On 20 March, SASNET in collaboration with the Association of Foreign Affairs in Lund organized a panel discussion about key challenges, recent developments, and the future of gender equality across the South Asia region. The panel discussion included topics such as legal and political rights, socioeconomic challenges, and gender-based violence and safety and brought together leading experts from Sweden and abroad. The panelists represented different countries in the region, including India, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Afghanistan.
The panelists were:
Nitasha Kaul
Professor of Politics, International Relations, and Critical Interdisciplinary Studies at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster (UK).
Kate Lonergan
Postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (UHGS), Uppsala University, with a research focus on reconciliation and peacebuilding after mass violence and atrocities.
Radha Adhikari
Dr. Lecturer at the School of Health and Life Sciences, University of the West of Scotland (UK).
Maryam Safi
Research Fellow at the Afghanistan Programme, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.
The panel discussion was hosted at the Department of Political Science in Lund.