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Ladakh, India 2019

Conference

On September 20th and 21st we held our 21st International Economics of Happiness Conference in Ladakh, India.

For the past eight years, we have been running an International Economics of Happiness Conference Series, aimed at critically examining the global economy and exploring systemic strategies for change that work for people and planet. We have now come to a  full circle by bringing our international flagship series to Ladakh – a place where Local Futures has deep roots.

The foundation for our international work and our global-to-local perspective was laid in Ladakh in 1978, when Helena Norberg-Hodge and John Page started the Ladakh Project – the organization that would eventually grow to become Local Futures.

Helena and John started the Ladakh Project in response to the western-style development that the Indian government was blindly imposing on the region. After the construction of a road across the Himalayas connecting Ladakh to the rest of India, the “modern world” was suddenly brought to Ladakh’s doorsteps. The aim of the Project was to provide a much-needed counterbalance to the one-sided, romanticized picture of “western life” being spread by the media, advertising and tourism. The Project also shared news about alternative types of development and introduced a number of appropriate-scale renewable energy technologies to raise living standards without creating dependence on fossil fuels and the volatile global economy.

Over the years our work steadily expanded and became more international, but we have always maintained a foot in Ladakh. In the process, we and the many people that have benefited from our programs in Ladakh continue to be inspired by the region’s traditional culture of sustainability, cooperation and sharing. Likewise, Ladakh’s experience with globalization has led many people to rethink their conceptions of what ‘progress’ and development should look like.

This conference was organized in partnership with local NGO Julay Ladakh and the Central Institute of Buddhist Studies (CIBS).

Photos by Sonam Dorjai.

For a full report on the conference, read here:
Report by Alex Jensen – Project Coordinator

For more information, photos and videos, visit our official conference website:


https://ladakh-economics-of-happiness-conference.org/

Program

The two-day conference looked at different notions of ‘progress’, and discussed and explored the need for compassionate economics – an ‘economics of happiness’ – and what we can do to achieve it. We focused on the many heartwarming examples of people working to build vibrant local economies – both around the world and in Ladakh itself. We also explored different strategies to counter the onslaught of the corporate-led global economy in India and abroad. The event provided a big-picture framework that unites political/economic action with inner/spiritual change.

There was a strong focus on pinpointing strategies that can strengthen and renew Ladakh´s local economy and food systems, while addressing some of Ladakh´s imminent problems, including:

  • the mountains of waste caused by the exponential growth of tourism and the spread of consumer culture;
  • climate change;
  • new “modern” health problems and cultural self-depreciation;
  • the threats to traditional Ladakhi farming systems;
  • the increased dependence on imported industrial foods.

The program included a mixture of activities: plenary talks, panels, workshops, world café-style and open-space discussions, creative spaces, music and celebration.

Download our retrospective Press Release from September 23rd, 2019:
‘Economics of Happiness hits Ladakh’

Speakers

Offering plenary talks, workshops, participatory conversations and more, these inspiring visionaries and change-makers from Ladakh and abroad came together to critically examine the global economy and explore systemic strategies for change that work for people and planet.

Regretfully, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Director of Local Futures and Seetha Ananthasivan, Director of Bhoomi College, have had to cancel their participating in the conference, due to health problems. Geshe Konchok Wangdu was also not able to join due to an unavoidable commitment elsewhere.

Helena gave this address via video at the conference. After a brief introduction in Ladakhi, Helena discusses the destructive effects of the global economy, and the reasons – economic, ecological, and spiritual – for shifting towards the local instead.

Helena Norberg-Hodge: An Economy of Life and Connection

Chief Guest


Shri Gyal P. Wangyal
Chief Executive Councillor
Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), Leh

Guest of Honour


Shri Phutsog Stanzin
Executive Councillor of Agriculture
Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), Leh

Plenary Speakers

For more information on all plenary speakers, view ‘Speakers’ in the top menu.

Geshe Dakpa
Kalsang – Ladakh
Satish Kumar
UK
Stanzin Dorjai Gya
Ladakh
Skarma Gurmet
Ladakh
Tsering Stobdan
Ladakh
Anja Lyngbaek
Denmark/Mexico
Manish Jain
India
Tsewang Dolma
Ladakh
Sonam Wangchuk
Ladakh
Ashish Kothari
India
Tsewang
Namgail – Ladakh
Keibo Oiwa
Japan
Afsar Jafri
India
Khenpo Lobsang
Tsultrim – Ladakh
Tashi Morup
Ladakh
Padma Rigzin
Ladakh
Ananthalakshmi
Sitaraman – India
Vidhi Jain
India
Deskit Angmo
Ladakh
Gloria Germani
Italy
Rebecca
Martusewicz – USA
Tsering Angchuk
Ladakh
Alex Jensen
USA

Workshop Presenters & Facilitators

Thinles Dawa
Ladakh
Konchok Stobgais
Ladakh
Nawang Phuntsog
Ladakh
Tsewang Ringing
Ladakh
Stanzin Mingyur
Ladakh
Sujatha Padmanabhan
India
Shiba Desor
India
Rinchen Dolma
Ladakh
Gyatso Tundup
Ladakh
Tenzin Jamphel
Ladakh
Sonam Dorje
Ladakh
Katie Conlon
USA
Stanzin Ladol
Ladakh
Carly Gayle
USA
Konchok Norgay
Ladakh
Nilza Angmo
Ladakh
Stanzin Phuntzog
Ladakh
Henry Coleman
Australia
Lobsang Wangmu
Ladakh

Local Partners

This conference was organized in partnership the Central Institute of Buddhist Studies (CIBS), Julay Ladakh, the Himalayan Film House and the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council.

Julay Ladakh is a Japanese/Ladakhi NGO, founded in 2004 by the current Director Skarma Gurmet to actively engage in sustainable development in Ladakh through international exchange and cooperation between Ladakh and Japan.

In Japan, Julay Ladakh works to promote Ladakh, Ladakhi culture and sustainable development with various universities, NGOs and community groups. In Ladakh, the organization promotes renewable energy, socio-environmental education, sustainable agriculture and economy in both rural villages and the urban center of Leh.

Julay Ladakh has conducted more than 50 study programs between Japan and Ladakh in the past 10 years focusing on various issues like local food, local economy, happiness, and balanced and sustainable development. These cross-cultural exchanges have provided both Ladakhis and foreigners (mostly Japanese) with valuable opportunities for mutual learning and deeper understanding of these issues.

Julay Ladakh has been involved in the organization of two Economics of Happiness conferences in Japan – 2017 and 2018 – to date. It was Julay Ladakh that proposed the idea to hold an Economics of Happiness conference in Ladakh as well.

The Central Institute of Buddhist Studies (CIBS), formerly known as the School of Buddhist Philosophy, was founded in 1959 by H.E. Skyabje Ling Rinpoche – the senior tutor of H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama. It is a leading educational institution in Ladakh and a unique institution in India that teaches Buddhist philosophy, literature and arts, as well as numerous languages, including Sanskrit, English, Hindi, Tibetan and Pali. Additionally, CIBS offers subjects such as Indian history, comparative philosophy, political science, economics, mathematics, and general science.

The Institute conducts research on different aspects of Buddhist philosophy, history, art and Himalayan culture, and collects and conserves rare manuscripts and archaeological objects from the region. CIBS also offers training in Sowa Rigpa (medicinal plant-based Bhot medical science), sculpture, Thanka painting, traditional wood block carving and architecture of the Himalayan heritage. CIBS runs courses for higher secondary levels, and offers bachelors, masters and PhD degrees.

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Himalayan Film House (HFH), founded by Stanzin Dorjai Gya, strives to be the voice of both the Ladakhi and greater Himalayan community. HFH seeks to promote and capture stories unique to this region as people face increasing socio-economic conflict and environmental degradation.

Of special importance are documentaries related to climate change, clean water, pollution, cultural identity, education, and religion. HFH also assists film crews from around the world, collaborates with NGOs and government agencies, and helps facilitate film festivals and other events.

The Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) is the local government in Ladakh. The  Autonomous Hill Council has been administrating  the Leh District of Jammu and Kashmir, India since  1995. It covers an area of 45110 Sq. Km (the largest in the country) and includes Leh City and 113 villages –  the home for 133,487 people. An Autonomous Hill Council also exists  in neighbouring Kargil District, in Eastern Ladakh.

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Here is a sampling of the many wonderful plenary speeches at the conference:

Helena Norberg-Hodge: An Economy of Life and Connection

Helena gave this address via video at the conference. After a brief introduction in Ladakhi, Helena discusses the destructive effects of the global economy, and the reasons – economic, ecological, and spiritual – for shifting towards the local instead.

Anja Lyngbaek: Towards an Economics of Happiness

Afsar Jafri: Threats to Indian Agriculture

Satish Kumar: The Key to Well-Being and Happiness

Sonam Wangchuk: Holistic Education

Sonam Wangchuk: Ladakh – Past, Present, and Future

Vidhi Jain: Instead of Schooling

Durga Sitaraman: Towards Ethical Education

Stanzin Gya: What I Learned as a Ladakhi Shepherd Boy

Padma Rigzin: Schooling and the Ladakhi Worldview

Ashish Kothari: Principles of Transformative Alternatives

Manish Jain: Escaping the American Dream

Keibo Oiwa: Slow, Small and Simple

H.E. Prof. Samdong Rinpoche: Challenges of Modernity

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Afsar Jafri – India

has been working on agricultural issues for decades and has written extensively on the ill effects of the “green revolution”, international trade, GMOs, IPRs and patents, and about agroecology and food sovereignty as the alternative to the agrarian crisis in Asia. Afsar has long been associated with farmers´ groups in South Asia. He advises La Via Campesina member-groups and other farmer-unions in India on these issues. He was involved for a decade with the grassroots organisation Navdanya, founded by Dr. Vandana and has worked with Focus on the Global South – an Asian activist think tank – for 13 years. Afsar presently works with GRAIN, an international NGO that supports small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiverse food systems.

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Alex Jensen – USA

is a project coordinator and researcher at Local Futures. He works in the USA and India, where he coordinates Local Futures’ Ladakh Project. Alex has worked with cultural affirmation, agro-biodiversity and environmental health projects in a number of countries, and is active in the environmental health/anti-waste and degrowth movements. He is part of on the core group of the Vikalp Sangam/Alternatives India initiative and the emerging Global Tapestry of Alternatives – an initiative aimed at facilitating collaboration amongst alternative and social/ecological justice movements around the world. He holds an MA in Globalisation and International Development from the University of East Anglia.

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Ananthalakshmi Sitaraman – India

(also known as Durga), is the Director of Prakriya Green Wisdom School, Bangalore. She has also been a faculty member of Bhoomi College, a pioneer in education for sustainable living in India. After obtaining an MS degree in Economics from the University of North Texas, USA and an MPhil in India, Durga worked in the field of statistical research. Disillusioned with mainstream economics she moved into working with education that fosters deep ecological consciousness. During the last 13 years she has been a facilitator, who has also been involved with teacher education and culture building within institutions that can support sustainable living and alternative, holistic learning.

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Anja Lyngbaek – Denmark/ Mexico

is an Associate Programs Director with Local Futures, and coordinator of the International Alliance for Localization. She currently lives in Mexico on a small-holding with her family. She co-founded Microcuenca del Rio Citlalapa – a local NGO in Veracruz, focused on sustainable community development, and a rural primary school with similar goals. Anja gives talks, holds workshops and teaches on a variety of subject related to food and farming, localization and eco-technologies.

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Ashish Kothari – India

is a founder-member of Indian environmental group Kalpavriksh, Ashish taught at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, coordinated India’s National Biodiversity Strategy & Action Plan process, served on Greenpeace International and India Boards, helped initiate the global ICCA Consortium, and chaired an IUCN network dealing with protected areas and communities. Ashish helps coordinate the Vikalp Sangam and Global Tapestry of Alternatives processes, in search of alternative well-being pathways to globalized development. He has (co)authored or (co)edited over 35 books, including Churning the Earth: Making of Global India (with Aseem Shrivastava), Alternative Futures: India Unshackled (ed., with KJ Joy), and Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary (ed., with Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, and Alberto Acosta).

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Deskit Angmo – Ladakh

graduated in law in 2015 and earned a Post-Graduate Diploma in Tourism and Environmental law. She has since been working as a lawyer for the environment with a focus on environmental conservation, climate change adaptation measures, land conflict and aspires towards policy-making in these areas. Deskit initially started working as an environmental lawyer in Delhi under lawyer and activist Mr. Ritwick Dutta on matters including coal mines, forest fires, air pollution, waste management, and wildlife. She soon returned to work at the grassroots level on similar environmental issues in her own homeland. She is currently working on environmental issues focusing on both conservation and adaptation under the guidance of Mr. Sonam Wangchuk.

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Geshe Dakpa Kalsang – Ladakh

is an associate professor of Buddhist Philosophy and the Dean of the Student Welfare Committee in CIBS (Deemed to be University).


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Gloria Germani – Italy

graduated in Western and Eastern philosophy from the University of Florence, the University of Pisa, and New York University, and has devoted her writings and activism to the subject of the colonization of the imagination. She’s the author of Mother Teresa, Gandhi and Ethics in Action which has been published in India, Italy and Brasil. She is an expert on Tiziano Terzani (the Italian journalist who settled in India) and coordinates the Alice Project Universal Education School (India) in Italy. She is involved in both the localisation and degrowth movements and has organized two Economics of Happiness Conferences in Italy (Florence 2016 and Prato 2018).

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Keibo Oiwa – Japan

is a cultural anthropologist and leading environmental activist in Japan. He is also a filmmaker, public speaker and author/co-author of over 50 books. He teaches at Meiji Gakuin University and is the founder of The Sloth Club – an NGO that promotes slow and sustainable living. The Sloth Club, coupled with Keibo’s book Slow is Beautiful: Culture as Slowness, have encouraged a new appreciation of rural life and a simpler way of living, with community and nature the focus. Keibo has organised several successful Economics of Happiness conferences in Japan in collaboration with Local Futures. Read more about Keibo here.

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Khenpo Lobsang Tsultrim – Ladakh

is an Assistant Professor at the Central Institute of Buddhist Studies (CIBS), teaching Kargyud Tradition of Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy and Psychology. He has a B.A and M.A. in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy from Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, Varanasi. Khenpo is currently working on a book named “Intermediate State”, a book of living and dying consciously, in both English and Tibetan language, near to its completion.

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Manish Jain – India

is a leading voice for the regeneration of diverse local knowledge systems, cultural imaginations, and the deschooling of our lives. He is the Co-Founder and coordinator of the Udaipur-based Shikshantar: The Peoples’ Institute for Rethinking Education and Development, and the co-founder of some of the most innovative educational experiments in the world: Swaraj University, the Jail University, the Creativity Adda, the Learning Societies Unconference, the Walkouts-Walkonnetwork, Udaipur as a Learning City, and the Families Learning Together network. He recently helped to launch the global Ecoversities Network. Manish is the editor of several books on learning societies, unlearning, gift culture, community media, and tools for deep dialogue.

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Padma Rigzin – Ladakh

is from Hemis-shukpa-chan village in the Sham region of Ladakh. He has recently submitted his MPhil dissertation at Ambedkar University, Delhi; as part of his research, he lived for a year in a Kondh Adivasi village in Rayagada, Odisha. He has also studied journalism and worked at a newspaper in Delhi.

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Rebecca Martusewicz – USA

is a professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Eastern Michigan University.  For over 20 years, her focus has been on EcoJustice Education and activism, providing educators with the information and classroom practices they need to help develop citizens who are prepared to support and achieve diverse, democratic, and sustainable societies. She is the author/co-author of several books on ecojustice, including Art, EcoJustice, and Education, (2019) and EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse, Democratic and Sustainable Communities (2011, 2015). Rebecca has worked with others in the United States, Canada, Europe and beyond to address these issues and has recently been awarded the position of Docent in the School of Education at the University of Tampere in Finland. Read more about Rebecca here.

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Satish Kumar – UK

is a former monk and long-term peace and environment activist, Satish Kumar has quietly been setting the Global Agenda for change for over 50 years. He is the editor of Resurgence Magazine and the author of several books. Satish has been the guiding spirit behind a number of internationally-respected ecological and educational ventures, including Schumacher College in South Devon, UK, where he is still a Visiting Fellow. He continues to teach and run workshops on reverential ecology, holistic education and voluntary simplicity and is a much sought-after speaker both in the UK and abroad. Read more about Satish here. 

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Skarma Gurmet – Ladakh

is the founder/director of Julay Ladakh, a Japanese/Ladakhi NGO actively engaged in sustainable development in Ladakh through international exchange and cooperation between Ladakh and Japan. In Japan, Julay Ladakh works to promote Ladakh, Ladakhi culture and sustainable development with various universities, NGOs and community groups. In Ladakh, the organisation promotes renewable energy, socio-environmental education, sustainable agriculture and economy in both rural villages and the urban center of Leh. Julay Ladakh has conducted more than 50 study programmes between Japan and Ladakh in the past 10 years focusing on various issues like local food, local economy, happiness, and balanced and sustainable development. These cross-cultural exchanges have provided both Ladakhis and foreigners (mostly Japanese) with valuable opportunities for mutual learning and deeper understanding of these issues.

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Sonam Wangchuk – Ladakh

is a mechanical engineer by training and an innovator who has spent the past 25 years reforming the educational system in Ladakh. He is the founding-director of the Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL), initiated in 1988 by a group of students who, in his own words, were ‘victims’ of an alien education system foisted on Ladakh. He designed the SECMOL campus to be built with local traditional materials and the use of eco-technologies, including solar energy. Sonam was instrumental in the launch of Operation New Hope in 1994, a collaboration of government and civil society to bring reforms in the government school system. In 2016, he won the Rolex Award for Enterprise for his Ice Stupa Artificial Glacier invention. He is putting the award-money towards the establishment of an alternative university in Ladakh – The Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh (HIAL).

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Stansen Dorjai Gya – Ladakh

is a filmmaker and the founder of the Himalayan Film House in Leh. He has directed and produced notable feature films and documentaries, including the internationally acclaimed and multi-award-winning documentaries, The Shepherdess of the Glaciers and Jungwa: The Broken Balance. Stanzin comes from the village of Gya, and like other children of this village, Stanzin had a semi-nomadic childhood. In 1995, unable to pass the necessary standardised tests to complete high school, Stanzin began attending an alternative school, SECMOL (Students Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh), where the non-traditional setting and creative teaching ignited his passion for film. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at Jammu University in 2005. Read more about Stanzin here.

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Tashi Morup – Ladakh

is the Projects Director of the Ladakh Arts and Media Organisation. He holds a post-graduate diploma in Mass Communication from Punjab University, Chandigarh and another post-graduate diploma in Journalism from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). For the last 12 years he has worked as a journalist, running his own weekly newspaper, Magpie, and also a video magazine that looks at developmental issues, contemporary art and music of both Leh and Kargil.

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Tsering Angchuk – Ladakh

is a farmer from Takmachik village in Sham.



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Tsering Stobdan – Ladakh

holds a PhD in Molecular Biology & Biotechnology from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. He is a leading Senior Scientist at DIHAR – Defence Institute of High Altitude Research, Leh. He has carried out extensive research on native food and medicinal plants in the Himalayas and is involved in the development of appropriate agro-technologies, such as passive solar heating for year-round vegetable production. His research has appeared in over 50 national and international journals, two monogram and 20 book chapters. He has played a central part in the elaboration of The Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council’s Organic Mission Documentfor Ladakh.

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Tsewang Dolma – Ladakh

is a native of Ladakh and has studied in India and the USA, earning a master in Agricultural Science and a second master in Environmental Science and Policy. Dolma is an International Ford Foundation Fellow 2010-12 and was awarded the Excellence in Research Award by the Environmental Science and Policy Program by Clark University in 2012.

Dolma has worked on various conservation and environmental issues concerning Ladakh with numerous local NGOs such as Snow Leopard Conservancy India Trust, Ladakh Environment and Health Organization. Presently, she is working with Ladakh Ecological and Development Group (LEDeG) as the Chief Program Coordinator.

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Tsewang Namgail, Ladakh

joined Snow Leopard Conservancy-India Trust as a Director in 2013. He has an M.Sc. (zoology honours) from the Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, an M.Phil. in wildlife biology from the University of Tromso, Norway, and a PhD in community ecology from the Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He has done pioneering ecological work on several taxa in the Himalayan region, focusing largely on birds and mammals in Ladakh.

He has published over 20 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals. He also has written extensively on nature conservation issues in magazines and newspapers. Apart from scientific research, he has a keen interest in conserving the natural resources of the Himalayas, and has implemented numerous community-based conservation programs in Ladakh. He has lectured widely in colleges and universities in India, Europe and the United States.

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Vidhi Jain – India

is co-founder of Shikshantar, a resource center for homeschooling, unschooling and self-designed learning. She is involved with various alternatives to factory schooling, including the Families Learning Together and Unschooling initiatives in Udaipur, where she is also active with community media and other expressions in Udaipur as a Learning City. Vidhi has a special interest in traditional knowledge, which has led to be involved in the Grandmother’s University. She is passionate about slow food and is engaged in the Hulchal Saturday Café and many local food festivals. Before co-founding Shikshantar 19 years ago, Vidhi worked on programmes for children with special needs in Northern India and in Rajasthan with Lok Jumbish, a grassroots project, where she designed and ran a programme in rural villages focused on inclusive schooling services for children with special needs.

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