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- UPCOMING WEBINAR: "Is India climate-change ready?"
UPCOMING WEBINAR: "Is India climate-change ready?"
On Thursday, April 4, 2024 from 9:30AM to 10:30AM EDT, NESA Center alumna Shanthie Mariet D'Souza is hosting a one-hour Zoom discussion that will explore India's preparedness for climate change.
This webinar is sponsored by the South Asia Section of the American Society for Public Administration (SASPA), the School of Public Policy (SPP) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Mantraya Institute of Strategic Studies (MISS).
Dr. Shanthie Mariet D’Souza is a Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Chair at the School of Public Policy, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Founder and President of Mantraya (MISS); Visiting Faculty at the Naval War College in Goa; and a Non-Resident Scholar at the MEI, Washington, D.C. She has worked on issues of countering insurgencies and violent extremism; climate change; water and energy security; women, peace, and conflict resolution; state building in fragile states; human security; geopolitical trends in Asia; India’s foreign, maritime, and security policy. She has conducted field research in Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, Africa, Australia, Jammu and Kashmir, and India’s Northeast.
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