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Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Across the world, the modern nation-state has paid little attention to indigenous people and excluded them from the mainstream development process. The state has even deprived indigenous people of their legitimate claims to land, civil rights and legal recognition of their ethnic identity. Life in Peace and Conflict is a collection of nine essays, many of which are empirically grounded, on the conflict and peace-building measures between various indigenous groups and the state in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh. Home to eleven indigenous groups of people collectively known as the Pahari, the CHT lies at the crossroads of South and Southeast Asia, and shares borders with Myanmar and the Indian Northeast. As such, it is geo-politically vital in South Asia. The policies of both the colonial and postcolonial states, which privileged the dominant Bengali community over the Pahari, resulted in violent conflict. After years of armed conflict, a peace accord was officially signed in 1997 between the State and the representatives of indigenous Pahari people. Two decades on, however, peace still eludes the CHT-the region is still apparently militarised, cross-border insurgency continues to haunt Indo-Bangladesh relations, and the influx of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar has complicated an already fraught landscape. While the book discusses the politics of indignity, it also documents everyday forms of discrimination and resistance among dispossessed communities, and critiques the developmental efforts of international agencies and NGOs to resolve conflict in an understudied region of the world. Students and scholars of political science, international relations, anthropology, sociology, South Asian studies, public administration and development studies will find this book useful.

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384 col. photos (illustrator). Contents 1 Preface 2 Introduction 3 Tribal prescription 4 Description of medicinal plants 5 References 6 List of informants 7 IndexFrom the Preface This book is the outcome of a project formulated by the Bangladesh National Herbarium and sponsored by the Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs The project was initiated as a follow-up towards the implementation of one of the recommendation of one of the recommendations adopted in a workshop on the Use of Medicinal Plants Prospects and Problems held in July 2003 under the auspices of the Ministry of Health and Family Planning Welfare The idea of the workshop was perceived and instructions were given on holding the workshop from the office of the Prime Minister Govt of the People?s Republic of Bangladesh It was pointed out in the recommendation of the workshop that the traditional knowledge of the tribal people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in the preparation and use of herbal medicine for their own treatment should be properly documented For the purpose the ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts was given the responsibility to sponsor the job in collaboration with the Bangladesh National Herbarium As a result the National Herbarium was asked to carry out the work and was allocated a budget out of the funds earmarked for the development of the Chittagong Hill Tracts The Bangladesh National Herbarium with its technical expertise and assistance from the manpower recruited through the project took on the task of acquiring data on the ailments and diseases of the tribal people and the medicinal plants used by them in the three Hill Tracts districts of Khagrachari Rangamati and Bandarban 992 pp.