Name : Dr. K. Paul Newman
Qualification : MA,PhD, Summer School in Forced Migration, Refugee Study Centre, Oxford University, England
Designation : Associate Professor
Department : History
E-mail id : paul.newmank@gmail.com
Biography :
Dr. Paul Newman has taught history for the past 25 years at various institutions in Bangalore. He is a prolific writer, researcher and speaker. He specializes in human rights related subjects and has travelled extensively across the world. He addressed the Malaysian Parliamentary Caucus on Sri Lanka on “Why Malaysia should vote against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC 2013”,February 18th 2013 and again on “The ongoing structural Genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka”, November 13th 2014 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Delivered the Prof.C.J.Elizer Memorial Lecture on ‘Human Rights in South Asia’ at Monash University, Melbourne, August 18th, 2013. He is a Reviewer at State University of New York, USA and has delivered guest lectures at the Utica College, New York apart from being a resource person at the UGC Academic Staff Colleges at Bangalore, Mysore and Calicut. He is an Observer and participant at the UN Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland since 2012. He was member of the fact finding team on the state response after the Cyclone Ockhi in Southern Tamilnadu and Kerala in December 2017. He addressed the European Union MEPs on 18th May 2018 at the European Parliament, Brussels. He was a special guest speaker at the First Yazidi Genocide Conference at Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, August 2018. He was also one of the International Observer’s at the Catalonian referendum trials at Madrid, Spain, February to June 2019. He is a recognised PhD guide at Bharathiyar University Coimbatore. He is also a NCC Officer holding the highest rank of Squadron Leader.

Publications:

• An Adivasi Crusader Under Trial: A Blot on Indian Democracy Eurasia Review, November 2020, Albany, Oregon, USA ISSN 2330-717X
• The Forgotten Genocide Of Sikhs In June 1984 Eurasia Review, June 2020, Albany, Oregon, USA ISSN 2330-717X
• Service Learning – A duty to produce responsible future generation, Loyola College Journal, 2019
• A tense walk to justice – The Catalonian Case, International Policy Digest, USA ISSN · 2332-9416, 2019
• Yazidi Genocide, The urgent need for prosecution, International Policy Digest, USA, ISSN · 2332-9416, 2018
• Disaster Management is a Disaster in India, International Policy Digest, USA ISSN · 2332-9416, 2018
• Sri Lanka Still Isn’t serious about confronting it’s dark past , International Policy Digest, USA ISSN · 2332-9416, 2017
• Transitional Justice in Sri Lanka, International Policy Digest, USA ISSN · 2332-9416, 2016
• Another Sri Lankan Election with No Solution to the Tamil Issue, International Policy Digest, USA ISSN · 2332-9416, 2015
• On India’s Continued Use of the Death Penalty, International Policy Digest, USA ISSN · 2332-9416, 2015
• India Needs to Sign the Arms Trade Treaty , International Policy Digest, USA ISSN · 2332-9416, 2015
• US Finding New Way To Escape From Sri Lankan UN Imbroglio Eurasia Review, July 2015, Albany, Oregon, USA ISSN 2330-717X
• Are We An Intolerant And Blood Thirsty Country? Eurasia Review, July 2015, Albany, Oregon, USA ISSN 2330-717X
• Sri Lankan Refugees in India, A Socio Cultural Perspective – Multi Cultures of South Asia (Ed)- Karnataka State Open University, Mysore, 2015, ISBN – 978-81928519-2-1, 2015
• ‘Suffering of IDPs and Conflict-affected People in Sri Lanka: A Case of War Crime’, Permanent People’s Tribunal Journal on War Crimes in Sri Lanka, Permanent People’s Tribunal, Rome. Italy, 2010
• The Ultimate Survivors - Women braving conflict in Sri Lanka, Women’s Link, Indian Social Institute, New Delhi, 2009
• National Cadet Corps and Social Service, NCC Directorate Kerala and Lakshwadeep Journal, NCC Directorate Kerala and Lakshwadeep, 2009
• Karnataka at Crossroads: Social Action, Social Action, Indian Social Institute, New Delhi, 2009
• Pastoral Care for Sri Lankan refugees in Tamil Nadu, India, Sodrus University Journal, Sodrus University Press, Sherbrooke, Canada, 2009
• Sri Lanka – The protection of widows in vulnerable situations - Servir, published by JRS, Rome, Italy, March 2008.
• Education enabling social integration, Servir, Jesuit Refugee Service, Rome, Italy, 2006
• Sri Lankan refugees – erasing bad memories – Sri Lanka Express, June 29, 2006
• Peace moves suffer a major setback in Sri Lanka – UN Relief Web, April 27, 2006
• The Sri Lankan Quagmire, a backgrounder - UN Relief Web, 27 April 27, 2006
• Wounds of the Border : Accompanying Tamil refugees in Tamilnadu, India, Jesuit Refugee Service, Rome, Italy, 2005.
• Internally Displaced Women of Northern Srilanka, Refugees in South Asia, United Theological College, 2004
• ‘Down memory Lane’ 50 Golden Years, a souvenir of the Golden Jubilee of 1 Karnataka Air Squadron NCC, Bangalore, 2003.
• 2 stories on Displaced women of Srilanka - War has changed our lives, not our spirit, Jesuit Refugee Service, Rome, Italy, 2001
• Burying the Future, Internationally Displaced Children of Srilanka, Diakonia, Jesuit Refugee Service, Thailand, 2001
• Srilankan Refugees – A group in Wilderness, Diakonia, Jesuit Refugee Service, Thailand, 2001
• Bhutanese Refugees, Refugees and human rights:social and political dynamics of refugee problem in Eastern and North-Eastern India, Rawat Publication, 2001
• Violation of the Rights of Refugees and Displaced in India, Human Rights in India – 2000, Vigil India, 2001
• The world of Refugees, Jesuit Refugee Service, JRS South Asia, November 2000

• Human Rights Violations Presenting Internal Flight Options of Tamils, November 1999 (presented to European Union and European Council for Refugees and Exiles)
• Naval Blockade of Srilankan Refugees entering India-June 2000 (presented to Human Rights Watch and UNHCR)
• Srilanka, a Forgotten Situations, November 2000 (Presented to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch)
• Human Rights Violations in Srilanka – February 2001 (Presented to a delegation of European Union Members of Parliament Visiting Srilanka)
• Evaluation of Jesuit Refugee Service, Tamilnadu, India 2005
• Produced the Strategic Plan for Jesuit Refugee Service, Srilanka and India, December 2005

• Genocide in Sri Lanka’ published by Jesuit Task Force on Sri Lanka – September 2009
• Co-author of a book titled ‘Sri Lanka – A Saga of Agony’, published by Concerned Citizens Forum for South Asia. October 2009
• ‘Unfettered Genocide in Tamil Eelam’ - published by Karnataka State Open University, Mysore, November, 2014