Global Realities
Oxford Brookes University (Gipsy Lane Campus)
Who Can Be More Creative? : Creative Aging for Community Resiliency Under and After COVID-19 Pandemic in Rural Thailand
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Boonanan Natakun, Khemmiga Teerapong
The pandemic has had a great impact on both social and economic development. Especially in developing countries, both rural and urban communities have been severely affected. Far from the governing power geographically, the limitation of resources distribution from the central government could not provide sufficient help and services to maintain decent livelihoods in rural communities. This paper discusses the emerging creative practice by those who are generally viewed as dilapidated, poor health and uncreative in a Thai peasant community. Chara Chatri, a group of Thai folk performing art, in Viset Chaicharn in Ang Thong province, is chosen. Under lock-down policy, such an artistic group had emerged as creative aging employing community cultural assets with creativity to attract audiences during the Covid-19 between 2021 and 2022. After relaxing mobility restrictions, Chala Chatri has still remained active and got support from state cultural agencies. Participant observation, in-depth interview, and site visit were employed to seek the way in which elderly residents as an unexpected local resource come to create attractive and creative shows delivered online and later onsite to generate incomes for the community. The analysis shows that with creative uses of social and cultural infrastructure embedded in the local as collective resources, the community have found a creative solution to mitigate impact from the pandemic. Therefore such a creative practice makes the community become more resilient that could be replicated elsewhere whereby older citizens with artistic skills mingle with creative ideas can enhance degrees of resiliency at the community level.
Gandhi the Inspirational CEO for People, Process, and Productivity: Leadership in 21st Century
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Harmik Vaishnav
Management challenges for any CEO are perennial, especially with people, processes technical, admin or legal and productivity. These three are interlinked and an expert CEO has to understand the linkage and how to make optimum use of the best output. It is a perennial process beginning with the self of the CEO and translating it to the people till the end result. Mahatma Gandhi the spiritual leader of India is a wonderful case study for many fields like management, leadership, politics, law and governance, spirituality and religion, economics etc. He has often be referred to by economists for his economic philosophy and practices in developing a nation economically and socially. He is also a study in finer elements of management like dealing with people, communication, process also called means and ends by him and ultimate productivity in terms of human output and products. In the fast-changing, dynamic and intensely competitive business environment, what can the CEOs and managers learn from Gandhi? What aspects of his life and work can be a guiding force to the industry leaders of today? How was Gandhi also a CEO who not only had a vision, leadership charisma and meticulousness till the end in execution? How would he have envisioned the various projects from mass movements to the establishment of innumerable institutions?
Global Implications of the War in Ukraine: A View from Poland View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Tomasz Kubin
February 24, 2022, after several months of preparation, Russia launched a full-scale war against Ukraine. For the EU and NATO states, Russia’s aggression against Ukraine means, inter alia, a major change for their security. The high-intensity war has been going on over a year now, and its consequences include tens of thousands of victims, enormous destruction in Ukraine, a few million refugees, very large military aid for Ukraine provided by NATO states etc. But the war in Ukraine is not just another local conflict of importance only to the countries directly involved in this war. The main thesis of the paper is the statement that the war in Ukraine is an event that will have a key impact on the international order in the global dimension for at least the next few decades. The aim of the paper is to identify and analyze the most important implications of Russia's aggression against Ukraine from the perspective of a country directly bordering Ukraine and Russia.
