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Human Rights and Peace: Laws, Institutions and Movements explores the shifts in the way peace has been envisaged in the rhetoric and practice of human rights. Peace has come to be seen as a continuing process of the pursuit of liberation, a progressive dismantling of relationships, of exploitation based on gender, caste, class, race, ethnicity and nationality, and a countervailing force to the coercive practices of the state. Woven around the themes of ideas, laws and institutions, and movements, the articles in this volume show how peace has become an over-arching framework in the domain of human rights. The book traces how the idea of peace has transformed from a passive condition of 'sepulchral silence' associated with 'guided' peace, into a praxis led by and producing radical politics of liberatory change. The volume examines: " The distinct claims that peace makes to durable rights which are not subject to arbitrary withdrawals or selective investment by the state; " The articulations of right to peace in the largely unexplored processes of 'conflict resolution' in South Asia; and " The role of human rights movement and institutions in situations of prolonged absence of peace, sustained repression by the state, and unprecedented growth in non-state violence of all kinds.
War in the Heart of India
War in the Heart of India
From June 2005, reports started appearing in the local Chhattisgarh press about a ‘spontaneous people's uprising’ against the Maoists (generally called Naxalites) under the name of Salwa Judum. Similar, smaller news items made their way to the national press. It took almost 10 months for the media to begin questioning this description and to allude to the state government's sponsorship of this so-called ‘people's movement’. Media reports also highlighted an impending humanitarian crisis in Dantewara district. Apart from the official figure of 45,958 villagers displaced and living in camps by the main roads, newspapers also mentioned that some 40,000 people from the southern part of the district had fled to Andhra Pradesh ...
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