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- I am the founding Executive Director of the Goodwill social work centre (NGO), Madurai, India. I am a former professor of social work and Head-Department of human resources management at the Madurai Institute of social sciences, Madurai, India. I received my master’s degree in Social work with HRM as a field of specialization from the Loyola College (University of Madras), Chennai, India in 1971 and Ph. D in social work/HRM from the Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India in 1988.I hold a Certificate in International interdisciplinary Course on Children’s rights awarded by the University of Ghent, Belgium in 1996.
As an academic with 33 years of service, I have actively involved in Professional social work and HRM education and training, social research and field work practice in social work and HRM and have trained many batches of Post graduate students who have specialized in the field of Social work and Human resources management since 1972 at the Madurai Institute of social sciences, Madurai, India. Presently I am a Guest Professor of Social work and Human Resources Management and Senior Advisor at the Department of social sciences/Social work, Lady Doak College, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India. I have served as a Visiting Professor of the Department of Management Studies, and the Department of Social work at The American College, Madurai, South India during 2005-2006.
I have to my credit more than 90 articles on various social issues including HR related issues published in national and international journals and books. I have widely traveled abroad to present scientific papers in international conferences and seminars. I am a HR Educator and research consultant and involved in HR training activities. My special areas of interest include Professional social work practice, Human resources management, NGO /Civil society governance and management, Project management, training and capacity building for NGOs, Human rights training including child rights, social research etc. I have had wide professional experience in designing curriculum on Social work, Human resources management, HR training and Development, Family Life Management, Environmental education for children and Child Rights education and training for school children etc. I have had extensive experience in organizing ‘Intensive Family Preservation (family support services) programs’ for dysfunctional families. I have been actively involving myself in organising networking and capacity building programmes for Indian NGOs in the southern part of Tamilnadu, India. I have served as Lead Researcher of various social research studies undertaken by the Goodwill Social work Centre (NGO), Madurai, India.
I was appointed authorized Research Guide by the Madurai Kamaraj University for Ph.D Candidates in the field of Social work and HRM and I have so far guided three candidates who have qualified themselves for the award of Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) of the Madurai Kamaraj University.Madurai, India.
I am the VICE CONSUL of the First children's Embassy in the World Medjashi- Macedonia. I am an Observer Member of ALNAP, Overseas Development Institute, London, UN and a GU Associate member/Consultant registered with www.globalunification.com. I am a Global Links Initiative {GLI} NETWORKER and have registered as a member from India with www.glinet.org . I am the GLI Tamilnadu Representative in India.
- For me, Leadership is . . .
- Being a Servant Leader
- For me, Open World Café is . . .
- great source to connect myself with like minded people
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- Sharing of information and resources
- My favourite movie, and my favourite book
- THE HOLY BIBLE
- My passion is . . .
- Being charitable
- My greatest fear is . . .
- Being alone
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- http://www.goodwillsocialworkcentre.org
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Community Technology Centres in Youth Skill-Building and Empowerment-A digital opportunity project for youth in low and moderate income Indian communities
I.The Issue
Computer and telecommunications technologies are omnipresent in our society today. Computer usage-mail and internet use, and home purchases of computers are growing rapidly (Benton Foundation 1996a, Gonzalez 1995, Katz and Aspden 1997, Miringhoff and Carvalho 1996. At the same time, not everyone has adequate opportunities to learn about and use computer and information technologies. A large and growing gap remains between the technology "haves" and "have-nots." Differences in access… Continue
Computer and telecommunications technologies are omnipresent in our society today. Computer usage-mail and internet use, and home purchases of computers are growing rapidly (Benton Foundation 1996a, Gonzalez 1995, Katz and Aspden 1997, Miringhoff and Carvalho 1996. At the same time, not everyone has adequate opportunities to learn about and use computer and information technologies. A large and growing gap remains between the technology "haves" and "have-nots." Differences in access… Continue
Posted on November 25, 2008 at 3:40pm — 1 Comment
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The Mumbai Attacks
by Justin Podur MRZine http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/podur291108.html
…so many simultaneous attacks on so many different parts of the city, with gunmen taking hostages in some places, setting off bombs in others, fighting commandos for days in others, is something new and terrifying…The military sophistication is matched by political incomprehensibility. Very little that is credible is known about who the attackers are and what their motivations could be. This will continue to be the case for some time, as it is still the case with many of the attacks and bombings of civilians that have occurred in India in recent years. But if the "Deccan Mujahadeen" whose emails have been released to the public are a real group and are responsible, they will not win themselves any political points with India's Muslims, who are moving in the opposite direction.
After the February 2002 Gujarat pogroms and Godhra massacre, Arundhati Roy wrote about what could happen to India's Muslims:
Under this relentless pressure, what will most likely happen is that the majority of the Muslim community will resign itself to living in ghettos as second-class citizens, in constant fear, with no civil rights and no recourse to justice. What will daily life be like for them? Any little thing, an altercation in a cinema queue or a fracas at a traffic light, could turn lethal. So they will learn to keep very quiet, to accept their lot, to creep around the edges of the society in which they live. Their fear will transmit itself to other minorities. Many, particularly the young, will probably turn to militancy. They will do terrible things. Civil society will be called upon to condemn them.
During those Gujarat massacres of 2002, people resisted the police and the mobs that were doing the killing. In 2004, the BJP were out of power nationally because people did not vote on chauvinist lines. Some citizens of Mumbai have already said that they will stay together and not allow these attacks to destroy their community. The political forces that will seek to benefit from this are those who want violence between India and Pakistan and between Hindus and Muslims in India. The trap these forces have set will fail if these attacks fail to derail the positive movement in South Asia for detente between India and Pakistan and fail to strengthen communalism in India. That Pakistan is publicly cooperating with India will help, as will the fact that the BJP is not in power today.
Now that you've invited me to be a friend, I can admit that I am a relic of the Bloody British Raj, having been born in Caicutta (as was) in 1952. I can't accept personal responsibility for the previous 150 years, but sorry, anyway. Your CV is exceptionally rich in experience and qualifications, and I refuse to be intimidated. Joking apart, I'm sure I join others in sending my sympathetic condolences to the victims of the Mumbai attacks, and hope that the authorities deal with the matter with wisdom and forensic skill, and that politicians don't get away with fanning negative and destructive emotional over-reactions.
In the meantime please feel at home here at Open World Café, there are several resources; blogs, forums, videos, photos, and member (Friends) organisations. Please feel free to add your own suggested activities, videos, photos, discussions, and blogs.
Tomorrow we will be having a seminar at the Open World Café in Stockholm, which we hopefully (technology unclear as yet) will be able to offer as a webcast/video on the community.
Best regards from a snowy Sweden (it snowed about 20 cm during the night!),
Christer