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Overview
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Overview
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In January 2005, the Delhi Policy Group, an independent
Indian think tank, launched a two-year program on Developing
Durable Peace Processes and Partners with the generous support
of the European Union. The program aims to expand new thinking
in India on how to build a lasting peace by networking Indian
and EU universities and think tanks to create knowledge and resource
bases for peacemakers, assist next generation policy planners, and
strengthen civil society institutions as partners for peace. Project
activities comprise a series of workshops, both thematic and case-by-case,
interactive student sessions with universities in seven Indian cities, public
lectures, and an online web forum.
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Program Objectives
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Contribute to policy making in ongoing peace initiatives by
examining a range of established and ongoing peace processes
to see what does or does not work
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Help develop next generation policy planners by:
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Assembling and
disseminating relevant knowledge resources, and providing a forum for
brainstorming between Indian and international expertise on peace processes
that work through the workshops programme, conferences and the web site.
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Contributing to research and development on the key
issues that make or break peace processes.
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Networking between policy planners, policy analysts and universities
to develop problem-solving scenarios as a core component of academic
programs and policy-making, and define common follow-up areas.
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Seeking local administration and policy planning participation in interactive
workshops, especially with students, so that next generation policy planners
can gain hands-on knowledge of the conditions that shape policy decisions and
their implementation.
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Project Activities:
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The project comprises five core activities:
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(a) Policy Conferences
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The program held six high profile conferences with
special sessions focusing on current peace processes of
critical interest to India and Europe: Afghanistan, Sudan,
Israel-Palestinian, and India-Pakistan.
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(b) Student Interactive Workshops
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After each policy conference student interactive sessions
were held in seven different Indian cities - Delhi, Dibrugarh,
Chennai, Srinagar, Jammu, Kolkata, Mumbai between selected resource
persons, university faculty and a group of 35-40 students.
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The workshops comprised scenario-building exercises on
a number of themes and cases.
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Student participants were asked to write follow-up reports on
each interactive session that informed the next interactive session,
and which, in some cases, provided a base for research papers that
were presented to their peers in India and the partner countries/universities.
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(c) Public Lectures
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Selected conference participants gave public lectures at national
and local think tanks following the workshops and student interactive
sessions. These lectures were organized in collaboration with universities
and other think tanks in Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Jammu and
Srinagar. The participants were frequently interviewed on television shows
and newspapers. more…
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(d) Web Forum
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The South Asia section of
www.partitionconflicts.org
is intended to publicize ideas or findings developed through
the various activities undertaken as part of the program.
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(e) Young Analysts Award
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Seven students were selected from the participating universities
on the basis of their workshop performance and written reports.
They were sent to the project’s European partners in Paris, Dublin
and Belfast to present their papers to a peer audience.
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