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Conflict and Institutional Change in India
Neera Chandhoke and Manindra Thakur, University of Delhi
This project intends to map out politically, socially, and spatially those conflict zones in India that have involved the use of violence and armed confrontation,
for the following purposes:
- Political Strategies and Containment of Violent Conflict.
- To see which of the many conflicts that dot the political horizon in the country have been addressed successfully;
- To see which of these conflicts have eluded any kind of success;
- To inquire into the mix of strategies that have been employed to defuse conflicts;
- To discover the reason why some strategies or a mix of strategies have succeeded in some cases;
- To find out why a particular strategy/mix of strategies has failed in others;
- To see whether we can learn from cases where a strategy/mix of strategies has been employed successfully to negotiate and defuse conflicts.
- The Nature of the Conflict
- At what point do political actors opt for the use of violence?
- What are the linkages between the route that the conflict takes and the initiatives/responses of the state?
- Why do some conflicts escape attempts by political institutions to control or defuse the problem?
- What bearing does the nature of the conflict have upon the prospects of its resolution?
- State Capacities
- What is the capacity of state organisations in India to address and negotiate
intractable problems?
- When and how do new organisations, the army, civil liberty organisations, or
humanitarian NGOs, emerge as significant actors on the political scene?
- What impact does the emergence of new organisations have on existing institutions and networks?
- If the state draws upon the police, paramilitary forces, or the army to deal with ineluctable challenges to the political system,
what is the impact of this action on existing democratic institutions and organisations?
- What are the processes by which the state returns to normalcy and to democratic functioning after a conflict
has been negotiated through the use of state sponsored coercion?
- What is the net impact of violent conflicts on institutions and organisations?
Outputs from this project:
Project Notes
Research Proposal
Note on Methodology
Related themes:
Conflict and Constitutional Change in India
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