> A number of armed conflicts smolder in Indias Northeastern border region. >
> For instance, the Naga rebellion, which began in the 1950s, is one of the
> cannot be addressed through domestic policy alone. An effective > alternative
> policy must have a transnational dimension; to turn the > regions extensive
> international borders with Chinas Tibet region, > Bangladesh, Bhutan, and
> Burma from militarized zones of mistrust and > confrontation to spaces of
> cooperation.
It will be like asking for advice from Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador,
Honduras, Guatemala, Panama and Nicaragua to create a policy for any incidents
happening in Texas or Oklahoma, for example, about the Waco incident in 1993,
Oklahoma city bombing in 1995, etc.
> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:41:27 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
> [email protected]> Subject: [Assam] New Publication on Northeast India> > >
> > The web version of the following new publication on the Northeast India is
> > freely available from the website of the publisher: East West Center, >
> Washington D.C.> > http://www.eastwestcenterwashington.org/> > PS 33
> Postfrontier Blues: Toward a New Policy Framework for Northeast > India> by
> Sanjib Baruah> PDF Format> > A number of armed conflicts smolder in Indias
> Northeastern border region. > For instance, the Naga rebellion, which began
> in the 1950s, is one of the > worlds oldest unresolved armed conflicts. With
> its controversial human > rights record and sluggish economic growth,
> Northeast India is a > counterpoint to Indias new image as a mature
> democracy, dynamic economy, > and emerging major power. This study proposes a
> democratic > institution-building agenda that is sensitive to the particular
> dynamics > of change in this postfrontier. In a historically sparsely
> populated > region with long-term trends of demographic transformation,
> managing > indigenous-settler tensions must be a priority. This and other
> challenges > cannot be addressed through domestic policy alone. An effective
> > alternative policy must have a transnational dimension; to turn the >
> regions extensive international borders with Chinas Tibet region, >
> Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Burma from militarized zones of mistrust and >
> confrontation to spaces of cooperation.> > >
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