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Awarded by WISCOMP for academic research, media projects and special project, the Scholar of Peace Fellowships are designed to encourage innovative work by academics, policymakers, defence and foreign affairs practitions, journalists, NGO workers, creative artists and others. The work of the Fellows is showcased in the form of the WISCOMP perspectives and Discussion papers Series.

Nineteenth in the Discussion Paper series Women Can’t Swim: Tsunami, Survival and the Gender Dimension is a compilation of articles written by the author and blog posts made by him during the course of his fieldtrips to Tamil Nadu’s coastal areas that were affected by the tsunami in 2004. The monograph documents the many voices and concerns of women survivors of the Tsunami and simultaneously opens up a space for understanding the gendered impact of disasters, relief and rehabilitation.