A Profile contributed by ISE member, Arvind Saklani1 (edited by the Newsletter editor) Dr. Sudhanshu Kumar Jain was born on June 30, 1926 in Amroha, a place of mango and sugarcane growers in Uttar Pradesh, India. Unlike today, India was devoid of good schooling in small towns and villages. The early education of this son of an agriculturist was entrusted to full-time tutors at home. His first formal education was class 5 in 1933 in his hometown,...
The organisers have much pleasure in extending an invitation to participate in the first “Me Rongo” Peace Congress to be held on Rēkohu (Chatham Islands, New Zealand) 18-21 November 2011. Registration has been extended through June 2011! To register and receive your information pack, please email: [email protected] (put the words “Peace Congress” in the subject line). The Congress will focus on indigenous peace-making traditions....
We hope that the new ISE website will serve you well. The new layout was designed to help you find information faster and allow easy expansion as more information is added to the site. Captions will be added to the photos throughout the site over the coming weeks. More functionality and new features will be forthcoming, including a new ISE forum. The webpage translator tool (at the top of the left-hand navigation menu) uses google translator;...
An expert workshop on Indigenous Peoples, Marginalized Populations and Climate Change - Vulnerability, Adaptation and Traditional Knowledge will be held from 19-21 July 2011 in Mexico City, Mexico. United Nations University (UNU), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural...
