WISCOMP - Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace
WISCOMP is a pioneering peacebuilding initiative in South Asia. Established in 1999, it foregrounds women's leadership in the areas of peace and security and promotes cultures of pluralism and coexistence in the region.
WISCOMP strives to:
- Enhance the role of women in collaboration with men as peacebuilders, negotiators and as agents for nonviolent social change.
- Empower a new generation of women and men with the expertise and skills to engage in peace activism through educational and training programs in Conflict Transformation.
- Contribute to an inclusive, people-oriented discourse on issues of security that respects diversity and which foregrounds the perspectives of women and marginalized groups.
- Facilitate innovative research on ways to resolve and transform violent and destructive conflicts.
- Build synergy between theory, practice and policy—between academicians, grassroots peacebuilders, political leaders, and lawmakers.
- Build constituencies of peace through multi-track diplomacy, peace advocacy, and national, regional and global civil society dialogues foregrounding gender-sensitive training, research, and practice.
- Work with educational institutions to foster a culture of peace and respect for the rights of peoples through the development of curricula and innovative pedagogy.
Supervisors: Meenakshi Gopinath (Director), Seema Kakran (Deputy Director) and Manjri Sewak (Senior Fellow), Nidhi Bhatnagar (Fellow)
WISCOMP strives to:
- Enhance the role of women in collaboration with men as peacebuilders, negotiators and as agents for nonviolent social change.
- Empower a new generation of women and men with the expertise and skills to engage in peace activism through educational and training programs in Conflict Transformation.
- Contribute to an inclusive, people-oriented discourse on issues of security that respects diversity and which foregrounds the perspectives of women and marginalized groups.
- Facilitate innovative research on ways to resolve and transform violent and destructive conflicts.
- Build synergy between theory, practice and policy—between academicians, grassroots peacebuilders, political leaders, and lawmakers.
- Build constituencies of peace through multi-track diplomacy, peace advocacy, and national, regional and global civil society dialogues foregrounding gender-sensitive training, research, and practice.
- Work with educational institutions to foster a culture of peace and respect for the rights of peoples through the development of curricula and innovative pedagogy.
Supervisors: Meenakshi Gopinath (Director), Seema Kakran (Deputy Director) and Manjri Sewak (Senior Fellow), Nidhi Bhatnagar (Fellow)
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knowledge both empirical and theoretical focused around the
manner in which gender and “non-traditional” security concerns
intersect in South Asia. It seeks to integrate gender analysis into
the evolving discourse on non-traditional security. The aim is also
to provide points of entry to engage with issues in a manner in
which gender concerns begin to be reflected in peace initiatives
and processes of post-conflict reconstruction and rehabilitation.
The initiative is an intervention in the debate to expand the
scope of ‘security’ by moving it beyond a narrow military and
state-centric preoccupation. It is also envisaged as crucial to the
articulation of the concerns of that half of the population whose
voices are marginalized in the mega-narratives of conflict analysis
and peace-building. The idea is to explore the theoretical spaces
where non-traditional security concerns intersect with that of
gender.
peace. Women’s equality and demilitarization are essential components of peace and SCR 1325 and R2P are international commitments in this direction.
The instrumental use of rights to legitimize humanitarian intervention has increased cynicism and not helped the cause of rights. It has sharpened the debate between realists on the one hand and feminists and critical theorists on the other. Feminists, human security and human development analysts, critique realism for being state-centred, male-dominated with elite bias and based on exclusions. They have joined with activists to push for policy changes. They can claim a moral victory over realists and argue for furthering normative theory in international relations. Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, war and peace and the R2P both add to the broadening of state security to include people.
‘disempowerment’ and ‘empowerment’ of women in conflict and peace.
Addressing the question of spaces available to enhancing women’s roles as agents of peace, the consultation attempted to identify mechanisms that could be put in place to take on board women’s experiences in framing policy as reflected in this report.
knowledge both empirical and theoretical focused around the
manner in which gender and “non-traditional” security concerns
intersect in South Asia. It seeks to integrate gender analysis into
the evolving discourse on non-traditional security. The aim is also
to provide points of entry to engage with issues in a manner in
which gender concerns begin to be reflected in peace initiatives
and processes of post-conflict reconstruction and rehabilitation.
The initiative is an intervention in the debate to expand the
scope of ‘security’ by moving it beyond a narrow military and
state-centric preoccupation. It is also envisaged as crucial to the
articulation of the concerns of that half of the population whose
voices are marginalized in the mega-narratives of conflict analysis
and peace-building. The idea is to explore the theoretical spaces
where non-traditional security concerns intersect with that of
gender.
peace. Women’s equality and demilitarization are essential components of peace and SCR 1325 and R2P are international commitments in this direction.
The instrumental use of rights to legitimize humanitarian intervention has increased cynicism and not helped the cause of rights. It has sharpened the debate between realists on the one hand and feminists and critical theorists on the other. Feminists, human security and human development analysts, critique realism for being state-centred, male-dominated with elite bias and based on exclusions. They have joined with activists to push for policy changes. They can claim a moral victory over realists and argue for furthering normative theory in international relations. Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, war and peace and the R2P both add to the broadening of state security to include people.
‘disempowerment’ and ‘empowerment’ of women in conflict and peace.
Addressing the question of spaces available to enhancing women’s roles as agents of peace, the consultation attempted to identify mechanisms that could be put in place to take on board women’s experiences in framing policy as reflected in this report.