Cultures of Sustainability Programme
Peace is defined as not only the lack of war and conflict, but also sustainable livelihood, ecology, and cultural tolerance. The Cultures of Sustainability Programme (CCRD-CS) builds on the three research projects established as part of the Culture and Sustainable Livelihood cluster of the KFCRD in 2004 when Lingnan University hosted the East Asian secretariat of the “1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005”, a global project supported in different periods by the Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, and other partners.
South South Forum on Sustainability
The First South South Forum on Sustainability (SSFS) was organized by CCRD-CS, Lingnan University and Global University for Sustainability in December 2011, with over 10 co-organizing universities or institutions from Hong Kong, mainland China, and overseas. Since the Third SSFS in 2016, the Forum has become an annual event in Lingnan University, except the Second SSFS was held in Chongqing in December 2012, and the Twelfth SSFS was held in Shangyou County, Jiangxi Province. Most overseas participants joined exchange visits to rural and urban areas in mainland China. All proceedings of the Forums were video-recorded and uploaded to the websites of CCRD-CS, Lingnan University and Global University for Sustainability:
https://commons.ln.edu.hk/southsouthforum/
https://our-global-u.org/oguorg/en/conference/
Taking note of the consequences and effects on nature and on peoples especially those from the Global South, the Forum has brought together academic scholars, policy makers, peace activists, community workers, food producers, and rural regeneration promoters to review, articulate and debate theories and practices in transformative and collective actions called forth by the crisis of capitalism affecting the ecological, the social, the political, and the economic.
Drawing upon experiences of community governance in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the Forum is a platform for dialogues and exchanges among grassroots and resistance practices in production, dissemination and use of knowledge as instruments of problematization and self-organization, as well as interactions among thinkers in search of paradigms for social and ecological justice.
South South Dialogue on Sustainability
During the 7th South South Forum on Sustainability (SSFS), over 800 participants across the globe involved themselves in intensive and earnest discussions. Many felt the need to continue the dialogues after the Forum to further discuss the many issues in the times of global crises such as the pandemic, the new cold war, climate change and the emergent threats of food crisis and massive famines. The South South Dialogue on Sustainability (SSDS) is an extension of the SSFS, facilitating open intellectual discussions concerned with pressing global issues.
(New event) Delinking for Self-Determination and Solidarity
We are living through a moment of profound crisis. From the ongoing genocide in Palestine to the U.S.-backed war on Iran, from the weaponization of debt and food dependency to the digital surveillance of whole populations, the peoples of Asia, Africa, and the Americas face a brazen return to imperial domination. The very possibility of self-determination – the right of communities and nations to determine their own futures – is under direct assault.
Yet even in this dark conjuncture, alternatives are being built. From Venezuelan communes and Mexican solidarity economies to Iranian financial decoupling and Burkina Faso's progressive turn, from peasant movements reclaiming food sovereignty to feminist and indigenous struggles defending life and territory, communities across the Tricontinental are, in practice, engaging in what Samir Amin called delinking.
Go to Website: https://our-global-u.org/oguorg/en/ssds-delinking-for-self-determination-and-solidarity/
Lingnan Gardeners
Nurturing the soil and nurturing the roots
A Happy Day
The Lingnan Gardeners at Lingnan University embodies the principle of “nurturing the soil and nurturing the roots, cultivating trees and cultivating persons.” By learning from the land and practicing organic farming, we return to the fundamentals of life — water and soil, the cradle of natural ecology. Only with healthy soil can we grow healthy food; only then can people have healthy bodies and truly happy lives.
Amidst global pandemics, climate change, food insecurity, ecological crises, and war… we find ourselves in a time of uncertainty and danger. What can we do? Each small step by an individual is a giant leap for humanity. We learn harmony with nature from the fields; planting a single seed and planting a tree sows hope for both people and the planet.
PWAG
An initiative called 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005 was launched in 2003 as a way to make the thoughts and actions of subaltern women more widely known. From Switzerland, a call went out around the globe and an international committee of twenty women from all continents was formed. After selection and documentation, 1000 women from over 150 countries were collectively nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. Even though the prize was not won, the project continued and was renamed PeaceWomen Across the Globe (PWAG). Since 2003, CCRD-CS has maintained active engagement with PWAG, with specific responsibility for coordinating PWAG China activities.
108 women from China had their stories documented among the 1000. For the past 20 years, PWAG (China) has organized workshops and seminars, coordinated study tours, and published books and communiques to facilitate exchange of experiences among PeaceWomen in China, as well as between China and the rest of the world. PWAG has organized several panels on feminist peace building in the past several South South Forums on Sustainability.
Team Members
Prof. LAU Kin Chi 劉健芝, Programme Coordinator
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Ms. AU YEUNG Lai Seung Marine 歐陽麗嫦, Senior Research Officer
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Dr. YAN Xiaohui 嚴曉輝, Senior Research Officer
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Ms. JIN Peiyun 靳培雲, Research Officer
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Ms. PAN Tingting 潘婷婷, Research Officer
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Mr. LEE Kiu Chi 李翹志, Assistant Research Officer
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Ms. LI Zhuoyuan 李卓遠, Assistant Research Officer
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Mr LAI Ka Hei Hyson 黎家希, Assistant Research Officer
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Ms SUN Jingting 孫婧婷, Assistant Research Officer
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Mr HAN Yuchen 韓禹晨, Assistant Research Officer
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