Binalakshmi Nepram Mentschel, Women’s role in Micro-Disarmament in India’s North East, WISCOMP Discussion Paper 21 (2011)

Ashima Kaul and Seema Kakran, Symbol and Substance: Exploring Inter Community Dialogue in Ladakh, Building Constituencies of Peace: Stakeholders in Dialogue XVIII (2011)

Seema Kakran, Competing Realities: Identity, Culture and Dialogue in Jammu and Kashmir, Building Constituencies of Peace: Stakeholders in Dialogue XIX (2011)



Disasters and Security

The first Forum on Disasters and Security was held in Chennai, in September, 2006. Theoretical arguments for a re-envisioning of security got an unexpected fillip from the 2004 Tsunami and 2005 Kashmir Earthquake. Traditional entrenched notions of “state” security, sacrosanct interstate frontiers, autonomous decision making or complete self reliance seemed to be washed away in the span of a few minutes. The traumatic events created opportunities for setting aside old frameworks, within which we regard reconstruction and development and long standing hostilities within and between states. Disasters were seen as highlighting missed opportunities of the past and creating openings for a renewed commitment. As such it could be argued that beyond the physical devastation they caused, they also caused fundamental changes along many parameters in the affected societies.

The first WISCOMP Forum had the following objectives:

  • To take stock of the range and variety of initiatives taken and lessons learnt in the aftermath of the two disasters
  • To identify the theoretical areas where these initiatives and lessons must produce a change
  • To capture and anticipate new themes and trends in human security scholarship.
  • To shift the discursive frame so that human and state security are related in different ways
  • To addressing structural inequalities and vulnerabilities
  • To institutionalize gender mainstreaming and lobby for gender equity in laws and policies
  • To build the capacity of civil society to coordinate, collaborate and strategize in an accountable and introspective mode
  • To invest in public and media education on a host of issues including appropriate response.

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