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.
I juni ble årets konfliktdata fra Uppsala universitet lansert i Journal of Peace Research. På basis av dette, ble flere PRIO-forskere intervjuet i en ukelang serie på NRK P2s Studio 2.
For tredje år på rad går antall drepte i konflikter i verden ned. Men de fleste konflikter i verden hører vi sjelden noe om.
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Tusen takk til NRK for tillatelse til å gjengi lydfilene.
Åshild Kolås, PRIO Research Professor, has published two new books on Women, Peace and Security in India and Nepal.
A Knowledge Paper on ‘Blue Economy Vision 2025: Harnessing Business Potential for India Inc and International Partners’ was published in April 2017 by FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry). According to the organization's President, Mr. Pankaj R. Patel, ‘Blue Economy Vision 2025’ is a master document that synthesizes the knowledge and insights of India's academia and policy community with the perspective of Indian industry into one easy-to-read, comprehensive and authoritative document. ‘Blue Economy Vision 2025’ is a pioneering effort by FICCI to sensitise India Inc about the growing global and regional emphasis on sustainability of harnessing the ocean resources. It makes a convincing argument that the oceans, with a current estimated asset value of US$ 24 trillion and an annual value addition of US$ 2.5 trillion, would continue to offer significant economic benefits both in the traditional areas of fisheries, transport, tourism and hydrocarbons as well as in the new fields of deep-sea mining, renewable energy, ocean biotechnology and many more, only if sustainable practices are integrated into Indian business models.
“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.
Professor Sanjib Baruah is a guest researcher at PRIO in July. He is a PRIO Global Fellow and professor of political studies at Bard College, New York and honorary research professor at Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi.
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.
Elida Kristine Undrum Jaocobsen has on Monday 25 May 2015 successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled ”Unique Biometric IDs: Governmentality and Appropriation in a Digital India” at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.
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)
Hosted by WISCOMP (Women in Security Conflict Management and Peace) in New Delhi, 21-22 February 2015, the PRIO project Making Women Count for Peace co-organised the Roundtable event Women and Peacebuilding: A Policy Dialogue. The Roundtable brought together Indian Members of Parliament and participants from the public service, academia, media, corporate and NGO sectors, with a view to open up spaces of dialogue on the impact of violence on women and men in areas of conflict.
"Dividing Line" (posted 3 October 2014) and "Upstream Superpowers" (posted 5 December 2014)
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)
PRIO Policy Brief
PRIO Policy Brief
Journal Article in Small Wars & Insurgencies
Edited Volume
Book Chapter in Food Governance in India Rights, Security and Challenges in the Global Sphere
Journal Article in Small Wars & Insurgencies
Book Chapter in A Comprehensive History of Bengal: 1700–1950
Edited Volume
Journal Article in International Interactions
PRIO Project Summary
Journal Article in Alternatives: Global, Local, Political
Monograph
Journal Article in Economic and Political Weekly
Book Chapter in The Oxford Handbook of India's National Security
PRIO Policy Brief
PRIO Policy Brief
Journal Article in Cultural Dynamics
PRIO Policy Brief
Edited Volume
Journal Article in Indian Journal of Human Development