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Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. The states in the northeast of India have been subject to multiple protracted conflicts. In the cases where the gendered nature of these conflicts is considered, stereotypes of women as passive victims or natural peacemakers tend to be reproduced, and scholars follow the establishment's cues in employing analyses from a conventional security studies perspective, focusing on ceasefires and surrender packages for militants, male-dominated negotiations over autonomy and statehood, and 'homeland' politics. Even as women have become increasingly vocal in civil society attempts to resolve conflict and build peace in the region, their voices and work are ignored. The media has turned its spotlight on activists like the Meira Paibis and Irom Sharmila, but has yet to acknowledge the significance of women's everyday resistance, activism and agency and this lack of attention is a further aspect of their marginalization. This volume sheds light on the successes and failures of the women's movements in and of the region; women's responses and engagements with conflict and peace-building; as well as their challenges, aspirations and experiences as agents of change. It adds important insights into the debate on gender and political change in societies affected by conflict. Moreover, by engaging critically with the 'women, peace and security' literature, the volume takes a fresh look at 'universalist' feminist and interventionist biases, questioning the notion that peace processes should be treated as windows of opportunity for women's empowerment and positing that it is crucial to understand gender relations during conflict as historically contingent, complex and multifaceted, and intertwined in the social fabric.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Contents: Foreword. Introduction. 1. India's Nuclear Infrastructure Status and Challenges/Steinar Høibraten and Elin Enger. 2. Global Nuclear Governance and India/Roshan Khanijo. 3. India and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Lessons for Outlier States/Kanica Rakhra.4. Proliferation-Resistant Nuclear Systems/Reynaldo Morales. 5. The Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership An Indian Answer to the Nuclear Security Challenge/Reshmi Kazi. 6. What Next for India's Nuclear Diplomacy?/Priyanjali Malik. 7. The Humanitarian Initiative to Ban Nuclear Weapons and India's Strategic Engagemet/Maika Skjønsberg. In the prevailing international security situation, the world community, including India believes nuclear security must be conferred high priority for global peace and security. As a responsible member of this community, India finds itself prioritizing this aspect more than ever before. In its more than five decades of its nuclear weapons programme, there has not been a single nuclear incident in India. Despite so, India has not allowed any complacency in its efforts to combat the threat of nuclear terrorism. India believes that in the twenty-first century nuclear terrorism is a significant threat that poses catastrophic consequences to world peace and security. It is this understanding that makes India to reject a potent argument that nuclear terrorism as an overrated threat. India has strongly contended skeptics that since the probability of nuclear terrorism is extremely remote, it does not deserve much attention India's nuclear policy is premised upon the appreciation that it is essential to ensure that nuclear weapons, materials and technology never falls into wrong hands. Hence, it is essential to plug any weak link in the chain of nuclear security. India's seriousness towards combatting against nuclear terrorism is evident from the fact that it has actively participated in the entire Nuclear Security Summit process from 2010 to 2016. India continues to render its vital support to global cooperation and diplomacy in building effective defences against the threat of nuclear terrorism.