings seem to be walking towards a dead end of global risks without solutions
However, in late 2015, hope was ignited at the global level when leaders of the global community reached mutual consensus upon a commitment to transform development in the form of the Sustainable Development Goals. Simultaneously, ASEAN affirmed its commitment to a transnational community, with particular emphasis given to the creation of an ASEAN Economic Community and the launch of a new series of “blueprints” spanning 2016 to 2025. One interpretation of these events is that they manifest the intention of governments to act collectively towards global risks at the national to regional and global levels. This inter-governmental cooperation in turn, may consequently bring about new intellectual and policy-making spaces.
The future is of shared and paramount importance for everyone. There is a great necessity to foster conditions supportive for the academic community to think, discuss and produce knowledge earnestly about the long term societal implications of the above challenges, as well as for the opportunities and risks to individual nations and at the global scale. Creating space for science-policy dialogues that incorporate interdisciplinary perspectives and cross-sector experiences, are future orientated, and that ensure the participation of all concerned, will help release society from the “trap” of conventional binary conflicts and pressure from problems at hand.
One condition is to further open up existing knowledge systems within and off campus at Chulalongkorn University, and to strengthen the intellectual atmosphere and research agenda. Working towards these timely goals coincides with the occasion of the 99th anniversary of Chulalongkorn University.
However, in late 2015, hope was ignited at the global level when leaders of the global community reached mutual consensus upon a commitment to transform development in the form of the Sustainable Development Goals. Simultaneously, ASEAN affirmed its commitment to a transnational community, with particular emphasis given to the creation of an ASEAN Economic Community and the launch of a new series of “blueprints” spanning 2016 to 2025. One interpretation of these events is that they manifest the intention of governments to act collectively towards global risks at the national to regional and global levels. This inter-governmental cooperation in turn, may consequently bring about new intellectual and policy-making spaces.
The future is of shared and paramount importance for everyone. There is a great necessity to foster conditions supportive for the academic community to think, discuss and produce knowledge earnestly about the long term societal implications of the above challenges, as well as for the opportunities and risks to individual nations and at the global scale. Creating space for science-policy dialogues that incorporate interdisciplinary perspectives and cross-sector experiences, are future orientated, and that ensure the participation of all concerned, will help release society from the “trap” of conventional binary conflicts and pressure from problems at hand.
One condition is to further open up existing knowledge systems within and off campus at Chulalongkorn University, and to strengthen the intellectual atmosphere and research agenda. Working towards these timely goals coincides with the occasion of the 99th anniversary of Chulalongkorn University.
