FEBRUARY 20: WOMEN, WAR & PEACE IN NORTHEAST INDIA

Thursday, February 20, 2020, 12:00pm

4130 Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh, 230 South Bouquet St, Pittsburgh, 15213

Women, War & Peace in Northeast India: Indigenous Women of Manipur’s Extraordinary Non-Violent Resistance Efforts

Join Binalakshmi Nepram, IIE-SRF Scholar & Fellow, New University in Exile Consortium as she discusses the Armed Forces (Special Power) Act martial law imposed in Manipur & Northeast India, a region that is home to 45 million indigenous people belonging to 272 ethnic groups that have faced the onslaught of violent conflict for the last 72 years.

The lecture will focus on one of the world’s unreported and undocumented conflict and share the extraordinary efforts of decades of mobilization and non-violent resistance methods of indigenous women of Manipur who form strong groups that patrol the streets at night with bamboo torches and other forms of unique way of resistance to bring peace in this entrenched conflict that remains unresolved till today.

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