Interview with Pratyush Sharma
In this episode, Pratyush Sharma, UPEACE’s doctoral candidate, discusses his latest publication about South-South cooperation.
Selection of Poems from the ‘The Unfold Pinnacle’ – Part II
Selection of Poems from the ‘The Unfold Pinnacle’ – Part II Author: Basanta Kumar Kar Too Late This is the story about a seventeen years old malnourished tribal woman and a mother of a malnourished girl child from Tumrikasa, Manpur, Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India. Rajnandgaon, a district that host many political heavyweights is dominated by the […]
The Human Security of Indigenous People in Mindanao: Challenges and Prospects
This paper purports to extend the inclusive rhetoric on human security by investigating the plight of Indigenous People in Mindanao and exploring how to integrate human security in interventions
Social Audit to revitalize Nutrition Governance during COVID Times
Social audits ensure transparency and public accountability to ensure access over health and nutrition resources in India
Freedom of Expression in Sri Lanka: A Human Rights-Based Approach
A human rights-based approach to the exercise of the right to freedom of expression through social media in Sri Lanka between 2018 and 2019
SERGIO: From The Work In Field To The Movie Screens
This article compares the 2020 Netflix movie Sergio with the 2008 biography that inspired it: Chasing the Flame: One Man’s Fight to Save the World, written by Samantha Power. Both tell the real-life story of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the Brazilian philosopher and UN diplomat who was the main target of the attack against Canal Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq.
Pandemics and Religious Responses
For this research, three pandemics Covid-19, The Black Death, and The Spanish Flu are studied to understand how religion has played a role during these pandemics.
Virtual Mental Health Services During COVID-19 Epidemic in China
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic emerged in Wuhan, China, spread nationwide last December and then swept the globe in early 2020. After being declared as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on January, COVID-19 was later announced by the World Health Organization (WHO) as pandemic in March (WHO,2020). Apart from the serious threats to people’s physical health, the COVID-19 epidemic also has significant psychological consequences, such as panic disorder, anxiety and depression that affect people more than the disease itself and possess the possibility of transforming collective trauma to generational trauma. The essay focuses on the mental health services provided in China and its virtual nature as the salient characteristic, summarizes the progression of virtual psychological interventions, analyzes the challenges of the online mental health services during COVID-19 epidemic in China.
Fog of Journalism
Randeep Ramesh (edit), The War We Could Not Stop, Faber and Faber 2003, pp303 ISBN 0-571-22110-6
Gandhi and the Impact of His Experiments
From a University for Peace course entitled “Peace and Non-Violent Transformation of Conflict,” this excerpt provides a basic introduction to Gandhi and his ideas. Gandhi never claimed to be infallible, and he viewed his ideas as experiments, not dogma.
Part of a course package produced by the Department for Gender and Peace Studies, the lectures of Prof. Mary E. King and others will be excerpted on this site in the coming months.