Women, Peace and Security in Northeast India
Women, Peace and Security in Northeast India

Author: Ashild Kolas

Publisher: Zubaan Books

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789385932304

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In recent decades, the states in the northeast of India have been home to a number of protracted violent conflicts. And while the role of women's movements in responding to conflict and violence tend to be marginalized both by the media and by scholarship, they have played a crucial role in attempts to strengthen civil society and bring peace to the region. This collection offers a close look at the successes and failures of those efforts, adding important insight into ongoing debates on gender and political change in societies affected by conflict. At the same time, the book takes a fresh, critical look at universalist feminist and interventionist biases that have tended to see peace processes as windows of opportunity for women's empowerment while ignoring the complexity of gender relations during conflict.

Peace in India's North-East
Peace in India's North-East

Author: Prasenjit Biswas

Publisher: Daya Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13:

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Contributed articles presented at the National Seminar on Peace Process in North East India orgnaised by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, North Eastern Regional Centre, Shillong at the North Eastern Hill University on 20th and 21st Oct. 2005

India's North East
India's North East

Author: Pushpita Das

Publisher: Manas Publications

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9788170493266

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Contributed articles at a seminar held in Shillong, Meghalaya on Sept. 25-26, 2006 focussing on building peace and development in the North East India.

State, Policy and Conflicts in Northeast India
State, Policy and Conflicts in Northeast India

Author: K. S. Subramanian

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-05

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1317396510

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This book discusses the history of unrest and conflict in Northeast India from 1947 to the present day. A perceptive study on public policy and its delivery in the region, the volume highlights that a crisis of governance, security and development has emerged in the Northeast because of the way various government institutions and agencies have been functioning in the area. It uses case studies to illumine conflict dynamics in the two erstwhile princely states of Manipur and Tripura, along with in-depth discussions on Assam and Nagaland. Drawing upon major policy documents, on-the-ground experience and rare insight, the book examines centre–state relations, the armed forces, special acts, human rights and larger policy-level questions confronting the region. It also underlines the key role of the northeastern states in India’s ‘Look East’ policy. Cogent and authentic, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of security studies, peace and conflict studies, area studies, Indian politics and history, particularly those concerned with Northeast India.

Strangers Of The Mist
Strangers Of The Mist

Author: Sanjoy Hazarika

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2000-10-14

Total Pages: 613

ISBN-13: 8184753349

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This book would have been completed earlier but for events that disrupted millions of lives across India, including those of journalists : the demolition of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya, by a Hindu mob on 6 December 1992 and the communal riots that followed across the country. In January 1993, the selective massacres of Muslims at Bombay and the devastating revenge bomb blasts there two months later led to extensive travelling and reporting for the New York Times. In addition, there was 'normal reporting' : the Punjab, environmental, economic and political issues such as the billion dollar scam.

Insurgency in India's Northeast
Insurgency in India's Northeast

Author: Jugdep S. Chima

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-09-01

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 100095210X

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Insurgency in India’s Northeast provides a systematic analysis of every major secessionist group and insurgency in the region within a unified and original explanatory framework, focusing primarily on the postcolonial period. This book presents a parsimonious analytic narrative involving a rich sequential account of the historical evolution of Mizo, Naga, Meitei, and "ethnic Assamese" identities from precolonial to colonial to postcolonial times. Avoiding essentialist or primordialist arguments, the chapters in the book demonstrate how ethnic/(sub)national identities are dynamic and malleable phenomenon, not immutable natural givens. In particular, it argues that the postcolonial Indian state has attempted to integrate these ethnic/sub-state national groups into the Indian Union through a combination of democratic accommodation/consociationalism and hegemonic/violent control, strategically designed to encapsulate their evolving (sub) national identities into the overarching state-sponsored Indian nationality. Through this book, readers will gain a rich understanding of the dynamics of ethnicity/ nationality and the nation/state-building process in postcolonial India. It will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Asian studies, ethnicity, nationalism, separatism, security studies, border studies, and international relations.

Media, Conflict and Peace in Northeast India
Media, Conflict and Peace in Northeast India

Author: Dr. KH Kabi

Publisher: Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

Published: 2015-07-01

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9384464449

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The media have a special relationship with conflict situations, external or internal which has been an integral part of the history of a country as well as the world. Northeast India has been beset with insurgencies for more than half-a-century. The Nagas rebelled in the early 1950s and since then insurgency in some form or the other has spread to all the states of the northeast, popularly known as seven sisters. While insurgency in the northeast India is taking a toll of the law and order, peace, stability, progress and foreign relations; it is also causing irreparable harm to the press, the developments and the decision making process in administration. So, should it be the media’s mission to promote peace, democracy and growth in this region? This edited volume contains ten essays written by prominent media persons with first-hand experience of reporting on conflicts in northeast India. It provides the broad range of factors including the manner in which media operates and their relationship to the various ethnic conflicts in the region. This book is perhaps the first of its kind which explored many possibilities how to restore peace and public’s confidence in the region by engaging media as facilitator in the process.

Negotiating Peace
Negotiating Peace

Author: Shimreingam L. Shimray

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2020-09-29

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1506464491

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In Negotiating Peace, Shimreingam L. Shimray argues that peace cannot be derived from outside forces but that it must instead be created from within the local context by the local people adopting their own cultural and historical system and using their own intellectual and material resources. The author uses a deeply contextual reading of his own setting, resulting in a work whose value rests in revealing how the tribal people of North East India have used their own resources to work for a culture of peace amidst tension and difficulty. Negotiating Peace grows from an ongoing commitment on the part of Fortress Press to bring creative theological reflection from the Global South to the conversations taking place around the world. It will be of interest not only to scholars of Christianity in North East India but to scholars, students, and those interested in peace studies.