Themes/Sub-themes at a Glance

Each theme will constitute one or more sub-themes and panels. Each panel will run for about two hours. Three to four presentations of 15-20 minutes each will be followed by a dialogue with the audience at the end.

Abstracts followed by papers are invited for the sub-themes under the major themes as explained below.

Contact information of the panel organizers and their email addresses are also provided to facilitate communication between the potential speaker and the respective panel organizer.

The following issues will be discussed during this year's SDC.

I. Women’s/Gender Issues

1. Displacement, livelihoods and rights: Gendered experiences
   Panel Organizer: Saba Gul Khattak, Executive Director, SDPI
   Email: saba@sdpi.org
2. Gendered violence and positive masculinities in South Asia
   Panel Organizer: Saba Gul Khattak, Executive Director, SDPI
   Email: saba@sdpi.org
3. Linking our past to the future: Women, education and social reform
   Panel Organizer: Ahmed Salim, Director Urdu Publications/Research Associate, SDPI
   Email: salim@sdpi.org
4. Women mystic/sufi poets: Dissenting voices from South Asia
   Panel Organizer: Ahmad Salim, Director Urdu Publications/Research Associate, SDPI
   Email: salim@sdpi.org

II. Livelihoods

1. South Asian livelihoods at risk
2. Earthquake: Disaster management in the context of Pakistan
   Panel Organizers: Shahid Minhas, Training Associate, SDPI
   Email: minhas@sdpi.org
   Shahbaz Bokhari, Survey Coordinator, SDPI
   Email: shahbaz@sdpi.org
3. Natural Resource Management (NRM): Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS)
   Panel Organizer: Abid Qayyum Suleri, Assistant Executive Director, SDPI
   Email: suleri@sdpi.org

III. WTO and Governance

1. Is privatisation of basic services in favor of human development in South Asia?
   Panel Organizers: Karin Astrid Siegmann, Junior Research Fellow, SDPI
   Email: karin@sdpi.org
   Abid Qayyum Suleri, Assistant Executive Director, SDPI
   Email: suleri@sdpi.org
2. South Asian textile trade in the post-quota era: Human development implications of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC)
   Panel organisers: Karin Astrid Siegmann, Junior Research Fellow, SDPI
   Email: karin@sdpi.org
   Foqia Sadiq Khan, Visiting Research Associate, SDPI
   Email: foqia.khan@gmail.com
3. Linkages of trade with development and poverty reduction
   Panel Organizer: Abid Qayyum Suleri, Assistant Executive Director, SDPI
   Email: suleri@sdpi.org
4. Environmental/Green Accounting
   Panel Organizers: Abid Qayyum Suleri, Assistant Executive Director, SDPI
   Email: suleri@sdpi.org
   Mohammad Yasin, Advisor, Capacity Building, SDPI
   E-mail: yasin@sdpi.org

IV. Health

1. Critical issues in Pakistan’s health and health care
   Panel Organizer: Shafqat Shehzad, Research Fellow (Health), SDPI
   Email: shafqat@sdpi.org
2. Children’s health and environment
   Panel Organizer: Mahmood A. Khwaja, Research Fellow, SDPI
   Email: khwaja@sdpi.org

V. Peace and People's Rights

1. Religious Minorities: 1947 violence and relief work
   Panel Organizer: Ahmad Salim, Director Urdu Publications/Research Associate, SDPI
   Email: salim@sdpi.org
2. Religious minorities: Post partition struggle and contributions
   Panel Organizer: Ahmad Salim, Director Urdu Publications/Research Associate, SDPI
   Email: salim@sdpi.org
3. Linking our past to the future: The regional voices (Pashtun, Baloch, Sindhi, Punjabi)
   Panel Organizer: Ahmad Salim, Director Urdu Publications/Research Associate, SDPI
   Email: salim@sdpi.org
4. Linking our past to the future: The concept of ‘other’
   Panel Organizer: Ahmad Salim, Director Urdu Publications/Research Associate, SDPI
   Email: salim@sdpi.org
5. Students in political mobilization
   Panel Organizer: Ahmad Salim, Director Urdu Publications/Research Associate, SDPI
   Email: salim@sdpi.org
6. Human security issues in South Asia--Concept and realties
   Panel Organizer: Saleem Shah, Research Associate, SDPI
   Email: saleemshah@sdpi.org
7. History through the lens: Cinematic depiction of people’s rights
   Panel Organizers: Uzma T. Haroon, Conference Coordinator, SDPI
   Email: uzma@sdpi.org
   Shamil Shams, SDC Consultant, SDPI
   Email: Shamil@sdpi.org

VI. Child labor

Panel organizer: Shahbaz Bokhari, Survey Coordinator, SDPI
Email: shahbaz@sdpi.org