Rights Beautiful Collection of Professor Saneh Chamarik communities too, for all their highly valuable knowledge and wisdom, are in a dire need to learn to keep up with the time and change while sustaining their integrity. Individual rights and liberties obviously constitute a most vital part of this learning process. Only that it ought to be rights and liberties of individual or person-in-community,10 and certainly not the one in a vacuum and on its absolute self as is the case today. Institution building and networking What has been said points to a real need for a certain rethinking about the changing state and dimension of human rights in the globalizing world. So along with the day-to-day functions set out by law, supposedly the same everywhere under the Paris principles, the Thai NHRC finds itself obliged to take into account the changing circumstances and common people’s rising aspirations for freedom. A point has already been made of the intended pro-active and enabling role to serve as sociallearning promoter and as part and parcel of society, not apart form it. In this very sense, the NHRC conceives of itself as integral part of the process of social institution building. It is not for its own sake as State agency, but for the ultimate purpose of strengthening the Thai society and people as a whole to develop along the common path of freedom and progress. If what is called “human rights culture” building is to mean anything at all, this is it. It is the question of how mutual sense of belonging is to be created between itself and the public at large. That is why, at this formative stage, a great deal of attention is being attached to the way the whole NHRC is to organize itself and interrelated with society. One best conceivable way is to have the whole operating system organized through the multi-tiered networking. 10 Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb, Jr., ed., For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future, Green Print, 1990, pp. 161-165. OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF THAILAND 79