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Challenges to internal security through Communication Networks

Communication networks refer to an interconnection of communicating entities such as computers, laptops, mobiles, telephones etc. via which provides the basis for information exchange for all other sectors including voice, data, video, and...

December 23, 2014

Key Internal Security Challenges from Communication networks and media

Mainstream as well as social media may create internal security problem in the form of terrorism by instilling fear and an uncertain future. Mass media can also propagate...

December 23, 2014

Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security

Kautilya has written that a state could be at risk from four types of threats viz. internal, external, externally-aided internal and internally-aided external. Out of them, the internal...

December 23, 2014

Linkages between Development and Left Wing Extremism

Development and Extremism are linked into two ways. First, development is vital for tackling extremism or strengthening national security. Second, growth of extremist organisations, coupled with their ability...

December 23, 2014

Naxalism in India: Historical Background

The Naxal movement finds its origin from the Naxalbari incident that happened on 25 May 1967 at Bengai Jote village in Naxalbari, located in the Siliguri subdivision of...

December 23, 2014

Linkages between Development and Extremism in North East India

Insurgency is development in reverse. {←Essay Topic}  India’s North East Region is a quagmire of economic backwardness, though it certainly does not deserve to be so. The economic...

December 23, 2014

Sixth Schedule and the Autonomous Administrative Areas in North East India

The most prominent and important structural change in the administration is the grant of political autonomy and statehood in North East India. This process goes back to the...

December 23, 2014

Drivers of Insurgency in North East States of India

There are several drivers of various conflicts and insurgency in north east region, for example- political mobilization by insurgents, porous international border in north east, availability of arms,...

December 23, 2014

Insurgency in Mizoram

The antecedent causes of the Mizo conflict included dissatisfaction with the Lal (chieftainship) system, the British colonial policy residue of treating Mizo-inhabited areas as ‘excluded areas’, resulting in...

December 23, 2014

The Bodoland Problem

The Bodos are an ethnic and linguistic community centered on the Udalguri and Kokrajhar of Assam. They are largest of the 18 ethnic sub-groups within the Bodo-Kachari group....

December 23, 2014

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