What is more alarming is the Union Government of India’s (GoI) inability to control the situation, the magnitude of the crisis, and Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi’s silence on the Manipur violence, which has raised numerous questions about whether the GoI is directly or indirectly involved in the crisis by taking sides.
By Augustine R.
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By inviting representatives of a wide range of ethnic groups and different faiths to participate in the ceremony, the king is turning his coronation into a reflection of his diverse and decidedly post-imperial kingdom. The coronation is still not entirely free of echoes of empire, but it represents an important stage in the modern monarchy’s move away from its shadow, writes Sean Lang.
By Sean Lang
View More How British imperial history shaped Charles III’s coronation ceremony
It aptly sums up the position now for Myanmar’s military rulers and the resistance fighters being drawn deeper into conflict with each atrocity. They are fighting for the past, present and the future and can’t let go now, writes Tharaphi Than.
View More Military violence in Myanmar is worsening
The Indo-Naga conflict resolution approach has undoubtedly become one of the most mishandled approaches to conflict resolution sixty years after the first shots were fired between India and the Naga people. Understanding Germany Consul-General Manfred Auster’s remarks at the G20 Business Meeting in Kohima – on the Indo-Naga political conflict.
By Augustine R.
View More Understanding Manfred Auster’s remarks at the G20 Business Meeting in Kohima – on the Indo-Naga political conflict
A new trade agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom, which left the EU in 2020, could have finally found a way to safeguard peace in Northern Ireland after Brexit reignited old tensions. There is an element of U.S. foreign policy at work here, too. The U.S. was key to negotiating the 1998 agreement, and successive administrations have championed it as the only way to a sustainable peace.
By Kimberly Cowell-Meyers, Carolyn Gallaher
View More New EU-UK trade deal has promise for Northern Ireland and US as well
The economic advantages of oil palm cultivation are publicised without warnings about changes in land tenure, the environmental impacts, labour costs, the use of chemicals and the depletion of water resources, and the fact that oil palm is simply unsuited to Northeast India’s terrain, climate, ecology, available infrastructure, and the culture of the region.
By Rupa Chinai & Dr. Ravi Chellam
View More Expansion of Oil Palm plantations in Northeast India: a disaster in the making
Despite India’s and Myanmar’s attempts to delegitimize the Naga National Movement by conducting state-imposed elections in various Naga regions, the Nagas’ recent continuous call for international/third-party intervention in the conflict between India, Myanmar, and the Naga people reveals areas of opportunity where international/third-party efforts could influence a peaceful peaceful resolution to the more than seven-decade-long conflict, writes Augustine R.
By Augustine R.
View More What Do the Nagas Want?
Clearly, Putin was not deterred by NATO or the prospect of American opposition. The re-emergence of China as a great power has become the single biggest challenge to American preeminence. Not only is China rapidly becoming a strategic “peer competitor”, it will soon overtake the US as the world’s largest economy. It has already “grown far too big for America to sanction Beijing with its usual toolkit”.
By Mark Beeson
View More Sanctions rarely work, but are they still the least worst option?You cannot copy content of this page