Transnational Women's Networks and Peacebuilding | Rita Manchanda

Reflecting on the challenges faced, mobilizing women's collectives on issues with foreign policy or national security dimensions proves difficult. There is a need to challenge and redefine gender norms to enable women's meaningful participation at all levels, including in geopolitical policy spaces. It is because women are so reified in gendered roles that they are not seen as capable of sitting on the geopolitical table and because they don't know the language.
Rita Manchanda is a writer, researcher, and human rights activist specializing in peacebuilding across conflict contexts in South Asia, with particular attention to vulnerable and marginalized groups, including women, minorities, indigenous peoples, and forcibly displaced persons.
WISCOMP (Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace) is a pioneering South Asian research and training initiative that foregrounds leadership of women in peace and security and promotes cultures of pluralism and coexistence in the region.
The knowledge generated through research is disseminated by WISCOMP to civil society actors and educational institutions (schools, colleges and universities) through diverse methodologies that include training workshops, symposiums, roundtables, film festivals, installations, exhibitions, public lectures, curricular development and innovative pedagogy. Our channel offers some of these resources. To know more about WISCOMP’s work visit www.wiscomp.org or connect with us at [e-mail] or [phone].