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This book Election Politics in Assam: Issues, Trends and People’s Mandate is a product of an extensive research by the Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and development, Guwahati, with a financial support from the India Council of Social Science research, new Delhi. It provides an insight into the election politics in the State of Assam taking the Lok Sabha poll of 2004 as the focal point. It covers various issues on which the lections were fought, ...
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 ...