Sixth Annual Winter Course on Forced Migration, Calcutta: Winter Course
Applications 2008 Notification
It is our pleasure to inform you of the upcoming Sixth Annual Winter
Course on Forced Migration organised by Calcutta Research Group,
certified by the UNHCR and supported by the Government of Finland and
the Brookings Institution. Developed through last few years as a
programme on human rights and peace education, the course has gained
recognition in the region of South Asia as one of the most well known
educational programmes on issues of rights and justice relating to the
victims of forced migration. The winter course is aimed at scholars and
educationists working on issues of rights and justice, functionaries of
humanitarian organisations, national human rights institutions, peace
studies scholars and activists, and minority groups, refugee
communities, and women’s rights activists. The course includes a 15-day
orientation course on Forced Migration to be held in Kolkata, India
(1-15 December 2008) and also will be preceded by a two and a half month
long programme of distance education.
A full description of the course and application procedure is outlined
below. Application forms are available online at www.mcrg.ac.in and the
application deadline is 31 May 2008. If you have any further queries,
please contact the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group directly via their
website (www.mcrg.ac.in) or email ([log in to unmask]).
Thanking you,
Yours sincerely,
Ranabir Samaddar
Director
Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group
GC 45 Sector III First Floor
Salt Lake
Kolkata -700106
Phone no : 23370408
Fax No : 23371523
Website:www.mcrg.ac.in
Sixth Winter Course on Forced Migration
Applications are invited for a 15-day orientation course on Forced
Migration to be held in Kolkata, India (1-15 December 2008). The
short-term winter course, organised each year by the Mahanirban Calcutta
Research Group, will be preceded by a two and a half month long
programme of distance education. The course is intended for younger
academics, refugee activists and others working in the field of human
rights and humanitarian assistance for victims of forced displacement.
The curriculum will deal with themes of nationalism, ethnicity,
partition, and partition-refugees, national regimes and the
international regime of protection, political issues relating to
regional trends in migration in South Asia, internal displacement, the
gendered nature of forced migration and protection framework, resource
politics, environmental degradation, and several other issues related to
the forced displacement of people. The course will put emphasis on the
experiences of displacement, creative writings on refugee life, critical
legal and policy analysis, and analysis of relevant notions such as
vulnerability, care, risk, protection, return and settlement. The course
will include fieldwork and other exercises. For content and structure of
past courses, please consult the Archives section of the CRG website at
http://www.mcrg.ac.in/winter.htm.
Applicants must have (a) 3 years experience in the work of protection of
the victims of forced displacement, OR hold a post-graduate degree in
Social Sciences and (b) proficiency in English. Besides giving all
necessary particulars, application must be accompanied by an appropriate
recommendation letter and a 500-1000 word write-up on how the programme
is relevant to the applicant's work and may benefit the applicant.
Selected candidates from South Asia will have to pay INR 5000 each as
registration fee (from outside South Asia the fee is US $ 500). CRG will
bear accommodation and other course expenses for all participants.
Applications, addressed to the Course Coordinator, can be sent by e-mail
to [log in to unmask] or by post, and must reach the
following address by 31 May 2008:
Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group
GC-45, First Floor,
Sector-III
Salt Lake City
Kolkata-700 106
West Bengal
India
For details visit our web site http://www.mcrg.ac.in/wc05.htm. Inquiries
relating to the application procedure are welcome.
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