Political

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.

Venue: Management Strategies at College of Technology, Udaipur

Contact: shiloo592003@yahoo.co.uk

Water, Environment and Media

Organisers: Makhanlal Chaturvedi University of Journalism and Mass Communication and Hindi India Water Portal

Venue: Makhanlal Chaturvedi University, Bhopal, M.P. 

Date: 14th January 2010 at 9:00-4:00 PM

Contact: Minakshi Arora - water.community@gmail.com

Imagine a journalist, activist or government official receiving a press release and a video in her inbox and it reads, “The practice of Untouchability in schools in India is a problem many people assume no longer happens. Well, last month, 60 community journalists investigated the issue in every state in India, and found troubling visual evidence of the practice across the country. These activist-journalists are rallying their communities to address this issue. Will you join them in speaking out? See the proof, realize the scale of the problem and take action!”
 
Clicking on the link leads you to a video gallery with 60 short videos, each from a different region/state, demonstrating the widespread nature of this issue and other problems. The main video provides a journalistic roundup of the overall problem.  Other links lead viewers to take concrete action to combat the issue.

 World water day concert, 22 MARCH 2010, Kochi, Kerala