With the February 2021 military coup, Myanmar once again hit global media headlines. While the military junta continues to clamp down on pro-democracy protestors and the country is wracked with conflict and unrest, how will the changing political situation affect the Rohingya community in Bangladesh and in Rakhine State in Myanmar?
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Date: 25 May 2021
Time: 14:00-15:30 Thailand Time, 12.30 – 14.00 India Time, 16.00 – 17.30 Japan Time
Registration Link: https://bit.ly/2SVXGPP
Organiser: Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Mr. Ganesh Dhungana, a doctoral candidate in Disaster Preparedness Mitigation and Management (DPMM) at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), has been selected as the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) Fellow by the Institute of Development Studies, United Kingdom. The SSHAP fellowship supports future leaders in social science to apply their knowledge in humanitarian emergencies in locally relevant ways.
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Date-Time: Saturday 01 May 2021, 08:00 – 17:00 (ICT/GMT+0700 Bangkok Time)
Venue: Online Hackathon
Team Participant: Selected Team only
Date-Time: 28 April 2021, 3 – 4 P.M. (ICT/GMT+0700 Thailand time)
Place: Online ZOOM
The Department of Development and Sustainability (DDS) is happy to inform that Prof.Nophea Sasaki has been appointed as the new Head of Department (HoD) starting 16 April 2021, taking over the lead from Prof. Vilas Nitivattananon (January 2021 – 15 April 2021).
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SPECIAL SEMINAR Financing Forest Landscape Restoration WHEN: 19 April 2021 From 5:00 – 6:00 P.M. (ICT/GMT+0700, Thailand Time) WHERE: Via ZOOM → Join ZOOM Abstract Sustainable financing is essential for the sustainable management of natural resources in tropical countries in the achievement of many of the Sustainable Development Goals, in Read more…
The Department of Development and Sustainability (DDS) is happy to inform that Dr. Vilas Nitivattananon has been appointed as the new Dean of the School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD), AIT effective from April 2021. He will also join the AIT Governing Team (AGT) as a member of the leadership team at AIT.
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The Department of Development and Sustainability, AIT, Thailand is organizing the webinar named “DDS Talks” for Chinese graduates on the topic:
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With almost 500 million hectares of tropical forests being degraded by now and another 13 million hectares being lost annually, there is a critical need to restore these forests to avoid more future punishment by the Mother Nature. The New York Declaration on Forests set the target to restore 350M hectares of forests by 2030. The Sustainable Development Goals 15 specifically recognizes the need to manage and restore the forests.