Reflective Sociography

Women in Security, Conflict Management & Peace (WISCOMP) , an initiative of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of H.H. the Dalai Lama, New Delhi, in association with the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, organized a peacebuilding workshop titled Enriching Democratic Practice in South Asia: Possibilities from the Field of Peacebuilding in New Delhi, where I expressed my views on Communalism in Uttar Pradesh. My views, as mentioned in the Report of the Workshop, are reproduced below. To access the full Report, please visit [DOC] Download (1960.0k) - Peace Portal Mr. S. M. Faizan Ahmed, a Research Coordinator at the Center for Conflict Resolution and Human Security, New Delhi, shared the highlights of a study on communal violence in Uttar Pradesh. At the outset, it was noted that while communalism is harmless if it focuses on building organizations for the welfare and service of the community, more often than not, it takes on a negative character, whi