Global Justice Program Director Thomas Pogge and Senior Fellow Ashok Acharya, along with Luis Cabrera of the University of Birmingham, were recently awarded a grant by the British Council’s UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) to develop a global justice program at the University of Delhi.
The Nyaya Global Justice Programme will provide a unique intellectual center for the study of international normative questions that have strong resonance in the Indian context, and elsewhere in the Global South. These could include the role of India and other BRIC countries in the World Trade Organization, G20, and the UN Security Council; fairness in international trade; cooperation for poverty alleviation; and ethics in global security issues.
“I’m overwhelmed by the news,” said Acharya, who will serve as Director of the Nyaya programme. “Setting up a global justice program in India, and especially at the University of Delhi, has been a dream project that I have been nurturing for the past 10 years or so. I’m sure, once established, this will grow from strength to strength and bring together the best of the minds from across the world and apply them to resolve key global inequities.”
Nyaya – the term means ‘justice’ in Hindi – will also serve as the center for an India-UK-US exchange program, connecting the University of Delhi, Birmingham University’s Centre for the Study of Global Ethics, and the Global Justice Program.
In 2013 and 2014, the Nyaya Programme will hold workshops at the University of Delhi and Birmingham, exchange programs that bring students from Delhi to Birmingham and Yale, and a global justice lecture series that will bring UK and US researchers to Delhi.
This program will provide new connections for global justice scholars around the world.
For more information, contact Dr. Ashok Acharya at aacharya.du@gmail.com