ASLE Welcomes Two New International Affiliates

IMPORTANT Update: In May of 2019 ASLE officers voted to disaffiliate from the EFSLE/FSLE organization in India, as the group was unable to uphold the mission of ASLE or the standards of our community.  Please read more at https://www.asle.org/stay-informed/asle-news/statement-on-efsle-fsle-in-india-and-disaffiliation/ 

ASLE-PAKISTAN: Dare to Think GREEN

Though there is a Ministry of Climate Change and an Environmental Protection Agency in Pakistan along with numerous other nongovernmental organizations also working for environmental welfare in Pakistan, there exists no central forum at the grassroots level which specifically engages the academia, researchers, and creative writers in raising critical awareness regarding environmental crisis and the significance of clean environment for the development of a healthy Pakistani society. Moreover, there is no forum which predominantly engages women scholars, researchers, and activists to address environmental issues and work for environmental well-being. Critical Thinking Forum (CTF) has taken the lead and launched ASLE-Pakistan and provided a much needed platform to address these issues. We envision creating a vibrant community of academics, scholars, civil society activists, and students in Pakistan. CTF was established in 2010 with the vision to engage young scholars in Pakistan, particularly women, in critical reflection on important contemporary social, cultural, political, economic, religious, and environmental issues. CTF has earned a reputation for being a serious research-based, critical reading and discussion forum. The organization, based at International Islamic University in Islamabad, has numerous seminars, roundtables, course designing, publications, conferences, and numerous research projects and dissertations to its credit.

ASLE-Pakistan aims to serve as a common forum for generating enlightening and serious debates, sharing scholarship, and engaging in academic activism on environmental issues in Pakistan. We feel delighted that we have successfully created an inclusive community of supportive and engaged scholars to carry forward our agenda. We sincerely hope that with the support of our friends in the civil society, writers, educators, and scholars, we will be able to make a positive intervention in the rethinking of traditional disciplinary boundaries, pedagogical practices, and research methodologies and thereby attempt to significantly alter the traditional institutional thinking about the environment and its relationship with human beings. Using platform of ASLE-Pakistan, we wish to nurture our young students and help them grow as environmentally-conscious, ecologically-attentive, and responsible citizens of the 21st century.

ASLE-Pakistan was formally launched at a recent CTF conference in Islamabad and featured ISLE Editor Scott Slovic as a keynote speaker.  Read the article.

For more details, see the ASLE-Pakistan Information Sheet.

FSLE-India

IMPORTANT Update: In May of 2019 ASLE officers voted to disaffiliate from the EFSLE/FSLE organization in India, as the group was unable to uphold the mission of ASLE or the standards of our community.  Please read more at https://www.asle.org/stay-informed/asle-news/statement-on-efsle-fsle-in-india-and-disaffiliation/