JRF Awardee, Delhi, India
Online published on 5 August, 2015.
There is, however, no single and perfect answer on how to respond to insurgencies. Justice and economic development are not mutually exclusive goals. The choice between civil liberties and economic security is false. In the longer term, lasting economic security cannot be achieved without the effective realization of an individual's civil and political rights. Therefore, no model of participative development shall be successful without addressing the legal issues at the heart of the insurgencies- violation of human rights and the rule of law. Focus of this study is, therefore, on northeast region. Objectives are to examine: (1) what are the needs for a participative development, which approach is better to counter insurgency? In this analysis, there are two parts of the debate on counter- insurgency. In the first phase of the debate, there have been two competing approaches to combating insurgency: First is the ‘low and order’ approach and the second one is the ‘development’ approach. The question was whether we must combat insurgency with the use of force or through economic development. The question now is not whether development is a better way to counter insurgency. Rather, it is which kind of development is best suited to end insurgencies. In this paper make out a case to answer this question. The states, however, are not political units alone. In modern world, state is an important agency. This paper shows that what are the government policies and how those policies resolve conflict problem in Northeast India.
Conflict, constitution, development, insurgency