Project on Impact of Conflict on Women in Assam and Nagaland

The Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) has signed an agreement with the Heinrich Boll Foundation of Germany to conduct a year-long project on the Impact of Conflict on Women, with a special focus on Assam and Nagaland. This takes forward the work of an earlier research study that C-NES had done on the same theme, with a review of this very issue in Nagaland and Tripura. A two-day workshop was organized to discuss the background, objectives and timeline of the overall project, on 9th November and 10th November 2009 at Shillong, Meghalaya.

The workshop was attended by Project Director Sanjoy Hazarika, Managing Trustee, C-NES, Associate Project Director Preeti Gill, Editor of Zubaan, Patricia Mukhim, CNES Trustee and Editor, Shillong Times; Dr P Ngully, Executive Director, Spastics Society of Nagaland, Nagaland Hospital, Dr. Sandi Syiem, CNES Advisory Council member and Chief Executive of San-Ker Rehabilitation Centre, Shillong, Professor Temsula Ao, Department of English, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Sanjeeb Kakoty, Faculty, Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management, Shillong; Rajesh Dev, Faculty, Department of Political Science, Women’s College, Shillong; and Niketu Iralu, CNES Trustee and eminent social reformer.