JK Policy Institute
The three-decade old Kashmir conflict has sent thousands of body-bags into untimely graves. Mukhtar Dar explains how the lack of foresight and investment in education has led
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Seemingly, Covid-19 is just an invisible microbe but it is powerful and has shaken the whole world. Post Covid era will never be the same again. Dr. Suneem Khan and Abid Rashid Baba tell us how.
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Countries with the finest healthcare system available were caught unawares as the tiny microbe hit the globe. It added insult to the injury to war-ravaging regions. The major focus in these conflict-ridden areas for governments remains the continued investment in defense and security. As a result, areas such as education and public health take a back seat and are often the worst sufferers.
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In recent decades, as a result of the new world order, the world has become a global village. The emergence of regional/international organizations, economic corridors, and communication technologies have brought people much closer. The processes of globalization while undermining borders have simultaneously created cross-cultural, religious
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Rebuilding and repairing are essential elements of human life. The same holds true for communities in conflict zones. In conflict zones, ways and methods of engagement of local people in communication and political processes often become the most sustainable systems for rebuilding and repairing societies affected by violence and mistrust. These processes, which seek to enable local participation in decision-making processes, provide the first platform for facilitating agency
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To understand this, one must trace the emergence of the nation-state in India. The subcontinent was for the most part, ruled by various kingdoms, chiefdoms, tribes and it was under Mughal Emperors like Akbar and his successors like Aurangzeb that it became one geographical and political unit as an empire.The idea of India as a nation-state
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Caught between the millstones of political and structural violence for over thirty years now, Kashmir has been waiting for peace, even for the ‘negative peace’ for the grind to end somewhere and somehow. ‘Negative peace’ or simply put, the ‘absence of violence’, is the first imperative to move towards building a somewhat stable and sustainably peaceful future.
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Women, historically the hearth-keepers, the nurturers, the relationship-managers and the embodied custodians of the rhythmic cycles of life had once been acknowledged across cultures as the force and presence animating life processes and also the ones balancing them. You would find them working diligently in the fields, in the kitchens, in the gardens, in the healing spaces; engaged in educating the young ones and creating beauty with nimble fingers etching out patterns and weaving or sewing them in.
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