Скачать или смотреть IASFM Plenary #3 - Conflict, Gender and Displacement with a special focus on India's North East

Participants:
N. Vijaylakshmi Brara, Associate Professor, Manipur Studies, Manipur University, India;
Rakhee Kalita, Associate Professor, Department of English, Cotton College State University, Guwahati, India;
Khesheli Chishi, Former President, Naga Mothers' Association, Nagaland, India;
Gina Sangkham, Secretary General, Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights, India

Moderator:
Paula Banerjee, , President, CRG, Vice-President, IASFM and Faculty, University of Calcutta, India

The northeastern part of India comprising the seven states and Sikkim, which is still euphemistically called the seven sisters, has been a cauldron of unrest from the time of Indian independence. Critically located and sharing a border with Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan and China, this region portrays that processes of democratic state formation may not lead to social justice automatically. This is the theatre of the longest state vs. community conflict in South Asia and hence a region of rampant displacements. The region has witnessed an escalation of violence to an unprecedented scale in the decades between 1990 and 2010. With increasing state sponsored violence there was also a tremendous increase in sub-national militancy. The Northeast presents a situation of virtual civil strife and rapid demographic changes with concomitant increase in violence against the vulnerable sections, and large scale displacement of population, of whom a large number are women. This plenary discussion will address the issues of increasing conflict and displacement in Northeast and the role played by women's groups to arrest such violence and control forced migration.