Justice, Protection, and Government of the People: A Two-Year
Research and Orientation Programme on Protection and Democracy in a Post-COVID
World (2021-2023)
Winter Camp of Young Scholars and Activists (Youth Meet)
A Youth Meet: Crafting Peace & Justice Politics Today
The world is going through a turbulent time, not just suffice to say of resource crisis, of wars and violence but also a crisis of ideology that has even a deeper impact on our lives as one might say war accompanies peace, crisis accompanies abundance in a cyclical force of time of varying dimensions and lengths but a change in the outlook of society or crisis of ideology is more venomous and sometimes irreversible. It's a ditch that nation-states make without a return path as it is easy to wedge a war but it is difficult to alter the mindset of society that not even a war can change. And incidents across the world whether it is the women's right to suffrage, abortion, education, or LGBTQIA+ rights of equal citizenship, expendable lives of the outcastes and many more such hierarchisation of rights, the twenty-first century have slowly started to shed off its many legacies of planning democracy, republicanism that decolonisation of twentieth century entailed. The unwritten clarions of separatism and exclusivism have led to a divided society. Such realisations entail the girder of who belongs and who does not. And it is this disjuncture or faultlines that numerous individuals, civil society organisations, and to some extent certain state agencies try to cement the gap; although they might not have been able to create a valley of equal status, attempt to create a staircase to achieve the vision of equal rights.
As the world and the foundational ideas of modern society, that of liberty, equality and fraternity are in disarray, and the future is blur than ever before, we gather our minds and strengths together here in Darjeeling to reflect and recollect with the warmth in our hearts, that blades of an egalitarian society will one day bloom. The three-day Youth Meet on "Crafting Peace and Justice Politics Today" organized by Calcutta Research Group and the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna from 25-27 January 2023 in Darjeeling will attempt to reflect, recollect and discuss the social experiments of peace and politics of justice today.
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