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  • Sukanya Podder was Research Assistant at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, India.

    Sri Lanka : Search for Peace

    Sri Lanka : Search for Peace

    Publisher: Manas Publications
    ISBN 81-7049-340-4
    Rs. 595

    2007

    Rehabilitating Child Soldiers in Nepal

    In January 2007, the House of Representatives in Nepal, restored after the people's movement of April, 2006, unanimously adopted an interim Constitution and dissolved itself. This technically paved the way for Maoist insurgents to enter a new and reconstituted interim parliament. Clearly a political landmark of tremendous import, Nepal's political transition has been accompanied by the initiation of a nascent disarmament process.

    February 03, 2007

    The Children and Armed Conflict Agenda and the United Nations: Assessing a Decade of Engagement

    The international community first began a co-ordinated effort to confront the complexities of the relationship between war and children with Graça Machel's groundbreaking 1996 United Nations study entitled The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children. Since then many non-governmental organizations, United Nations agencies and governments have addressed the severity of abuses of children in wars more proactively, and have advocated better protection of their rights and security.

    July 28, 2006

    Challenges to Peace Negotiations: The Sri Lankan Experience

    The ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka is a good example of how peace

    July 2006

    The Sri Lankan Peace Process: Looking Beyond Geneva

    While much analysis has gone into the recently held talks at Geneva on February 22 and 23, 2006, the consensus lies in the recognition that the talks were an important beginning to make a political solution possible to this intractable conflict. At Geneva the two sides had taken divergent positions prior to the talks, with the government desiring an amendment of the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) and the LTTE seeking better implementation of the same.

    March 06, 2006

    Off to Geneva for now

    As a fresh attempt to kick start the Sri Lankan peace process takes shape, the future of this strife-torn island swings uncertainly between no war and new war. Formal talks between the government of Sri Lanka and the Tamil separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have been stalled since 2003. After much dispute over a mutually acceptable venue, the two sides finally agreed on Geneva, and talks are set to take place on February 22-23, 2006. But both sides are looking at only a limited mandate for the upcoming talks.

    February 18, 2006

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