Valuing Democracy: Tibetan Leader Sikyong Penpa Tsering in Conversation

This is a Centre for the Study of Democracy (www.westminster.ac.uk/csd) event

Professor Dibyesh Anand

Valuing Democracy: Sikyong Penpa Tsering in conversation on Human rights, Democracy in Exile, Tibet and China

Fyvie Hall

The Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) is based in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Westminster. The Centre undertakes research across a range of critical social and political challenges, promoting an interdisciplinary environment. There is an explicit focus on engagement with communities and impacting upon public debates around these contentious subjects. This event will bring the senior most democratically elected Tibetan leader in exile, Sikyong Penpa Tsering, in conversation with Professor Dibyesh Anand to discuss questions of human rights, democracy, China and Tibet. Sikyong Penpa Tsering was sworn-in as the President of the Central Tibetan Administration after his election victory of April 2021, at an official ceremony graced by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on 27 May 2021. From August 2016 to November 2017, he had been appointed as the Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Office of Tibet, Washington DC. During his time in USA, he concentrated efforts to strengthen support for Tibet in the US government. From 2008 to 2016, he was elected and served as the Speaker of the 14th and 15th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile. In 2001, whilst serving as a Member of the Tibetan Parliament, he took on the role of the Executive Director of Tibetan Parliamentary and Policy Research Centre (TPPRC), a research agency based in New Delhi. His efforts as the Executive Director of TPPRC and his constant outreach efforts directed towards Indian political leaders led to the successful revival of the All Party Indian Parliamentary Forum for Tibet (APIPFT).Professor Dibyesh Anand is the Head of the School of Social Sciences and a professor international relations at the University of Westminster in London. He is the author of monograph &quot;Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination” and has published on varied topics, including on colonial practices of China toward Tibetans and Uyghurs.The event is open to all the students and colleagues of University of Westminster as well as members of public. Registration is free but compulsory via Eventbrite.

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