Category: Announcements
New fellowship for journalists to study NE and work outside the region
The Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research has pleasure in announcing the CNES-Setu Media National Fellowship, a program aimed at enabling metro media journalists as well as those from the North East of India to research, understand and communicate on issues relating to the North East as well as in other parts of [...]
North East Perspective: The way forward
[Remarks delivered at Pinewood Hotel, Shillong, Oct. 8, 2004, on Shifting Cultivation Regional Policy Dialogue Workshop for the Eastern Himalayas.] Mr. Taori, Mr. Dazeley, Dr. Campbell, Dr. Sharma and friends at ICIMOD, IFAD, Moses Chaki, the teams from Lead India and Missing Link who have facilitated this conference. Let me express my gratitude to you [...]
Lecture series in New Delhi, Assam, Meghalaya
Beginning in February 2000, C-NES in collaboration with the India International Centre has organized a series of public lectures and seminars to sensitize influential figures in Delhi and the public about some concerns of the North East. These have included seminars on The Media under Pressure in the North East (39 editors and top journalists [...]
Workshops across India
C-NES is conducting a series of workshops in major metros to impart information about the North East, share perceptions, experiences and challenges and in the process build bridges of understanding between the region and the rest of India. This is seen as an opportunity for the region to stop complaining about its ‘treatment’ by others [...]
Visit of Prof. Imtiaz Ahmed of Bangladesh to Guwahati and Shillong
Prof. Ahmed, one of Bangladesh?s leading political scientists and scholars, traveled on Guwahati and Shillong to deliver two lectures on ?Bangladesh and the North-East ? problems and opportunities: a view from Dhaka? on September 6 and 8, 2004 respectively. Prof. Ahmed, a former head of the Dept. of International Affairs, of Dhaka University spoke of [...]
Visit of IDE (Japan)
C-NES is collaborating with a leading Japanese think-tank, Institute for Developing Economics, of the Japan External Trade Organization, in a study on the economies of the states of the region, their linkages with neighbouring countries and with New Delhi and the future of the NER with specific reference to the growing economies of South East [...]
Visit of Ford Foundation team to Assam
The Ford Foundation, New Delhi, expressed an interest in the work of C-NES along the Brahmaputra and a team visited our research sites at Dibrugarh, Majuli, Guwahati and also went to Kukuramara, near Guwahati. The visit was planned and coordinated by Managing Trustee Sanjoy Hazarika the entire Brahmaputra research team also traveled to these sites. [...]
Colloquium on Planning and Perspectives in the North East Region
The Department of Development for the North Eastern Region (DoNER) approached C-NES to put together a workshop on ways of restructuring the mechanism of governance and policy planning in the North East region at both the macro and micro levels and to thrash out a future path for the North Eastern Council (NEC) in the [...]
Northeast Media Exchange Programme 2003
The Seventh North East Media Exchange programme invites applications for six fellowships: four for journalists from the Northeast (Outward Fellowships) and two from other parts of India (Inward Fellowships). Eligibility I. A print journalist must include clippings of six major articles published in the past one year in an English or any other regional language [...]
Journalists express concern about pressures on media
Participants at the conference expressed concern about such pressures, and called upon all governments and organisations in the Northeast to respect the essential right of journalists and media persons in the Northeast region to report accurately on issues affecting the region without fear or favour. The conference, having heard from the personal experiences of senior [...]
Sanjoy Hazarika discusses the film in Frankfurt with the head of the
Indo-German Friendship Association at a meeting while Ms. Caroline
Bertram of the Asia Department of the Boll Foundation listens
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‘Conflicts in the Northeas,t Internal and external effects’ edited by Sanjoy Hazarika and V.R. Raghavan, is a outcome of three years research project ‘ Internal conflicts and transnational consequences’ by Centre for Security Analysis, Chennai supported by Mac Arthur Foundation. To procure this book please contact C-nes or Centre for Security Analysis (www.csa-chennai.org).

