Political

Xavier Institute is planning to conduct a National Seminar on 'Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: The Way Ahead', during 19th and 20th March 2010. The call for paper is attached herewith.

 EXPERTS MUST  HOLD TIMELY DEBATES AND RESOLVE ON  SAFETY OF MULLAPERIYAR DAM TO HELP THE FARMERS ?

Prof.T.Shivaji Rao,

CII’s 3rd edition of International Water Summit 2010

Theme: “Meeting the Challenges – Sharing Best Practices”

Organisers: Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) & Government of Gujarat 

Date:12 March 2010

Venue: Hotel Pride, Ahmedabad

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This article shows how women are catalysts for advocating widespread improved sanitation and – at the same time – reap substantial benefits in a program promoted by an NGO called Gandhigram Trust. The empowerment of women and marginalized populations is a vital step in realizing gender equality – equal access, planning, and management – for water and sanitation.

Highlights

    Research

• Filtralite to participate in a research project related to the Baltic Sea

The January edition of e-Disha published by the Consortium of DEWATS Dissemination Society (CDD) has the following highlights:

• "Sustaining the Sanitation Revolution” -Indian Country Paper by SACOSAN III
• Citywide Citywide Decentralised Basic Needs Service (DBNS) Planning
• Wastewater Analysis

THE DELUGE AND AFTER - A photo exhibition on the lives and struggles of people in the aftermath of the floods in Karnataka

St Anne’s College, Oxford, UK

28-30 June 2010

In a world that is increasingly riven by conflict, often involving emergent non-state factions in rapidly changing patterns of inter-relationship, the need for rigorous conflict analysis is more pressing than ever.  However, to be robust and insightful, such analysis must be informed by the wide range of disciplines - including mathematics and decision sciences, diplomacy and international relations, peace and war studies, anthropology and psychology, military and political science, linguistics and communication studies - whose scholars presently engage with the topic of confrontation.  This conference, the 4th in an established and successful series hosted by the IMA will, like its predecessors, provide a forum for sharing the latest thinking in these disparate fields and for building multidisciplinary links between conflict researchers.

The theme of the present conference is the process of conflict transformation.  When conflict analysts focus upon specific episodes within what are usually protracted and complex networks of interaction, they may easily lose sight of relevant issues in the spatial, temporal or causal environment.  Furthermore the processes by which confrontation may transform into collaboration, or co-operation may degenerate into conflict, are central both to conflict escalation and conflict resolution.  The conference will therefore be concerned with the dynamics of conflict processes and will include wide-ranging interpretations and explorations of this theme.