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8th SDC Poster

 

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

 

 

 
Department for International Development (DFID)
Delegation of the European Commission to Pakistan (EU Delegation)
Heinrich Boll Foundation (HBL)
Action Aid Pakistan (AAP)
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Gender Equality Project (GEP)
South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment (SAWTEE)
PAK/03/013 UN Trade Initiatives from Human Development Perspective (TIHP)

 

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