Interview on EKKO about cultural differences in security expectations, 1 March, 2013 (in Norwegian).

EKKO interview 

On June 6th, 2013, CORE will organise a seminar in Sarajevo, where the preliminary results of the CORE project will be discussed with a broader audience, including politicians, representatives from local organisations and civil society. More information will be added to this site soon.

 

On February 26 - 27, 2013 the Calcutta Research Group (MCRG) organised a workshop in Guwahati in collaboration with the OKD Institute of Guwahati.

The main aim of this workshop was to discuss the following themes in the context of India's North East:

1. The question of mode of governance and its relation with conflict management and the issue of peace;
2. Features of the colonial mode of governance – continuities and discontinuities;
3. Peace processes and peace accords;
4. Territorial reorganisation (state reorganisations, creation of autonomous areas and homelands) and peace building;
5. Political economy of development, social governance, and peace building;
6. New subjects of developmental governance – women and other subjects.

This workshop (Deliverable 7.10 of the project) gave the opportunity to discuss the preliminary results with civil societies and local organisations in the North East of India. The project results were presented to a wider audience with a particular emphasis on civil society and local organisations.

 

 

On the 19th of October 2012, the CORE project held its second mid-term conference at Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome, where it presented results from the research carried out in the project. Reports from the 6 case studies in Europe and India were presented together with general reflections on the linkage between governance and conflict resolution from project members and international speakers.

The Consortium also met at the Third Steering Committee Meeting, where the activities for the final year of CORE were discussed and prepared.

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(update February 2013)

 

 

The Calcutta Research Group recently published two more research papers related to the CORE project:

 

Research Article written by Ranabir Samaddar, October 2012

 

Tripura: Ethnic Conflict, Militancy and Counterinsurgency

Research Article written by Subir Bhaumik, August 2012

 

A Gigantic Panopticon: Counter-Insurgency and Modes of Disciplining in Northeast India

In this research paper the author Sajal Nag explores the uneven transition in postcolonial India of modes of disciplining insurgency in the Northeast using Foucault’s idea of the transition of spectacular modes of disciplining in mediaeval Europe to surveillance in modern times.

Governing Flood, Migration and Conflict in North Bihar
In this research paper Mithilesh Kumar explores the dynamics of seasonal outmigration from North Bihar, a flood-prone area, to Punjab and Haryana for agricultural work. In this paper Mithilesh Kumar argues that the scale of carefully calibrated and well-organized migration out of the region provided a safety valve that helped it remain comparatively free from Left extremist and caste-based violence when compared to Central Bihar, despite the fact that it was much more impoverished.

 

All research papers published by MCRG can be found and downloaded here

 

New Occasional Paper on Norms and Premises of Peace Governance has recently been published by Berghof Foundation. The publication includes the preparatory papers and contributions from the CORE Thematic Workshop on "Socio-Cultural and Political Premises of European and Indian Initiatives in Areas of Conflict Transition and Conflict Resolution" organised in Berlin on 28th June 2011 by Berghof Foundation.

 

The publication can be found here