NEWS: CSDS presented with “Center of Excellence (CE) with Outstanding Performance” Award from Chulalongkorn University
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Today the Center of Excellence on Resource Politics for Social Development of the Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS), Faculty of Political Science received the “Center of Excellence (CE) with Outstanding Performance” award from Chulalongkorn University. This annual award is presented to recognize the research achievements of the researchers within the center and their research over the previous year.
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CSDS was established as a Research Unit within the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University in 1985. It was established to undertake interdisciplinary research linking across the various fields of political science within the Faculty (government, public administration, international relations, and sociology and anthropology) and more broadly in the social sciences, and to provide support in education, research, and teaching. Starting from 2006, CSDS supported the launch of the MA in International Development Studies (MAIDS) program.
Since January 2018, CSDS launched the Chulalongkorn University Center of Excellence on Resource Politics for Social Development with the goal of undertaking interdisciplinary research for the purpose of understanding and seeking resolution to contested resource politics in Asia and supporting social development. The Center of Excellence focuses on five inter-related research sub-themes:
Starting this year, CSDS also announced a new theme on (Forced) Displacement and Development.
Our team are honored to receive this award and its recognition of our ongoing work. We will continue to work with our research partners in Thailand and the wider region towards equitable and just solutions on the region’s resource politics and in support of social development.
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