The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is starting a research project on study gender, empowerment and conflict in South Asia.The research is being carried out in Northeast India and Nepal. The aim of the project is to study and raise awareness about women’s empowerment and participation in governance and politics, with a focus on the challenges faced by women working in conflict settings. The research findings should be of direct relevance not only to academics and policy-makers, but also to stakeholders in peace processes dealing with issues of gender and empowerment.
Workshop objectives-
The aim of this workshop is to discuss and share information about the efforts of women in Northeast India to promote peace and women’s empowerment, whether as activists, members of social movements, politicians, writers, or in any other capacity. The objective is to gain a better understanding of the efforts and challenges as seen by women themselves, to enable the researchers to ask more relevant and better questions when they carry out their fieldwork. Ultimately, this should help us to communicate to policy-makers how women in conflict settings can work for peace and empowerment, and what empowerment means to women in these contexts.
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