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Kuwait Times
9 hours ago
- Politics
- Kuwait Times
KU Center unveils strategy to further empower women
KUWAIT: Kuwait University's Faculty of Social Sciences on Tuesday launched a new strategy for its Women's Research & Studies Center, aligning with the national development agenda outlined in Kuwait Vision 2035. Speaking at the launch event, Acting Dean Dr Ali Zaid Al-Zoubi said the strategy outlines plans for 2025 and 2026, inspired by the speeches of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and the goals of the national vision. 'The strategy includes a set of initiatives, training programs, seminars, and policies that will be implemented in the coming period,' he said. 'We aim to promote community awareness of the role of women in development.' Dr Al-Zoubi emphasized the need for collective effort to drive progress. 'Development can only be achieved through the cooperation of all members of society,' he said, noting that the center plays a key role in strengthening women's role in Kuwaiti society through scientific research and policy recommendations. Dr Nourah Shuaibi, head of the center, outlined the new strategy's three core pillars: A sustainable, diverse economy focused on supporting women's participation in the labor market and entrepreneurship; social justice, promoting gender equality and equal opportunities; and creative human development, emphasizing investment in human capital and building a productive society. 'The strategy believes in empowering university students to shape the future and support sustainable development,' Shuaibi said, adding that the center's values are rooted in capacity-building, scientific research, and strong partnerships. Upcoming activities include specialized workshops, community awareness campaigns, and an annual conference on women and sustainable development. The rollout of these initiatives is set to begin in September.
Express Tribune
20 hours ago
- Politics
- Express Tribune
Strategic crisis management
The writer is former Dean Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Karachi and can be reached at amoonis@ Listen to article When survival of a country or an organisation is at stake, strategies to deal with a crisis situation are adopted. Composed of strategic planning and strategic thinking, those trying to manage a crisis must possess required skills to deal with a situation of critical nature in a strategic manner. According to Merriam Webster Dictionary, strategy means, "the science and art of employing the political, economic, psychological, and military forces of a nation or group of nations to afford the maximum support to adopted policies in peace or war." Strategic crisis management is an innovative term and a concept which aims to professionally deal with a dangerous situation skillfully. According to AI overview, "Strategic crisis management is a proactive and integrated approach to preparing for, responding to, and recovering from crises. It involves embedding crisis management into an organization's overall strategic planning process, rather than treating it as an isolated function. This approach focuses on minimizing the impact of crises by anticipating potential threats, developing comprehensive response strategies, and fostering effective communication and collaboration." Crises in Gaza, Ukraine and Iran-Israel as well as the US-Iran relations and the Indo-Pak relations, apart from global economic problems, require strategy for their effective management. Likewise, economic crisis, political schism, water crisis and environmental crisis requires proper management skills with strategic foresight and vision. According to Everbridge, "Crisis management is an organization's process and strategy-based approach for identifying and responding to a critical event. A critical event can be defined as any threat, unanticipated incident, or negative disruption with the potential to impact an organization's people, property, or business processes. Being prepared to respond to and recover from a critical event requires a sophisticated crisis management plan. Prioritizing crisis management also helps organizations mitigate the secondary consequences of critical events. Establishing a plan can help organizations move from a position of reactivity to proactively safeguarding against all the effects a critical event can have on an organization." The concept of strategic crisis management can only be understood and applied in a society which is educated and enlightened and possess analytical skills and critical thinking. When concepts like strategy, crisis and management are rooted in the mindset of people, one can expect a country to deal with issues that pose threat to its survival. For example, economic predicament of Pakistan is a perennial issue. If Pakistan is economically fragile, it will have its impact on politics, governance and foreign policy. Had there been a focus on the part of Pakistan's leadership on seeking excellence in strategic crisis management, the country would have been on the list of 20 top economies of the world. But, the reality on the ground is different because Pakistan's internal and external debt burden is around 250 billion dollars; its foreign exchange reserves held by the central bank amount to 15 billion dollars, exports are 30 billion dollars annually, per capita income is 1,700 dollars, GDP is 373 billion dollars, income from tourism is less than one billion dollars a year and remittances are worth 32 billion dollars annually. Most of the state institutions like PIA and Steel Mill possess a debt of 200 billion rupees. There is a direct link between economy and politics. As long as Pakistan is under political crisis, it will negatively impact its economy, governance, rule of law and foreign policy. The dearth of strategic thinkers and crisis managers in Pakistan mitigates hope to transform it as a vibrant state. In FY2025-26 Pakistan needs to return more than 22 billion dollars of foreign debt which will put enormous pressure on its economy. Strategic crisis management requires the leadership to have the qualities of hard work, intelligence, integrity, commitment, planning, management and vision. This also requires reversing the culture of corruption and nepotism. Strategic crisis management needs to be examined and analysed from three angles. First, the need to have a critical mass emerging from educational institutions having knowledge of strategy and crisis management is essential. Training, advocacy and best practices in a society also contribute towards training people capable of understanding and managing a crisis. Pakistan's dilemma is that its elites are devoid of commitment and professional expertise in strategy and crisis management. Those controlling the instruments of power formulate policies on an ad hoc basis without learning lessons from past mistakes. They also lack the commitment to learn from successful models of crisis decision-making i.e. how leadership in such countries is able to focus on right kind of strategy and apply it to manage a crisis. For instance, G7 that is composed of the world's most industrialised and affluent countries meet every year to assess strategy to meet challenges and crises and conduct brainstorming for effective decision-making in order to maintain their edge in global order. Likewise, every year, there is Munich security dialogue primarily consisting of Western powers to formulate a strategy to deal with threats and manage security crisis. The relative success of G-7 and China in dealing with crises is by pursuing a policy of strategic statesmanship. Second, when in 1971 Pakistan was facing a grave crisis threatening its very survival and its eastern wing was facing a civil war, elites governing power were oblivious of the situation and their strategy lacked foresight, statesmanship and vision. When the country was being dismembered, its rulers behaved in an irresponsible manner. Had a proper strategy been pursued by the Martial Law regime of General Yahya Khan and West Pakistan political parties by summoning the National Assembly in Dhaka on March 3, 1971 and a military operation had not been launched to deal with the political crisis, the country would have been saved. The 1977 crisis, which plunged Pakistan in violence and disorder could have been averted had the general elections been transparent and the then Prime Minister ZA Bhutto and the Pakistan National Alliance (PNA) had prioritised the interests of the country rather than their own political objectives. The country could have been saved from what turned out to be longest spell of martial law in the country. Pakistan lacked strategic crisis management to deal with the 1977 crisis. Finally, the role of policy-oriented think tanks and academia is pivotal in inculcating the concept of strategic crisis management at the institutional and individual level. When a critical mass is created to deal with a crisis situation in a strategic manner, one can expect its proper management. This critical mass so far is lacking in Pakistan.
Time of India
19-07-2025
- General
- Time of India
Dibrugarh University BEd CET result 2025 declared at dibru.ac.in, check steps to download and more
Eligibility Criteria Post Result Steps to Check Dibrugarh University BEd CET Result 2025 Live Events About Dibrugarh University Faculty of Humanities and Law Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Education Faculty of Science and Engineering Faculty of Commerce and Management Science Faculty of Biological Sciences Faculty of Earth Sciences and Energy (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel Dibrugarh University has officially released the results of the Common Entrance Test (CET) 2025 on July 18, 2025. Candidates who appeared for the entrance exam conducted on July 12, 2025, can now access their scorecards online through the university's official website — To check the Dibrugarh University BEd CET 2025 Result, students are required to enter their roll number and application number on the result who have scored 30.00 marks or above in the entrance test are eligible to apply for admission into the NCTE-recognized Programme offered by the university. This includes courses at the Department of Education, as well as at affiliated colleges and institutes under Dibrugarh University for the academic session 2025– 1: Visit the official website: 2: Scroll down and click on the 'BEd CET 2025 Results' 3: Enter your application number and roll number, then click on 4: Your BEd CET result PDF will appear on the 5: Download and save the result for future in 1965 under the Dibrugarh University Act passed by the Assam Legislative Assembly, Dibrugarh University is the easternmost university in India. It is recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and offers a wide range of diploma, undergraduate, and postgraduate programs across various faculties such as:
Business Recorder
10-07-2025
- Science
- Business Recorder
Postgraduate admission test held at SAU
HYDERABAD: Sindh Agriculture University (SAU), Tandojam, successfully conducted entry tests for admission to its postgraduate degree programmes, with a total of 444 candidates appearing. According to the university spokesperson, 413 candidates applied for master's degree programmes, while 31 candidates sat for the PhD entrance test. Faculty of Social Sciences received 91 master's and 7 PhD candidates; Faculty of Crop Protection, 52 master's and 8 PhD candidates; Faculty of Crop Production, 157 master's and 8 PhD candidates; Faculty of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences, 94 MPhil and 8 PhD candidates; and Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology had 19 master's (ME) candidates. Copyright Business Recorder, 2025
Japan Today
27-06-2025
- Japan Today
Woman gets suspended term over hammer attack at Japan university campus
A Japanese court has sentenced a woman to three years in prison, suspended for four years, for injuring eight students in a hammer attack at a university campus in suburban Tokyo. The court on Friday found Yoo Ju Hyun, a 23-year-old South Korean, guilty of injuring the students on Jan. 10 at Hosei University's Tama Campus in Machida. The presiding judge put her actions down to a mental disorder she was suffering. The series of attacks on defenseless students were "dangerous and shocking," said Presiding Judge Keita Nakajima in handing down the ruling at the Tokyo District Court's Tachikawa branch. Yoo, who was a second-year student in the university's Faculty of Social Sciences at the time, had claimed she was bullied and insulted by some students. Nakajima said while it cannot be said that there was no bullying at all, there was no evidence that the eight victims, some of which suffered head injuries, had insulted her. However, the judge said that Yoo's actions were influenced to a considerable extent by an obsessive-compulsive disorder and other factors. © KYODO
