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The book Women Rebels: Stories from Nepal and Nagaland is an attempt to explore and create a better understanding of the phenomenon of women rebels. Often cloaked in mystery, women rebels have ignited the popular imagination for time immemorial. The book is a product of a journey, spread over two years, into Nepal and Nagaland-both, home to rebel outfits with a strong presence of women in their rank and file. The study was undertaken to generate an understanding ...
This book is made up of a collection of papers presented in a Seminar organized by the ICSSR North Eastern Regional Centre at Shillong. All the contributors focused on a singly theme that India’s North East needs development. The twenty-three papers in this volume have been grouped in themes covering polity, society, economy, tourism, education and health. All the authors of the articles are persons who either live in the region or have had long academic ...
The volume is an outcome of a series of workshops on "Problems and prospects of peace in Northeast India" held by Peace Studies, OKDISCD, Guwahati. Peace Studies started working since October 4, 2004, under a Ford Foundation grant with a view to analyse the reasons for the escalating violence and conflicts in the entire Northeastern region. The volume has been divided into two sections based on the sequence of workshops conducted at different times and ...
Armed conflicts are never gender-neutral. The costs of conflict be it of any kind are borne disproportionately by women, children and youth as well. It is not that women do not have a place in the peace building process. But women's identity as victims circumscribes their roles in the peace building process. Though a few of these positive roles are told and shared, countless remain untold. Peace studies has had a series of workshops at Guwahati and Bodoland ...