Tripura’s insurgency emerged from the interaction of demographic transformation, tribal land and identity concerns, political representation, socio-economic vulnerabilities and cross-border geography. Its decline demonstrates how security operations, constitutional accommodation, diplomacy, rehabilitation and development can combine to create durable peace.
The Mizoram insurgency evolved from famine-era political mobilisation into the MNF’s 1966 armed uprising and a two-decade conflict that was ultimately resolved through the Mizoram Peace Accord of 1986, disarmament, rehabilitation, constitutional accommodation and democratic mainstreaming.
Learning Roadmap The insurgency in Nagaland is one of India’s longest and most complex internal security challenges. However, understanding it merely as an armed conflict between insurgent organisations and the State would miss its central political dimension. The Naga issue developed through a long interaction between political identity, demands for self-determination, constitutional accommodation, armed mobilisation, … Read more
Learning Roadmap To understand insurgency in Assam, it is not enough to memorise the names of insurgent organisations or peace agreements. Assam’s security problem developed through several overlapping political processes: demographic change, competition over land and political representation, anxieties about identity, the Assam Agitation, the Assam Accord, Assamese sub-nationalism, the emergence of ULFA, and later … Read more