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- What motivated you to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?
- Manipur-India conflict has been protracted for more than half a century. Closely linked to this is the ethnic conflict. Direct and structural violence continues. Many people died in the continueing conflict. The protracted conflict situation motivated me to become involved in peace and conflict resolution.
- Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself (no more than 3 paragraphs)
- I was born and brought up in a pluralistic society. I was invloved in various socio-politcal movements in my student days.
I have been working for more than 15 years in print journalism for my living. I have been working as an Activist of Human Rights in various capacities to transform the conflicts in Manipur.
- Please list the countries and/or regions in which you have direct and significant expertise
- North-Eastern Region of India, Burma, Cambodia and Phillipines etc.
- What is your current country of residence?
- India
- What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?
- Peace and Conflict Researcher and I have completed two years masters programme in Applied Conflict Transformation Studies (ACTS) conducted at Pannasastra University of Cambodia (PUC) in conjunction with Alliance for Conflict Transformation (ACT), Cambodia and Responding to Conflict (RTC), UK
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.actionasia.org
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.globalacts.org
- Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise?
- Alternative Dispute Resolution, Peacebuilding, Conflict Resolution, Conflict Mainstreaming, Democratization, Development, Youth, Education, Civil Society, Organizational Development
- Which are your primary skills areas?
- Training, Evaluation, Program Design, Program Administration, Advocacy, Intervention, Research
- What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?
- Ethnic Conflict and Its Transformation: Exploring ways of influencing ethnic armed group leaders and civil society leaders and bringing change in their attitude and behaviour
- If appropriate feel free to list several of your publications
- Active Non-Violence: Empowerment of People
Events
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3rd International Youth Media Summit
August 20, 2008 at 9am to August 27, 2008 at 9pm – Belgrade -
2008 Summer Professional Development Workshop
August 22, 2008 at 9am to August 27, 2008 at 5pm – Claremont Graduate University, CA -
Transitions Online announces the launch of Reporting EU Integration
August 25, 2008 at 9pm – Bosnia,-Herzegovina, Serbia, Moldova -
Systemic Peacebuilding - Executive Leadership Programme
August 26, 2008 at 9am to August 28, 2008 at 6pm – London
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thanks for adding me as a friend, you have an interesting profile. I wish you all the best in your endeavors. Keep writing the world needs to hear more from people like you.
Best Wishes
Anna
~Rachel
Not sure to what you're referring - which what?
: ) Mary
Thank you for your comment. I am so happy to discover this great web resource for connecting with like minded individuals working towards creating a more peaceful world. It is very encouraging. I look forward to sharing more.
Warm Regards,
Heidi
Thank you very much for your kind welcome and comment. As I have just graduated, unfortunately, I cannot write a long list of my research activities.
I have specialized in positive psychology and beeing linked to peace and conflict researcher Jan Øberg, I would like to investigate whether these two fields can compliment eachother. In my thesis I investigated a theory of Positive Psychology about Character Strengths and whether it was applicable and meaning- ful in conflicts with chronic crisis/armed conflict. I did my datacollection in Northern Uganda and found several critiques as to why this theory cannot "just" be implemented in war-torn third world societies. I do believe that the most interesting question is: What is help?
I find your work very interesting and important. I do believe that once you have seen these darker sides of life or even lived them, you cannot and should not turn your back on these. But how do we help the best way?
Besides that I am working as a researcher for two award-winning Danish photographers. One of them is very keen on going to India and his biggest ambition is to photos of the organ trafficking there. Do you by any chance have links to NGO´s working with this problem? The photographer is very ethical minded and would not in any way reveal name og places, but he would like to take photos from the transplant itself if possible, to raise concern about poor people selling their organs at great risk of being ill, but as to how we get permission to get into a hospital and take photos of a operation - we are not sure what to do and have no contacts. You could email me about this if you have any comments: helle.harnisch@gmail.com But please - tell me more about your work!
Good to see your comment for me. Thank you very much. As a student of masters i am going to have my research paper and hope you know the 10 years maoist conflict in Nepal has affected the life of many more..so following the 10 years maoist conflict how could i link it to my research paper. Could you please suggest me the possible topic for my research.
Thank you
Best Regards
Manu
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