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What motivated you to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?: A development practitioner having especialization in Human Rights Based Approach in Development Programming. And without peace no development is ever posible.

Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself (no more than 3 paragraphs): Expertise:Research, Advocacy, Consultancy, Campaigning. Education: MA, Human Rights and Social Development, Mahidol University, Thailand.

Please list the countries and/or regions in which you have direct and significant expertise: Bangladesh
Thailand

What is your current country of residence?: Bangladesh

What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?: Research and Advocacy on human rights based issues

What is your personal or organizational website?: http://ahsan.rubayat.googlepages.com/

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box): http://www.transcend-nordic.org/

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box): http://developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com/category/conflict-manag...

Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise?: Development, Civil Society, Organizational Development, Environment

Which are your primary skills areas?: Program Design, Advocacy, Research

What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?: Climate change adaptation,"global responsibility for local disaster"

If appropriate feel free to list several of your publications: Thesis: Incorporation of Rights Based Approach in development programming: an examination of problems and prospects of ict4d projects (2006), Mahidol University, Thailand in cooperation with Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI), Sweden.

Other publications:

Conceptualizing Two Development Approaches and its Applicability in the Context of Reality (2007), ActionAid Bangladesh.
Revealing PSI: People’s resistance against policy conditionalities of the IMF (2008), Voice Bangladesh.

Global Capital vs. Local Economy: Conditionalities of the IMF and Fiscal Reform (2008), Voice Bangladesh.

Breaking the Cycle of Neo-Liberal Economy: How the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund Stand Against the People (2008), Voice Bangladesh.

Climate Change Adaptation: Global response to Local Disaster: a case study Sidr (2008). In cooperation with UNEP-EPLC.

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Network for Environment and Climate Defenders San Frontier (NECADsf)

Dear Friends, Let me have the privilege to introduce myself briefly so that you will not get tired of reading that. Who am I? I am a development practitioner having especialization in Human Rights Based Approach in Development Programming. I have expertise on Research, Advocacy, Consultancy, Campaigning. I have education, MA, Human Rights and Social Development, Mahidol University, Thailand. What am I doing rescently? I have started an orgnization named Network for Environment and Climate D… Continue

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Peace and Conflict Management: Case study Kashmir

Where Marx believed that social class is the most basic division in any society, Max Weber saw conflict as having many possible bases religion, race, ethnicity, and more including social class. Where Marx believed that class inequalities would ultimately be ended by revolution, Weber saw conflict as eternal, although it could take new forms. Group conflict theory derives from Weber’s vision. Johan Galtung has come up with more concrete and specific expression about conflict, which is in fact fit… Continue

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At 2:28pm on June 13th, 2008, Chris LeGore said…: Hello,

Every few weeks I look through the new members for interesting people. Welcome to the site. I'd like to introduce myself and see if you'd like to begin communication. I am very interested in ADR, mediation, negotiation, human rights and politics from a legal and consultancy standpoint. It seems we have some common interests and may be able to help/learn from each other.

Thanks for your time,
Chris LeGore

At 8:35pm on May 23rd, 2008, czelizer said…: Thanks. I appreciate the feedback and hope you enjoy the network. Would also appreciate if you could let other colleagues know about the site.

At 5:55am on May 23rd, 2008, Bobichand Rajkumar said…: Dear Rubayat,
Nice to meet you through this network of people who are working towards conflict resolution, peacebuilding, development and related fields. I hope that we could exchhange and share information, insights and learning to help each other.
I look forward to keeping in touch and hearing from you.

Warm regards,
Bobichand