MIT-WPU/PRIO Conference 

MIT-WPU in Pune, India, 1–2 November 2023 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

​The project will investigate the current crisis of statelessness affecting millions of people in the Bengali borderlands, including the Rohingya population of Myanmar and Bengali Muslims in the Northeast Indian state of Assam.

​How is e-governance and the Internet of Things (IoT) changing the everyday lives of the people of India and China, and how are these multifaceted changes affecting international relations?

Congratulations to Åshild Kolås, who will lead the project e-Topia: China, India and Biometric Borders, which has now received 4-year funding from the Foreign Policy programme of the Research Council of Norway. Congratulations also to project participant Mareile Kaufmann, as well as partners in Asia; Centre for Internet and Society, Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, Hezhou University and Digital Asia Hub.

​Even in the context of contentious debates on immigration in Europe and the United States, people rarely question the capacity of their governments to identify their citizens and distinguish them from non-citizens living in the country. But not all governments today have a centralised database of all its citizens.

Åshild Kolås, PRIO Research Professor, has published two new books on Women, Peace and Security in India and Nepal.

“Food Security Debates in India: Experiences from the Grassroots” was hosted by the UNESCO Chair for Peace and Intercultural Understanding – Malaviya Centre for Peace Research, Banaras Hindu University, and co-organised by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) and Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).​

​PRIO's Åshild Kolås will edit a special issue on Northeast Indian Enigmas: Exception, Extraction and Bare Life in the peer-reviewed journal Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, and the call for papers for this issue is now open with a deadline for submission on 1 February, 2017.​

​​​The lead story in this issue of the GPS Update is Kaja Borchgrevink's research on women engaging in Islamic charity seen as 'development agents'. 

The conference brought together scholars working on global nuclear governance in India and abroad to discuss the challenges and opportunities of the emerging nuclear governance architecture. It focused on how India can play a more proactive role as a driver of new ideas on the subject. In assessing India’s role in global nuclear governance, the conference covered both nuclear security issues and non-proliferation frameworks, seeking to envision a holistic nuclear governance and non-proliferation architecture.

While preparing for the next Nuclear Security Summit, scheduled for 31 March – 1 April 2016, it was pertinent to review and discuss the roadmap and the Indian involvement for a robust nuclear security regime. The conference thus explored the possibility of developing a more comprehensive alternative to the fragmented nuclear security mechanisms today.

​A workshop on  India’s Role in Global Nuclear Governance was co-organized by the Indian Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) and PRIO as a part the IDSA-PRIO cooperation on India in the World: Emerging Perspectives on Global Challenges, and its subproject on Nuclear Governance.

​In an attempt to analyse how gendered political power transforms in situations of conflict, WISCOMP organised a Policy Dialogue titled "Women and Peacebuilding"  with the underlying assumption that differences in the forms and expressions of gendered power relations, during and after conflict, impact on how "empowerment" can be achieved. The publication "Women and Peacebuilding: Engendering Policy" gives an overview of the presentations and debates at the Policy Dialogue. 

​​Time: 19-20 February 2016
Place: Guwahati, Assam

Host organisation: Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development (OKDISCD)
Conference organisers: Åshild Kolås (PRIO) and Bhupen Sarmah (OKDISCD)

​​Time: 19-20 February 2016
Place: Guwahati, Assam

Host organisation: Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development (OKDISCD)
Conference organisers: Åshild Kolås (PRIO) and Bhupen Sarmah (OKDISCD)