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Prof. Dr. Ummu Salma Bava is Chairperson and Professor of European Studies at the Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She is also a guest faculty at the Foreign Service Institute, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.

 

Prof. Bava has been awarded the prestigious Jean Monnet Chair by the European Commission on - The European Union, Security and Peace and Conflict Resolution from 2017-2020.

 

With three decades of teaching and research experience, she is one of the leading Indian experts on the European Union and contemporary Indian and German foreign and security policy. Her other focus areas are regional integration and organization, emerging powers, international politics, global governance, norms, crisis management, conflict resolution and peace building.

 

She is International Member of the Research Advisory Council of Germany’s leading Think Tank Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin, Germany (June 2013- ), and International Member, Academic Advisory Board, German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany ( November 2014-). She has written and published extensively, has national and international projects and has been conferred with different Fellowships and awards. She is fluent in English, Hindi and German. She has been recognised by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2005) and the US Department of State (2007). Prof. Bava was conferred in January 2012 with the prestigious Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz) by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany.

 

https://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/sbava/cv.pdf

 

PROJECT

 Jean Monnet Chair – The European Union, Security, Peace and Conflict Resolution (JM CHAIR - EU-SPCR)

 

  • Conflict has emerged as a critical factor disrupting domestic and international affairs. The Jean Monnet Chair - EU-SPCR will focus on teaching and research about how the European Union (EU) integrates security with peace and conflict resolution, which has not been focussed by other Jean Monnet activities in India.

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A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.