CRSCENTER  

Caribbean Reality Studies Center

Director - Glenn Sankatsing

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SEMINAR-WORKSHOP RESTORING OUR AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE November 12-13, 2024 REGISTRATION

“TEXT WITHOUT CONTEXT IS HALLUCINATION”

Why do we let others destroy our future when we can create our own?

 

Extradisciplinary transition from science to ethics

THE END OF THE REIGN OF SCIENCE! The survival of humanity demands a transition from the scientific era to the ethical era. Read this opening article from a recently published book on ‘Balancing Nature and Culture for Development’.

 

Reflections on how to rescue our future

(Updated regularly)

 

Reflexiones sobre el rescate de nuestro futuro

(Actualizado regularmente con nuevas reflexiones)

 

WATCH: DIALOGUES TO RESCUE OUR FUTURE

 

Dialogue IV: How to free our minds in the age of propaganda?

September 19, 2024

 

Dialogue III: How can we stop losing the struggle for a better world

July 25, 2024

 

Dialogue II: Overcoming Anthropocentrism: The Root of Our Existential Crisis

April 13, 2024

 

Dialogue I:  Dialogue on a Reset to Rescue Our Future

February 10, 2024

 

 

Quest To Rescue Our Future - Amsterdam, Rescue Our Future Foundation, 2016, 555 p.

First chapters

 

Al Rescate de Nuestro Futuro - Amsterdam, Rescue Our Future Foundation, 2019, 564 p. Primeros capítulos

 

Sustainable humanity. Sustainability goes beyond clean energy for a dirty system! Chapter 1 of Sustainability at a Crossroads. Challenges and Development Opportunities of the Guiana Shield. Published by the University of Suriname, 2021

 

Virtual conference How Can Africa Take Command of Its Destiny by Mobilizing Its Potential

Seed paper of the conference [2021]

 

REVIEWS OF QUEST TO RESCUE OUR FUTURE

Frank A. Williams – Rescate. Poem in Papiamento inspired by Quest to Rescue Our Future

Prof. Ernesto Kahan - Comments on Quest to Rescue Our Future by Glenn Sankatsing

Prof. Elaine Olaoye - Analysis and Review of Quest to Rescue Our Future

Prof. Paget Henry - Caribbean Ecological Ethics. Review of Quest to Rescue Our Future

Dr. Edwin Marshall - Recensie van het boek Quest to Rescue Our Future

Prof. Jack Menke - Quest to Rescue Our Future sows the seeds for a 21st Century Path of Humanity

Prof. James Cockcroft - Comment on Quest to Rescue Our Future

Dr. Daniel Lachman - Review of Quest to Rescue Our Future

Prof. Eduardo Torres - Convocatoria Mundial para Rescatar Nuestro Futuro

Olaoye -The time that will tell. Poem dedicated to the Quest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLES

Action is the Best Prediction. Moral Authority of Vulnerable States, CLR James Journal, 2020

¿Cómo Rescatar Nuestro Futuro? CariCen 1, 2017 (Spanish)

Ivory Tower of vision and mission (2012)

Research as a Link between University and Society (2008)

Development and Society in the Americas [2007]

People’s Vote Compatible with People’s Fate. A Democratic Alternative to Liberal Democracy [2004]  

Keynote Address at the opening of the Academic Year of the University of Aruba [2003]

The Caribbean between envelopment and development [2003]

El Caribe entre envolvimiento y desenvolvimiento [2003] (Spanish)

Social Sciences as a Victim of its Own Disciplines [2001]

The Caribbean: Archipelago of Trailer Societies [1998]

 

SURINAME POLITIEK (In Dutch)

 

Wij nemen Suriname terug, 2023. Twintig jaar artikelen

Mi Kondre Tru Beweging, 2023

Wanneer politici het voor het zeggen hebben, 2023

Democratie of constitutionele crisis, 2023

Vriendjespolitiek is in strijd met de grondwet, 2023

De landelijke evenredige vertegenwoordiging is slechts het begin, 2022

Suriname zit in blessuretijd, 2021

Verkiezingen Suriname: Zetelverdeling in een oogopslag, 2019

Diesrede 50 jaar Anton de Kom Universiteit van Suriname, 2018

Nieuwe dageraad voor Suriname [2006]

Wan safri sabanawinti - Powema, Sranantongo [2005]

Een andere wereld is mogelijk. De uitdagingen voor NGO’s [2005]

Lot in eigen handen. Om van een rijk land een rijk land te maken [2004]

Envelopment or development? Samen klimmen uit een diep dal [2001]

 

ANDERE ARTIKELEN EN VIDEO (In Dutch)

Het geheim van gezond ondernemerschap, 2017

Quest to Rescue Our Future: De Grote Uitdaging van de Mensheid. Lezing op Universiteit van Curaçao Video - Part 1 - Part 2

Autonomie en ontwikkeling in een dushi tera respeta (Aruba, 2020)

 

RESEARCH REPORTS

Het Drugsprobleem op Aruba bij de Wortel Aanpakken. Nationaal Drugsonderzoek Aruba, 2022

Een Goede Oude Dag. De Stem van de Zestigplusser op Aruba, 2011

Craft Development in Aruba, 2004

 

FREE DOWNLOADS - BOOKS

Een olifant in waterland. Amsterdam, Rescue Our Future Foundation, 2020, 140 p.

Sankatsing, Glenn - Caribbean Social Science: An Assessment. UNESCO, 1989, 190 p. (Full text pdf file, 40 MB)

 

LINKS

Rescue Our Future Foundation

XIIth International Amazon Forest Encounter “How to Rescue Our Future”, 2015

WorldWide Peace Organization