Paul Chambers
Paul Chambers is a Lecturer and Special Advisor on International Relations at the College of ASEAN Community Studies, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand. In addition, he is a Research Fellow at: the German Institute of Global Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg, Germany; the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) in Frankfurt, Germany; and the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace (CICP) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In 2017, he became a member of the Board of Advisers of the South Asia Democratic Forum (SADF) in Brussels, Belgium.
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Truncation of Academic Freedom in Today’s Bangladesh (Dr. Siegfried O. Wolf on Substack)
Truncation of Academic Freedom in Today’s Bangladesh
Can universities sustain democracy when disagreement becomes dangerous?
In “Truncation of Academic Freedom in Today’s Bangladesh”, Dr. Siegfried O. Wolf argues that the post-2024 political transition has failed to secure independent campus governance. He describes forced resignations, political labelling and competing student organisations asserting...
Did Rabindranath Tagore Oppose the Establishment of Dhaka University? – C282
Separating Historical Evidence from Political Myth
ABSTRACT
Did Rabindranath Tagore oppose the establishment of the University of Dhaka? This article examines a persistent allegation that the Bengali poet resisted the proposed university and even presided over a protest meeting in Kolkata in March 1912. Reviewing the institutional history of Dhaka...
FREE SHAHRIAR KABIR An Open Letter
An Open Letter in Defense of Historical Memory, Freedom of Expression, and Shahriar Kabir
Issued jointly by Genocide Watch (United States), Chair of the Alliance Against Genocide, together with Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights (Canada), European Bangladesh Forum (UK and EU), International Crimes Strategy Forum (United Kingdom), South Asian...