Biography Narrative

Dr. Swati Chakraborty is ssistant professor in human rights at Schoolguru Eduserve Pvt. Ltd. and vice president, South East Asia, of the Eurasian Doctoral Summer Academy (EDSA). She has earned her PhD in human rights from the University of Calcutta and worked with the National Human Rights Commission India as a research consultant. She has teaching expertise as a lecturer at the English College in Calicut, Kerala where she undertook a youth intercultural dialogue training program. She is also expert in online training program for youth and women.

Dr. Swati has been associated with various NGOs and development agencies from early stages for social inclusion, community networks, human rights activism, peace-building and advocacy for women’s life long education and empowerment with a focus on indigenous need.

Dr. Swati has written more than 20 articles on her own credit and is also the editor of several books and journals including “Tribal Development”, “Gender Identity and Roles in India: Issues and Challenges”, “Multidisciplinary Handbook of Social Exclusion and Human Rights”, “Inclusive Development and Sustainability”, “Handbook of International Relations: Issues of Human Rights and Foreign Policy, Vol. I and Vol II” and very recently “Handbook of Social Media for Digital and Social Inclusion”.

She is the council representative at the World Peace Committee in India and was a speaker for a EU program Towards a Global Exchange on Religion in Society , Brussels as representative of Hinduism and humanity. Moreover, she was a young scholar in Inaugural Young Scholar’s Conference on Asian Studies in a Globalized World in Thailand.

Interreligious Activities and Initiatives

Workshop on Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, Human Rights and Peace

These workshops look into the strength of scholars and youth in who are committed to ending violence among religions and creating cultures of peace, justice, reconcile and healing in the conflict resolution. The framework to be used will be the inter-religious and intercultural dialogue design as promoted by KAICIID. These workshops will be complemented with the KAICIID. For the initiative, I have selected different layers of educational institutions. Majorly it is inclined to Kolkata and New Delhi- the two major multi-ethnic city in India.

IRD and ICD for prevention of Hate Speech and protection of Sacred Sites and Cultural Heritage- Role of Youth in India and Nigeria

The initiative will bring together religious and cultural leaders from some selected states in India and Nigeria to create youth alertness towards hate speech and incitation before and during election for both India and Nigeria, engaging in interreligious and intercultural dialogue. The initiative will involve first an onsite interreligious/intercultural dialogue for promoting peace at the national level after which the participants will be engaged in an online interreligious and intercultural dialogue with other religious leaders in India and Nigeria respectively in other to build bridges for promoting global understanding, peace building and adding strength to the efforts being made at national level. The dialogue will target two main objectives; contribute to peace building to safeguard from hate speech and preservation of sacred holy sites. This initiative will prove how youth from two different socio-cultural backgrounds needs to be activated to solve the global crisis with similar nature. These activities will be followed by strategic promotion on social media to reach and influence a larger audience.

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