Teaching and Research on Peace Studies in India: emerging Issues and Concerns

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Abstract

Peace Studies has developed as a discipline with an alternative epistemology and ontology as compared to the disciplines like international relations and security studies. Though its emphasis is on inter-disciplinary as well as participation from the grassroots for the creation of knowledge, yet the discipline needs considerable enrichment with interventions from the global South. This paper discusses some of the problems faced by the discipline in India. Scholars face the tremendous challenge of countering the binaries created between the global North and South in course of the debate on the spurt of intrastate conflicts in the developing world. The research on peace in the global South faces several infrastructural constraints, a factor which has impacted the research environment in the country. In light of these challenges, the paper offers some suggestions on how to improve the research, teaching, and pedagogy of the discipline in India

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Published: 2019-12-31
Issue: Volume - 5 (2019)
Section: Article

Authors

Dr. Ritambhara Malaviya

Author Biography

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science,
Kamala Nehru College
University of Delhi

Keywords

Peace Studies, Conflict Resolution, global South, pedagogy, Peace research