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ADVISORY BOARD Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Kiran Bedi, I.P. Khosla, Satish Kumar, Surjit Mansingh, Dalip Mehta, Mrinal Pande, Vibha Parthasarathi, Aruna Roy, Leila Seth, Vandana Shiva, B.G. Verghese
CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE Kanti Bajpai, Kamla Bhasin, Urvashi Butalia, Anuradha Chenoy, Shekhar Gupta, Malavika Karlekar, Ritu Menon, Poonam Mutreja, Deepa Ollapally, C. Raja Mohan, Varun Sahni
HONORARY DIRECTOR Meenakshi Gopinath
STAFF Sumona DasGupta (Assistant Director) Manjri Sewak (Senior Program Officer) Seema Kakran (Program Officer) Navanita Sinha (Project Assistant) Priyanka Singh (Project Associate)
WISCOMP STAFF PROFILES
Meenakshi Gopinath (Founder & Honorary Director) also serves as Principal, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi. She was first woman member on the National Security Advisory Board. Dr. Gopinath serves on several boards including co-chair of the Academic Council of the UN University of Peace, Costa Rica; Governing Board of Co-Existence International, USA; Center for Policy Research, New Delhi; The Shri Ram School, New Delhi; Regional Center for Strategic Studies, Sri Lanka; Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution, New Delhi etc. She is a member of multi-track peace initiatives in Kashmir and between India and Pakistan including the Neemrana Peace Initiative, Dostaana e’ Kashmir and the Pakistan India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy. She has authored the book Pakistan in Transition and has contributed chapters and articles to several books and journals on Gandhi, the politics of Pakistan, the arts, Conflict Resolution, Gender and Peacebuilding et al. In recognition of her contribution to the field of women’s education and empowerment, she has received several awards including the Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi Award, the Rajiv Gandhi Award for Excellence in Education, the Shiromani Mahila Award and the Delhi Citizen Forum Award. Dr. Gopinath has been a Fulbright scholar and has received several fellowships. She was awarded the Padmashri by The President of India for her distinguished contribution to the field of Literature and Education in India in 2007. Sumona DasGupta (Assistant Director) holds a doctorate in Political Science. Her thesis focused on the Trends of Militarization in Indian Politics in the 1980s. Dr. DasGupta is an alumna of the Summer School of the Regional Center for Strategic Studies (RCSS), Colombo, and was on the faculty of the Winter School on non-traditional security organized in October 2004. In recent years, Dr. DasGupta has worked on the low intensity conflict in Kashmir using the lens of gender and non-traditional security perspectives, and has been part of a research team sponsored by the Social Science Research Council, Washington that examined root causes of conflict in Kashmir through the gender lens. She was invited to speak on the Role of Women in Conflict Prevention at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. She has also been the guest editor of the special issue of Gender Studies published by Sage on Gender and Security: Perspectives from South Asia. Manjri Sewak (Senior Program Officer) is also a member of the Visiting Faculty for the Peacebuilding Diploma Program at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi. At LSR, she teaches papers on Justice and Reconciliation; Nonviolence; and Introduction to Conflict Analysis and Conflict Transformation. A Fulbright Conflict Resolution Scholar, she holds a Masters degree in Conflict Transformation from the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, Easter Mennonite University, U.S.A. She recently published a book titled Multi-Track Diplomacy between India and Pakistan: A Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Security (Manohar, New Delhi, 2005) and has co-authored, with Meenakshi Gopinath, two resource books on conflict transformation titled Transcending Conflict and Dialogic Engagement. She has also co-authored, with Deepti Mahajan, a monograph titled Kashmir: Engaging with Possibilities. A trainer in the field of peacebuilding, Manjrika has designed curriculum and conducted workshops on various aspects of dialogue, nonviolence and conflict transformation. . Seema Kakran (Program Officer) is currently pursuing Ph. D. at the Department of Political Science, University of Nebraska- Lincoln where she has completed a Graduate Certificate in Public Policy Analysis. She holds an M. Phil degree in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University and her dissertation is titled “Police and Social Violence a Study of Communal Riots in Uttar Pradesh-1981-1990”. She has taught undergraduate courses in Public Administration and Political Theory at colleges in Delhi University and at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln. Navanita Sinha (Project Assistant) is currently pursuing a Ph.D. from Center for Political Studies. She holds a M.Phil. in Political Science and her dissertation is titled "Habitus and Performativity: Examining questions of Gender Identity through the writings of Pierre Bourdieu and Judith Butler". She has completed Master’s in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University and her Bachelor’s degree is from Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi. Priyanka Singh (Project Associate) is in the process of completing a Post Graduate Diploma in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding from Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the same institution. She is also associated with Yatrik theater group and has worked in various capacities at organizations which deal with education of the marginalized.
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