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Weaving together different strands of security--economic, social, political, military and environmental--Verghese Koithara examines the conflict ridden interface between national and human security. In the first part of this three-part book, he traces the development of the Indian state and its security concerns over the past 50 years, and examines critically the way in which national and human security objectives have been pursued. In the second part, he ...
Protracted, violent conflicts elsewhere can provide a useful perspective to understand how conflict dynamics work and how conflict conclusion can be more realistically sought through a peace rather than a war strategy. The conflicts of Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka and Israel-Palestine have been analysed with this in view. Northern Ireland provides an illuminating example of using a well-crafted internal settlement to end a wider conflict. A study of the ...