(mausumi) M. Chetia

I am a development professional, working with local NGOs, Community based organisations [CBOs], regional humanitarian organisations and higher education institutions in India. As a practitioner in the field for over six years, I have been engaged with multiple field-based academic and non-academic research as well as intervention-based work on a variety of issues. These range from climate change advocacy, [urban] disaster risk reduction [DRR], and humanitarian response/aid work; to doing fund-raising and psycho-social support work with survivors of human-induced disasters like the Mumbai terror attack [2008], AMRI hospital fire of Kolkata [2013] etc.

I use Arts-Based Therapy [ABT] for supporting psycho-social well-being with disaster survivors and at-risk communities; with a special focus on children vulnerable to everyday risks and disasters.

Currently I in a doctoral research project looking at Human Security Status of Disaster-displaced Population in Assam, India; under the Flagship Programme of Vital Cities and Citizens [VCC] of ISS - part of Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Two of my academic and non-academic publications could be found below:

• Disasters-Induced Displacement vis-à-vis Policy Framework: A Study of the Mishing Community of Majuli, Assam; Disaster & Development Vol. 7, No. 1 & 2, Dec. 2013, ISSN: 0973-6700 [http://nidm.gov.in/journal10.asp]
• A Rendezvous with My Breath - Arts-based Therapies with Children Vulnerable to Disasters [https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/3vDPLi6IQk1P12]