Politics
People-centred governance and decision-making, ensuring accountability and transparency
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People-centred governance and decision-making, ensuring accountability and transparency
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This section features initiatives and approaches towards people-centred governance and decision-making, with direct participation, and based on principles of social and environmental justice. This includes initiatives attempting to realize local non-hierarchical systems of decision-making in urban and rural areas, and linkages of these to each other at bio-cultural levels. This would also include collectives or communities that raise non-party political concerns at the local level and beyond, as well as initiatives that enhance accountability and transparency of political bodies. It will include alternative policy frameworks that are based on or promote the alternative economies featured elsewhere on this site, such as meaningful practices and concepts of well-being, instead of the mainstream development model which focuses on economic growth.
Huts of knowledge: These tribal women in Odisha teach their next generation about forests through ‘kutir’ meetings
Apart from sharing traditional knowledge, the women at these meetings also spread awareness on ownership rights
Secular Theology of Religions
This essay explores the possibility of re-formulating a secular theology of religion in the contemporary context of violence, violation, and virulence in the name of religion.
India Budget 2023: Green only in name?
All economic activity must be regenerative, in that it sustains the ecological and socio-cultural conditions it depends on for a thriving society
Joshimath Solidarity Statement – जोशीमठ के संघर्ष को समर्थन (in Hindi and English)
People who have borne the losses and been put to risk as a result of these developments must be considered as project affected and rehabilitated and compensated fully from this
Statement and Appeal on Ladakh’s Constitutional Status
We strongly support the demand by the people of Ladakh, that the Government of India include Ladakh in the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution and accord it statehood
Can biodiversity be a political science teacher?
Exploring how education emplaced in local biodiversity can deepen values of equality, diversity and inclusivity among human beings
Pandemic Resilience in Urban India
Examples, lessons, and specific recommendations for communities, civil society organisations, and government agencies.
The Goba of Ladakh: Report
This study focuses on documenting the present status of the traditional governance system of Ladakhi villages, with a focus on the goba (or lambardar/nambardar).
India’s 1st CFR village moves HC for ‘gramdan’ status
A 100% of the landowners in the village surrendered their ownership and the whole village land came under gramdan.