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)
The Roundtable titled Building Synergies of Peace on June 7th, 2003
organized as part of our Conflict Transformation workshop. We brought
together practitioners and scholars, representing different tracks,
who talked about the need to include a broad range of actors in processes
of peacebuilding. This included individuals representing governments
and organizations like the United Nations and the European Union as
well as professional conflict resolution practitioners, NGO workers,
academia, media-persons, grassroots’ groups, trauma healers, human
rights’ and justice advocates. Speakers, Brian O’ Neill
Counsellor, European Union, Lalita Ramdas, Peace Activist, Tina Uneken,
Alliance Director, Bharti - SingTel and Professor Satish Kumar, Former
Professor of Diplomacy, JNU shared their perspectives on the unique
and substantive interventions that individuals and groups from different
sections of society have made in the regions of protracted conflict.
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.
