Contents
Acknowledgments
Contents
Symposium Opening Address
Professor Dr. Soothiporn Jittmitraparb, Vice- President for Research, Chulalongkorn University
Special Plenary I The Challenge of Rural Sufficiency in the Face of Globalization
Sustainable Livelihoods and the Sufficiency Economy Dr. Tariq Banuri, Director, Swedish Environment Institute Human Development through Sufficiency Economy Professor Dr. Apichai Puntasen. Dean ,Faculty of
Management Science Ubon Ratchathani University
Globalization and Sustainable Development
Thanpuying Dr. Suthawan Sathirathai , Presidant,Governance for Social Development and Environment Institute (GSE)
Open Q&A Session
Livelihoods and Human Security in Rural Asia Challenges for Sociology
Plural Society and Non-traditional Security A Case of Myanmar
Professor Mya Than, Visiting Scholar , Institute of Security and International Studies, Chulalongkorn University
The Tree Critical Issues of Rural China and New Socialist Countryside
Professor Li Guoqing,Chinese Acadmy of Social Sciences
Natural Disaster and Human Vulnerbility Issues in Developing
Disaster Prone Areas in Sri Lanka
Professor Anoja Wickramasinghe, University of Peradeniya
Food Security Malnutrition and Poverty Professor Rosiady, Sayuti University of Mataram Diversification in Agricultural Production and in Non-Farm Activities in Rural Java A Case Study in Yogyakarta Special Region
Professor Haruo Kuroyanagi, Sugi yama Jogakuen University
Gender Responsive Technology for Poverty Alleviation in Thailand
Professor Kanjapat Korsieporn, Social Research Institute Chulalongkorn University
Rural Poverty and Family Crisis in Korea
Professor Oakla Cho Sogan University
Open Q&A Session
Special Public Plenary II Economic Development Human Security and Multiculturalism in Rural Asia with Reference to the Work of the Thai National Reconciliation Commission
Reflections on the Thai National Reconciliation Commission
Professor Dr, Smmar Siamwalla
Thailand Development Research Institute
Culture and Ethnicity A Comparative Analysis of Two Cases Studies in Northern and Southern Thailand
Professor Dr. Amare Pongsapich Chulaongkorn University
Culiural Politics and Violence in Southern Thailand
Professor Dr. Wattana Sugunnasil,
Prince of Songkla University
Open Q&A
Concluding Remarks
Associate Professor Surichai Wun'Gaeo
Chulalongkorn University
Program Agenda
Biographies

This book is a collection of papers presented at the international symposium Rural Livelihoods and Human Insecurity in Globalizing Asian Economies organized by the Asian Rural Sociological Association and the Center for Social Development Studies Chulalongkorn University on July 28-29,2006 at Chulalongkorn University.
The participants came from 10 different countries in the Asia region and included prominent members of academia independent institutions and non-governmental organizations The numerous and diverse issues discussed involved globalization and changing rural values the sufficiency economy sustainable development food security the effects of natural disasters on human security and the economic ethnic religious and socio political factors affecting the conflict in Southern Thailand.