News article added on Nov 24 2008
CIS is pleased to welcome two visiting professors to DCU - who are here for a short visit as part of a wider EU funded research programme on peacemaking and peacekeeping perspectices in Europe and South Asia
Dr Furrukh Kahan, Lahore University (LUMS), Pakistan.
Dr Khan is interested in the 1947 Partition of India, which he has both researched and on which he has also made documentaries. He has also participated in development of people-to-people links between Pakistan and India, in order to develop better understanding between the two hostile States.
Dr Kaushikee, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India.
Dr Kaushikee's research interests include - caste and conflict, forced displacement and refugees in South Asia and gender. Before being in academia she has worked with Sakhi for South Asian Women, in New York City (a community-based organization committed to ending the exploitation and violence against women of South Asian origin) and she has published on caste conflict in India, refugee displacement in South Asia and on Detention and Deportation form the US in the Wake of 9/11.