Ms Binalakshmi Nepram, Founder of Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network and Secretary General of Control Arms Foundation of India has been conferred the Sean MacBride Peace Prize for the year 2010. more»

North East India Women Initiative For Peace, Vol 1, No 3, Sept 2010

- September 6, 2010 - The newsletter, a part of the project on ‘North East India Women Initiative For Peace’ provides an update on the recent and upcoming activities of the project, covers positive news of the last two months from Northeast India and rest of the world to renew our hopes and strengthen our efforts to work towards peace making. more»

Mining activities in Meghalaya are a threat to the people and the environment.

- May 28, 2010 - The Garo Hills, the site of famous Balphakram National Park and Nokrek Biosphere Reserve, in Meghalaya is facing threat of deforestation due to illegal mining of resources like coal, limestone and recently uranium mining by NPCIL. By The Editor more»

Government of India’s Northeast policy

- The incessant conflict scenario in the Northeast seems to be far away from the “mainland” of India, not only from the geographical perspective, but also from the notion of how it is perceived. To engage in the region is a great challenge for the Central Government of India (GoI), as well as a necessity. Therefore, this paper aims at reviewing the Central Government involvement in the Northeast. However, due to the scope of the paper it will focus only on particular aspects of those broad and complex issues surrounding the North Eastern Region (NER) By Anne-Sophie Maier more»

Singing In The Dark Times

- To the people of the Northeast their world is central to themselves; to ‘mainland India’ it is a borderland. Locating a region by placing oneself at a point one sees as the ‘centre’ is both arrogant and potentially dangerous. Many younger writers continue to grapple with these issues. Having grown up in the shadow of the gun, their desire to analyse the common people’s reaction to insurgency is as strong as ever. By Preeti Gill more»

Conflict in Northeast India: Issues, Causes and Concern

- Unfortunately, the data and information on the region is not sufficiently analyzed and communicated between the region and the Centre, contributing to further misinformation, mismanagement and alienation. At another level, conflict in the region has been an all pervasive phenomena, and in its violent form, it has not only affected the territorial and political sovereignty of the Indian state, but also the life of the various people living in the region in incomprehensible and inexplicable terms. By Philipp Heimerdinger & Tshering Chonzom more»