Mudasir Amin’s research interests include human rights, humanitarian aid, and the non-profit sector, with a special focus on Kashmir. This interest guided his journey from graduation with a Science degree through Master’s in Social Work from the University of Kashmir. During his Master’s, Amin worked with some rights based organisations in and outside Kashmir. Among them: Save Our Souls (SOS) International , J &K Yateem Foundation (JKYF), and Action for Ability and Development Inclusion (AADI), New Delhi . Later he got affiliated to the Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) as a research associate where he contributed to some reports by recording testimonies of victims and other documentation.
Mudasir is currently pursuing doctoral studies from the Department of Social Work, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. His Ph.D. thesis is on humanitarian assistance and conflict resolution efforts by NGOs in Kashmir. Mudasir has contributed a special paper, an insight, and a commentary article to Economic and Political Weekly (EPW). His special paper examines the work of human rights defenders and other civil society groups in Kashmir in ensuring state accountability. The paper argues that in a place like Kashmir, human rights defenders and civil society play a significant role in challenging, limiting, or contesting state power.
Mudasir has presented papers at international and national conferences on issues ranging from the role of faith-based organisations and peace education to resistance art (graffiti) in Kashmir.
Research:
As a public policy scholar with the Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy, Mudasir will study the Indian state’s response to the recent Rohingya crisis. Reviewing India’s ‘refugee policy’, his study will examine in general the humanitarian efforts and securitisation moves of different Indian regimes for Rohingya and examine specifically the political response of the current Indian dispensation to the recent crisis. This research will investigate the socio-legal conditions of Rohingya in India besides examining the role of the International Refugee Regime, particularly with respect to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).
Read Policy Report No. 24 here:Nobody’s Children, Owners of Nothing’: Analysing the Indian State’s Policy Response to the Rohingya Refugee Crisis.
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