"Envisioning Environmental Peacebuilding via Protection of Bali’s Landscape

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“Cross-Cultural Conversations”  ***********  Join us for active conversations with students from Eikei University in Hiroshima, Japan. The sessions will be 90 minutes that will be an interactive presentation by a scholar in the field on the topic listed, and then followed by structured conversations in English with students in Japan. Developing cross-cultural understanding assists in becoming more culturally aware. This can be a continual process and it can help to have curiosity, an open mind, a willingness to ask questions, a desire to learn about the differences that exist between cultures, and an openness to becoming conscious of one’s own culturally shaped values, beliefs, perceptions, and biases. ***********  "Envisioning Environmental Peacebuilding through the Protection of Bali’s Cultural Landscapes" with Wiwik Dharmiasih  ***********  Session: Subak, the traditional farming system in Bali, was inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2012. It represents traditional irrigation water management in rice cultivation that has existed for more than a millennium. However, developmental challenges such as land use change, water access, land taxation, and aging farmers threatened the existence of the subak system. This presentation examines the inscription of subak system into UNESCO World Heritage List, the ways that new conflicts have emerged, and offers new pathways to protecting socio-ecological practices as a foundation for environmental peacebuilding.  ***********  Speaker: Wiwik Dharmiasih is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She is currently a graduate assistant at The Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, where she teaches Environmental Peacebuilding. She has been a lecturer at the Universitas Udayana’s Department of International Relations since 2009 and continues to support various community initiatives as research associate with Dala Institute in Bali, Indonesia.

Event Sponsor
Conflict and Peace Specialist, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Jose Barzola, 808-956-2690, caring@hawaii.edu, http://tinyurl.com/talk2024

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