O.P.Jindal Global University
and
Sydney Law School,University of Sydney
Conference on
Disaster Management:
The Governance of Risk, Disaster Response
and Humanitarian Action
DAY 1 & Day 2
Date
Thursday
3 October 2013
Time
9:30 am – 6:00 pm
Date
Friday
4 October 2013
Time
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Venue
O.P. Jindal Global University
Sonipat Narela Road, Sonipat
Haryana- 131001, NCR of Delhi
RSVP: Lt. Dr. Mamta Sharma, Deputy Registrar, JGU, Tel.: 91-8930110713, 0130-3057862
Fax: 0130-3057808; Email: [email protected]
Thursday, 3 October 2013
8:30 am – 9:45 am: Registration
INAUGURAL SESSION
10:00 am – 11:10 am
Venue: T3, 150 Seater Auditorium
Welcome Remarks
10:00 am – 10:10 am
Professor (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU)
Introduction to Conference
Dr. Samrat Sinha, Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, Centre for Study of Political
10:10 am – 10:15 am
Violence, Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA)
Introductory Remarks
10:15 am – 10:25 am
Professor Luke Nottage, Professor of Comparative and Transnational Business Law at
Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
Inaugural Address
10:25 am – 11:00 am
Vote of Thanks
11:00 am – 11:10 am
Shri Sandeep Rai Rathore, IPS, Inspector General (IG), Directorate-General, National
Disaster Response Force and Civil Defence (NDRF and CD)
Professor Y.S.R. Murthy, Registrar, O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU)
11:10am-11:20 am: Tea/Coffee Break
SESSION I
SPECIAL PANEL ON ETHICS AND CITIZENSHIP IN DISASTER SITUATIONS
11:20 am – 1:00 pm
Venue: T3, Discussion Room, First Floor
Chair: Dr. Sreeram Chaulia, Dean, Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA)
1. Dr. Josuke Ikeda, Associate Professor and Assistant Director, Centre for Study of Political Violence, Jindal School of
International Affairs (JSIA)
“Duty in Disaster- A Global Ethics Approach”
2. Dr. Keerty Nakray, Associate Professor and Assistant Director, Centre for Women, Law and Social Change, Jindal Global
Law School (JGLS)
“Gender Responsive Indicators for Disaster Planning and Management: A Critical Review of Evidence”
3. Mr. Suraj Gogoi, Junior Research Associate, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy (JSGP)
“Towards Ethnocracy: The Production Political Risk in Contemporary Assam”
1:00 pm – 1:50 pm: Lunch
SESSION II
SPECIAL PANEL ON CHALLENGES IN DISASTER RESPONSE
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Venue: T3, Discussion Room, First Floor
Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Rajesh Kocchar, Director, Jindal Institute of Leadership Development and Executive Education (JILDEE)
and Director, International Relations, and Capacity Building (Session Chair)
“The Role of Armed Forces in Disaster Management”
1. Shri. Keshav Kumar, Deputy Commandant (Administration), Directorate General, Headquarters, National Disaster
Response Force (NDRF)
“Challenges facing NDRF in Rescue Operations in Uttrakhand”
2. Dr. Abhijeet Jadhav, Assistant Professor, Jamsetji Tata Centre for Disaster Management, School of Habitat Studies, Tata
Institute of Social Sciences
“Public Health in Disasters/ Saving time in knowing factual parameters for public health interventions in
disasters”
3. Mr. Tanaji Sen, Executive Director, Registered Engineers for Disaster Relief (RedR) India
“Training and Capacity Building for Disaster Response: Interface between Higher Education and Practice”
4. Doctors for You (DFY) Delhi
“Experiences in Medical Relief Aid’’
5. Shri. Kabir Kisan, Joint Director and Head of Faculty, Disaster Management Centre, Gopabandhu Academy of
Administration, G.A. Department, Government of Odisha
“Odisha's Experience in Disaster Management”
SESSION III
SPECIAL PANEL ON RISK, EARLY WARNING AND ADAPTATION
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Venue: T2, Conference Room, Third Floor
Dr. Bhuvaneshwari Raman, Associate Professor and Assistant Director, Centre for the Study of Science, Society and
Sustainability, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy (Session Chair)
“Square Pegs and Round Holes: The Disconnect in Governance of Urbanization and Disaster Mitigation”
1. Dr. Nupur Chowdhury, Assistant Professor and Executive Director, Centre for Environment and Climate Change, Jindal
Global Law School (JGLS)
‘‘Environmental risk regulation and the Indian Supreme Court: an exercise in de-formalization of the
law?”
2. Dr. Matt Spencer, Research Associate, Oxford Martin Programme on Resource Stewardship, Institute of Science,
Innovation and Society, University of Oxford
“The Use of Weather Forecasts in Disaster Management”
3. Ms. Sheena Arora and Kaustubh Devale, Registered Engineers for Disaster Relief India (RedR India)
“Disaster management decision-making: how risk-informed is policy and practice?”
4. Dr. Guru Balamurugan, Assistant Professor and Director Centre for Geoinformatics, Jamsetji Tata Centre for Disaster
Management, School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
“Flood damage studies using Geoinformatics - A case study of parts of Bhagirathi River, Uttrakhand”
5. Professor Deborah Bunker, Associate Professor, Business Information Systems, The University of Sydney Business School
and Director, Doctoral Studies
“The Role of Information Systems in Disaster Management” (Remote Presentation)
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm: Tea/Coffee Break and Interactive Session
8:00 pm: Special Dinner
Friday, 4 October 2013
SESSION IV
SPECIAL PANEL ON CONFLICTS, COMPLEX EMERGENCIES
AND HUMANITARIAN ACTION
9:00 am – 11:00 am
Venue: T2, Conference Room, Third Floor
Chair: Dr. Josuke Ikeda, Associate Professor and Assistant Director, Centre for Study of Political Violence, Jindal School of
International Affairs (JSIA)
1. Dr. Robert P. Barnidge Jr., Associate Professor, Assistant Dean (Continuing and Executive Education) and Executive
Director, Centre for International Legal Studies, Jindal Global Law School (JGLS)
“Litigating the Legalities of Drone Warfare in Pakistan”
2. Dr. Urvashi Aneja, Associate Professor, Assistant Dean (Academic Affairs) and Executive Director, Centre for Global
Governance and Policy, Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA)
“International NGO Decision-making Strategies during Sri Lanka's Civil War”
3. Dr. Upasana Mahanta, Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, Centre for Women, Law and Social Change, Jindal
Global Law School (JGLS)
“Models of Survivou r Assistance to Widows in Manipur”
4. Mr. Harshvardhan Bhat, Senior Research Associate, Fellow, Centre for Africa, Latin America and Caribbean Studies,
Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA)
“On Post- Architecture and Destruction”
SESSION V
SPECIAL PANEL ON COMPARATIVE DISASTER MANAGEMENT
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Venue: T2, Conference Room, Third Floor
Professor Luke Nottage, Professor of Comparative and Transnational Business Law at Sydney Law School, University of
Sydney (Session Chair)
“Asia-Pacific Disaster Management-Recent lessons from Japan”
1. Ms. Kiran Nazish, award-winning Journalist and Researcher, Pakistan
“Conditions of Internally Displaced persons from disaster in Pakistan: Cases (1) Kashmir earthquake, (2)
Floods in Pakistan, (3) Baluchistan earthquake Sep 2013” (Remote Presentation)
2. Dr. Upasana Sharma, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
“The effects of decentralization on production and use of risk assessment: insights from landslide
management in India and Italy”
3. Dr. Samrat Sinha, Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, Centre for Study of Political Violence, Jindal School of
International Affairs (JSIA)
“Food, Nutrition and Livelihood Security in Humanitarian Emergencies: Lessons from the BTAD Crisis2012 ”
4. Professor Rosemary Lyster, Professor, Faculty of Law and Director, Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental
Law (ACCEL)
“Transferring the Residual Risk of Climate Disasters to the Top 200 Fossil Fuel Companies” (Remote
Presentation)
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm: Lunch
STUDENT RESEARCH PANEL - I
9:00 am – 11:00 pm
Venue: T3, Discussion Room, First Floor
Panel Mentors: Mr. Tanaji Sen (Executive Director, RedR India) and Aahana Srikanth (Training Officer,
RedR India)
1. Ajay Cherian and Vinay Bhushan, Jindal School of International Affairs, 2013 Batch
“Tibetan Refugees in India”
2. John Soulme et al. Jindal School of International Affairs, 2013 Batch
“Issues of growth and security of IDP children in Liberia: Especially as a result of the 2003 war in
Monrovia”
3. Joy Mitra, Numan Nazki, Sayyed Farhan, Jindal School of International Affairs, 2013 Batch
“Internal Displacement in Kashmir”
4. Karthik Teja Pulugurtha and Syed Aziz Farhan, Jindal School of International Affairs, 2013 Batch
“Environment, Floods and prescriptive measures”
5. Dasrath Reddy Kurli, Sasanka Kanuparthi, Jindal School of International Affairs, 2013 Batch
“The paradox of intervention: Are there humanitarian solutions to humanitarian problems?”
STUDENT RESEARCH PANEL - II
9:00 am – 11:00 pm
Venue: T3, Conference Room, Second Floor
Panel Mentors: Sheena Arora and Kaustubh Devale (RedR India)
1. Shandeepan Ganapathy, Executive Office of the Registrar. (Also member of Jindal School of International Affairs, 2012
Batch)
“Role of Peacekeepers in Disaster management in Mindanao, Philippines”
2. Pozhil Sampathkumar, Jindal School of International Affairs (2012 Batch)
“Ethics in Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Accountability”
3. Amit Saksena and Sasanka Kanuparthi, Jindal School of International Affairs (2013)
“Australia's Enforcement of the Refugee Convention”
4. Nellie Musamamba, Jindal School of International Affairs, 2013 Batch
“Zambia: A Safe-Haven for Refugees”
5. Gautam Ashok, Jindal School of International Affairs, 2012 Batch
“Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Jammu and Kashmir, a review”
CONFERENCE OUTCOMES WORKSHOP:
OPEN TO CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS
2:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Venue: T3, Conference Room, Second Floor
Welcome Remarks
2:00 pm – 2:10 pm
Dr. Samrat Sinha, Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, Centre for Study of Political
Violence, Jindal School of International Affairs
‘‘Plan of Disaster Research Programme at JGU’’
2:10 pm – 2:30 pm
RedR India: Higher Education and Disaster Management
2:30 pm – 2:40 pm
Publication Outcomes of Conference
2:40 pm – 3:15 pm
Discussions
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm: Tea/Coffee Break
VALEDICTORY SESSION
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue: T3, 150 Seater Auditorium
Closing Remarks
3:30 pm – 3:40 pm
Special Remarks
3:40 pm – 3:55 pm
Vote of Thanks
3:55 pm – 4:00 pm
Professor (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU)
Dr. Luke Nottage, Professor of Comparative and Transnational Business Law at Sydney Law
School, University of Sydney
Professor Y.S.R. Murthy, Registrar, O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU)
Jindal School of
Liberal Arts & Humanities
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