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Division of Peace and Development Research, School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University
Postal address: School of Global Studies, Box 700, SE-405 30 Göteborg
Visiting address: Konstepedimins väg 2/Övre Husargatan
Web page: http://www.globalstudies.gu.se/english/
Key person: Associate Professor Camilla Orjuela, phone: +46 (0)31 786 5873. Personal web page.
The Division of Peace and Development Research was previously known under its acronPADRIGU moved location in late August 2005, to Campus Linné, and its three imposing old buildings – Annedalseminariet (Övre Husargatan 34), KK 2 (Konstepedimins väg 2), and Rektorsvillan (Seminariegatan 1).
Since July 2006 it is administered as a division within the School of Global Studies at Gothenburg University (SGSGU), part of an effort to coordinate global studies across disciplinary and regional limitations.
Research connected to South Asia
In October 2014, Dr. Camilla Orjuela received SEK 1.7 m as a grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for project on "Seeking justice from afar: Diasporas and transitional justice". This project will analyse how diasporas engage with, shape and respond to transitional justices processes in Rwanda and Sri Lanka.
Abstract: Although the ways in which migrants influence homeland conflicts have been relatively well investigated, the increasingly important role of diasporas in transitional justice has so far not been systematically studied, nor has the importance of transitional justice initiatives in shaping diaspora organization and identity. The project focuses on two cases – Rwanda and Sri Lanka – where the pursuit of justice after the genocide and the civil war respectively involve conflicting interests and the mobilization and involvement of diaspora groups. The project will conduct interviews with victims, perpetrators and activists in the diasporas of these two countries, in addition to making observations and analysing media coverage and academic literature. Its main contributions will be to advance the theoretical discussion of transitional justice and globalization by discussing the implications of the deterritorialization that takes place when transitional justice is pursued by diaspora groups. The project will also provide insights into how transitional justice becomes intertwined with diasporic processes of memory, history making and identity formation across generations.
Abstract: It is increasingly recognised that civil society has an important role to play in conflict resolution and peace building, by involving and educating grass roots and thus granting legitimacy to top-level peace processes. A growing interest in development assistance to support 'peace' (as a prerequisite for 'development') has paved the way for an influx of funds to 'civil society', chiefly to NGOs doing peace education and campaigning. This paper looks at the case of Sri Lanka, where an ongoing peace process has made donor support for civil society peace work a burning issue. Defining and building up a civil society is not an easy exercise, as a look at the question "What is civil society in Sri Lanka (is it really 'civil')?" will reveal. Ethnic divisions within civil society, the obstacles to its functioning (especially in the war zones), and the criticism directed towards foreign funded 'peace mongers' are discussed, as are the potential positive effects of civil society work to back peace processes.
Camilla Orjela also works as a journalist with focus on peace- and development issues. She has been the editor of Utblick, published by IOGT-NTO's International Institute. She was a member of SASNET's board between 2004 and 2009.
More information about Dr. Orjuela's research at her personal web page.
Over the years, former PADRIGU division has run several senior and doctoral projects about India and the South Asian region. The 2nd Swedish National Conference on Peace Research was held in Gothenburg on 7–8 September 2006. The conference, organised by the School of Global Studies/PADRIGU, Gothenburg University on behalf of the Swedish Network of Peace, Conflict and Development Research, was a meeting point for Swedish researchers in the field. Several of the nine panels touched on South Asian issues. In the panel "Post-conflict and Reconstruction" Doreen Arulanandam presented a paper about "
A separate Centre for Global Gender Studies (CGGS) was formally established as a unit at Gothenburg University on 1 January 2004. Many of the staff at PADRIGU are also involved in the activities of CGGS. More information on the Centre for Global Gender Studies.
Other PADRIGU researchers specialised on South Asia are:
In November 2004
Till now Mikael Schultz has been coordinating the department's cooperation with Peradeniya University in Sri Lanka, and supervises two of the Srilankan PhD candidates connected to the department (see below).
Project abstract: Reconstruction of war torn societies is not merely a post-settlement task, but also influences the peace making. This project focuses on the case of Sri Lanka and studies how processes of reconstruction are linked to the politics of the peace process initiated in 2002. It analyses how reconstruction issues matter in the interaction between key actors in the peace process as issues under dispute and as a potential space for cooperation between the conflicting parties. The project also poses questions about the link between reconstruction and improvement of life at a local level, and the top level peace process. A survey and qualitative interviews carried out in the northern and eastern parts of Sri Lanka will explore local experiences of reconstruction and views of how the top level can be influenced. Qualitative interviews with key actors in the peace process will provide insights about top level dynamics.
In November 2005 Camilla Orjuela also received a major grant from the Swedish Research Links programme for three years (2006-08), for a project called "
Project description: This project studies the role diaspora communities can play in peace building in their countries of origin. While diaspora researchers have gained insights about the processes of "long-distance nationalism", "homeland politics" and identity formation taking place in the diaspora, peace researchers have still to grasp the complex role of diaspora communities in todayâs deterritorialised nationalist conflicts. So far, diasporas have been studied by peace researchers mainly as groups encouraging and funding violent conflicts. This project, however, puts the focus on the possibilities created in the diaspora existence for dialogue between people who have been made enemies in violent conflicts. In exile, new spaces for interaction and alternative identity formation emerge. Exiles also keep close contacts with relatives and friends back home, and make important contributions to efforts to reconstruct war-torn areas. This study takes its point of departure in the case of Sri Lanka. It studies how Sri Lankan Tamils and Sinhalese living in Canada, Sweden, Norway, Germany and the UK involve in and make sense of the ethnic conflict back home. It looks at contacts maintained with the homeland, involvement in diaspora organisations and experiences of cross-ethnic dialogue in the diaspora. The main methods are in-depth interviews, analysis of texts produced by diaspora organisations and observation of diaspora activities.
In August 2008, Dr. Camilla Orjuela was awarded another SASNET planning grant for a research project titled
The project will be carried out in collaboration with Dr. Jonas Lindberg, Department of Human Geography, University of Gothenburg, and Professor Siri Hettige, Department of Sociology, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. The purpose of the SASNET grant is to develop the suggested project on corruption, conflict and local governance into a larger research project, where the competences of each of the three main applicant, in addition to a broader network within the University of Colombo, is taken advantage of. The grant will be spent on a workshop and planning meeting in Colombo in November 2008, as well as for a shorter pilot study carried out in collaboration in connection with the workshop.
Project abstract: The interest in networking between University of Gothenburg and University of Colombo has grown out of a realisation of our shared research interests. Orjuela and Lindberg has during spring 2008 developed a project proposal for research about the interlinkages between corruption and conflict in Sri Lanka – a project which builds on their earlier research in Sri Lanka on issues related to conflict, development and governance. Professor Hettige at University of Colombo is one of the most well-regarded researchers and experts on issues related to local governance. Both Orjuela and Lindberg have been in contact and met with Hettige several times during earlier research. During spring 2008 Hettige contacted Orjuela regarding his interest in further pursuing research on local governance (including corruption issues) in collaboration with University of Gothenburg. They realised that Orjuela and Lindberg's effort to formulate a research project on local perspectives on corruption and conflict, and Hettige's research interests in local governance and corruption, could lead into a larger collaborative research project. This will enable a broader and more substantial project, which would be more grounded in the environment of a Sri Lankan university and which can also involve local researchers. Moreover, the inclusion of broader issues of local governance would further enhance the policy relevance of the findings.
In November 2008, this project on "
As a result of the project, a well-organised workshop on "
A year later, on 12 November 2009, this same project, originally planned for by a SASNET grant, was awarded SEK 2.83 m as a three years grant (2010-12) from Sida/SAREC's Developing Country Research Council (U-landsforskningsrådet). The research project has now been renamed "Corruption and Conflict: Links and Experiences in Post-War Sri Lanka".
More information about the 2009 Sida grants.
Camilla Orjuela is also involved in a project titled '
Recent publications by Dr. Camilla Orjuela:
Book: The Identity Politics of Peacebuilding: Civil Society in War-torn Sri Lanka. Sage Publications, 2008. Abstract: This book looks at civil society and peace movements in the context of the identity-based armed conflict in Sri Lanka. Focussing on the identity politics inherent in peace work, it demonstrates why civil society groups engaged in peace activities often fail to enhance the sense of security among civilians and are also unable to challenge the underlying structures of war. The book highlights the role peace organisations play in providing alternatives to dominant discourses of militarism. It draws on unique empirical material, including 150 interviews with leaders, participants and key actors involved in civil society peace work in Sri Lanka.
By critically examining the roles played by civil society actors for peace, The Identity Politics of Peacebuilding: Civil Society in War-torn Sri Lanka contributes to filling the gap between the international enthusiasm for supporting civil society peace work on the one hand, and the lack of a thorough understanding of the relevance and impact of this work on the other. The author uses a constructivist approach to point out the dangers of romanticising inter-ethnic understanding in peace work and ignoring identity politics within peace movements.
Power and politics in the shadow of Sri Lanka's armed conflict. Report edited by Camilla Orjuela, with chapters written by Dr.
Articles in academic journals:
'Distant Warriors, Distant Peace Workers? Multiple Diaspora Roles in Sri Lanka's Violent Conflict' in Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs, Vol. 8, No. 4, October 2008.
'Reaping the harvest of peace? Politics of reconstruction during Sri Lanka's 2002 peace process'. Critical Asian Studies, 40 (2), June 2008.
In the 2008 round of planning grants, SASNET also decided to support an application from Dr. Mikael Schultz, to organise an interdisciplinary
More information about the 2008 SASNET planning grants.
Abstract: The aim of this first Sri Lanka Conference on Peace and Development Research (SPDR) is to bring together and initiate a process of dialogue among local and international academic researchers and doctoral students, who study about peace and development related issues in Sri Lanka. The conference provides a forum for researchers and doctoral students based in Sri Lanka, in Nordic countries and other countries across the globe to discuss their research findings, ongoing research projects and research proposals. The conference lays a heavy emphasis on the potential of reconstruction, reconciliation and development prospects in the war affected regions of Sri Lanka. Full information about the conference.
The SASNET supported Kandy conference on "Peace and Development in Sri Lanka" has resulted in a publication of a book, Post-War Reconstruction in Sri Lanka: Prospects and Challenges, edited by Dhammika Herath and Michael Schulz from PADRIGU, plus Dr. Kristine Höglund, Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, and Prof. K.T Silva, University of Peradeniya.
The book was launched in December 2010 by the International Center for Ethnic Studies, and consists of a collection of conference papers by local and international researchers and doctoral students, as well as practitioners. The practitioner side was represented by professionals engaged in peace and development through their work in International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs), Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and government institutions. The papers in this book reflect the participants' practical experience and research findings stemming from ongoing research projects.
More information about the book.
• Professor Emeritus Björn Hettne (photo to the left). PhD in Economic History at Gothenburg University in 1978, with a doctoral thesis titled "
Hettne was chairman for the SASNET board during the period 2001-06. More information.
In his research, he has also been engaged in research on the "Anatomy of Complex Emergencies". At the Research Conference "Structures of Vulnerability" held at Stockholm University 12–14 January 2005 Björn Hettne presented a paper on this subject, and he also took part in a panel debate on "Victims and Actors – who get the blame? Concepts of structure and agency in the development research".
At SASNET's Symposium for PhD candidates and post-docs, held in Marstrand in October 2002, Björn Hettne lectured about "One year after 11 September – what happened in South Asia and why?". A similar text (but in Swedish) was published in the September 2002 issue of SYDASIEN. Read the article.
Professor Björn Hettne retired in June 2006. In his honour, Gothenburg University arranged a seminar (for invited guests only) at Jonsered Manor 14–15 June 2006. The seminar was titled "New Scenes for International Cooperation – Björn Hettne and Internationalisation of Higher Education". Professor S. D. Muni, Centre of South, Central & South East Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, was one of the keynote speakers at the seminar.
In August 2009, Prof. Hettne came out with a new book, entitled "Thinking about development" on Zed Books. It is a concise and accessible introduction to development thinking, contemporary development theory and practice and – a critical analysis of the values that lie behind them. Hettne argues that schools of development thinking should be historically contextualized, not presented as evolving towards a universal theory. The book presents development as an 'essentially contested concept', that has meant a number of things at various times to different people in different places. Focusing on historical discourses from the initial colonial encounters through to the modern day, Hettne draws the connections between the enlightenment belief in 'progress' through to the more recent focus on the Millennium Development Goals. More information.
• Dr. Monica Erwér defended her dissertation on "
Erwér was supervised jointly by Björn Hettne, Michael Tharakan at Center for Development Studies in Kerala, and Dr Ann Marie Goetz, at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, UK. The Faculty opponent was Prof. Gita Sen from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
Monica Erwér was instrumental in setting up the Centre for Global Gender Studies (CGGS) at PADRIGU, in collaboration with IDS and its South Asia scholars like Dr Naila Kabeer and Dr Ramya Subramanian.
Since August 2009, Dr. Erwér works as Team Leader for the Swedish non-governmental organisation Svalorna Indien-Bangladesh (The Swallows India Bangladesh section) an organisation headquartered at Lund, and working mainly with local organisations in Tamil Nadu (India) and in Rajshahi district (Bangladesh). More information about The Swallows India Bangladesh.
• Dr. Stellan Vinthagen (photo to the right) defended his doctoral dissertation on "
From 2009, Stellan works as Associate Professor in Sociology at Högskolan Väst (University West) in Trollhättan, but he still keeps on with some reseach at Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. More information about his research.
In December 2010, the Swedish Research Council awarded SEK 10m for a research programme entitled "Globalization of Resistance: Influences on Democracy Advocators in Civil Society in the South". The project is running during a period of 6 years, 2011-2015, and is being coordinated by Stellan Vinthagen, and carried out in collaboration with Associate Professor Mikael Baaz, Dr. Mona Lilja, and Associate Professor Michael Schulz. The project is based at the School of Global Studies, but developed in collaboration with University West. It consists of studies in Cambodia, India and Palestine. Stellan Vinthagen is in charge of the India related studies.
Abstract: The idea is to continue to develop and build a profound research environment at the School of Global studies (SGS), University of Gothenburg, in which researchers dealing with civil society and resistance are brought together. The specific aim is to understand how various civil societies and their resistance transform under the impact of an increasing globalization, and what that means for democratization. In this, a historical and comparative framework will be used to analyze the civil societies in three selected countries (Cambodia, India, and Palestine). The main research questions of the program are: (1) How does globalization create new obstacles and new options for the resistance of the civil societies of Cambodia, India, and Palestine? (2) What new articulations (forms, sites, strategies, technologies and agents) of resistance are fostered as the civil societies of Cambodia, India, and Palestine is exposed to processes of globalization? (3) What factors can explain the obstacles/options and articulations of resistance for democracy driven civil society organizations in Cambodia, India, and Palestine? During the field research in the selected countries interviews with various stakeholders will be carried out and policy documents, strategic plans and other published material from civil society organizations will be collected and analyzed in order to identify the objectives, strategies, and implementation plans of the civil society organizations.
Besides this major research programme, Dr. Vinthagen during early 2012 also carries out a smaller research study on the Narmada movement NBA and its activism in relation to the Indian judicial system. The study has been funded by the Gothenburg Centre of Globalization and Development (GCGD).
Privately, Stellan Vinthagen has been a peace worker, since 1980 engaged in various social movements. For six years he was the editor of a peace movement journal (Plogbillen), and he was main organiser of a number of international movement conferences in Germany and Sweden during the years 1987-1999. In 1986 he was Swedish co-organiser of The World Peace Conference, that was being held in Copenhagen.
After his dissertation in 2005 he worked as a senior lecturer at PADRIGU, but was also affiliated as an associate lecturer at Globalverkstan– International Project Management for Social Movements & NGOs in Gothenburg. Besides he has been connected to the College for International Citizenship (CIC) in Birmingham, England. He is also a member of TRANSCEND, a global network of scholars-practitioners working for peace and development; of IPRA, the International Peace Research Association; the War Resisters International, WRI; and an Associate of the Transnational Foundation (TFF), the research foundation based in Lund, Sweden.
Stellan Vinthagen has been the Swedish Project Coordinator of the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution at University of Madras, Chennai, India. The centre has evolved out of the Swedish-Indian Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies programme (PCTS) that Dr. Vinthagen was instrumental in setting up at the University of Madras. In 2004, he received a SASNET planning grant for this educational project – more information below.
More information about Dr. Vinthagen's research at his personal web page.
• Dr. Marie Thynell (photo to the right) defended her dissertation on "
More information about her research at her personal web page.
• Dr. Gunilla Blomqvist Sköldberg (photo to the left) defended her doctoral dissertation on "
At the Development studies research conference held at Lund University in January 2003 Gunilla Blomqvist presented a paper on "Culture, globalisation – Indian versus Western values". Read the abstract.
More information from her personal web page.
Since 2008, Dr. Blomqvist is the coordinator for GADNET (the Gender and Development Network), a Sida/SAREC funded multidisciplinary national network of Swedish researchers and doctorate students with specific research interests in gender and development. The network was formed in April 2004 and is institutionally based at the Centre for Global Gender Studies (CGGS) at Gothenburg University. It has been funded by Sida/SAREC for the period 2004-09.
She is also the main applicant for a new Sida-funded research sub-network on Gender and Development in Practice that GADNET will run during the period 2010–2012. More information.
• Dr. Bent Jørgensen (photo to the right) has previously worked on ethnic conflicts in India. In 1997 he defended his licentiate thesis at the department, titled "
• Dr. Rodrigo Tavares worked as a research fellow at the department. He is a Portugese citizen, but came to Sweden in 2001 as a guest student to the Dept. of Political Science, Stockholm University. In the Fall 2004 he was attached to the Delegation of the European Commission to India, Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives and Sri Lanka in New Delhi.
Rodrigo Tavares (photo to the right) is also an Associate Research Fellow at United Nations University – Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS). Some of his main areas of interest are Peace and conflict theory; Regional peace and security; European and South Asian security and politics; and the Kashmir conflict. He is also a member of Transcend, a network of international researchers on peace, conflict and development studies created by Johan Galtung. On 15 December 2006, Rodrigo Tavares defended his doctoral dissertation titled "Understanding Regional Peace and Security: A Framework for Analysis" that has an emphasis on South Asia and Europe. Faculty opponent was Elzbieta Stadtmuller from the Institute of International Studies, University of Wroclaw, Poland. More information about the thesis.
Dr. Tavares now works as an Associate Research Fellow at the United Nations University – Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU–CRIS) in Brugge, Belgium, but living in Brazil. He has been engaged in a major project on Africa, but has also been involved in studies on Kashmir and South Asia, writing articles in International magazines. More information from his personal web page.
• Mattias Larsen defended his doctoral dissertation titled "
Abstract: The main objective of the study is to analyse the underlying dynamics of the current trend of declining sex ratios for the age group 0-6. Karnataka in the south and Uttar Pradesh in the north have both had increases in overall sex ratio from 1991 to 2001. When looking at the sex ratios for the age group 0-6, however, one is struck by the difference. While the overall figures show small but definite increases, the 0-6 ratios have registered considerable decreases between 1991 and 2001. Like India as a whole, both Karnataka and UP show a slight improvement in overall sex ratio, but a large decline in the sex ratio for age group 0-6. However, the two states' respective ratios differ considerably, thus reflecting the welldocumented differences with higher ratios in the South and lower in the North. The study will focus on two areas in Karnataka and two areas in UP with differing trends in sex ratios. Read full project description (as a pdf-file).
Larsen has also been involved in a a similar project, called "
At the 18th ECMSAS conference arranged by SASNET in July 2004 Mattias Larsen was co-authoring a working paper titled "Lives at Risk. Declining Child Sex Ration in India" (No 93 in the series Lund Papers in Economic History), Full text version is available on the Internet. Go for it (as a pdf-file). A paper titled "Uncertainty Vulnerable daughters" was jointly presented by Mattias Larsen, Pernille Gooch and Neelambar Hatti, at the CEPED-CICRED-INED Seminar on "Female Deficit in Asia: Trends and Perspectives", held in Singapore, 5–7 December 2005. Read the draft paper.More information about Mattias Larsen's research at his personal web page.
Mattias Larsen lives in Vienna, Austria, since several years, even though he is affiliated to University of Gothenburg.
In August 2008, Mattias Larsen received a SASNET planning grant for a project entitled
In November 2009, this project was awarded SEK 1.2 m as a three-years research grant (2010–12) from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Sida. The project is now entitled "
Abstract: Much research has been done on the nature of the problem that millions of girls are 'missing' in India, but so far little attention has been paid to the relationship between the country's rapid economic growth, deep social changes and the fate of girl children. We hypothesise that daughter discrimination is a result of larger processes of social and economic change in which there is increasing uncertainty regarding the fulfilment of the intergenerational contract stating that sons are responsible for the old age support of their parents. The proposed project has two main objectives; (1) to empirically test new hypotheses based on findings from our previous own research and (2) to investigate and map the extent of social consequences. The research design consists of an untried methodological approach combining a statistical analysis with a fuzzy set-QCA analysis, and conducting a survey.
In October 2011, Sida's (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) U-landsforskningsråd decided to award Mattias Larsen with SEK 1.57 m for a three-year (2012-14) research grant for a new project entitled "
Abstract: The widespread problem of 'financial exclusion' from formal institutions in developing countries is both a condition trapping people in poverty and a major impediment to economic development. The researchers argue that social capital has an important and still underestimated effect on use of formal financial services. The intention is to increase our understanding by investigating the social dimensions of formal financial services use in India. The objective is to estimate the effect of social capital on FFS use, and to investigate the circumstances under which social capital is responsible for variations in FFS use, utilizing quantitative methods on nationally representative data from India. With an effect of social capital on use of formal finical services, there will be a greater potential to influence uptake and use that previously expected, for example through social marketing efforts.
• Naila Kabeer, was a guest professor (Hasselgren Professorship) at the Centre for Global Gender Studies in 2004 (up to 15 January 2005), but is now back to her ordinary position as Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK. She is however still closely engaged with PADRIGU, and is a member of the board for the Centre for Global Gender Studies.
Kabeer who comes from Bangladesh is a social economist and works primarily on poverty, gender, and social policy issues. She is the author of books such as "Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought" (Vero 1994) and "The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka" (Verso 2000). In 2003 she published "Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals – a handbook for policy makers and other stakeholders" at IDRC Books, the publishing arm of Canada's International Development Research Centre).
Dr. Patrik Oskarsson is affiliated to the School of Global Studies at University of Gothenburg as a Lecturer in Development Studies from the Fall semester 2013. He has a PhD from School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, on a dissertation focusing on the contestation over land use when a bauxite mineral project was proposed in the adivasi areas of northern part of Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. He defended his thesis entitled "The law of the Land Contested: Bauxite Mining in Tribal, Central India in an Age of Economic Reform" in 2010. It is available on the Internet, go for the thesis.
Patrik has also written on Special Economic Zones, irrigation projects and environmental management in collaboration with a number of different civil society groups. His research interest focuses on the political economy of industrialization and economic development in India. Of special interest are the various ways in which poor and marginalized groups in rural India are affected in terms of livelihoods, environmental quality and natural resource base by economic development projects, but also how it is possible for the poor themselves and for public interest groups to mobilize and demand the implementation of rights by making use of the existing national democratic framework and increasingly also international human rights legislation and policies for corporate social responsibility.
His Swedish university background is a MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management at Linköping University in 2000. After that he has worked as volunteer for the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) in New Delhi, and Samata in Hyderabad – an NGO working on tribal welfare issues in Andhra Pradesh. During 2011-12, Patrik Oskarsson worked as a post-doc researcher at Azim Premji University in Bangalore.
In the summer 2103, an article by Patrik Oskarsson in the peer-reviewed South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 36:2(2013). The article is entitled 'Dispossession by Confusion from Mineral-Rich Lands in Central India'.
Abstract: Bauxite mineral projects in central India have in recent years generated conflicts over both the physical environment and equitable development for very vulnerable people. In one such project, a joint venture between the state government of Andhra Pradesh and a private investor, attempts are currently being made to open up land constitutionally reserved for India's Scheduled Tribes. The final outcome, though still uncertain, depends not only on the relative material resources of the opposing parties, but on a drawn-out process of contestation where the discursive resistance to tribal land dispossession has strong historical roots and many active supporters. Thus, for the project's promoters, their advantage rests on their ability to create confusion via superior access to, and control over, information, rather than relying on their direct authority.
On 5 December 2013, Patrik Oskarsson was granted SEK 5.444 million as funding for a project partly focusing on India, entitled "Coal Conflicts: Participatory resource governance for improved sustainability and conflict resolution in India and Mozambique". The four-years grant (2013-16) comes from the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Formas) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). It is one out of seven Swedish research projects addressing sustainability issues in the fields of natural resource use and governance, increased agricultural production, and environmental management in low-income countries. The projects specifically provide mobility grants for young researchers, and they are based both within the social and humanistic sciences as well as the natural sciences, and the overall intention is to contribute to development of new knowledge that will support global sustainable development, and to promote capacity building long-term cooperation between Swedish researchers and researchers in low-income countries. Three of the projects involve research collaboration with partners in India. More information.
Project abstract: This project examines the governance of coal, a resource which is increasingly using up common property land in India and Mozambique, is a source of local and national conflicts as well as being a concern in climate change debates. Specifically it looks at participatory decision-making over land and mineral resources as a possible approach to sustainable development in poverty-affected and politically unstable regions. The project studies empirically two major coal producing areas, Jharkhand state in India and Tete province in Mozambique. These regions represent rural hinterlands of intense poverty with vast deposits of coal. A reduction in violent conflict has improved the possibilities to extract these resources for the benefit of national and international power users in recent years. Control over these vital resources is connected to political influence locally and at higher levels. Can local participation in decisions improve sustainability? Ethnographic fieldwork is planned in the coal-bearing areas but also at higher levels to study decision-making and resource management of coal at regional and national levels and remote sensing images will be used to assess detailed land use changes. The four year project will be carried out at four different institutions to allow wide support in the fields of governance, conflict and natural resource management. It includes collaboration with top researchers in the coal-producing countries and internationally acclaimed experts.
Sandwich programme for PhD candidates from Sri Lanka:
Six PhD candidates from Sri Lanka were accepted in 2003 to join a four years doctoral programme at PADRIGU, run on a sandwich basis with the universities of Peradeniya, Kandy, and Jaffna, and partly financed by the Swedish International Development Agency, Sida/SAREC. The programme started in September 2003, and consisted of three parts; first 10 months fully funded initial stay in Gothenburg, then two years fieldwork in Sri Lanka, and finally a period back in Sweden up till the dissertation.
The PhD candidates connected to the School of Global Studies in 2008 were:
• Dhammika Herath completed a PhD project on the impact of social capital on human development in a war-torn setting in Sri Lanka. On Wednesday 30 May 2008, he defended his doctoral dissertation titled "
Abstract: This study concerns the potential causal relationship between social capital and rural development in war-torn villages in the north of Sri Lanka. The social capital thesis centers on the notion that social relationships matter to development-related outcomes and reconstruction of war-torn societies. This theoretical understanding and the conditions in the north of Sri Lanka motivated the author to apply the concept of social capital to study development in war-torn villages.
In an attempt to understand the causal factors of development, this study builds a research model that takes account of social capital as well as other relevant explanatory factors. Ethnographic information gathered in the study area leads the study to form two hypotheses: bonding social capital causes development; and bridging social capital causes development. The study attempts to determine whether there is a casual relationship, and if such a relationship exists, the nature of it. This study finds that development is a complex phenomenon: social capital cannot entirely account for development, while other explanatory factors, such as natural assets and infrastructure issues, also strongly influence the prospects of development.
The study was conduced in six rural war-torn villages in the north of Sri Lanka in 2005. It involved two phases, spanning a time period of almost one year. The study commenced with a qualitative phase, which included initial observations, collection of official records and brief interviews with key figures in the area. It then conducted close observations, case studies and interviews in the study villages. In the second phase, the study administered a survey to all (416) households in the study villages. The data was analyzed using two computer-based data analysis programs: SPSS and LISREL.
Along with Dr. Mikael Schultz (see above), Dr. Herath participated in the SASNET workshop on "The role of South Asia in the internationalisation of higher education in Sweden" held in Stockholm 28-29 November 2006, where they presented the PhD sandwich system being used at the School of Global Studies, in the workshop session about "South Asian students in soft sciences in Sweden". Read the presentation at the workshop.
In 2009 Dr. Herath moved back to Sri Lanka, and worked as a research fellow at the International Center for Ethnic Studies (ICES) in Colombo. He was involved in organizing the SASNET-funded Sri Lanka Conference on Peace and Development, that was held in Kandy on 23–25 August 2009. More information above.
As of October 2012 Dr. Herath is back at the PADRIGU, School of Global Studies, where he is conducting research on "Corruption and Conflict: Relations and everyday experience" and "Dysfunctional democracies: The case of Sri Lanka".
In Januray 2013 The International Centre for Ethnic Studies in Sri Lanka (ICES) announced the relase of a publication entitled "Healing the Wounds - Rebuilding Sri Lanka after the War", edited by Dr Herath together with Kalinga Tudor Silva, Professor of Sociology at the University of Peradeniya. More information about the book.
• PhD candidate Sachitra Mungali Kumari, Lecturer, Dept of Sociology, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. On Thursday 18 December 2008, Ms. Kumari defended her Licentiate thesis at Gothenburg University. The thesis was titled "
Abstract: The thesis aims to build up an analytical model for studying rehabilitation programmes for children in Sri Lanka, with a view to future research. This area is considered very important, because children's perspectives in the post-war reconstruction efforts can be considered as still a largely invisible subject. On one hand, children's participation in reconstructions decision-making is very rare. On the other hand, children are not receiving adequate attention in this decision-making. For instance, UNESCO (2002) says that most post-conflict situation focuses only on children's short-term needs, and children's development orientation is always neglected. Therefore, the intention is to highlight thinking about how war-affected children can be included in the post-war reconstruction effort in Sri Lanka, and how they can be helped to overcome violent experiences, and to rebuild their lives within the long-term development perspectives. At the same, understand some specific problems that children face due to ongoing war in Sri Lanka, as a bridge for understanding what kinds of problems should be addressed by the rehabilitation programmes.
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• PhD candidate Shanta Wanninayake, Lecturer, Dept of Sociology, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Mr. Wanninayake participated in the 18th European Conference for Modern South Asian Studies, organised by SASNET in Lund in July 2004, presenting a paper titled "
• PhD candidate Doreen Arulanandam, Assistant Lecturer, Dept of Sociology, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. She is working on a dissertation project dealing with the Post-conflict and Reconstruction process in Sri Lanka. At the 2nd Swedish National Conference on Peace Research organised by the School of Global Studies/PADRIGU on behalf of Swedish Network of Peace, Conflict and Development Research in Gothenburg 7–8 September 2006, Doreen Arulanandam presented a paper titled "Women in Social Reconstruction – Multifaceted Engagement in War Ravaged Northern Sri Lanka". Personal web page.
• PhD candidate Shanti Nandana Wijesinghe, Senior Lecturer, from the Dept of Sociology, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, working on a doctoral thesis on "
• PhD candidate Bahirathy Jeeweshwara, Assistant Lecturer, Dept of Sociology, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
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Mat Langford's Gaming World – Tomb Raider
Admittedly, I've not been a huge fan of the Tomb Raider series. I've played a few of the older titles, and I have the collection on Steam, but it's never been much more than a filler in my gaming library; a series that 'I'll play through one day'.
That being said, I was immediately intrigued at the early mentions of a TR reboot, one that would show us the origin story of our historically disproportionate heroine and give her more of a gritty, vulnerable feel. The final product, simply called Tomb Raider, is not only a staggeringly beautiful action adventure game, but its combination of visuals, stealth/action gameplay and story also serves to reinvigorate a series and a character that were becoming stale.
Biff Bam Pop's Holiday Gift Guide – Hands On With The PS4
Sony recently released it's new console, the Playstation 4, and it's quickly becoming clear to the early adopters that Tretton and co. have stepped up their game when it comes to features, gameplay and flat-out pleasing the gamer market. With upgrades to almost every component, the PS4 is now the system to beat in the next-gen console war. Find out more after the jump. Read the rest of this entry
Mat Langford's Gaming World – A Grand Theft Auto Retrospective
The first new entry in the Grand Theft Auto series in over 5 years, GTA V, hits shelves on September 17, 2013. One of the most anticipated games in recent memory, it has gamers salivating over speculation, screenshots and videos teasing everything from a new 3-character story arc, beautiful hi-def visuals and a brilliant bustling city to the coveted Shack on the Hill – which (unless the droves of Reddit users have their way and make Rockstar bow to their demands) has still yet to be confirmed to contain anything at all.
So in light of the release of GTA V, let's look back on the GTA series as a whole, and peel back the layers on one of the most influential, controversial and enduring franchises in video game history.
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Mat Langford's Gaming World – Grand Theft Auto Online reveal
The GTA V Multiplayer was just revealed in a short video released by Rockstar this morning, and it's looking like we have a winner on our hands.
Rockstar claims that its GTA Online is all about "having fun and getting into trouble", and the trailer described exactly that.
According to Rockstar, "You can run around on your own, making friends and enemies, or band together and form a crew and tackle a heist, rob a liquor store, or compete in classic online modes. Complete any job and you'll earn money and reputation that allows you to further customize your character, including their outfit, weapon of choice, and favorite vehicle.
As you make some real money, maybe you'll buy an apartment so friends can stop by and hang out. Or buy a garage, fill it with custom vehicles, and then take them racing by land, air or sea, or simply cruise around, showing off. Everything you do helps you progress through the world, introducing you to new characters, mission, rewards and almost limitless opportunities.
Rockstar will be constantly developing more content for you to enjoy, but you'll also be able to design your own races, and death matches using the content creator. Then you can share them with friends and the world or try ones other people have made. Grand Theft Auto online brings the freedom of the GTA experience to multiple players in a dynamic shard world. "
So it's basically a huge open world, with limitless potential, user-created content that anyone can access and a virtually unlimited potential for mayhem and destruction with co-op missions. Round this out with extremely deep character customization, property and vehicle customization and ownership, as well as a leveling system based on not only mission completion but online bad-assery, this is shaping up to be potentially one of the most fun online multi-player experiences yet!
Stay tuned for more details as they arise, and let us know if you're excited in the comments below!
Mat Langford's Gaming World – Call of Duty: Ghosts Multiplayer revealed
The Call of Duty: Ghosts multi-player was revealed today, and here are some of the details:
First and foremost, the game's single player, multi-player, co-op and second screen all run at 60 FPS on all platforms, both current gen and next-gen.
Ghosts features 7 new game modes, including Cranked (similar to TD, when you get a kill, you become faster, reload faster, but you gain a 'countown clock' that kills you unless you kill someone else in a certain time limit) and Search and Rescue (when you die, you drop a tag, if an ally picks it up you re-spawn, but if an enemy picks it up, you die).
There are also 30+ new weapons and a new weapon class called "Marksman", which bridges the gap between the Sniper class and the Assault class, giving you long range guns that can be used as scoped semi-automatic sniper rifles or as an iron-sight ranged weapon similar to the M1 in the original Call of Duty and COD 2.
There are also 20 new kill streaks, and an all new animation system that will change they way the game looks from a character movement perspective. New movements including contextual leaning, knee slides and Mantling will allow the player to move around maps like never before.
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Porkchop Sandwiches: A look at the infamous G.I. Joe PSA parodies.
If you grew up watching the G.I. Joe cartoons in the late 80's, you're most likely familiar with the PSA's at the end that taught safety and life lessons. What you may or may not know is that way off in a small corner of the internet back in 2003, Eric Fensler and his company Fenslerfilms started making parodies of these PSA's, and they're still a HUGE hit over a decade later! The clips were re-workings of the original PSA's, with new voice-overs and sometimes changes in the animation or some creative editing. They were just the normal safety hazard situations, with a new dialogue that changed the scenes' dynamic – and often made them hilariously awkward and creepy.
Mat Langford's Gaming World – Injustice: Gods Among Us – Preview
I've watched a lot of clips and read a lot of articles online regarding Injustice: Gods Among Us. I'll admit, it has my attention. It touts impressive graphics, an immersive story-line and what lookslike awesome, interactive and often multi-arena battles. The roster is chock full of your favourite DC characters including – but not limited to – Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Bane…it's pretty much an amalgamation of the entire DC universe into one game.
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The tentative agreement between Mayor Bill de Blasio and the city's teachers union cleared a significant hurdle Friday, but some budget watchdogs are questioning whether a key provision of the deal, to cut health care costs, will actually work. NY1's Grace Rauh filed the following report.
The teachers' union contract agreement is a little closer to being enacted. On Friday, the leaders of the Municipal Labor Council approved the part of the plan they have a say over: the portion dealing with health care savings.
It is that part of the deal, however, that is generating a good deal of questions.
"There's a lot that we don't know about exactly how the health care cost savings materialize," said James Parrott of the Fiscal Policy Institute. "Undoubtedly, there will be a lot of changes in the way benefits, health care services, are provided."
The contract agreement is based on the assumption that the teachers' union will agree to more than $1 billion in health care savings, but the plan does not specifically state how they will be achieved.
Teachers have not been asked to contribute to their health care plans. Instead, there are a number of other proposals meant to save money that the union can consider adopting, such as centralizing drug purchases or having teachers obtain non-emergency care at less-costly facilities.
"It is about getting at the underlying growth of health care costs and trying to reform the system to reduce the costs and provide good quality health care at a lower cost," said Mayor Bill de Blasio. "We're convinced there's ways to do it."
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In the comfort of the therapist's office parents will sometimes feel safe enough to reveal their inner most unspoken thoughts about their children. Parents often experience a tremendous sense of shame and guilt associated with their negative thoughts. The risk of allowing these thoughts to emerge within themselves and be spoken to another person is enormous for the average parent and yet essential for a healthy and positive parent-child connection. Here are 6 taboo thoughts that parents have:
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By now, you have probably watched the final episode of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, which aired on Friday night, or at least you have seen clips of it on-line. What is there to say? Conan O'Brien is still very young, incredibly famous, and a multi-millionaire. He is going to be fine, no duh. But the show was genuinely bittersweet (and genuinely a huge success, with approximately 7 million viewers on a Friday night) and Conan's farewell speech (above) is a demonstration of why the outcome of the Late Night Wars is so disheartening. One imagines that if it was Jay Leno's final episode, he would thank himself for entertaining us, thank Monica Lewinsky one last time, and then wave regally from the driver's "basket" of one of his manure-fueled 15th century "corn-and-mud" jalopies as he drove to the bank to pick up that day's residual check. Or maybe he would just trot out a thousand children and take credit for their lives. It's all speculation. But we do know how Conan ended his tenure at the famous desk, and that was with grace, humility, and good humor. And "Freebird."
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i dunno, i think conan could have used more dancing itos.
I'm with Coco(a Krispies).
His farewell at the end was top-notch class.
I think everyone in the Videogum Chat that night teared up just a bit. But the ending was some of the best television EVAR!!!
i'm not sure if it is possible to top "free bird" as a way to end the show. it was awesome and random and strange and perfect.
This week NBC are going to run repeat episodes of the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. Anyone else think that there is no way that they will repeat shows from the last two weeks?
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The whole time I was thinking More cowbell, and then BAM Ferrell delivered ultimate style.
Was I the only one who played the Conan O'Brien drinking game that we all got so excited about?
I mean, I think I played it. The evening's a little hazy.
i think the fossil of a giant ground sloth spraying barracuda caviar onto an original picasso really summed things up well. see you in september, coco.
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Good night you sweet prince of harvard educated millionaire individual that will be able to do fine his own but still decided to force the millions they wasted on you to still divert to your 200+ employees and I hope they find comfort until you return in September on a different network, probably FOX. Fuck the masturbating bear he is overrated let NBC keep him
It was sobfest 2010 in my dorm room the last 15 minutes. Also, Free Bird at the end was genius and hilariously poetic, what an incredible way to go out, Coco.
I heart you Videogum
I wasn't crying. It was just raining. On my face.
As if you all haven't already seen every piece of internet art…still, I love that Conan has inspired a meme with a great message that's not in Lolcat.
"Nothing gold can stay." -Robert Frost
I couldn't tell if my tears at the end of this episode were genuine or as a result of me watching at 4am after drinking about a dozen glasses of boxed Chablis. Either way, bravo Conan!
*slow clap* Bravo, Conan.
"Long May You Run" was an ironic song choice considering it was written about a car. I liked it anyway.
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Best ending anyone could have asked for. I'd like to think (in my own dillusional mind) that he was picturing my sign when he said thanks for the signs. See u in 7 months coco!
I did get weepy eyed, and it was perfectly funny and touching, but now I have this hole in my heart. Are late night show supposed to do that?
I love me a good Conan speech. It's better than therapy in getting this cold, dead heart of stone to feel something.
I'll admit it, when he started to get choked up, I was definitely crying all over my couch. It feels weird that he isn't on late night anymore. He's been there for pretty much my whole life. Fingers crossed for a new show!
"We're going to have fun on television tonight!">>>"They will never take… our freedom!!!"
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