WISCOMP collaborates regularly with other South Asian and international peacebuilding initiatives on a range of mutually beneficial projects. Some of our partners include:

The Centre for Social Research is one of the leading women’s institutions working in the field of social action since 1983 in India. CSR aims to empower women and provide them with the resources to be self-reliant individuals. Resource persons from the Gender Training Institute of CSR have conducted workshops for WISCOMP on gender training at the Panchayat level in India. They have shared their expertise on imparting political education, to women and men, which is a prerequisite for the strengthening of local governance structures.

WISCOMP has worked with trainers from the Danish Center for Conflict Resolution, Copenhagen, as part of its efforts to impart skills in nonviolent communication, active listening, dialogue and negotiation. In 2003, Bjarne Vestergaard and Sidsel Kragh from DCCR were invited as resource persons for the Second Annual Conflict Transformation Workshop where they conducted training sessions in dialogue, nonviolence and active negotiation. DCCR specializes in a range of culture-specific mediation, facilitation, dialogue and negotiation techniques, and recently helped to establish the Tibetan Center for Conflict Resolution in Dharamsala.

WISCOMP has collaborated with practitioners from the Henry Martyn Institute in Hyderabad, India, on workshops that address the interface between religion, violence and peace. The Henry Martyn Institute is an international center for research, interfaith relations and reconciliation. Since its founding in 1930, HMI has established a long record of teaching and research. It’s emphasis is on study and action at various levels in order to reduce prejudice, resolve conflict and increase trust, co-operation and understanding between individuals and groups.

WISCOMP, in collaboration with IDEA, has embarked on a research-praxis initiative titled South Asian Experiences in Reconciliation after Violent Conflict. The purpose behind this collaboration is to engage with varied perspectives on the question of reconciliation and justice in post-conflict situations. Based in Sweden, IDEA has conducted extensive work in the area of reconciliation and dialogue in regions of protracted conflict.

PRADAN is a voluntary organization, which works in select villages in 26 districts across seven states in India. The focus of its work is to strengthen livelihoods for the rural poor. This involves organizing them, enhancing their capabilities, introducing ways to improve their incomes and linking them to banks, markets and other economic services. PRADAN has facilitated trainings for WISCOMP (in Jammu and Kashmir) on the procedures and benefits of thrift groups, based on the principles of micro-credit and micro-finance. This has provided the necessary impetus for the local animators who work with WISCOMP to organize themselves as self-help groups.

RCSS is a premier South Asian networking institution, interacting with leading think tanks, resource persons, and young scholars in South Asia and outside the region. Based in Colombo, it encourages research, dialogue and deliberation on contemporary international affairs on a broad spectrum of conventional and non-conventional sources of conflict with an educational and problem-solving perspective. WISCOMP has been engaged with the programs of RCSS on a sustained basis and has provided expertise on gender and non-traditional security to the organization.

WISCOMP has worked collaboratively with Search for Common Ground, Washington DC. Susan Collin Marks, (Former Vice President, SFCG) was invited as the Keynote speaker for the WISCOMP Symposium on Conflict Resolution: Trends and Prospects in 2001. In March 2002, WISCOMP and SFCG held a collaborative screening of the film Titanic Town. Following the screening, Susan Koscis, (Vice President of Arts and Culture, SFCG) moderated a discussion on "Women Waging Peace".

WISCOMP collaborated with The Coexistence Initiative, New York, to present the Common Ground Film Festival, which showcased several award-winning documentary films. The objective of this partnership was to create a forum for a public audience to watch films on peace and security, and to discuss the important role that films can play in transforming conflict. The Coexistence Initiative (TCI) is an international organization that seeks to catalyze a global awareness of, and commitment to, creating a world safe for difference. TCI attempts to enhance the impact of the work undertaken by individuals and organizations pursuing coexistence, tolerance, and peace.    

Over the last five years, WISCOMP has been an active partner of the Women’s Initiative for Peace in South Asia. It participated in the WIPSA-led women’s peace delegation to Pakistan in March 2000 (under the leadership of peace activist and former parliamentarian Nirmala Deshpande). A Delhi-based organization with chapters in different parts of South Asia, WIPSA works to build people-to-people contact in the region.

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