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WISCOMP
(Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace) is a South Asian
research and training initiative, which facilitates the leadership of women
in the areas of peace, security and international affairs. Initiated
in 1999 by Meenakshi Gopinath who currently serves as the Honorary Director,
WISCOMP positions its
work at the confluence of peacebuilding, conflict transformation and
security studies. The intersection of these with gender concerns provides
the focus of its engagement and is the leitmotif that informs its programs.
WISCOMP
strives to:
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Enhance the role of women as
peacebuilders, negotiators and as agents
for nonviolent social change.
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Contribute to an inclusive, people-oriented discourse on issues of
security, which respects diversity and which foregrounds the perspectives of
women and the hitherto marginalized.
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Facilitate theory-building and innovative research on holistic
paradigms that address the resolution and transformation of intra- and
inter-state conflicts.
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Empower a new generation of women and men with the expertise and
skills to engage in peace activism through educational and training programs
in conflict transformation.
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Build synergy at various levels – between theory, practice and
policy; between those working in academia, in the formal structures of
foreign policy and diplomacy and those engaged in grassroots’
peacebuilding.
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Build constituencies of peace through research, action and mentor
programs that focus on areas such as multi-track diplomacy, peace advocacy,
active coexistence and cross-border networks.
staff, advisory board and
consultative committee
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