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Summer School for Latin America and the Caribbean LOCAL
DEVELOPMENT AND GOVERNANCE Organized
by Punta
del Este, Uruguay, 27 October - 1 November 2003 |
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Detailed
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The Local Development issue has acquired an important dimension in the last years in the Latin American and Caribbean region, being specially associated to institutional and political reform processes, as well as to the advances of management and participation capacity of the civil society in the definition of its destiny. In the new context of globalization, the local scenarios of Development acquire high complexity, representing challenges and opportunities for citizens, technicians and political decision makers. In these new social political and economic realities, the forms of debate and comprehensive decision about the destiny of development, gains a strategic dimension for the future of the region. The concept of Governance, on the other hand, is related to a new way of approaching the "political", integrating different actors in the development of strategies and promoting more broader and detailed articulations between the State, civil society and the market. Responding to more complex scenarios of realities, Local Development and Governance are a necessary articulation to consider social transformations. On the other hand, this growing complexity of our contemporary societies requires a permanent revision and update of the conceptual and methodological models to operate appropriately. With this perspective, since 1994, the MOST Program of UNESCO has emphasized the importance of the inter-disciplinary approaches and the trans-disciplinary reflection in the analysis of social change. At the same time, the Local and Regional Development Master Degree of CLAEH and Universidad Católica del Uruguay have highlighted the importance of an open training to the new challenges of knowledge, closely linked to the real problems of our societies. Through this joint initiative of the Regional Summer School, UNESCO MOST Program and the Local and Regional Development Master's Degree of CLAEH and Universidad Católica del Uruguay propose a space for reflection and methodological and theoretical studies, emphasizing on Local Development and Governance from a trans-disciplinary and complex approach, which are two important vectors of nowadays social analysis. At this point, the initiative will be mainly structured on the interest of the dissemination of concrete experiences as well as on the reflection and capacity building on trans-disciplinary methodological and conceptual models about Local Development and Governance. On these
bases, the Summer School calls upon young researchers from Latin America
and the Caribbean, for an academic encounter with well-known researchers,
professors and persons responsible of scientific, social and political
institutional programs. Coordination
Office of the 2003 MOST Regional Summer School for Latin America and the
Caribbean
Mag. Luis
Carrizo, Coordinator |