WISCOMP SCHOLAR OF PEACE  FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM  

 

2007

 

Academic Research

 

Mr. Hammad Ahmad Malik (Islamabad, Pakistan)

Structural Violence and Women: A Case Study of Hudood Ordinances in Pakistan (1979 to 2006)

 

Mr. R. Ramasubramanian (New Delhi, India)

Women in Post-Conflict Polity Building: Lessons from Afghanistan

 

Dr. Seema Shekhawat and Dr. Debidatta Aurobindo Mahapatra (Jammu and Kashmir, India)

Divided Families in Kargil region: Impact on Women

 

Media  Projects

 

Mr. Azim Ahmad Khan ( New Delhi, India)

Access to Justice and peacebuilding in Gujarat: The Way Forward

 

Mr. Luv Puri (Jammu and Kashmir, India)

Exploring the reality across the Line of Control

 

Special Projects

 

Mr. S. Gautham (New Delhi, India)

Women Can’t Swim: Tsunami, Survival and the Gender Dimension

 

Ms. Meera Khanna and Ms. Sehjo Singh (New Delhi, India)

The Boy and the Soldier: Impact of Armed Conflict in Kashmir

 

 

2006

Special Projects

Uddipan Dutta, (Tezpur, Assam)

Creating ‘Robin Hoods’: Popular Print Media as Mouthpiece of Insurgent Organizations: Reading through the Discourse of Assamese Newspapers in the Early Period of Insurgency in Assam.

 

Dilrukshi Fonseka, (Nugegoda, Sri Lanka)

Earth and Stone, Debris and Ash: Public Space and Violence in the Sri Lankan Conflict

 

Malavika Vartak (New Delhi, India)

Memory and Migration: Bhutanese Refugee Women and Oral Histories of Self and Nation

 

Alpana Kishore (New Delhi, India)

Kashmir: Layers of Nationality, Identity and Ethnicity

 

Media Projects

Babita Basnet, (Kathmandu, Nepal)

A Pilot Case Study on Women in Conflict Affected Areas in Nepal: Their Present and Future

 

 

2005

 

Media Projects

Vanita Sharma & Rinku Dutta (PhD Scholar, University of Oxford, Oxford & Reader, Amity University, Delhi)
Women of Indian Origin Surviving and Thriving in Pakistan: An Unlikely Success Story?

Wasbir Hussain (Consulting Editor, The Sentinel, Guwahati and Director, Center for Development and Peace Studies, Guwahati)
Homemakers without the Men: Women-Headed Households in Violence-wracked Assam

George Joseph (Bureau Chief, Jeevan TV, New Delhi)
Striving for Social Reconciliation in Kashmir: Does Ladakh Show the Way?

Raheel Dhattiwala (Feature Writer cum Copy Editor, Times of India, Ahmedabad, Gujarat)   Social Changes among the Muslims of Ahmedabad since 1990 (with a focus on the status post-Gujarat Riots, 2002)

Special Projects

Nirekha De Silva (Research Assistant, University of Colombo & Research Assistant, International Center for Ethnic Studies, Colombo)                                                                          Transitional Justice for Ex-women Combatants

Anurupa Roy (Junior Research Fellow, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, New Delhi)Women in Conversation with Puppets: Storytelling and Puppetry as Tools for Conflict Resolution

Jaimala Iyer (Chief Executive Officer, Pravah, New Delhi)                                                   Healing Through Dialogues – Theater of the Oppressed and Beyond

 

 

2004  

 

Academic Research  

 

Dr. Chavi Bhargava Sharma (Jaipur, India)

Between Two Worlds: Long-term Effects of Communal Violence on a Multi-religious, Marginalized, Threatened Community (Pranamis): A Cultural Psychological Analysis  

 

Ananya Vajpeyi (New Delhi, India)

Violent Spaces, Violated Persons: Rethinking the Camp and the Refugee in South Asia.  

 

Special Projects  

 

Taran Nishat Khan (Aligarh, India)

Telling Tales: Negotiating Religious Identity in Classrooms  

 

Zakia Haque (Dhaka, Bangladesh)

Women and War: A Study on Stranded Bihari Women and Girls in Bangladesh  

 

Oishik Sircar (New Delhi, India)

Engendering Persecution: Safeguarding South Asian Women’s Rights under International Refugee Law

 

Anjana Shakya (Kathmandu, Nepal)

Women and Children in Armed Conflict with specific focus on the Maoist Conflict in Nepal  

 

Media Projects  

 

Aarti Tikkoo (Jammu, India)

Guns and Books at Odds in Jammu and Kashmir: Impact of Militancy on Education in Jammu and Kashmir

 

Seema Husain (Guwahati, India)

Multi-track Peace Initiatives in India’s Northeast

Kavita Suri (Jammu, India)

Impact of Violence on Women’s Education in Kashmir

 

Dilip D’Souza (Mumbai, India)

New Glory: Peace as Patriotism

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2003  

 

Academic Research  

 

Siddharth Mallavarapu (New Delhi, India)

International Relations Theory and Non-traditional Approaches to Security

 

Special Projects  

 

Anupama Sekhar (Chennai, India)

Mezzanine: Youth Writing Peace

Bindu Nair (Pune, India)                                                                                                      Women’s Bodies and Communal Violence, Gujarat, 2002: Locating Sexual Violence in Hindutva and Patriarchy

Kamini Karlekar (New Delhi, India)

The Refugee Women of the Afghan and Burmese Community in Delhi  

 

Kanchan Gaba (Kolkata, India)

The Plight of Women Prisoners in Jail Custody  

 

Khelena Gurumayum (Imphal, India)

Manipuri Women’s Role in Crisis Management during “Cease-fire Extension without Territorial Limits”  

 

Shireen Saleem (Karachi, Pakistan)

Impact of Religious Extremism on Women in Pakistan  

 

Suparna Jain (New Delhi, India)

Decentralized Governance in Schedule V Areas and Empowerment of Women: Resolving Conflicts through Law  

 

Media Projects  

 

Jyoti Malhotra (New Delhi, India)

In Tibet Today: Towards Conflict Resolution

Ammara Durrani (Karachi, Pakistan)

Troubled Waters of Karachi

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2002  

 

Academic Research  

 

A. Subramaniyam Raju (Hyderabad, India)

Women Scientists’ Perception of the Nuclear Issue  

 

Eranpeni Ezung (New Delhi, India)

Women-in-Exile: Tibetan Women’s Refugees’ Experiences in India

Kishali Pinto Jayawardene (Colombo, Sri Lanka)

Justice, Reconciliation and Constitution Making: Making Sure the Future Constitution works for Sri Lankan Women 

   

Minakshi Das (Bhubaneshwar,India)      

Taliban’s War on Women: Afghan Refugees in Delhi

 

Special Projects

 

Anita S. (Trivandrum, India)

Coping and Sustenance Strategies of Women in Conflict over Natural Resources due to Modern Development  

 

Aradhana Gupta (New Delhi, India)

South Asian Women’s Electronic Resources Alliance (SAWERA) 

 

Dolly Kikon (Guwahati, India)

Experiences of Naga Women in Armed Conflict Narratives from a Militarized Society.

Mossarat Qadeem (Peshawar, Pakistan)

Afghan Women: The Burden Bearers of the Twenty-Year War

Media Project  

Shruba Mukherjee (New Delhi, India)

Women Cadres of PWG: Conflict Mongers or Managers.  

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2001  

 

Academic Research  

 

Bina Srinivasan (Baroda, India)

The Taming of a River: Gender Displacement and Resistance in Anti-Dam Movements.

 

 

Deepanjali Bakshi (Bangalore, India)

In the Line of Fire—Women in the Armed Forces

 

Jeff Redding (Islamabad, Pakistan, New Delhi, India)

In (Equality) Amid (Non) Plurality: The Pakistani Experience

 

 

Mangalika de Silva (Colombo, Sri Lanka)

Violence and Sexuality in the Iconography of the Nation

 

Zafarullah Khan (Islamabad, Pakistan)

Representation of Post-Chagai Alternative Discourse in the Media

 

Special Projects 

 

Chitra Balakrishnan (Bangalore, India)

Research to Evolve Gender-Sensitive and Culture-Specific Models of Alternative Dispute Resolution 

 

Smita Bharti (New Delhi, India)

Beyond Silences: Documenting Theatre in Jail and Outside

 

Media Project  

 

Manimala (New Delhi, India)

Hinsapurna Vishwa mein Shanti ki Bhasha: Kashmir mein Sangharsh ke bad Jeevit Mahilaon ki

 Shakti

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2000

Academic Research

Bhabananda Takhellambam (Imphal, India)                                                     

Women’s Uprising in Manipur—A legacy Continued  

 

Khatoli Khala (Nagaland, India)

Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act and its Impact on Women in Nagaland  

Sabina Kidwai (New Delhi, India)

Images of Muslim Women: A Study on the Representation of Muslim Women in the Media (1985-2001)

Special Projects  

 

Geeta Chandran (New Delhi, India)

Her Voice  

 

Paula Banerjee (Kolkata, India)

Across the Experiences: Naga Women in Sri Lanka

 

Media Projects

 

Alladi Jayasri (Bangalore, India)

Empowerment of Women: Answers from Tibet  

 

Amita Joshi (New Delhi, India)

Sangharsh Ki Bhasha aur Mahilaen (Sandarbh – Assam)

 

Sudha Ramachandran (Bangalore, India) and Sonia Jabbar (New Delhi, India)

The Shades of Violence: Women and Kashmir

 

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