Who ‘We’ are?
Aamra Ek Sachetan Prayas Forum – is a conscious and continuous attempt to learn why conflicts spur? How they are manufactured? How they are manifested in the age of post-truth? Aamra doesn’t participate in the race to report first, doesn’t filter words to fit in the ‘mainstream’ media discourse, doesn’t say anything based on a ‘distant study’, and doesn’t claim to say the Final word. AAMRA (We) believes in an attempt (prayas) to consciously (sachetan) learn the reasons and processes of conflict and co-existence in a continuous cycle of conversations and close observations with ethnographic sensibility. Over the past, more than one-decade AAMRA has reached different places in Subcontinent to come up with ‘thick described’ reports, scholarly and popular articles.
What we do?
AAMRA is an amalgamation of a multidisciplinary team of researchers and activists erstwhile worked as an assemblage of movement, research, and activism. Popular abbreviation of AAMRA is, An Assemblage of Movement Research and Appraisal. The forum attempts to bridge the gap between research-practice, academics-public sphere, and take up actions wherever possible to restore rights and justice for all. The primary focus of ours is to study conflict (political, social, ethnic, communal, environmental, socio-economic, etc) and coexistence and try to formulate an action roadmap for enhancement of co-existence. Since its inception AAMRA works on Peace. Over the years the forum has taken up two major mechanisms for doing it, first, we go to the conflict zone as soon as possible after the access is available. We talk to different stakeholders, record their versions, collect and record the evidence of conflicts, follow standard social science methodologies including Participatory Rural Appraisal and Rapid Rural Appraisal, prepare reports (both scholarly and popular) and make them available in printed form and web version. In almost every conflict locality we initiate a peace initiative with the help of local folks, right activists, cultural activists. We even interact with ‘rival’ groups, administration, local peacekeepers to restore peace. We follow more or less similar procedure for documenting and publishing co-existence studies as well.
Second, Forum organises different seminars, discussions, and protest rallies for the restoration of Human Rights and justice related to the broad issues of conflict resolution and co-existence. Hence, whenever we go for intensive fieldwork we know we are active agents and not just passive listeners.
24 November, 2021
The communal violence in Telinipara in Hooghly district of West Bengal occurred amidst the raging pandemic during the lockdown in early May 2020. We can call this violence as, ‘Communalism in the time of Pandemic’. Everyone knows there were unrest, conflict and communal violence. But what actually happened in Telinipara? What triggered the violence and what is its immediate and far-reaching effect? This is the second report by AAMRA— a study group on Conflict and Coexistence, of their series of report on post-Ramnavami riots in West Bengal.
Read More..03 February, 2021
আর এস এস-এর স্বরূপ কতটা সাংঘাতিক তা জানা জরুরি। জানা জরুরি হিন্দুত্বের তত্ত্ব ও তা রূপায়নের হালহকিকত, যার মধ্যে হিন্দুত্ব সন্ত্রাসের পরিকল্পনা ও প্রকল্প গ্রথিত আছে। ‘আমরা, এক সচেতন প্রয়াস’ এই সব কিছু জানতে এবং রাজনৈতিক ধর্মের স্বরূপ উন্মোচনে প্রায় দশক-অধিক কাল তথ্যানুসন্ধান চালাচ্ছে। সদর দপ্তরে যাওয়া এবং এই প্রতিবেদন উক্ত প্রচেষ্টার ভগ্নাংশ মাত্র।
Read More..29 January, 2021
AAMRA organised a program on contemporary farmer's movement of Delhi borders. Our team members stayed there for 7 days. Here is our reports on seminar and documentary show. We also inaugurated our fact-finding reports on Bhatpara and Telinipara communal violence.
Read More..31 October, 2020
'Muslims against Partition' is an important work for historiography. Disclosing the struggle of Allah Baksh and other patriotic Muslims, who lost their life for their fight against 'Two Nation's Theory', this article is a major break through for biased history of post-partition Sub-continent.
Read More..28 October, 2020
১৬ই অক্টোবর শুক্রবার প্যারিসের শহরতলীর একটি হাই স্কুলের শিক্ষক স্যামুয়েল প্যাটিকে মুণ্ডুচ্ছেদ করে হত্যা করা হয়েছে। তাঁকে হত্যা করা হয়েছে কারণ তিনি শার্লি এব্দু পত্রিকায় আঁকা মুহাম্মদের একটি কার্টুন নিয়ে শ্রেণীকক্ষে আলোচনা করেছিলেন। হত্যাকারী একজন চেচেন কিশোর যার বয়স মাত্র ১৭/১৮ বছর। হত্যাকারীর নাম ও পরিচয় জানা যায় নি। হত্যাকারী ঘটনাস্থলেই পুলিশের গুলিতে মারা যায়। ধর্মীয় মৌলবাদ হৃদয়ে লালিত হলে যে কোন ব্যক্তিই সন্ত্রাসী হতে পারে, এই ঘটনা তার বড় প্রমাণ। এই লেখাটিতে লেখক সূত্র অন্বেষণের প্রয়াস রেখেছেন।
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