Researcher: Ranabir Samaddar
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Ph.D. (Political Science), Calcutta University
M.A. (Political Science), Calcutta University
B.A. (hons. in Political Science), Calcutta University
UNESCO Network of Philosophers (2006-)
ICSSR Review Committee Expert Body of PANOS Institute, media centre, Northeast International Network for Studies on Autonomy for Ethnic Groups (2004-)
Institute of Historical Studies, Calcutta West Bengal Political Science Association (1984-)
Member of the leading group for EU supported collective research and documentation programme on standard setting in the protection of minority rights (2008-)
Head of a collective research and documentation programme on patterns of social justice in India (2006-)
Joint coordinator of a three year research and conference programme to be jointly conducted with the International College of Philosophy (Paris) and Calcutta Research Group (2005-)
Currently working on the theoretical implications of the argument for taking seriously the materiality of politics and the emergence of the political subject – and in that perspective studying selected areas in law and the dynamics of justice, particularly constitutional origins of some of the political injustices in South Asia (2003-)
Evaluator of the Dialogue Book published by the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) at Sweden and the UNDP (2006)
Head of a 2 year research programme on patterns of autonomy in India (2003-2005)
Designed and directed regional peace studies programme which included designing public audits of peace, developing audit methodology, and holding South Asian peace studies orientation courses at regional level and national level (1999-2003)
Just completed work on the political dynamics of dialogue in the time of war and peace in South Asia that includes studies of (i) pluralities and partition, (ii) geopolitics and democracy, (iii) plural dialogues, (iv) politics of accommodation, (v) minority rights and forms of autonomy, (vi) politics of ceasefires, (vii) refugees and the politics of care, hospitality, and kindness, and (viii) received histories of war and peace (1999-)
