Simmering Kashmir

Jamal Qaiser advises the UN Economic and Social Council as UN Commissioner for UN Affairs for the Diplomatic Council. He completed his Owner / President Management Program at the renowned Harvard Business School and the Transition to Leadership Program at the University of Oxford Said Business School. Jamal Qaiser advises various companies, political parties, NGOs, humanist organizations and government bodies. To date, he has published two books on global political developments, one of which won the international getAbstract Book Award in 2016, from a selection of over 10,000 non-fiction books. Through his worldwide contacts and his experience as a consultant, a lot of background information came about in this book, as he also has the necessary political foresight to recognize the right connections.

Sadaf Taimur is a Doctoral Scholar at University of Tokyo and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow. She has 6 years of experience in education and development sector, during which she has: (a) Worked as member of Silver Oaks Schools & College System; (b) Managed Communications, Advocacy & Youth Mobilization at Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA)-Center of Education & Consciousness; (c) Worked as Executive Director at Youth General Assembly (a social movement, to train & mobilize youth to work on UN’s Sustainable Development Agenda, which she co-founded) & (d) Worked as an Advisory Mentor for Queen’s Young Leaders Program (UK). As G20 Global Changer, she was involved in proposing recommendations, on education for sustainable development, for G20 leaders which were presented at G20 Summit, 2017 (Germany). Sadaf sits on Advisory Board of “Global Education Conference”, U.S.A. and serve as an SDG expert at Digital Human Library (dHL), Canada. She is also involved in the Education for Global Peace Project under University of California Irvine (UCI), as a researcher, on peace education. Sadaf won GESS (Global Education Supplies & Solutions) Outstanding Contribution in Education for Sustainable Development Award, 2016 (Dubai). She got selected as Dalai Lama Fellow (U.S.A) to implement “compassion in action project”. She represented Pakistan: as Youth Delegate UNESCO-MGIEP at “UNESCO week for peace & sustainable development: role of education” (Canada) and as Youth Champion at Rise Up’s Youth Champions Initiative Incubator (U.S.A.).