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This book deals with the issues of conflict and security concerns in the region of Northeast India arguing from the tenets of geography, colonial-militaristic history and concerns emerging from the neighbouring countries of the region.

This volume engages with the major socio-political issues in Northeast India, especially ethnicity, conflict and development. It discusses a range of themes from migration, insurgency, ethnic conflict, peace accords, policy issues, to resource exploitation within the topical issue of development in the region.

This book discusses the opportunities and challenges facing legal education in the era of globalization. It identifies the knowledge and skills that law students will require in order to prepare for the practice of tomorrow, and explores pedagogical shifts legal education needs to make inside and outside of the classroom. With contributions from leading experts on legal education from various jurisdictions across the globe, the work combines theoretical depth with practical insights. Seeking to understand the changing landscape of legal education in the era of globalization, the contributions find that law schools can, and must, adopt educational strategies that at least present students with different understandings of what studying and practicing law is meant to be about. They find that law schools need to offer their students choices, a vision of practice that is not driven entirely by the demands of the marketplace or the needs of major international law firms. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this book makes a significant contribution to the impact of globalization on legal education, and how students and law schools need to adapt for the future. It will be of great interest to academics and students of comparative legal studies and legal education, as well as policy-makers and practitioners.

Why have the early years of the 21st century seen increasing use of emergency-type powers or claims of supra-legal executive authority, particularly by the Western countries regarded as the world''s leading democracies, notably the United States? This book examines the extraordinary range of executive and prerogative powers, emergency legislation, martial law provisos and indemnities in countries with English-derived legal systems, primarily the UK, the US and Australia. The author challenges attempts by legal and academic theorists to relativise, rationalise, legitimise or propose supposedly safe limits for the use of emergency powers, especially since the September 2001 terrorist attacks. This volume also considers why the reputation of Carl Schmitt, the best-known champion of ''exceptional'' dictatorial powers during the post-1919 Weimer Republic in Germany, and who later enthusiastically served and sanctified the Nazi dictatorship, is being rehabilitated, and examines why his totalitarian doctrines are thought to be of relevance to modern society. This diverse book will be of importance to politicians, the media, the legal profession, as well as academics and students of law, humanities and politics.

The accountability of armed non-state actors is a neglected field of international law, overtaken by the regimes of state responsibility and individual criminal accountability as well as fears of legitimacy. Yet armed non-state actors are important players in the international arena and their activities have significant repercussions. This book focuses on their obligations and accountability when they do not function as state agents, regardless of the existence or extent of accountability of their individual members. The author claims that their distinct features lead to their classification into three different types: de facto entities, armed non-state actors in control of territory, and common article 3 armed non-state actors. The mechanisms that trigger the applicability of humanitarian and human rights law regimes are examined in detail as well as the framework of obligations. In both cases, the author argues that armed non-state actors should not be treated as entering international law and process exclusively through the state. The study concludes by focussing on their accountability in international humanitarian and human rights law and, more specifically, to the rules of attribution, remedies and reparations for violations of their primary obligations.

This book offers a timely focus on preschool bilingual education in the 21st century. It illustrates the need to examine early bilingual education within specific socio-cultural contexts, as well as to search for its universal features. It was first published as a special issue of International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

This book brings together political thought of Gandhi and Tagore to examine the relationship between politics, truth and conscience. It examines in nuanced detail Tagore¿s opposition to political violence in colonial Bengal and the scope of Gandhi¿s nonviolence and satyagraha to offer an exploration of the first principles of ethical politics as conceived by these two and in the process discusses truth and conscience as viable public virtues.

This book studies the politics surrounding Indian emigration from the nineteenth century to present day. It moves beyond the oft-cited economic and social movers of migration, and explores the role of politics-both local and global-in shaping diaspora at a deeper level.

This text explores the history of Punjab and of Punjabi migrant networks all over the world. It interrogates the term 'radicalism' and elucidates on its relationship with terms such as 'militancy', 'terrorism' and 'extremism' in the context of Punjab and other regions across the nation, in the postcolonial period.

This book provides a new approach to the study of colonialism and politics of resistance in Northeast India, especially in Manipur, critiquing its dominant historiography. Bringing together scholars from across disciplines, the volume deals with a wide range of issues including constructions of the Northeast, process of ethnicisation, resistance, rebellions and social movements, tribes, literature, imperial strategies, Christian missionaries, and geopolitics.

This volume serves as a roadmap for cultural studies in India. Drawn from varied areas including literature, linguistics, history, political science, media/theatre studies, and cultural anthropology, it foregrounds cultural pluralism in the context of caste, adivasis, vernacular languages, and folklore in the making of historical consciousness. It traces contemporary debates and interpretations and looks at the future directions this emerging area is likely to take.

This book is a ground-breaking intervention on Dalit politics in India. It challenges the dominant understanding of Dalit mobilisations for political power, social equality and justice. Drawing on extensive field research, the book traces the emergence of Dalit consciousness and its different strands in north and south India from colonial to contemporary times.

Northeast India has been fraught with unrest and conflict since Independence. This book discusses the role of government institutions in dealing with development and security issues in the region and reflects upon conflict resolution, justice and peace building in the context of development challenges.

Politics, Landlords and Islam in Pakistan explores the linkages between politics, religion, class, and caste in politics in rural Pakistan. It documents how landlords continue to wield arbitrary and despotic power over much of Pakistan's rural population in the 21st century, and how participatory democracy has been subverted and has largely benefitted rural elites.

This is one of the first books to explore Nepali diaspora in a global context. The articles cover South Asia, South-east Asia, Europe and discuss the social, political and economic status and aspirations of the Nepali community across the world.

The founding premise of this book is that the nimbus of prestige, which once surrounded the idea of justice, has now been dimmed to such a degree that it is no longer sufficient to secure the possibility of a good conscience for those who undertake, in good faith, to make the world a better place in the spheres of politics and law. The many decent human beings who have noticed and experienced this diminishment of justiceΓÇÖs prestige find themselves in a thoroughly disenchanted existential situation. For them, the attempt to do justice without the illusion of being grounded in something beyond the sheer facticity of their own performances is a distinctly ethical theme, which cries out to be investigated in its own right. Heeding the cry, this book asks and attempts to answer the following fundamental ethical question: is a life in the law ΓÇô even one spent in the pursuit of justice ΓÇô worth living, and if so, how can a disenchanted person come to bear the living of it without constantly having to engage in self-deception? If Nietzsche is right that living without illusions is impossible for human beings, then the most important ethical implication of this essentially anthropological fact goes far beyond the question of what illusions we ought to choose. It must also include the question of whether we should succumb to that most seductive and pernicious of all illusions: namely, the belief that exercising great care and responsibility in choosing our illusions ΓÇô which we might then call our ΓÇÿprinciples of justiceΓÇÖ ΓÇô excuses us ethically for what we do to others in their name. The culmination of a 10 year legal-philosophical project, this book will appeal to graduate students, scholars and curious non-academic intellectuals interested in continental philosophy, critical legal theory, postmodern theology, the philosophy of human rights and the study of individual ethics in the context of law.

There are many histories of the police as a law-enforcement institution, but no genealogy of the police as a form of power. This book provides a genealogy of modern police by tracing the evolution of "police science" and of police institutions in Europe, from the ancien régime to the early 19th century. Drawing on the theoretical path outlined by Michel Foucault at the crossroads between historical sociology, critical legal theory and critical criminology, it shows how the development of police power was an integral part of the birth of the modern state’s governmental rationalities and how police institutions were conceived as political technologies for the government and social disciplining of populations. Understanding the modern police not as an institution at the service of the judiciary and the law, but as a complex political technology for governing the economic and social processes typical of modern capitalist societies, this book shows how the police have played an active role in actually shaping order, rather than merely preserving it.

This book addresses current developments in transitional justice in Latin America ΓÇô effectively the first region to undergo concentrated transitional justice experiences in modern times. Using a comparative approach, it examines trajectories in truth, justice, reparations, and amnesties in countries emerging from periods of massive violations of human rights and humanitarian law. The book examines the cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, developing and applying a common analytical framework to provide a systematic, qualitative and comparative analysis of their transitional justice experiences. More specifically, the book investigates to what extent there has been a shift from impunity towards accountability for past human rights violations in Latin America. Using ΓÇÿthickΓÇÖ, but structured, narratives ΓÇô which allow patterns to emerge, rather than being imposed ΓÇô the book assesses how the quality, timing and sequencing of transitional justice mechanisms, along with the context in which they appear, have mattered for the nature and impact of transitional justice processes in the region. Offering a new approach to assessing transitional justice, and challenging many assumptions in the established literature, this book will be of enormous benefit to scholars and others working in this area.

This book introduces important concepts in the study of earthquakes as they relate to the retrofitting of structures to be earthquakeresistant.

Offering an in-depth examination into sustainable energy sources, applications, technologies and policies, this book provides real-world examples of ways to achieve important sustainability goals. Themes include program assessment, energy efficiency, renewables, clean energy and approaches to carbon reduction.

This book offers a social¿scientific interpretation of the Hindu and Buddhist traditions of Tantra dating back 15 centuries. Using personal praxis to inform his research, the author examines three core themes within Tantra ¿ a `holonic¿/mandalic individuality that conduces to mystical experience; a positive valorisation of pleasure and play; and cultural attitudes of gender-mutuality and complementarity, as neatly encapsulated in the icon of Shiva as Ardhanariswara. This analysis, as captured by the Tantric mandalas of deities in intimate union, leads to his compelling metathesis that Tantra serves as a permanent counterculture within the Indic civilization.

Draw-along Tidy Tim is an activity-based picture book written for children with OCD, which encourages them to interact with the story in a creative way - through writing, drawing, scrap booking, collage and activities, and so relate to Tidy Tim's thoughts, feelings, behaviours and experiences.

Exploring thoughts, feelings and sensations experienced by children with depression, this book has been created for key adults, including teachers, therapists and parents. It provides practical tools and strategies to support the child and those around them, and improves understanding of a child's needs to promote empathy and acceptance.

This is the first collection to illustrate humanitarian work psychology in action. The book examines how the latest research from organizational psychology can support people working in developing economies, as well as in humanitarian work itself.

Through a legal analysis that also incorporates historic, economic and sociological perspectives, the book argues that genetic resources are not tangible resources but information. It shows that the existing preference for bilateralism and contracts reflects resistance on the part of many of the stakeholders involved in the Convention on Biological Diversity process to recognize them as such.

The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development. This book focuses on the contributions of environmental organizations to the preservation of Brazilian Amazonia.

This book provides a fresh conceptualisation of water security, developing an operational methodology for identifying the four core elements of water security which must be addressed by international law: availability; access; adaptability; and ambit.

Indonesia has achieved a successful transition to democracy and yet this democracy continues to be flawed, illiberal, and predatory.This book suggests that this and other paradoxes of democracy in Indonesia often assume occult forms in the Indonesian political imagination, and that the spirit-like character of democracy and corruption traverses into the national media and the political elite. It seeks to provide a portrait of Indonesiäs contradictory democracy, contending that the contradictions that haunt democracy in Indonesia also infect democracy globally. Exploring the intimate ways in which the world of politics and the world of spirits are entangled, it argues that Indonesiäs seemingly peculiar problems with democracy and spirits in fact reflect a set of contradictions within democracy itself.