IIC-WISCOMP DIALOGUES

Peacewomen of Northeast India
Speakers: Roshmi Goswami, feminist human rights activist and independent researcher known for her pioneering work on women in conflict situations; Patricia Mukhim, Editor, The Shillong Times; women’s rights activist, she was conferred the Padma Shree in 2000 and also received the Chameli Devi Jain Award for outstanding women media person; Pradip Phanjoubam, Editor, Imphal Free Press and author of The Northeast Question: Conflicts and Frontiers

Moderator: Rakhee Kalita Moral, Associate Professor, Cotton University, Guwahati, Assam and a recipient of the Nehru Fellowship, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library

Northeast India’s geo-political emergence as a postcolonial borderland has been attended by long periods of unrest, rebel movements and militarization both in its immediate past and via its older histories of resistance. The region has come to be inseparable from peace negotiations, mediations and accords on account of protracted conflicts and attempts at their resolutions. ‘Peace’ in India’s northeast remains a contested idea appropriated for various, often disparate ends

(Collaboration: WISCOMP)