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Some of the Main Objectives are:
To develop a group of scholar-activists to engage in policy studies particularly relating to the east and the north east of India and the sub-continent on themes of justice, dignity, forms of democracy, conflict resolution, peace and human rights, Diaspora, refugee studies, internal displacement, borders, boundaries, partitions, and the broad issues of forced migration;
To sponsor or commission studies based on research, translation or compilation relating to the above-mentioned themes of policy interest;
To foster academic and cultural contacts by broadening the network on related policy matters in the east and north-east;
To focus on legal-constitutional aspects of problems relating to resolution of conflicts, ensuring human rights, and decentralization;
To organise dialogues among scholars and activists in the east and the northeast on issues of peace, human rights, and democracy;
To organize, undertake and promote publications, audio-visual documentation, seminars, workshops, and campaigns on the said policy matters as inputs to various public bodies, human rights forums, peace organisations, and parallel publications; And make gender and justice as marks in all these pursuit
While pursuing its researches, CRG
has been successful in bringing together a group of like-minded scholars and
academics and maintaining the distinctive group character. With the kind of
research outputs to its credit and the database accumulated over the years on
the subject of its focus, it can truly claim itself to be a resource centre only
of its kind in the east and the northeast. CRG has been functioning with
enviable track record beyond the established system of higher education in the
country. In Calcutta it is again the only voluntary association of eminent
intellectuals and dynamic young researchers working on policies and issues of
peace, conflict resolution, human rights, and democracy.
The members of the CRG are
acclaimed academics and professionals in their respective fields; they are noted
researchers, teachers, journalists, communicators, publishers, editors, and
women’s rights activists. While their individual work is well known in
respective fields, their collective association on a voluntary basis in form of
a research group has given CRG’s distinctive character. Members were originally
from the city of Kolkata, which explains its name, but its partnership is with
many colleagues and institutions in India and elsewhere. Willing individuals,
groups, and institutions from outside can also apply for associational membership