Kamala Kanta Dash

Kamala Kanta Dash
Personal details
Born	Kamala Kanta Dash (1978-01-10) 10 January 1978 Brahmapur, Kendrapara, Odisha
Alma mater	Ravenshaw University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Monash University
Profession	Journalist, Professor, Trainer, Policy Analyst

Kamala Kanta Dash (in Odia କମଳା କାନ୍ତ ଦାଶ) (born in 1978) is an Indian journalist, television panelist and a policy analyst in the areas of communication, public policy,and international relations. He currently teaches Public Policy and Management at National Law University Odisha (NLUO) and Business communication at Sri Sri University. He is also the Director of Kalinga Literary Festival^[1].

Personal Life and Education

He studied at Ravenshaw College for his MA in Political Science & World Affairs and did his MPhil in International Relations & Area Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University and went on to pursue his PhD in Public Policy & South Asian Studies at Monash University in Australia.^[2] He is also a public policy graduate from Centre for Civil Society a Delhi based global think tank.

Career

He has published a number of papers, reviews and newspaper articles on areas pertaining to Public Policy, Indian Constitution,^[3] Law,^[4] Indian Foreign Policy, Terrorism, etc. and has delivered lectures at international conferences. He joined Rashmi Ranjan Parida to start Odisha Diary and later India Education Diary. In collaboration with Rashmi, he has contributed to the conceptualization and popularity of initiatives like Odisha Living Legend Award, Odisha Youth Inspiration Award and Kalinga Literary Festival^[5].

He was a founding member of the School of International Studies^[6] of Ravenshaw University. He was also a founder faculty at Sri Sri University to start MA programme in Good Governance and Public Policy^[7]. He was a recipient^[8] of the Australian Studies Fellowships (ASF) for 2006-07 at the Australia India Council of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) during 2006-07.^[9]

Apart from academics, he has contributed to the areas of promoting media and literature^[10] in India especially in his native state of Odisha.At international level he was appointed as one of the Ambassadors at the Parliament of World's Religions (PWR), Chicago.,^[11][12] He has also worked for the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs as a Carnegie New Leader in 2013-15.^[13]

Awards and Fellowships

• Ambassador at the Parliament of World's Religions (PWR), Chicago.^[14][15]
• Carnegie New Leader, 2013-15, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
• Australian Studies Fellowship, 2006-07, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia).

Publications

• Madrassa, in Andrea L. Stanton, Edward Ramsamy, Peter J. Seybolt, and Carolyn Elliott (eds. 2012) Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Vol.4; p. 243-245 (ISBN 9781412981767)^[16]
• Census and Caste: Debating Caste Enumeration in Census 2011, South Asia Masala, Australian National University, 11 June 2010,^[17]
• Policing the national capital: Commonwealth Games, community engagement and the threat of terrorism in Delhi, South Asia Masala, Australian National University, 5 August 2010^[18]
• Fatwa against Terrorism: India’s Deobandis Renounce Violence but Policing Remains Unchanged in Sayed Khatab, Muhammad Bakashmar, and Ela Ogru, (eds. 2009) Radicalisation Crossing Borders: New Directions in Islamist and Jihadist Political, Intellectual and Theological Thought and Practice, Conference Proceedings, Global Terrorism Research Centre, PSI, Monash University, (ISBN 9780975019337) ^[19]
• Counter Terrorism and Police Community Engagement in India in A. M. Vicziany and Robert Cribb (eds. 2008), Is this the Asian Century? Proceedings of the 17th biennial conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, 2008, Melbourne, Canberra: ASAA and Monash University, (ISBN 9781876924676)^[20]
• Fighting Terror: Politics, Police and Community Engagement in India, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS), ^[21]

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