Building Constituencies of Peace

As part of its efforts to build constituencies of peace in contexts of violent conflict, WISCOMP supports women’s initiatives in regions such as Kashmir, Nagaland and Sri Lanka.

The women’s initiatives for peace seek to:

• Initiate collaborative relationships between policymakers, grassroots’ workers, the media, NGOs and educationists so that the voices of a range of stakeholders, particularly women, can be mainstreamed in social change processes.

• Empower women from regions of protracted conflict with the skills and expertise to engage in processes of conflict transformation in their local communities and regions as well as in official peace negotiations.

• Transcend geographical boundaries and the conventional hierarchies of age, gender, class and social status to learn from the perspectives and experiences of women in conflict negotiation and peacebuilding.

The initiative in Kashmir, called Athwaas*, comprises a group of Muslim, Hindu and Sikh Kashmiri women who nourish peace

constituencies and who explore possibilities for a just peace through a range of activities including active listening, trauma counseling, conflict transformation workshops, articulation of the concerns of women to policymakers and government interlocutors and initiation of programs that facilitate economic empowerment.

WISCOMP facilitates similar initiatives between women peace activists, educationists and journalists from different regions in South Asia such as Sri Lanka and Nagaland.

Breaking the Silence: Women in Kashmir Roundtable

Athwaas

  Women Reporting Conflict Roundtable

Women in Dialogue: Envisioning the Road Ahead in Jammu and Kashmir

Exploring Peace Journalism:   A Workshop

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