Yeshi Choedon

Biography

Dr Choedon has been a member of the Centre Faculty since 2004. Her Ph.D. thesis was on “China, the United Nations and Major Conflict Situations in Asia”. From October 1988 to March 2004, she worked as Lecturer and later as Reader in Political Science and International Relations at the Sikkim Government College, Gangtok. She was awarded the UGC Career Award from 1995 to 1998 and was a DAAD Fellow at Free University, Berlin in 1997. She attended and presented papers at the World Congress on Human Rights, New Delhi in December 1990 and he has been frequently attending international seminar on Tibetan Studies. She has also attended and presented papers at the XVIth World Congress of International Political Science Association in 1994. Dr Choedon has attended and participated in numerous other seminars, conferences and workshops in India and abroad. Dr Choedon’s research interests are in the field of peace, security, democratization and human rights. She teaches M.Phil. courses on ‘United Nations and Global Problems’ and “Theoretical Issues in International Organization”. She visited New York, USA for field work for her Ph.D. and Washington DC, USA for field work for a research project on “US-China Relations: Human Rights Dimensions”, in July 1998.

Research Interest

peace, security, democratization and human rights