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Call to evolve local strategies

KANNUR: Globalisation in its most positive form presents an opportunity for the humanity to see itself as one unified people on one finite planet and its adverse effects have to be tackled with locally developed strategies, according to experts attending an international conference here.

The two-day international conference on ‘Globalisation, development, public policy and management: emerging issues’ that began at the Kairali Heritage at Kattampally near here on Sunday under the auspices of the Kannur University Department of Management Studies turned out to be a forum for academicians, research scholars, management practitioners and students to deliberate on the emerging issues relating to globalisation.

Inaugurating the conference, V. Ramachandran, chairman, Centre for Management Development, Thiruvananthapuram, and member of the Administrative Reforms Commission of the Government of India, said globalisation should not be used as a tool for mass annihilation of people’s livelihood. Referring to the entry of multi-national companies in the retail sector, he said globalisation should not lead to denial of means of livelihood.

Observing that globalisation had brought in high-speed transition, he said managers should be equipped to manage and deal with issues arising out of globalisation. Instead of mass production, there should be initiatives to promote production by the masses, he said. Globalisation should be discussed on the basis of its political, social and economical relevance.

Mr. Ramachandran said Malabar already had a legacy of globalisation because of its trade and cultural contacts with Foreigners, including the Arabs.

University Vice-Chancellor P. Chandramohan presided over the function. Dr. Chandramohan said that unity in diversity was the essence of globalisation.

Delivering the keynote address, Diana Trimble, campaign outreach co-ordinator of the London-based International Simultaneous Policy Organisation, said that if the current economic powers could learn to listen to the wisdom of those that were emerging, if the rich could hear the cries of the poor and if new ideas about business, trade policy and development could be allowed to influence and change the old ones, the world would be able to look forward to witnessing the birth of a new shift in which cooperation would replace destructive competition.

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