IDSAsr Award

Guru Arjan Dev Institute of Development Studies(IDSAsr), Amritsar has planned to organize two days 8th IDSAsr National Seminar on the theme Education for Sustainable Development: Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Challenges on November 24-25,2017. Seminar aimed to reorient education towards sustainability, which in turn had the potential to impact the way people think. The seminar will help to equip people with knowledge of and skills in sustainable development, making them more competent and confident while at the same time increasing their opportunities for leading healthy and productive lifestyles in harmony with nature and with concern for social values, gender equity and cultural diversity. Contributions of all the players in the field are of utmost importance. Keeping in view your vast expertise in the field, it will be highly appreciated if you please contribute our though provoking paper for presentation and discussion at the seminar. All interested are requested to submit their papers before October 2017 end. However, early submission will help us to planned its publication schedule in a better manner. You are also requested to gave wide publicity to this call for papers among your network for greater deliberation at the same and to bring out a wide policy for sustainable development hence SDG-4. Looking forward for an early date response. With warm personal regards Yours sincerely (Dr Gursharan Singh Kainth)

A multidisciplinary faculty: The Institute has a body of researchers from a variety of academic backgrounds working in different areas. These include standard economic sub-disciplines such as microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics, and special areas such as agricultural policy analysis, industry studies, energy and environment studies, applied general equilibrium modelling, and studies of poverty and rural development.

It gives me enormous gratification and great privilege while approaching a person of letter like you who has great exposure in DEVELOPMENTAL STUDIES. It gives me immense pleasure to INVITE YOU to contribute A RESEARCH PAPER for the biannual edition of this Global Journal of INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES (IJDS) is a peer-reviewed multi disciplinary journal. With our inception in 2009 we have successfully brought out five numbers with substantial papers, articles and manuscripts in our Journal. The themes are multidisciplinary in every Edition of " DEVELOPMENT STUDIES ". It includes all the areas of Multidisciplinary concerns and advances currently being discussed around the world. This publication expands the frontiers of the body of knowledge regarding the impact of development economies, assisting researchers and practitioners to work out more effectual systems for managing the human development. The forthcoming issue would be an attempt to reach out to the academicians, industry professionals, policy makers, citizens, opinion leaders, media persons working on the issues related to economy. This provides opportunity to scholars to knock their intellectual capacities for personal and professional expansion. The Journal is going to cater a huge number of articles. There are lot of academicians and working professionals from India as well as other part of the world who are directly as well as indirectly associated with it. The theme can be from any field. The Editorial Team of this journal is a battery of well-established academics with substantial publication. I request you to submit abstract (250 words in Times New Roman) with full paper of at least 10 to 15 pages and sent it by e-mail/CD and a hard copy by post as early as possible up to 30th April for our June volume and 30th October for December volume for our numbers eagerly awaited all over India and outside India. We shall be highly grateful to you for kind cooperation and help extended by you towards the mission of expanding knowledge undertaken by International Journal of Development Studies (IJDS) ISSN: 0975-5799. The Journal welcomes expressions of all shades and opinions.

International Transactions in Operational Research, 2004

This is the second time a special section of International Transactions in Operational Research is being devoted to papers related to the IFORS OR for Development Prize Competition and I am again pleased to be the editor of the special section of the journal. The IFORS OR for Development Prize Competition is held along with the IFORS triennial meetings. This prize is awarded to encourage, recognize and reward outstanding work related to operations research (OR) in development. The papers submitted for the prize should also have relevance to the development process of developing countries. At IFORS 1984 in Washington, DC, it was decided to have a forum for encouraging applications of operational research in developing countries. Based on this, a prize competition was started in IFORS 1987 in Buenos Aires. Subsequently, IFORS Prize Competitions were held

Decennial Activity Report of the Academy of Grassroots Studies and Research of India (AGRASRI) presents the complete picture of the activities and programmes of the AGRASRI over a period of decade, i.e., from 2002 to 2012.

This article explores conflict prevention and peacebuilding efforts in South Sudan since it became independent in 2011 after an exercise of referendum. The article argues that, through an in-depth analysis of South Sudan's conflict prevention strategies a strong and stable South Sudanese state could be established by national, and external partners. The different conflict prevention measures adopted and implemented by parties include the Comprehensive

This journal was the first of its kind at Vidyasagar University when I joined in the first week of December 1985. We thought of a social science journal and pledged to fight against overspecialisation. Dr.Tarun Kumar Banerjee(Political Science) was the main thinker and worker towards its publication. Dr.Ambarish Mukherjee(Political Science), Dr.Samkar Bhowmick(Economics) and I from Anthropology formed the nucleus of this effort. Our other aim was to focus on the district of erstwhile Medinipur, its society, economy and politics. Interestingly, all the three of us were not the 'son of the soil' but were dedicated to the ideals of Vidyasagar University as championed by the founder of our university Professor Anil Kumar Gayen, a Cambridge Ph.D and of course a true 'son of the soil' about whom we came to know much later and unknowingly we propagated the cause of the founder's mission.https://www.academia.edu/2581992/A_forgotten_founder_of_a_university_._Frontier_Vol._45_No._9_2012_pp._11-13 This journal did not continue and interdisciplinary research at Vidyasagar University in the social sciences did not flourish except in some individual remarkable research.