Smitu Kothari, 2007 Mentor

Personal Profile:
Mr. Smitu Kothari is Executive Director of Intercultural Resources a leading civil society center in Delhi, India that promotes exchange between non-party political formations, concerned scholars and other citizens from India and the rest of the world. He is co-founder of the civil society organization, Lokayan (“Dialogue of the People”) in Delhi, India, which received the Right Livelihood Award (known as the alternative Nobel) in 1985 for its pioneering work “linking and strengthening local groups working to protect civil liberties, women’s rights, and the environment.” Trained in physics, communications and sociology, he is involved in ecological, cultural and human rights issues striving to collectively forge a national and global alternative that is socially just and ecologically sane. University. He is President of the International Group for Grassroots Initiatives and a Contributing Editor of The Ecologist and of Development: Seeds of Change. He has published extensively on critiques of contemporary economic and cultural development, the relationship of nature, culture and democracy, developmental displacement, people’s governance and social movements.

Website:
www.icrindia.org

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