Main description:

This book provides an insight into the issue of health inequity brought about by the violent conflict in Northeast India. While examining the deep vulnerabilities and loss of well-being suffered by families displaced by conflict in the Indo-Bhutan borderland region, the authors raise fundamental questions of accountability and the role of various stakeholders in providing humanitarian assistance to those affected by the conflict. It highlights for the reader the role played by conflict and armed violence in dismantling a functioning public health system and delineates the long-term barriers to post-conflict recovery. The book is written by those who have worked in implementing development and peacebuilding programs in the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) of Western Assam. The book especially brings to the fore the voices of those communities directly affected by conflict in Bodoland. The book is valuable to researchers, development practioners and policy makers. Given the unique format of the book, which includes a number of case studies, it is particularly useful for students of development, public health and allied disciplines such as international relations as well as peace and conflict studies.

Contents:

1) Health Services in Conflict and Fragile Contexts: Implications for South Asia

2) Health Inequity, Conflict and Peace in the Northeast India

3) The Struggle for Identity, Onset of Violence in (for) Bodoland and Meanings of Autonomy

4) Violent Borderlands and Health Systems Collapse: Narratives from Deosri

5) Filling the Void? New Humanitarian Actors, Conflict Response and the Perils of Humanitarian Exit

6) Pathways to Peace and Biographies of Reconstruction