ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2022
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. Over 31,000 young leaders on 2,400+ campuses across 140+ nations applied to join the Class of 2022. 200+ campuses worldwide (just 8%) were selected to host the 3,000+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT SAMA ZEHRA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
National Law University Delhi | Delhi, India | Advancing SDG 16 & UNAI 8
" I passionately advocatethe for rights of people living in conflict zones. I believe the that Millennium Fellowship will bestow me with the opportunity to narrate the untold stories and give a reality check to people about situation in Kashmir. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Dwandha - Conversations & Conflict
Our project is based on raising awareness about conflicts and the lives of people living in conflict zones in India. We want to highlight the contrast between the everyday life of an individual living in a conflict-prone territory with that of an individual living in a relatively peaceful state. Through this project, we aim to humanize conflicts and bring out the stories and difficulties of people living through such difficult circumstances. This will bring a variety of perspectives to the table and make people look at conflicts beyond the statistics of war.
Moreover, it will also help the cause of securing basic human rights for people of such regions. Raising awareness about oft-ignored things such as women’s personal hygiene in a conflict zone, the development, and growth of children in such an environment, is what we aim to do.
Our project furthers UN Sustainable Goal16 (peace, justice, and strong institutions). and UNAI Principle 7 (Peace and Conflict Resolution).
To achieve these ends we are using the following means:
Events/Discussions: Inventing researchers, academicians, activists to speak about the importance of conflict resolution, lives of people in conflict, different aspects of a conflict, information war, lives of marginalized groups of the society in conflict zones, the role of law in conflict zones, etc.
Social Media: Creating accounts under the name of our project on different social media platforms to put out bite-sized content in an easy-to-understand way that helps raise awareness on issues that concern us.
Email Campaigns: Writing informative emails to people about the work we are doing and sending out resources through which they can keep themselves informed.
Publishing articles/short stories/interviews: The conversations we will have through the course of our fellowship will enrichen our perspective. The knowledge that we amass, we would be sharing out in the form of write-ups that we will send out to different publications.
Interviews/Questionnaires: As we progress through our project we will identify key areas about our project that people must know about and therefore track awareness of these metrics through interviews/questionnaires. We would also interview people who can help us raise awareness and share these videos through our outreach campaign mechanisms.
About the Millennium Fellow
Sama Zehra is a young, bright and competitive law student currently pursuing a Bachelor of Law at National Law University, Delhi. As far as she can remember, Sama has always been passionate about topics such as human rights; its implementation and infringement, terrorism & counter terrorism, War and peace and the working of Law in conflict zones. Brought up in a state of turmoil and violence, Sama has closely witnessed a gross violation of rights, communication blockades and month-long curfews. Her experiences gave her the drive and ardour to work for various human rights organizations like Project 39A, JKCCS, and YHRD (youth for human rights documentation).
Sama aspires to be in a field where she can openly express her thoughts, narrate the stories of violence, and provide her own contribution to the development of the United Nations, sustainable goals.
