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SUMMARY:Nepal: A Year Since The Earthquake
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion on International Crisis Group’s Report\n\n\n\nNepal’s Divisive New Constitution: An Existential Crisis\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe International Crisis Group\, in partnership with India China Institute (ICI)\, will present its latest report\, “Nepal’s Divisive New Constitution: An Existential Crisis.” \nThe earthquakes that rocked Nepal in Spring 2015 were followed by a period of political instability linked to a contentious constitution-writing process. Since the constitution was passed last September amid deadly protests\, the country’s ethnic\, social and political fractures have only deepened. Meanwhile\, earthquake relief efforts have also been hampered by political infighting and corruption. \nThis special event aims to reframe the arguments regarding Nepal’s current political situation and move the discourse in a more productive direction. Panelists will examine the political\, legal\, and human rights challenges ahead\, and recommend options for the international community to engage constructively to prevent further instability. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiscussion Panel: \n\n\n\nAnagha Neelakantan\, International Crisis Group \n\n\n\nAnagha Neelakantan is Crisis Group’s Deputy Asia Program Director\, assisting the Program Director in leading research\, analysis\, policy prescription and advocacy activities of the Asia Program\, overseeing and managing field staff\, while ensuring timely communications between field and headquarters\, spread across three sub-regional projects: South Asia\, Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia. Anagha follows in particular political transitions including peace processes\, ethnic and other entrenched violent social conflicts\, constitution-making\, human rights\, demobilisation and security sector reform\, governance issues\, India’s foreign policy and the role of geopolitics in conflict resolution. Anagha worked in Nepal from 2000-2013\, as Crisis Group’s senior analyst for Nepal\, an analyst with the United Nations Mission in Nepal\, and as executive editor of the Nepali Times weekly. In 2014\, she worked in Myanmar with the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. \n\n\n\nAshish Pradhan\, International Crisis Group \n\n\n\nAshish Pradhan is Crisis Group’s UN Advocacy and Research Analyst and is based in New York where he supports the organisation’s advocacy at the United Nations. He assists in providing detailed analyses of developments at the Security Council to ensure adequate reflection of UN perspectives in Crisis Group publications. He also supports advocacy with UN officials\, NGOs\, and diplomats from a variety of UN member-states on country-specific crises and policy issues covered by Crisis Group. And he conducts research on thematic issues covered in Crisis Group reports\, including on jihadi militancy in South Asia. He previously worked for Crisis Group’s Kathmandu office from 2010-2013 while analyzing Nepal’s peace and constitution-writing processes with a particular focus on identity politics\, minority rights\, and the federalism debate. \n\n\n\nRichard Bennett\, Amnesty International (formerly with OHCHR-Nepal) \n\n\n\nRichard Bennett joined Amnesty International in March 2014 as Asia-Pacific Director and from July 2015 has been Head of Amnesty’s New York Office. Previously he served with the United Nations in senior human rights posts\, heading the human rights components of peacekeeping operations in Sierra Leone\, Timor-Leste\, Afghanistan and South Sudan. From 2007 to 2010 Richard was the Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal. He has also been Chief of Staff for the Secretary-General’s Panel of Experts on Sri Lanka and Special Adviser to the Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights in New York. A citizen of New Zealand and the UK\, Richard worked for a decade at the NZ Human Rights Commission before joining the UN. \n\n\n\nRohan Edrisinha\, UN Department of Political Affairs (formerly with UNDP in Nepal) \n\n\n\nRohan Edrisinha is a Senior Political Officer and Constitutional Advisor in the Policy and Mediation Division of the Department of Political Affairs of the U.N. He taught at the Faculty of Law\, University of Colombo from 1986 to 2011. He served as the constitutional advisor to UNDP Nepal and the head of its constitution support programme from 2011 to 2014. In 2015\, he functioned as an independent consultant on constitutional reform and federalism in Myanmar\, and as a governance advisor to UNDP Sri Lanka. He taught at the Faculty of Law\, University of the Witwatersrand\, South Africa\, in 1995 and was a visiting fellow at Harvard University (2005) and the University of Toronto (2009). He was a founder Director and Head of the Legal and Constitutional Unit of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA)\, Sri Lanka\, from 1996 to 2010. \n\n\n\nModerated By: \n\n\n\nAshok Gurung\, India China Institute \n\n\n\nAshok Gurung is the senior director of the India China Institute (ICI) and is Professor of Practice in the Julien J. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School.  A founding director of ICI\, he is responsible for establishing and the overall development\, management\, and coordination of ICI programs and projects in India\, China\, and the United States. A native of Nepal\, he has taught several courses on development management\, political and social issues in Nepal at the New School. Ashok has over twenty years of international development experience as an educator\, researcher\, manager\, grant-maker\, policy analyst\, activist and training facilitator with civil society groups\, academic institutions\, foundations and multi-lateral organizations\, and governments worldwide. Among various roles\, he was the program officer for the International Fellowships Program\, the largest global leadership initiative ($280 million) of the Ford Foundation.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/nepal-a-year-since-the-earthquake/
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SUMMARY:Public Talk & Book Launch: China's Future
DESCRIPTION:Watch Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin India China Institute for a discussion on what the future holds for China with David Shambaugh. \n\n\n\nBook Description \n\n\n\nChina’s future is arguably the most consequential question in global affairs. Having enjoyed unprecedented levels of growth\, China is at a critical juncture in the development of its economy\, society\, polity\, national security\, and international relations. The direction the nation takes at this turning point will determine whether it stalls or continues to develop and prosper. \n\n\n\nWill China be successful in implementing a new wave of transformational reforms that could last decades and make it the world’s leading superpower? Or will its leaders shy away from the drastic changes required because the regime’s power is at risk? If so\, will that lead to prolonged stagnation or even regime collapse? Might China move down a more liberal or even democratic path? Or will China instead emerge as a hard\, authoritarian and aggressive superstate? \n\n\n\nIn this new book\, David Shambaugh argues that these potential pathways are all possibilities – but they depend on key decisions yet to be made by China’s leaders\, different pressures from within Chinese society\, as well as actions taken by other nations. Assessing these scenarios and their implications\, he offers a thoughtful and clear study of China’s future for all those seeking to understand the country’s likely trajectory over the coming decade and beyond. \n\n\n\nAbout David Shambaugh \n\n\n\nDavid Shambaugh is is an internationally recognized authority and author on contemporary China and the international relations of Asia\, with a strong interest in the European Union and transatlantic issues. He is currently the Director of the China Policy Program and a Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. Professor Shambaugh is a prolific author\, having published more than 30 books and 300 articles. \n\n\n\nWatch the video of David Shambaugh’s talk below.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/public-talk-book-launch-chinas-future/
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