SAGE Series in Human Rights Audits of Peace Processes

Rita Manchanda is an established writer, scholar-researcher, and human rights activist specializing in conflicts and peace-building in South Asia with particular attention to vulnerable and marginalized groups, that is, women, minorities, indigenous peoples, and forcibly displaced persons.Professor Manchanda has over 15 years of experience as a Senior Executive and Research Director with the regional NGO “South Asia Forum for Human Rights” (SAFHR), directing and coordinating a diverse portfolio of programs, including “Human Rights Audits of Peace Processes,” “Women, Conflict, and Peace,” “Media in Conflict,” and “Rights-based Approaches to Poverty Reduction.” Also, during the last decade and a half, she had been the gender advisor, Commonwealth Technical Fund (2004–05), and consultant in projects with UN Women (2010–11, 2012– 13, 2014), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP 2014–15), Centre for Humanitarian Dialogues (2011, 2012), and SAFERWORLD (2015, 2016). She has lectured on conflict resolution at Rotary Centre for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution, Chulalongkorn University (2014), Welthungerhilfe (WHH; 2014), Lady Shri Ram College (2008–16), and SAFHR: Human Rights and Peace Orientation Course (2000–08). Her more recent publication SAGE Series in Human Rights Audits of Peace Processes undertaken by SAFHR and published by SAGE (2015), is a field-based audit study of peace-making in Northeast (India), Balochistan (Pakistan), Madhesh (Nepal), and Chittagong Hill Tracts (Bangladesh). Among her many books and articles are Women War and Peace in South Asia: Beyond Victimhood to Agency, a pioneering study on feminist theorizing and praxis on conflict and peace-building (SAGE 2001), and Naga Women in the Peace Process (SAGE 2004).

• Volume I - Making War, Making Peace: Conflict Resolution in South AsiaAcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Power to Grant PeaceThe Prerogative of the PeacemakerStatus Quo AwardsConferring Rights or Act of DominationWhat Peace Brings?Beyond Top-down Peacemaking: Role of Civil SocietyGender and Ethno-nationalist StrugglesBibliographyIndexAbout South Asia Forum for Human RightsVolume II - Bridging State and Nation: Peace Accords in India’s NortheastAcknowledgmentsIntroduction : The Green of My Hills Is Khaki!I : ENDGAME IN THE NAGA PEACE PROCESS: FUTURE OF THE NORTHEAST - RITA MANCHANDA AND TAPAN BOSENew Beginning: End of an EraConstructing the Naga NationNaga ReconciliationNaga Integration and SovereigntyNormalizing Ceasefire as PeaceConclusionII : THE MIZO ACCORD: SWAPPING SOVEREIGNTY FOR STATEHOOD - SAJAL NAGBrand Mizo DiscourseTribe to Nation: Quest for Sovereignty through SecessionAuditing Brand MizoDemocracy, Pluralism, and Minority RightsBuilding an Exclusive CommunityEconomic Growth and DevelopmentConclusionBridging State and NationBibliographyIndexAbout South Asia Forum for Human RightsVolume III - Balochistan: A Case Study of Pakistan’s Peacemaking PraxisAcknowledgementsIntroductionThe State and Balochistan: The Early DecadesState Penetration in BalochistanThe Baloch National Movement: Key PlayersPeacemaking by Military Means: Strategies of the Overdeveloped StatePeacemaking in Balochistan: A People’s AuditProspects for Balochistani Nationalism: Interethnic Relations in Contemporary BalochistanPolicy Inititiatives in BalochistanEpilogue: The Possibilities for Peace in BalochistanBibliographyIndexAbout South Asia Forum for Human RightsVolume IV - Confronting the Federal Sphinx in Nepal: Madhesh-TaraiIntroductionPolitics in NepalMadhesh, Madheshis, and the Federal QuestionPolitical Economy of Nepal′s UnificationModernization of Nepal: Panchayat to Restoration of Democracy and Betrayal of MadheshisThe Maoist Movement, Jana Andolan II, and Federal PoliticsOpposition to One Madhesh: Demand within TaraiField Data AnalysisToward a ConclusionAppendix 1: Text of 22 point Agreement between MJF and Government of NepalAppendix 2: Federal Regions Proposed by UCPN (Maoist) and Nepali CongressAppendix 3: Madheshi Political OrganizationsAppendix 4: Madheshi Armed Organizations Active in TeraiBibliographyIndexAbout South Asia Forum for Human RighsVolume V - Conflict and Partition: Chittagong Hill Tracts, BangladeshAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSeeding of the ConflictTowards Peace Accord: Mapping the ProcessThe Chittagong Hill Tracts TodayConclusionAnnexure: The Chittagong Hill Tracts Agreement, 1997BibliographyIndexAbout South Asia Forum for Human Rights