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BORNEO OPEN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
True Democratization of Peace Education through Global Connections
PROVOST Prof. Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D.
Prof. Surya Nath Prasad was born in 1942 in India. He has traditional earned degrees of Master of Arts in Sociology, Master of Education, Master of Philosophy in Nonviolence and Peace Studies and Ph.D. in Education. He has received Honorary Doctorate in Peace Education from USA and in Education from Nigeria, D.Sc. from Sri Lanka, and D.Litt. in Peace Education from Netherlands at the hands of His Excellency Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, Former President Government of India.
Prof. Surya Nath Prasad is a Former Visiting Professor, at the Graduate Institute of Peace Studies, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea. Dr. Prasad is also the Honorary Executive President of The Global Open University for World Peace (Italy).He was Adjunct Professor for Romano-Byzantine Institute, Brainerd, Minnesota, USA, and is a Member of Academic Council of Universite Libre des Sciences de L' Home De Paris, France.
He is the Former President, Secretary-General and current Executive Vice President of International Association of Educators for World Peace ( NGO and Peace Messenger of the United Nations ).He was a Representative to the UN and UNESCO for IAEWP, and a Consultant to the UNESCO Chair in Education for the Mauritius State Institute of Education, Mauritius.
Prof. Prasad is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Peace Education; An International Journal on Peace Education. He is Former Chief Editor of IAEWP Peace Progress Journal. He is Associate Editor in IAEWP Diplomacy Journal (South Korea). Prof. Prasad is a Member of Editorial Board of Peace and Conflict Review, a Journal of UN mandated University for Peace, Costa Rica. He has been recently appointed an a member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of IAEWP Peace Progress Journal, published in Malaysia.
Dr. Prasad has taught as Associate Professor in the Colleges of Education of Gorakhpur Nagpur and Osmania Universities in India for the last 3 decades. He is a Ph.D. Guide in the Faculty of Education, Nagpur University, Nagpur, India, and Mentor in Peace Education at The World University, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Dr. Prasad is a Fellow of United Writers Association of India. He is a Biographee of International Who's Who of Intellectuals, Cambridge, England.
His 10 books, 100 papers and 4 Radio Talks on the different themes of peace education have already been published, released and broadcasted. Lund University of Sweden has published his 3 Presidential Speeches given at different national and international conferences. Prof. Prasad edited the five books in the Series of Peace Education, viz. Disarmament Education and Peace; Gandhi, Non-Violence and Peace; Democracy, Education and Peace; Women, Education and Peace (1995); and Science, Religion and Peace (2003). Professor Johan Galtung has written the Foreword for the book Science, Religion and Peace.
Prof. Prasad participated in over 65 national, continental and international conferences. He had traveled in Republic of Korea, Republic of Croatia, Republic of Turkey, Italy , Spain , Nepal , Republic of Kazakhstan and Malaysia to deliver his Presidential Keynote, Guest and Special Speeches at the International Peace Conferences.
Prof. Prasad was Organizing Chairman of Second World Congress of IAEWP held in India in 1978-79, and International Coordinator of Sixth World Congress of IAEWP held in Malta in 1992.
Prof. Prasad delivered a speech on the theme of PEACE EDUCATION: MEDICINE AND TONIC FOR NONVIOLENCE at the 18th IAEWP WORLD PEACE CONGRESS 2008, in Sunway Resort Hotel and Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre in Selangor, Malaysia. Prof. Prasad gave his guest speech on the theme: Peace Education as Solution of Terrorism and other Forms Violence at the World Forum of Spiritual Culture at Astana, Kazakhstan on 19 October, 2010.
Prof. Prasad is a Co-initiator of the Global Initiative for Supporting the Second Renaissance Movement through the Global Campaign for Restoring Morality and Humanity proposed by Nobel Laureate Dr. Herbert C. Brown.
Prof.. Prasad is a supporter and participant in the Campaign to promote an International Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers initiated by 17 Nobel Peace Laureates under the leadership of Nobel Peace Laureate Oscar Arias former President of Costa Rica.
Prof. Prasad is the Consultant to the UNESCO Chair in Education, Mauritius State Institute of Education.
Dr. Prasad is a recipient of several peace awards for his service to the cause of peace.
Prof. Prasad live in India with his wife Dr. Suman Shukla ,who is an Associate Professor at the RTM Nagpur University College of Education, Nagpur, Maharashtra, INDIA
The Borneo Open International University would use Professor Prasad's book as compulsory reading materials for students of Peace Diplomacy Studies.
The Provost's Office at the University is designated to foster continuous thought provoking collaboration across the University and manage the policies and practices that affect the academic landscape of the university.
The Office and its Provost, have broad spectrum responsibility which involves the following management initiatives:
# Fostering interfaculty neuro collaboration across the university's institute boundries;
# Improving the university's performance and University-wide implementation of HR policy and assuring ongoing development of scholars;
# Advancing and coordination of university's approaches to international educational compliance and research policy to reintegrate knowledge for the purposes of revolutionizing teaching and learning;
# Help sculpt the future of the university's peace and global harmony initiatives through world peace congress technologies and methodologies in support of the United Nations's Charter and regulations;
# Instrumental in Managing of activities pertaining to intellectual property, publications, educational technology transfer, research collaborations with other universities and real world industry partnership.
Current Communications Address :
Prof. Dr. Surya Nath Prasad,
216, Laxminagar, NAGPUR - 440 022,
Maharashtra, India.
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