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Uneven resource redistribution in Postcolonial State: Forest and Tribal Rights in India's Left Wing Extremism

Type: 
Seminar
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower
Room: 
309
Date: 
February 17, 2016 - 3:30pm
Speaker: 
Medha Chaturvedi
Organizer: 
The Department of International Relations
Abstract:Forests in India house over 250 million people whose home, hearth and livelihood come from their forest dwellings for generations. However, forest dwellers in India are among the most marginalized and neglected sections of the society comprising primarily of tribal and Dalit communities who are considered amongst the lowest in the social stratification. Discrepancies in tribal forest land allocation and redistribution has been at the centre of India’s Left Wing insurgency in what is called the Red Corridor.

20 Years of Aid to North Korea – Has Aid been Effective?

Type: 
Seminar
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower
Room: 
309
Date: 
January 13, 2016 - 3:30pm
Speaker: 
Katharina Zellweger
Organizer: 
The Department of International Relations

Abstract

North Korea is still a closed-off society. But, since the onset of humanitarian aid projects and programs in the mid-1990s, more information about the social, humanitarian, and economic situation in the country is now available. 

This presentation is based on hand-on, frequently in-country experience and includes:

-          How the North Korean humanitarian aid program began in 1995.

-          The change from humanitarian aid to a program of more long-term interventions.

Myanmar's Parliamentary Elections: A Preliminary Assessment

Type: 
Roundtable
Building: 
Nador u. 11
Room: 
Hanak Room (201)
Date: 
December 3, 2015 - 12:30pm

Panelists

 Prof. Lwin Lwin Mon, (Dept of Anthropology, Yangon University), Prof. Thida Tun (Dept of IR, Mandalay University), Prof. Thin Thin Aye (Dept of IR, Yadanabon University), Prof. Tin Tin Mar (Dept of IR, Yangon University), Prof. Thinn Thinn Latt (Dept of IR, Dagon University) & Htet Lwin (MA Student, Political Science, CEU).

A Creeping border: Phlong Karen migration between eastern Myanmar and Central Thailand, 1980s-2010s

Type: 
Seminar
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower
Room: 
609
Date: 
November 25, 2015 - 5:00pm
Speaker: 
Indrė Balčaitė
Organizer: 
The Department of International Relations

Abstract: Research on the Myanmar-Thailand border usually centres on the insurgencies inside Myanmar (Burma), while the studies of migration across it are preoccupied with the plight of Burmese refugees or migrant workers. Based on life history interviews and ethnography, this paper scrutinises the Phlong Karen transborder flows between the mid-1980s and early 2010s in order to grasp the governmentality of the border, migration across it and its shifts over time.

Fumagalli interviewed by Radio Free Europe

October 6, 2015

IR Head Matteo Fumagalli was interviewed by Radio Free Europe in relation to the parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan, held on 4th October 2015.

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The CEU Team at Allianz Summer Academy Round Table Presents Findings

June 2, 2015

CEU’s participants to the 2015 Allianz summer academy organized a round table on June 1st to discuss their preliminary report entitled: “Open Borders, Closed Minds:  EU Asylum Policy in Crisis”. The event attracted participants from CEU as well as the Hungarian civil society. The discussion surrounding the report raised a number of critical issues concerning the implementation of EU asylum policies as well as the domestic treatment of asylum seekers and the effects of current political developments in Hungary.

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Associate Professor Youngmi Kim interviewed by Institute of Asian Studies

May 12, 2015

The Institute of  Asian Studies  from  Slovakia interviewed  Dr. Yougmi Kim, Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations and the Department of Public Policy. She is also the Director of the ‘Global E-School in Eurasia’ project.

They discussed a wide range of issues including contemporary politics in South Korea, North-South relations and “conservatives’ stronghold” in East Asia.

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