Call For Papers For An Edited Book HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMAN SECURITY: PERSPECTIVES ON SOUTH ASIA
Human rights form a significant and integral part of the human security discourse. The latter has expanded significantly in post-Cold war scenario. South Asia, which cradles mostly post-colonial and post-partition states, embraces the complex relationship between human rights and human security with a great deal of reluctance. The two great indices of human rights—freedom from fear and freedom from want are hardly in great shape in the South Asian countries where there is a great deal of political turmoil and unrest in recent times. The rights of the downtrodden, the minorities, women and Dalits are violated with impunity in most South Asian nations. Populist notions of established regimes are hell-bent on following their arbitrary governance patterns that have taken heavy toll on human lives. This has become more prominent during the present pandemic. South Asia is therefore a region of endless contradictions where non-traditional security interests are manifested to prominence. The challenge of this book is to infuse fresh insights in academia and embark on the journey into the difficult research terrain of human rights and human security in South Asian countries. It aims to embrace the varied voices on rights and security discourse in South Asia. Security Studies is not monolithic. This edited book tries to survey and showcase through various polemical essays human security identifiers through the exploration of primacy of human rights.
The themes that the book intends to explore are (but not limited to):
- Re-reading the South Asian Security Discourse
- Minority rights in South Asia
- Religious freedom in South Asia
- Political Violence in South Asia
- Dalit rights in South Asia
- Human Rights and constitutional foundings in South Asia
- Freedom from Want in South Asia
- Freedom from Need in South Asia
- Identifying the victims, duty-bearers and mechanisms of human rights
- Civil and Political Rights as a Strategic Tool in South Asian countries.
The book will be edited by Dr Koyel Basu (Assistant Professor, Jangipur College, Kalyani University and Visiting Fellow, Nepal Institute for International Co-operation and Engagement) and Dr Pramod Jaiswal (Research Director, Nepal Institute for International Co-operation and Engagement) and it will be published by reputed publishers.
Those who are interested please send your abstract (200-300 words), and brief bio of the author (of 100 words) before 10 November 2021 to email: niicebookproject@niice.org.np
The complete chapter has to be submitted before 15 December 2021 and the length of the paper should be between 5000-6000 words. Please use Harvard citations format for referencing and avoid footnotes and endnotes.
Nepal Institute of International Co-operation and Engagement
Kathmandu, Nepal.
Email: niicebookproject@niice.org.np
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