Annelise Ebbe and Ila Pathak, Whither Women’s Rights? A Report from Kandhamal, WISCOMP (2009) Navanita Sinha, Democracies in Transition: Opportunities and Challenges for Nepal- A Report, WISCOMP (2010)

OVERVIEW

Recognizing the power of education as a tool for building sustainable peace across socio-political divides, WISCOMP through its various programs, experiments with diverse methodologies to explore the changing vocabularies and stimulate holistic learning within and outside educational institutions.

Its initiative on Education for Peace is designed to further its commitment to foster a culture of peace and initiate measures that will fashion non-violent responses to the multitude of conflict in the South Asian region. It seeks to involve teacher trainers, teachers and students in this process of transformation through modules on ‘education for peace’ and ‘diversity and difference’. Curriculum development forms another important facet of our engagement in this area.

WISCOMP seeks to accomplish this through the following approaches:

• Teach nonviolent communication skills;
• Facilitate experiential learning from self and others;
• Introduce theoretical knowledge from the evolving discipline of peace and conflict studies;
• Promote values such as human dignity, human rights, compassion, empathy and partnership;
• Motivate individuals to make lifelong commitment to peacebuilding at multiple levels – within the home, in their communities and in society.


 

 
Wiscomp was established as part of the efforts of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility to build a culture of coexistence and nonviolence that is gender-sensitive and inclusive. A not-for-profit, non-sectarian, non-denominational organization, the Foundation promotes universal responsibility in a manner that celebrates a diversity of beleifs and practices, and that contributes to a global ethic of nonviolence, coexistence and gender equity. The work of the Foundation is global in its reach and transcends nationalist political agendas.

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