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Prof. Priyankar Upadhyaya
Prof. Priyankar Upadhyaya, UNESCO Chair for Peace and Intercultural Understanding, Banaras Hindu University.
Professor Priyankar Upadhyaya has held the UNESCO Chair for Peace and Intercultural Understanding at Banaras Hindu University since 2010. Widely regarded as a pioneer of Peace Studies in Indian academia, he conceived and founded the Malaviya Centre for Peace Research and guided it into a nationally and internationally respected hub for research, education and dialogue on peacebuilding.
His scholarly distinction is reflected in a remarkable array of international fellowships and honours. These include the Resident Scholar Award at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington, DC, the Faculty Research Award from Canada, a Senior Fulbright Fellowship, and a Global Fellowship at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. In 2019, Jawaharlal Nehru University nominated him for the Rajiv Gandhi Chair for Peace. Most recently, the Swedish Research Council has awarded him the prestigious Olof Palme Visiting Professorship for 2027, an honour established by the Swedish Parliament.
Professor Upadhyaya has been invited to global platforms on numerous occasions. In September 2019, the President of the UN General Assembly invited him to serve as a panellist at the UNGA session commemorating two decades of the Culture of Peace. In September 2016, he delivered a presentation in Washington, DC, at the invitation of the US Department of Education's Presidential Challenge.
A prolific author, he has published extensively with leading international presses including Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Manchester University Press, Sage, Ashgate and Routledge. His widely acclaimed books, Peace and Conflict: The South Asian Experience (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and The Long Walk of Peace (UNESCO, 2018), continue to shape scholarship and practice in peace studies.
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Shashi Shekhar
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Shailesh Bharatwasi
G. N. Devy
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Chirag Thakkar
Dr. Prabhat Kumar Mishra
Pankaj Chaturvedi
Sujata Prasad
Shivani Sibal
Tripurari Sharan
Yugal Joshi
Dr Moutushi Mukherjee
Deepak Sapra
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