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White Dot Solidarity Network (WSN) is a youth peace network based in India that works to create safe, inclusive, and accessible spaces for young leaders across Asia.
About Us
The White Dot Solidarity Network
White Dot Solidarity Network (WSN) is a youth peace network based in India that works to create safe, inclusive, and accessible spaces for young leaders across Asia.
“White Dot” refers to safe, inclusive and accessible spaces for young leaders that the network aims to create. It is inspired by “Blue Dots”, which are UN-mandated safe spaces for civilians in conflict zones, where they get assistance and support. WSN aims to create similar safe spaces for young people facing multiple levels of marginalisation and violence. These safe spaces are intended to enable young people to learn, connect, collaborate, and engage with each other across diverse contexts and regions.
WSN works with young people from marginalized communities and regions by providing capacity-building, resources, and opportunities for collaboration. The network supports youth leaders and youth-led collectives in building capacity, sharing knowledge, creating solidarity, and strengthening collective efforts across borders.
Through its work, WSN supports young people to strengthen their leadership, engage with social issues, and contribute to change within their communities.
Core Areas of Work
Empowering Change Through Youth Leadership
Empowering Youth
Supporting young people with knowledge, skills, and resources to lead and participate in peacebuilding initiatives within their communities.
Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
Creating safe spaces for dialogues, facilitating intercultural and interfaith exchanges, and developing innovative approaches to peacebuilding that prioritise human rights and social justice.
Feminist Principles
Grounding the network’s work in an understanding of intersecting forms of inequality and ensuring that the voices of marginalized communities are included and amplified.
Collaboration and Solidarity
Bringing together young activists, collectives and networks from across Asia to forge strong alliances and foster solidarity.
Advocacy
Our network aspires to influence policies, laws and socio-cultural norms at local, national, and regional levels. Working towards ensuring that the voices and concerns of young people are represented in decision-making processes.
Investing in the Future
Focusing on long-term impact by supporting young people to access resources, build networks, and contribute to sustained and meaningful change.
THEMATIC FOCUS
Our work engages with a range of interconnected social issues that shape the lived realities of young people across the region. These thematic areas inform the network’s programs, collaborations, and learning spaces.
Human Rights
WSN works with young people to engage with issues of rights, inclusion, and access, with a focus on strengthening awareness and enabling participation in processes that impact their communities.
Climate Change
WSN recognises the growing impact of climate change on communities, particularly those already marginalised, and supports youth engagement in conversations and initiatives around climate justice and sustainability.
Gender Justice
Grounded in feminist principles, WSN engages with questions of gender inequality, representation, and inclusion, and supports young people in addressing gendered barriers within their contexts.
Peacebuilding
WSN believes that youths are equal partners and stakeholders in building sustainable peace, prevention and transformation of conflict from participatory process to meaningful engagement beyond mere tokenism.
Founder & Executive Director
Ananya Kundu is a young peace advocate, feminist researcher and human rights defender based in India. She has worked for the last 6+ years with diverse vulnerable communities in South Asia on issues of migration, racism, human rights and gender justice.
Ananya works on feminist movement building and evidence-led advocacy. She specialises in the usage of feminist participatory, consultative methodologies in research and project design that focus on community-based consultations and involve a process of power sharing.
She has led feminist participatory research projects in India and Afghanistan, and has authored multiple reports such as “Echoes of Alarm: Afghan Women’s Testimonies of Gender Apartheid and the Growing Threat of Religious Extremism” (2025), “ Har Taraf Maruf! Har Taraf Maruf! (The Morality Police are Everywhere): Surveillance and Fear in the Face of the Vice and Virtue Laws in Afghanistan” (2025), “The Reality of Racism for Women Migrant Workers from North-east India in Delhi” (2024), “India Afghan Refugee Community Conversations” (2023), “ADSP Study: Protection Needs of Refugees in India from Myanmar” (2023) and more.
She has presented her work and spoken at diverse international platforms, including at Women of the World Australia and an official side event at CSW New York . In India, she has worked intensively to support internally displaced women, refugees and migrant women workers employed in the informal sector. She holds an MA in Gender Studies and a BA in English Language and Literature. She formerly worked as the Country Coordinator for India at the Women’s Regional Network and is currently the Senior Researcher and Gender Specialist at Farageer. She is a youth advisor at the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, Australian National University.
Co-Founder & Director of Network & Partnerships
Dennis Lallienzuol is a conflict survivor, development professional, peacebuilder, and indigenous researcher from the Hmar community.
Over the past eight years, he has worked closely with indigenous and most vulnerable communities across the borderlands of Northeast India and South Asia, addressing critical issues such as conflict, migration, climate change, indigenous rights, and gender justice.
He specialises in emergency humanitarian response and recovery, as well as programme design and implementation while his broader interest is in social development, policy and research, with passionate interest in cultural conservation, particularly in preserving indigenous knowledge systems.
Dennis was also a ‘Youth Leader Fund’ fellow of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), a Youth Engagement and Empowerment Programme fellow (South Asia and Southeast Asia) under United Nations Office of Counter Terrorism (UNOCT) and contributes actively to several youth-led United Nations processes and mechanisms.
He holds a Masters degree in Sociology from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi and has worked with organisations such as Catholic Relief Services, ActionAid India, and Television for the Environment (tve), among others.
Together, We Can Build Inclusive Spaces For Young Leaders
Join our growing network of youth leaders, collectives, and organizations creating meaningful social change across Asia.