Peace in Dialogue: Universals and Specifics : Reflections on Northeast India

Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Democracy and peace: 1. Post-frontier blues: defects of democracy, development and peace in Northeast India/Sanjib Baruah. 2. Democracy and dialogue: lessons for and lessons from India\'s northeast/B.P. Mishra. 3. The Sino-India peace process, as I see it/Amalendu Guha. II. Redefining peace: issues in governance: 4. Dialogues for peace or dialogues for justice? Towards an understanding of peace dialogues in India\'s northeast/Samir Kumar Das. 5. Identity and underdevelopment: on conflict and peace in Assam/Gurudas Das. 6. Women in peace: but are they in dialogue?: a short case study of Manipur/Vijayalakshmi Brara. 7. Untapped woman\'s agency in conflict resolution and peace process/Deepthi Shankar. 8. Structuring negotiations for durable peace: NAN approach/Tania Das and Madhavi Bhasin. 9. Economic policy making in a terrorist economy/Dipankar Sengupta. III. Peace: issues and strategies in Northeast India: 10. State formation, nation building and aspects of peace in Northeast India/A.C. Sinha; 11. Unrest and prospects of peace in Assam/Walter Fernandes. 12. From victims to actors in peace building/Anuradha Dutta. 13. Peace in a dialogue: the Tripura perspective/Chandrika Basu Mazumdar. 14. Genesis of ethnic conflict: a study on recent ethnic conflict and internal displacement of population in the district of Karbi Anglong/Mousumi Chaudhuri. 15. Development-induced displacement, deprivation and rehabilitation in Assam: critique of NPRR 2003/Gita Bharali. 16. IDP\'s in India\'s northeast: waiting for elusive and resettlement rehabilitation/Monirul Hussain. IV. Peace in texts and discourses: 17. Bhakti as the essence of peace: Srimanta Sankardeva\'s aesthetics of prayer/Krishna Barua. 18. Crossing the border: inter-religious dialogue in mediaeval Assam/Archana Barua. 19. Negotiating religious discourse towards peace: philosophical perspectives/Akiojam Thoibisana and V. Prabhu. 20. Rissho Ankoku Ron: some parallels between thirteenth century Japan and the present crisis in north-east/Rahul Jain. Index.

"The Peace in Dialogue: Universals and Specifics : Reflections on Northeast India brings together essays with diverse methodologies and multiple interpretations of the very discourse of peace, both through lens of universals in the peace discourse as much as the dynamics of its specifics in the context of North East India. This volumes aims to take the \'peace in dialogue\' programme a step forward by responding to the needs of the political context offered by India-north-east relations to address diverse issues and urge the need to sustain such engagement while identifying new approaches to peace building and introducing new ways of thinking about conflict through a critical reflection on contemporary understandings of democracy, diplomacy, mediation and dialogue."  (jacket)