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)


OVERVIEW

The twin exercises of redefining ‘security’ and delimiting the scope of security discourse and policy entail searching beyond familiar and the self-evident subjects. Non-traditional formulations of and approaches to security have formed a central part of WISCOMP’s research agenda. Seeking to place gender concerns squarely within the parameters of the evolving discourse on security, WISCOMP conducts and facilitates research on a range of themes to engage with the expanding contours of the security debate.

The Engendering Security Program seeks to contribute to a corpus of knowledge, empirical, and theoretical, on the ways in which gender and emerging formulations of security intersect in South Asia, and seeks to:
  • Contribute to a process of empirically mapping the area of gender and non-traditional security in sites of violent conflicts across South Asia in a manner that highlights both the differences and similarities of experiences across cultures and national boundaries.
  • Map the differences and commonalities of the experiences of gender, security and conflict in conflict zones in the South and South East Asian region.
  • Explore the range of experiences of gender and conflict across South Asia to examine if there are common connecting threads.
  • Examine the empirical studies of the En-gendering Security Series to locate spaces for women in the politics and processes of peacebuilding.
  • Devise a vocabulary of conflict transformation that finds resonance within the cultural experiences of South Asia.
  • Build a corpus of knowledge in the area of Non Traditional Security that stands the test of sound theory.

WISCOMP is a member of NTS-Asia Consortium.
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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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