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Child Soldier in Sri Lanka -- Sukanya
Podder
One of the alarming trends of recent warfare pertains
to the widespread use of children as soldiers. In an
oft-quoted estimate children today are said to be participating
as active combatants in over seventy five percent of
the world’s armed conflicts. <more>
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Biological weapon, Infectious Disease and
India’s Security Imperatives -- Animesh
Roul
The paper discusses issues related to the infectious
diseases in India, both natural and deliberate while
examines the nature of threat perceptions for India.
Also the paper delves into existing scenario regarding
different aspects of deliberate disease spread such
as through bio-warfare, bio-terrorism and biological
agent use against agriculture in the region. <more>
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Iran's Nuclear Imbroglio -- Garima
Singh and Rudra Chaudhuri
The imbroglio between Iran and the international community
has every potential to spiral into another unnecessary
and largely unwanted conflict in the Middle East. While
dialogue and coercive diplomatic interactions may prevent
the isolation of oil producing Shia majority state,
the threat of utilising hard power tools, has needlessly
exacerbated an already volatile situation. <more>
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A Shift from Crime to Terrorism: Assessing
D-Company -- Ajey Lele
Modern era has witnessed an enormous growth in transnational
organized crime. Over the years such crime groups have
covertly provided arms and ammunition to terrorist groups
purely for business interests. However, the difference
between organized crime and terrorism has blurred in
last few years. <more>
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Maritime Terrorism and Piracy: Security Challenges
in South East Asia -- Vijay Sakhuja
The security environment in South East Asia is being
challenged from several directions. The region is plagued
with piracy and has also witnessed maritime terrorism
related activities, drug smuggling, gun running and
illegal migration. Some of these have the potential
to disrupt and destroy maritime enterprise in the region.<more>
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Terror in the Abode of Clouds: Insurgency
and Nexus Politics in Meghalaya-1994-2004
-- Animesh Roul
Considered a new comer to the problem of insurgency
in comparison to other Northeastern states of India,
Meghalaya has been witnessing organized armed violence
since the early 1990s. Over a period, intermittent violence
led to full-fledged insurgency movement, camouflaging
itself under the cover of a movement based on ethnic
identity. <more>
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Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence
(ISI) in Northeast India -- Harinder
Sekhon
Of particular concern for India is the increasing
collusion between Pakistan’s ISI and Bangladesh’s
military intelligence establishment, the DGFI, to
keep India’s North East bleeding “with a thousand
cuts” by stepping up anti-India activities from Bangladesh.
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