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)


GUJARAT

WISCOMP’s engagement with Gujarat began in May 2002 when a Discussion on Civil Society Initiatives in Gujarat was hosted in New Delhi. The findings of a number of citizen’s reports were discussed, with an eye towards making this information more widely available to civil society. After this event, WISCOMP began to work with the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) to carefully study the wide range of contributions that the international community has brought to the field of justice and reconciliation, from both theoreticians and practitioners. This study resulted in a joint Symposium on Reconciliation in South Asia: Exploring the Terrain. The goal was to explore the possibilities for a regional understanding of reconciliation, drawing on South Asia’s vibrant diversity of religions, languages and cultures.

In keeping with its commitment to the development of both theory and praxis in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding, after the Symposium of 2005, WISCOMP began to explore the possibility of conceptualizing a peacebuilding project in Gujarat, based on the model of the WISCOMP Athwaas initiative in Jammu and Kashmir. Harsh Mander’s research on justice and reconciliation in Gujarat was a next step for WISCOMP to support action research, and gave a clear and fuller picture of the challenges and opportunities for reconciliation in Gujarat.

 


 
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