Current Legal Essays : Humanitarian and Federal Issues

Contents: Preface. 1. The international criminal court. 2. Peace and human rights in the new world order. 3. Human rights in armed conflict areas. 4. Revisiting Justice Reddy report on the armed forces special powers act, 1958. 5. Federalism issues and challenges. 6. Ethnic conflicts and resolutions. 7. Structure of negotiation between metropolitan power and national liberation authority. 8. Early national institutions (NE region). Annex. Index.

"The provocative book from the unconventional writer of eminence and standing is no longer a religious re-affirmation of the outworn ideas, as harboured by a vast majority of incorrigible; conservative defenders of the establishment faith - the proverbial YES MEN.

The brief travel would take you to the problematics and possibilities of the ICC--the international criminal court [2002 onwards, armed conflicts, peace formats in the sensitive NE region of India, and an examination of Justice Jeevan Reddy report [2005] on the dreaded armed forces special powers act, 1958 that burns Manipur, and the region.

Part second of the book opens the space for federal crisis in the NE region like Assam [now Asom], ethnic conflicts early national institutions, problematics of negotiation between the government of India and the rebel guerrrillas in the NE region, and the issue about imagined, greater ethnic homelands. Here is another way of looking at lingering problems." (jacket)