Binalakshmi Nepram Mentschel, Women’s role in Micro-Disarmament in India’s North East, WISCOMP Discussion Paper 21 (2011)

Ashima Kaul and Seema Kakran, Symbol and Substance: Exploring Inter Community Dialogue in Ladakh, Building Constituencies of Peace: Stakeholders in Dialogue XVIII (2011)

Seema Kakran, Competing Realities: Identity, Culture and Dialogue in Jammu and Kashmir, Building Constituencies of Peace: Stakeholders in Dialogue XIX (2011)


Women, Peace and Disarmament

In September 2011, WISCOMP along with Control Arms Foundation of India (CAFI) and United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) had organised a roundtable at New Delhi on Women, Peace and Disarmament. It provided a platform for shared reflection on the challenges and potential of women’s involvement in peace and disarmament efforts. It brought together some 60 academics, students, civil society activists from various parts of India to reflect upon the importance of women’s involvement in disarmament and the need for India to take a lead in disarmament efforts around the world. The day's panels moved from understanding the history of disarmament in independent India, to specifically exploring disarmament efforts by women in India, and finally to looking at possible alliances for peace. Amidst an environment of militarization and arms proliferation, whereby India now ranks second amongst 178 countries in a comparison of the number of privately owned guns, the Roundtable contributed to an alternative and gender-sensitive discourse on peace and disarmament in India.

Among many others the guest speakers at the conference included Air Commodore (retd) Jasjit Singh (Director, Centre for Air Power Studies), Professor Anuradha Chenoy (School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University), Ms. Kiran Mehra-Kerpelman, (Director, UN Information Centre for India and Bhutan), Ms. Binalakshmi Nepram, (Secretary General, CAFI), Professor Susheela Bhan (Director, The Institute of Peace Research and Action), Mr. Ravinder Pal Singh (Defence Analyst and Former Project Leader on Arms Procurement, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), Dr. Tasneem Meenai (Director, Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace & Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia), and representatives from groups such as the Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network (MWGSN).



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.

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