Join the Center for South Asian Studies for a presentation by Aküm Longchari, the Center’s Scholar in Residence.

From an Indigenous perspective, peace processes in the first quarter of the 21st century have been focused on State-building, where questions of justice and peace remained a matter of privilege and power rather than a right of all peoples. State-led processes tend to focus on ending physical violence in armed conflict, without addressing the violence of unjust political, social, economic, and cultural structures, which led to the conflict in the first place. This dialogue seeks to “Reimagine Humanization, Just Peace, and Healing through an Indigenous Lens,” as an emancipatory bottom-up framework, applying intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches which amplifies the values of a shared humanity.

Aküm Longchari is an educator in peacebuilding, co-founder and publisher of The Morung Express (2005), an independent English-language newspaper based in Nagaland. Aküm holds an LLB, MA in Conflict Transformation, and a PhD which focused on Self Determination as a Resource for JustPeace.

Presented by the Center for South Asian Studies. Co-Sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Indigenous Faculty Network and The Humanities Institute.