FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Participants of the seminar agreed upon the following conclusions and recommendations at the end of the seminar.

That there has to be a well crafted and well formulated regional action plan on early warning and early response for South Asia.

There is need of an institutional mechanism to support and develop the construct of early response and early warning in regional countries. Early warning and early response must not replicate extra-regional models in South Asia.

Professional methods are to be used for application of early warning and early response framework.

Youth (between 11-25 years of age) should attain special focus under the early warning and early response system. Youth are part of the solution and it is there future which is at the stake, we should also be mindful that 25-30 per cent of the population is totally in state of bewilderedness and this is a major source of concern.

Access to basic necessitates of life must be ensured for marginalized social groups and minorities.

We have a long way to go to achieve effective social society, majority-minority syndrome, where both feel insecure because of each other should be addressed on priority.

All participants of the seminar are stake holders and it is their job to take this discourse further.

The construct of early warning and early response might also be raised at the SAARC summit level.

The issue of methodology has been raised; we need to have a curriculum based on the construct where we can combine our knowledge and imagination together.

University teachers should try to involve their students in a process to empower them as they go along the understanding of the construct of early warning and early response.

Think tanks should not work in an isolation. There has to be well integrated link between think tanks and universities and other civil society organizations.

It is the time to push forward for regional campuses of the national universities of South Asian countries. And there should be student-exchange programs within the regional countries.

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