Ashok Pannikar, Meta-Culture’s Founder and Executive Director, has worked as a Mediator, Facilitator and Consultant in the United States, India and in Europe. Prior to starting Meta-Culture, South Asia’s first full service conflict management centre, he directed a successful workplace conflict resolution program in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As the Executive Director of Meta-Culture he is currently spearheading a series of multi-stakeholder consensus building initiatives in the country, the first ever in India. Here Meta-Culture is bringing together corporations, trade unions, NGOs, government, academics and other key stakeholders in a range of conflict ridden sectors such as the apparels, mining and bio-tech industries. His clients include the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Green Peace, Gap, Tata Consulting Services, Mother Care, Accenture, Nokia and Mercedes Benz. Ashok was elected to the board of the New England-Association of Conflict Resolution (NE-ACR) for the year 2004-2005. In January 2010 he was nominated to the Board of Mediators Beyond Borders. Most recently Ashok was one of the Keynote speakers at the Mediators Beyond Borders Congress, at Los Angeles in March 2011. Meta-Culture is the recipient of the 2010 Outstanding International Leadership Award presented by the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), USA. AboutTEDx: In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED …
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We look at Bahrain as democracy advocates and loyalists engage in an online battle over the country’s future.