WISCOMP welcomes its readers to the inaugural issue of Peace Prints, a biannual South Asian Journal of Peacebuilding. The focus of this volume is Strategic Peacebuilding: State of the Field. Many thanks to Ms. Anna-Kaisa Heikkinen, Consulting Editor, for taking time out to work on this volume of Peace Prints.

 

Consulting Editor

Ms. Anna-Kaisa Heikkinen is Second Secretary at the Embassy of Finland, New Delhi. Her responsibilities at the Embassy include the follow-up of Indian political affairs, development questions, press and cultural affairs as well as the follow-up of Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. Ms. Heikkinen has been serving at the Finnish Embassy in Delhi since June 2004. In August 2008, she will move on to her next posting in Moscow.

 

The Wiscomp Team

Dr. Meenakshi Gopinath Dr. Sumona DasGupta

Ms. Manjrika Sewak

Ms. Seema Kakran

Ms. Navanita Sinha

Ms. Priyanka Singh

 

WISCOMP is grateful to the Embassy of Finland, New Delhi, for its support to this project.

Inaugural Issue: Strategic Peacebuilding - State of the Field                           Vol. 1, No. 1: Spring 2008

Editorial

 

Ms. Anna-Kaisa Heikkinen : Consulting Editor view article

 

Academic Papers

 

Lisa Schirch: Strategic Peacebuilding – State of the Field view article

Howard Zehr: Doing Justice, Healing Trauma – The Role of Restorative Justice in Peacebuilding

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Kevin Kester: Developing Peace Education Programs – Beyond Ethnocentrism and Violence view article

Saira Yamin: Understanding Religious Identity and the causes of religious violence view article

Swarna Rajagopalan: Reconciliation in the Indian Epics view article

 

Perspectives from the Field

 

Eirene Chen and Mariam Jalalzada: Gender and Community Peacebuilding in Rural Afghanistan

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Priya Parker: Reconciliation in Gujarat view article

Alpana Kishore: “Who will tell them this land belongs to your father when I die?” A Journey through 

     Kashmir’s Landscape of Dislocation view article

Leszek A. Cwik: Football as a Tool for Peacebuilding  view article

 

Book Reviews

 

Ken Booth and Nicholas J. Wheeler: The Security Dilemma – Fear, Cooperation and Trust in World 

      Politics Review : Swapna Kona view article

Zahid Shahab Ahmed and Michelle Baxter: Texts and Contexts – Attitudes of Teachers in India and

     Pakistan  Review : Rene Wadlow view article

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