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The Faculty
There were in all nineteen members in the faculty responsible for classes,
workshops, roundtables, face to face sessions, literary evenings, evaluation
of the term papers, and other related activities in the course. They came
from Australia, Bangladesh, Israel, India, Pakistan, Nepal, United States,
and Sri Lanka. They were:
C.R. Abrar, an expert on refugee law and the rights of immigrant
labour, teaches International Relations in the University of Dhaka.
Sumanta Banerjee, a veteran journalist, critic, analyst, and one
of the well known cultural chroniclers of India, is also the author of
several books on the protests and revolts of the decades of sixties and
the seventies of the last century.
Lok raj Baral, earlier the Ambassador of Nepal to India, is one
of the senior social scientists of Nepal, and has served the Department
of Political Science at Tribhuvan University. He is the author of several
volumes on governance, law and democracy in Nepal, and on South Asian
relations.
Pradip K. Bose, a sociologist and a social historian, is a professor
at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. An essayist, and
a specialist on nineteenth century Bengali culture, he has written on
philosophical and ethical dimensions of justice and dignity.
Tapan K. Bose, currently the Secretary General, SAFHR, is an eminent
documentary filmmaker, human rights and peace activist, and a writer.
Partha Chatterjee, one of the most discussed theorists of anti-colonial
nationalism, is now the Director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences,
Calcutta. A member of the Subaltern Studies group of historians, his works
on land question and cultural nationalism are read avidly by social theorists
and political activists alike in the country.
Nimalka Fernando, one of the most well-known activists in Sri
Lanka on women's rights and human rights since 1970s, is an Attorney-at-Law,
and a Doctorate on Divinity. She was earlier the general secretary of
the Student Chrisian Movement of Sri Lanka, regional Coordinator of Asia
Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, and is presently the President
of Movement for Inter-Racial Justice and Equality (Sri Lanka), and the
Convener of the Women's Alliance for Peace and Democracy in Sri Lanka.
Lakshman Gunasekara, the editor of Sunday Observer in Colombo
is a well-known political commentator in Sri Lanka and his columns on
human rights and peace process are read widely in the country.
Dipak Gyawali conducts interdisciplinary research on the interface
of technology and society as related to water and energy issues. He is
a member of the Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology, the co-editor
of Water Nepal, and the Chair of the Institute of Social and Environmental
Transition - Nepal.
Patrick Hoenig, an expert on refugee law, works at the United
Nations Headquarters in the Security Council Practices and Charter Research
Branch, and is engaged in drafting legal studies on the interpretation
and the application of the Charter of the United Nations for publication
in the United Nations Repertory, and reports on Security Council meetings
and consultations.
Rita Manchanda, Programme Executive in SAFHR, is the coordinator
of its Women and Peace, and Media and Conflict programmes. She is a well
known journalist, and the editor of Women, War and Peace in South Asia
(2001).
Arun K. Patnaik is a political scientist at the University of
Hyderabad and is a civil liberty activist in Andhra Pradesh in India.
He has written extensively on decentralization, the politics of local
self-rule, human rights, and the nature of political power in India.
Jehan Perera, a well known peace activist of Sri Lanka, is an
economist from Harvard University, and is now the Media Director of the
National Peace Council of Sri Lanka. He is the author of a widely read
media column on the peace question in Sri Lanka.
I. A. Rehman, the Director of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan,
is the Chairperson of SAFHR, and earlier the Editor-in-Chief of The
Pakistan Times.
Ranabir Samaddar, earlier a professor of South Asian Studies in
Calcutta, is now the Director of SAFHR's Peace Studies Programme. He has
authored a three volume study of nationalism in South Asia and has been
recently working on the politics of dialogue.
Asad Sayeed, an economist from Cambridge University, is presently
the Technical Advisor at the Social Policy Development Centre, Islamabad.
He has a number of publications to his credit in national and international
journals. His book, titled Political Alignments, the State and Industrialization
in Pakistan will be published soon by the Oxford University Press.
Kapil Shrestha is a member of the National Human Rights Commission
of Nepal. He is a well known human rights activist, and teaches political
science in the Tribhuvan University at Kathmandu.
Fernand de Varennes, an expert on minority rights, is at the School
of Law, Murdoch University, Western Australia. Formerly he was the Director
of the Asia-Pacific Centre on Human Rights and Law, and is now the Editor-in-Chief
of the Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and Law.
Oren Yiftachel, a prominent peace activist in Israel, chairs the
Department of Geography at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
He teaches political geography and public policy, and writes on the political
development of Israel's land system, its colonizing policies, and compares
and contrasts different ethnocratic regimes in this respect.
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