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Environmental injustice—in the form of limited access to and control of natural capital—negatively impacts the livelihoods and security of rural households in Tajikistan.1 Its primary victims are impoverished households, especially those headed by single women, living in Gorno-Badakhshan, and/or engaged in cotton farming (see figure 10.1). Moreover, the country’s governance structures and...
Along with the Greater Himalaya, in the eastern Himalayan region there has been increased efforts to bring more areas under the Protected Area Network. Protected areas including conservation areas in Arunachal Pradesh are mostly located in the low and mid-elevation forest areas. To address the need of having a protected area in the higher altitudes of the State, of late a biosphere reserve has...
FAO is in the process of finalizing a booklet on sustainable mountain development. We are currently looking for up-to-date statistical figures to be included in that publication and would like to ask for your inputs on this. One topic we are dealing with is “conflicts in mountain areas”. It would be great to give the reader an idea of how many conflicts worldwide are actually fought in...
This paper deems that beside the unprecedented natural disaster of floods, Pakistan confronts the twin challenges of stabilising a fragile democratic transition and countering violent extremism. The author notes that in light of the urgency for relief and rehabilitation, donors may opt to collaborate with the ruling military regime. However, the international community must not allow it...
This research paper captures the current reflections and concerns in Afghanistan about the strategy and expectations for the reintegration and reconciliation processes in the country. The paper also covers the challenges facing these processes.
The author believes that the current Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Programme (APRP) is based on flawed assumptions. Indeed, a...
<p>Did Bristish expansion in India constitute a threat to survival and security of the emergent Gorkha state? If such a threat existed, was Gorkhali reaction one of fear, precaution or heightened activity towards internal unity and external security?</p>
<p>The author seeks to address these questions, taking into account the problem of establishing what the Nepali...
Before the Gorkhali conquest of western Nepal between the years 1769 and 1806, there existed some forty-six separate principalities in the Gandaki and Karmali regions. These two regions occupied twenty-four and twenty-two principalities, respectively. These principalities were collectively known as Chaubisi and Baisi Rajyas. In the course of territorial conquest by Prithvi Narayan Shah and his...
The late 1980s and early 1990 will long be remembered as "the time of great upheavals" in the history of democracy and human rights. Mikhail Gorbachev's "New Thinking" Perestroika (restructuring) and Glasnost (openness) has changed Soviet life and has also worked as a catalyst in transforming the communist world. In eastern Europe - Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, East...
This contribution is about myths of origin among the Tharu peoples of Nepal. The title indicates that such myths relate to the Janajati movement and nationalism. What do have such myths to do with the emerging new state and national identities?
A short answer would be that such myths are but one small element in a complex picture of relationships between indigenous peoples, ethnic...
The right to a country of one's own, i.e. "to belong to a sovereign state" is considered to be the most "primordial right" of a person. The very existence of a state essentially lies in the realisation of this right as well as the general well-being of its people. People living within the state are entitled to fair and equal treatment irrespective of race, religion, language or belief. The...
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