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Guns Do Kill, Wound and Maim

In the violence that took place in Delhi in February 2020, it was striking that so many civilians seemed to have easy access to guns. How many of these guns were licensed, and where were people acquiring them? Was there no supervision or re...

May 16th is observed as the International Day of Living Together in Peace.  The more I focus on the words living together in peace, the more  I ponder what it  has come to mean for those of us living in India, especially in its capital city. While “social distancing” m...

In conversations about safety, we assume that all the dangers that women face lie beyond the threshold of the home. It may be a legacy of the Ramayana - Sita was safe till she crossed the Lakshman Rekha, after all.

But, at the best of times, this is an illusion: The 201...

This drawing was done during the first session of WPS2. The participants of the course were asked to draw their idea of women in war and conflict on a piece of paper. This wonderful drawing was done by Swati Dey from India which explains clearly a woman's longing for r...

Militarization is the process by which a society organizes itself for military conflict and violence and accepts violence as a viable way of resolving conflict. It is related to militarism, which is an ideology that reflects the level of militarization of a state. Sinc...