Sumona DasGupta, a political scientist by training, is a scholar-practitioner, writer, trainer and consultant based in New Delhi working primarily in the area of gender and peacebuilding. A former chair of the international Advisory Group of International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE), University of Ulster, she is currently research adviser with Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP) and Senior Visiting Fellow with Participatory Research in Asia, New Delhi. Sumona has in the past co led a nine year action research project in Kashmir on Women building constituencies of peace. This dialogue project also involved working with a story teller to use storytelling to open difficult conversations across faultlines and among women and children in the camps for those displaced by the conflict. She was the closing speaker at the international conference on Accounts of the Conflict in Belfast in 2014 that looked at the linkages between storytelling, archiving and peace building across the world and particularly focused on the power of storytelling for healing and reconciliation work. A published author she has written extensively about and participated in several national and international conferences on gender and peacebuilding.

Participant in: August 2019 Fellowship: The Arts as a Tool for Peacebuilding