WISCOMP
invites applications for a South Asian Peacebuilding Workshop titled Enriching
Democratic Practice in South Asia:
Possibilities from the Field of Peacebuilding on the 30 – 31 of
October, 2010 in New Delhi. Click
here for details.
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)
Under
the auspices of the Athwaas initiative, WISCOMP has facilitated several
trauma healing workshops for its Samanbal members, both in the Kashmir
valley as well as in the Jammu region, to enable participants to gain
a better intellectual understanding of the relationship between trauma
work and peacebuilding work, as well as to recognize the many dimensions
of trauma. These workshops broadly attempt to enable participants
to:
• Understand the need to reconcile the micro levels—personal
and interpersonal—with the macro levels of social change that
arise out of political violence
• Understand how trauma manifests itself in varied fashions,
psychologically, socially, physiologically, spiritually
• Develop or restore healthy human relationships and initiate
processes such as community reconciliation
• Reinvest in the notion of “agency” and how the
samanbal spaces can be an instrument of change and transformation.
• Refresh and invigorate the notion of a “samanbal”
as a space for healing and reconciliation and collectively image a
multitude of activities that can be undertaken in this space and promote
the development of support groups that employ a facilitated process
to heal individuals in the context of a group
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.
