Globalization should heed cultural specificities, intellectuals
Regional-Canada, Local, 5/9/2003

Moroccan and Canadian university professors and researchers pleaded Wednesday for a globalization that respects historic and cultural specificities, and the right to fairly share scientific knowledge.

In a debate on "globalization, governance and democracy," held at the end of an international symposium in Casablanca on "Quebec Africa Arab World: Equal Relations," the intellectuals highlighted the need to make human beings the ultimate aim of globalization.

"Today, the predominant feeling is that profit is taken into consideration more than human beings," said Abdelhamid Ahmady, law professor at Casablanca Hassan II University, discussing the possible drifts of globalization toward a financial dictatorship imposed by transnational firms.

"Establishing a new world order represents a great danger on environment, ethics and cultures," he warned.

Professor at the university Laval, Harold Bherer, said to stop the imminent drifts of globalization, an international independent governance system should be set up to allow civil societies to take part in the process of globalization.

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