MGPE-012 Women and Peace (Elective Course)

This course looks at the inter-linkages between women and peace. It introduces some of the basic concepts of gender which will enable the learners to critically engage with women’s questions in relation to peace. This is an interdisciplinary course which offers a gender perspective to the peace process in the contexts of India and in the International arena. The course allows learners to locate women’s questions in contexts of caste, community, ethnicity, violence, environmental movements, economic participation and so on. The centrality of this course also revolves around the issue i.e., women’s role in the peace building process as agents of change initiatives.

MGPE-012: Women and Peace

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Week-1

Unit-1: Women’s Place and Role (Demographic; First Teacher)

Week-2

Unit-2: Women as Survivors, Beneficiaries and Peacemakers

Week-3

Unit-3: Women’s Place in Different Cultures

Week-4

Unit-4: Peace Building: Women’s Perspective

Week-5

Unit-5: Structural Violence

Unit-6: Caste, Communalism and Ethnic Violence

Week-6

Unit-7: Violence against Women: Global Dimension

Week-7

Unit-8: Case Studies

Week-8

Unit-9: Development Discourse

Week-9

Unit-10: Political and Economic Participation of Women

Week-10

Unit-11: Women and Environment

Unit-12: Case Studies (Green Belt, SEWA, Grameen Bank and Self-Help Groups)

Week-11

Unit-13: Global Peace Initiatives

Unit-14: Asian Peace Initiatives

Week-12

Unit-15: Peace Initiatives in India

Unit-16: Challenges Ahead: The Gandhian Alternative