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Established in 1999, by the Dalai Lama’s Foundation for Universal Responsibility, the main objective of Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP) is to promote women to positions of leadership in all aspects of peace, security and international affairs, and to work with young people to empower a new generation of peacebuilders. Based in [...]
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Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP)
Right to Information Movement
The Jammu & Kashmir Right To Information Movement is a peoples movement working on the implementation of the right to information in the state.The movement consists of people belonging to all walks of society – doctors, lawyers, teachers and students, labourers and agriculturists, etc. For the last five years the movement has has been working [...]
Right To Information Movement: Building Democracy, Building Peace in Kashmir
Right to Information Movement in Jammu & Kashmir from Insight on Conflict on Vimeo. “In the last 20 years both, the state government of Jammu and Kashmir and India have given priority only to the political and security aspect of this region, whereas governance, social issues and accountability have take a back seat”, Dr. Raja [...]
Why I work for Peace in Kashmir
What motivates an individual to work for peace? And how do they get started? Ashima Kaul, our Kashmir Local Correspondent, is herself a peacebuilder with the Athwaas organisation. In this interview, she takes about her involvement in peacebuilding in Kashmir. Share this page:
Sharing Stories of Building Peace
Our Kashmir Local Correspondent Ashima Kaul this week attended a Peace Exchange in Nairobi, Kenya, organised by Peace Direct. Here she offers a personal reflection on the experience. “What is your position on Kashmir?” Gulali Ismail asked me hesitantly at the Doha airport on our way back from Peace Direct’s peace retreat in Nairobi. Hailing [...]
Holy Cows in Kashmir
On December 4 2009, Fazal Haq Qureshi, 65 year old separatist leader from the moderate separatist alliance of Hurriyat was attacked by unknown assailants. Perceived as an ‘honest peace broker and negotiator’ between the government and separatist clan, he had almost four decades ago laid the foundation of a secessionist movement in Jammu and Kashmir. [...]
Inter-religious Dialogue in Kashmir
Shrines of mystic saints and Sufis in Kashmir continue to be common collective spaces for both Hindus and Muslims. Many renowned Kashmiri Muslim poets have nurtured the philosophy of Kashmiri Shaivism in their poems. This syncretic tradition is what all Kashmiris upheld in their daily lives. To me, growing up in Kashmir, the ‘soul’ of [...]
Athwaas
Athwaas is an alliance of women in Kashmir, Jammu and Ladakh, facilitated by the WISCOMP organisation. Athwass has set up Samanbals– centres for women of all communities, ages and backgrounds to meet and share their concerns whilst learning income generating skills. With several Samanbals now in operation they have become a powerful network for promoting [...]
Kashmir
The conflict in Kashmir dates to the partition of India in 1947. The State of Jammu & Kashmir was at this time majority Muslim but with a Hindu ruler, and it was unclear whether it would accede to Pakistan or India. Its eventual accession to India became a matter of dispute between the two countries, [...]
