(PARADISE: IN SEARCH OF PEACE) Dal Lake, Srinagar, Kashmir (C) KCPR/ Nadeem Qadri

Nadeem Qadri

Born on August 15 1985 at land of Saffron Pampore, Kashmir, Nadeem Qadri, completed his Degree in Law from University of Jammu (date).

Right from his childhood, Qadri remained concerned about the social and humanitarian issues confronting the society in his native Kashmir and during his studies for the Law Degree founded many organisation like Save Environment Club, South Asia Peoples' Alliance, Law Students' Forum, Youth Parliament of J&K to mobilize public opinion about various Social, Economic and Environmental issues.

He had worked with many international NGO's like Action Aid International, Amnesty International (London), World Coalition against the Death Penalty (France), Youth for Change International, getting much needed exposure to deal with the local issues confronting the conflict ridden Jammu and Kashmir.

On December 16 2008, Nadeem Qadri presented a paper on Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) as a guest speaker at Christ University, Bangalore which was supported by F.K Norway.

He was awarded a Prestigious Fellowship on the topic “Child Rights of Children in Conflict in J&K : Problems & Solutions” by Action Aid International which, supported by European Commission, Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid, (ECHO).

Nadeem is presently engaged in promoting youth intelligentsia across Jammu and Kashmir through his organisation Youth Parliament of J&K.