Health Inequities in Conflict-affected Areas (eBook)

Armed Violence, Survival and Post-Conflict Recovery in the Indo-Bhutan Borderlands

Jennifer Liang, Samrat Sinha (Autoren)

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2021 | 1st ed. 2021
XXIII, 344 Seiten
Springer Singapore (Verlag)
978-981-16-0578-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Jennifer Liang completed her masters in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and has been working in the area of health and women's issues. She is Program Lead and Trainer at IDeA - the Institute of Development Action - and Consultant to the Paul Hamlyn Foundation (UK). She is the managing trustee and a founding trustee of the Action Northeast Trust (ANT). She is also a trustee of Asha Darshan, and an adviser at the Institute for Culture and Rural Development (I-CARD). She was awarded the United Kingdom's Chevening Gurukul Scholarship in 2013. She directs her academic activities in the following themes: gender equality, the development and rights of children, peacebuilding and organizing capacity through training.

Samrat Sinha is an associate professor at the Jindal School of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University, India. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Delaware, USA. He is a research director of the borderlands studies program at the Jindal School of International Affairs. He has been collaborating with civil society organizations in the Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) since 2012 in various humanitarian assessment and peace building projects. He teaches a field course in community development in borderland regions. He has published books and papers on conflict, peacebuilding and humanitarian assistance.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.3.2021
• Zusatzinfo: XXIII, 344 p. 66 illus., 62 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: conflict • health inequity • Indo-Bhutan Borderland • Northeast India • Public Health System • Tribal Communities
• ISBN-10: 981-16-0578-5 / 9811605785
• ISBN-13: 978-981-16-0578-9 / 9789811605789