India China Institute Mission Statement
India and China share many interests and face many similar challenges, and the United States is increasingly engaged with both countries on many levels. The India China Institute (ICI) fosters collaborative research and institutional and personal connections among these three countries. ICI scholars analyze political and social issues and trends in India, China and the United States with the goal of encouraging leaders, managers, opinion-builders, and academics in all three countries to work constructively together to promote social and economic progress, address mutual problems, and identify areas for future cooperation. Based in New York City at The New School, ICI, in nurturing this three-way conversation, is emerging as the hub of an international network of institutions and activities that is deepening our understanding of global processes. Continue reading...
Fellowship Program
At the heart of ICI is a competitive two-year fellowship program. Leaders and learners come together to generate new ideas, debate policies, and design solutions for key challenges facing India and China through transdisciplinary and transnational conversations. Read more about ICI's Fellowship Program and the new 2010-2012 program focusing on Social Innovations for Sustainable Environments.
NEWS and UPCOMING EVENTS
ICI Announces 2010 Student Research and Travel Funds
Five awards ($2,500 each) for undergraduate or graduate students to support an independent study project or to defray the cost of attending a New School program in India or China. Applications are now closed. Finalists will be notified by December 15, 2009.
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The Peace Process in Nepal: Is it Failing?
Ian Martin, former UN envoy to Nepal, discusses the fragile peace process, which has been hailed as an unusual success story for being achieved by Nepali actors rather than the international community. But with the deadline for agreement on a new constitution fast approaching and the Maoist army still in cantonments, divisions among political parties threaten its successful completion. Is the process failing? Friday, November 6, 2009, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Orozco Room, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, 7th floor.
Read Ian Martin's remarks.
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Ford Foundation grant supports a unique trilateral course at The New School, Yunnan University, and University of Calcutta .
This fall a new course, India China Interactions, is being offered simultaneously at The New School, Yunnan University and the University of Calcutta coordinated by the India China Institute. The curriculum was developed by professors from all three schools and is built around a joint blog in which students from the three universities will interact. The course is being offered at The New School through the graduate program in International Affairs and taught by Professor L.H.M. Ling. An additional summer 2010 field program is offered for six students from each university, during which they will work together to conduct larger research on bilateral issues. This three-year initiative is generously supported by a $525,000 grant from the Ford Foundation.
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osi as Metaphor: Learning to Unlearn on Water
ICI Fellow Nimmi Kurian has written about the recent dam breaches in Nepal, the resultant flooding of the Kosi River in India, and the subsequent humanitarian disaster. More than 3 million people have been displaced in India and Nepal, and a quarter of a million acres of farmland are ruined. "The intellectual discourse on water too has been problematic because of its inability to project alternative scenarios as well as raise critical new questions," Kurian writes. Read the full article here. Visit Kurian's ICI web page here.
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Kul Chandra Gautam (bio here), former assistant secretary-general of the United Nations and deputy executive director of UNICEF, was appointed as a senior fellow of the India China Institute Senior Fellow. Mr. Gautam plays a key role in advising the institute's Nepal Democracy and Development Initiative.
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