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| ashu | Posted
on 12-Nov-03 03:46 AM
Social Science Baha and Enabling State Programme/DfID invite you to a public lecture on Affirmative Action in Nepal: Learning from Experiences Elsewhere. Speaking on the occasion will be Prof Neera Chandhoke from the University of Delhi and Prof Nico Steytler from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Time: 10.00 am Date: Tuesday, 18 November, 2003 Place: The Russian Cultural Centre, Kamalpokhari -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neera Chandhoke is Professor of Political Science, University of Delhi, and Joint Director at the Developing Countries Research Centre, University of Delhi. She is currently directing two projects: Rights, Representation and the Poor and Conflict and Institutional Change in India. She is the author of The Conceits of Civil Society (OUP, 2003), Beyond Secularism: The Rights of Religious Minorities (OUP, 1999) and State And Civil Society: Explorations in Political Theory (Sage 1995). She has edited three books and written numerous papers. She is also on the editorial board of the journals, Democratization (University of Warwick), Journal of Development Studies (IDS, University of Sussex) and Indian Journal of Political Science (Indian Political Science Association). Nico Steytler is Senior Professor of Law, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He is also the Director of the Universitys Community Law Centre, a research, training and advocacy institute that focuses on human rights and local government. He is the author of, among others, Constitutional Criminal Procedure: A Commentary on the South African Constitution of 1996 (Butterworths, 1998) and editor of two other books. He is also a co-editor of the Local Government Bulletin, a journal on legal and policy issues pertinent to local government. In 1995-6, he served as a technical advisor on the structures of government, including provincial government, to the South African Constitutional Assembly drafting the 1996 Constitution. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check out http://www.himalassociation.org/baha/aff_action.htm for background information on the lecture. |
| mickthesick | Posted
on 12-Nov-03 12:39 PM
..Ashu ! you yourself being a part of the intellectual nepalese community could have also provided your own view points in this matter and i think you might have some suggestions too for resolving the issue. anyways....for those of yiu who do not know the proper and exact meaning of affirmative action, here goes the detailed meaning: "Positive steps to enhance the diversity of some group, often to remedy the cumulative effect of subtle as well as gross expressions of prejudice. When numerical goals are set, they are set according to the group's representation in the applicant pool rather than the group's representation in the general population. For example, a medical school with an affirmative action program would seek to admit members of an underrepresented group in proportion to their representation in the population of those who had completed pre-medical requirements and wished to attend medical school. Affirmative action should be distinguished from reparations." |