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This paper analyses India's internal peacebuilding approach in Bihar, north-east India and Jammu and Kashmir regarding its similarity with the liberal peace and its effectiveness in terms of conflict transformation. By focusing on the human rights and needs components of Indian peacebuilding, we investigate whether state interventions have managed to transform the local conflict spheres in their political, economic, societal and gender/family dimensions. Drawing on fieldwork carried out between 2011 and 2013, the paper remains sceptical about both the novelty and effectiveness of the Indian peacebuilding approach.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement 266931. The paper draws on fieldwork conducted by our Indian partner institutions at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Malaviya Centre for Peace Research at Benares Hindu University Society for Participatory Research in Asia and the University of Delhi. Hence, we would like to thank our partners and our sponsors, without whose input this paper could not have been written. Moreover, we would like to thank the editor and two anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful comments.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Sandra Pogodda is a lecturer of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester. She received her PhD in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, before starting a postdoctoral fellowship in the School of Advanced International Relations at Johns Hopkins University and the United States Institute of Peace.
Daniela Huber is a researcher at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) in the Mediterranean and Middle East programme. She holds a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MA degree in International Relations from the Free University of Berlin.