June 20, 2022: CASPEGS’s Chief Consultant BM Jain delivered a talk on “The Dynamics of the Ukraine-Russia War : Analyzing through the Geopsychological Lens” at the World Intellectual Forum.
WEBINAR
CASPEGS organized a webinar titled “Global Application of the Theory of Geopsychology: Towards Peace Inducement and Conflict & War Prevention” on January 23, 2022. The purpose was to encourage peace studies through new theoretical frameworks in a complex world order, marked by the preeminence of non-state actors and the influence of authoritarian regimes.
Dr. Romi Jain, Executive Director of CASPEGS, kicked off the webinar, with a brief introduction to geopsychology and the significance of the event, and acted as the moderator. Professor Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, a history professor at Pace University in New York, was the key speaker. Lee pointed out the salience of geopsychology as a methodological solution that takes geography, culture, religion, nationalism, and indigenous ethnicities into account in understanding and managing conflicts in Asia and beyond. He touched on the current debate pertaining to Taiwan, President Xi Jinping’s “proactive foreign policy,” and the North Korean nuclear crisis as examples of the areas of application of the geopsychology theory.
The following were the speakers:
– Dr. Indu Saxena, geopolitical and security analyst, New Jersey, USA
– Dr. Alka R. Gupta, Associate Professor and the Chair, Department of Political Science, Udai Pratap College, Varanasi, India
– Dr. Dipikanta Chakraborty, Department of Political Science, Adamas University, Kolkata, India
– Dr. Ladhu Ram Choudhury, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India.
See the video below to learn about the basics of the geopsychology theory.