The SAPRA India Foundation launches a new research initiative to learn from coexistence failures and successes.
The failure to coexist is at the root of most contemporary conflicts both between nations and within them. As the world is becoming more global with mass migration of people and tight integration of economies, the urgency of learning to coexist is rapidly increasing. India is a unique experiment: it is perhaps one of the only nation-state held together not by any common ethnic, linguistic or religious factor but by the notion that heterogeneous people can coexist. Though there have been many failures of coexistence within India, there are many success stories as well. India also has a bewildering variety of people. It is urgently required to document the successes and failures of coexistence amongst these communities. India has to a large extent succeeded in developing a viable model of coexistence. We need to study this model carefully and examine whether it could hold lessons for mankind as a whole. Read details.
Last event: India Political Briefing: Uttar Pradesh Elections 2007India's most populous and politically important state, Uttar Pradesh, is to go to the polls in April this year. What are the issues involved? Which political combination is ahead? Who could be the state's next chief minister and how would all this impact upon the Central Government at New Delhi? These are some of the questions that were discussed by key members of the four principal political parties in UP, viz. the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress at our "India Political Briefing" session held on 2 February 2007 9000 Hours at the India International centre (IIC).
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Donations:
The SAPRA India Foundation seeks corporate donations during the
calendar year 2007. We need to raise Rs 7.25 lakhs through
corporate and personal donations. Donours would get to advertise
freely at our seminars and roundtables. Donours would also get free
advertisements in our bulletin. Minimum contribution for corporate
involvement would be Rs 25,000.
The Foundation encourages scholars in the areas of political & security risk, terrorism, foreign affairs and military studies to apply for a 6-month stint as a visiting research fellow in Greater Noida, a suburb of New Delhi.