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Seminar on
"Manipur: Untying the Bind,
Analysing Conflict & Development in the Frontier State",
March 28-29, 2003, Imphal
The seminar was held in collaboration with the Imphal
Free Press, with the objective of assessing the challenges of development
in the State and to analyse the possibilities of an economic resurgence
in the context of persistent violence and political instability, and
of the present policies of the Centre and the State Government. The
seminar also assessed the scale and patterns of persisting violence
and the potential for peace in Manipur, and examined the problems of
integration, the assertion of ethnicity and their impact on the stability
of the State and the country. Spread over two days, the seminar also
analysed the responses of civil society organisations and the State
towards to the politics of violence, and the initiation of a transformation
in the scenario of governance and developmental in the State.
Photo: Inaugural Session of the Seminar
The seminar was inaugurated by HE Ved Marwah, Governor
of Manipur. Dr. Nara Singh, Minister of Arts & Culture, Government of
Manipur was the guest of honour in the inaugural function, which was
presided by Mr. K P S Gill, President, Institute for Conflict Management.
The seminar, which was held in the Conference Hall of the State Guest
House in Imphal, brought together bureaucrats, security officials, academicians,
politicians, researchers, NGO activists and journalists. Nine research
papers were presented on various aspects of the State's peace and development
during the course of the seminar.
Photo: Participants at the Seminar
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