Table of Contents

Series Note
Preface
I. THEORIZING PEACE
Introduction - Shibashis Chatterjee
The Politics of Understanding - Ranabir Samaddar
Territory as the Kernel of the Nation: Space, Time, and Nationalism in Israel/Palestine - Oren Yiftachel
Anthropology of Reconciliation: A Case for Legal Pluralism - Pradip Kumar Bose
II. PEACE AS PROCESS
Introduction - Paula Banerjee
Nobody′s Communique: Ethnic Accords in Northeast India - Samir Kumar Das
Kashmir at the Crossroads: Problems and Possibilities - Sumantra Bose
Armed Conflict in Andhra Pradesh and the Search of Democratic Space - Committee of Concerned Citizens
The Peace Process in Sri Lanka: From Confrontation to Accommodation - Jehan Perera
III. PEACE ACCORDS
Introduction - Parimal Ghosh
The Accord that Never Was: Shillong Accord, 1975 - Subir Bhaumik
Gendered Nation, Gendered Peace: A Study of Bangladesh - Amena Mohsin
Improving India-Pakistan Relations - Mubashir Hasan
The Mahakali Impasse and Indo-Nepal Water Conflict - Dipak Gyawali and Ajaya Dixit
Further Readings
Index

About the Author

Prof. Samir Kumar DAS is presently the Vice-Chancellor of the University of North Bengal. A Professor of Political Science at the University of Calcutta, Kolkata (now on lien) he is a member and an Honorary Senior Researcher of the Calcutta Research Group (CRG). Besides being the Coordinator of the UGC-DRS Programme on ‘Democratic Governance: Comparative Perspectives’, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow (2005) of the Social Science Research Council (South Asia Program) based in New York. He specializes in and writes on ethnicity, security, migration, rights, justice and democracy and lectured widely in premier academic institutions in the USA, Finland, France, Italy, Sweden, Belgium and many other countries on various assignments.