WISCOMP
STAFF PROFILES
Meenakshi
Gopinath (Founder &
Honorary Director) also serves as Principal, Lady Shri Ram College
for Women, New Delhi. She was first woman member on the National Security
Advisory Board.
Dr. Gopinath
serves on several boards including co-chair of the Academic
Council of the UN University of Peace, Costa Rica; Governing
Board of Co-Existence International, USA; Center for Policy
Research, New Delhi; The Shri Ram School, New Delhi; Regional
Center for Strategic Studies, Sri Lanka; Center for Peace and
Conflict Resolution, New Delhi etc. She is a member of multi-track
peace initiatives in Kashmir and between India and Pakistan
including the Neemrana Peace Initiative, Dostaana e’ Kashmir
and the Pakistan India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy.
She has authored the book Pakistan in Transition and has contributed
chapters and articles to several books and journals on Gandhi,
the politics of Pakistan, the arts, Conflict Resolution, Gender
and Peacebuilding et al. In recognition of her contribution
to the field of women’s education and empowerment, she
has received several awards including the Indira Priyadarshini
Gandhi Award, the Rajiv Gandhi Award for Excellence in Education,
the Shiromani Mahila Award and the Delhi Citizen Forum Award.
Dr. Gopinath has been a Fulbright scholar and has received several
fellowships. She was awarded the Padmashri by The President
of India for her distinguished contribution to the field of
Literature and Education in India in 2007.
Seema
Kakran (Assistant Director) holds an M. Phil degree in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University and a Masters Degree in Political Science from University of Delhi. Her M.Phil dissertation is titled “Police and Social Violence a Study of Communal Riots in Uttar Pradesh-1981-1990”. She also hold a Gruaduate Certificate in Public Policy Analysis from University of Nebraska- Lincoln. She has previously taught undergraduate courses in Public Administration and Political Theory at colleges in Delhi University and at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln.
Manjri
Sewak (Consultant - Conflict Transformation) is also
a member of the Visiting Faculty for the Peacebuilding Diploma
Program at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi. At LSR,
she teaches papers on Justice and Reconciliation; Nonviolence;
and Introduction to Conflict Analysis and Conflict Transformation.
A Fulbright Conflict Resolution Scholar, she holds a Masters
degree in Conflict Transformation from the Center for Justice
and Peacebuilding, Easter Mennonite University, U.S.A. She recently
published a book titled Multi-Track Diplomacy between India
and Pakistan: A Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Security
(Manohar, New Delhi, 2005) and has co-authored, with Meenakshi
Gopinath, two resource books on conflict transformation titled
Transcending Conflict and Dialogic Engagement. She has also
co-authored, with Deepti Mahajan, a monograph titled Kashmir:
Engaging with Possibilities. A trainer in the field of peacebuilding,
Manjrika has designed curriculum and conducted workshops on
various aspects of dialogue, nonviolence and conflict transformation.
Rashi Sarawgi (Program Officer) holds a Masters degree in Conflict, Governance and Development from University of York, UK and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding from
Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University. Her MA dissertation title was "Women in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations in Assam and Nagaland” and her PG Diploma dissertation title was “Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka.”
Tamanna Khosla is a Consultant with WISCOMP. She holds a Ph.D in Political Theory from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; a M.Phil in Political Theory and a Masters degree in Political Science from the same university and a Bachelors degree in Political Science from Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi. Her M.Phil dissertation title was ‘Feminist Responses to Multiculturalism: An Examination’ and her Ph.D thesis was titled ‘Multiculturalism and Feminism: Reconciling Cultural Diversity and Gender Equality’. She has previously worked as a Research Associate with the Centre for Social Research, New Delhi; Political Assistant to Diplomats for the Embassy of Japan, New Delhi and Research Associate at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
