Professor Samir Kumar Das is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of North Bengal, India. A professor of political science at the University of Calcutta, Kolkata (on leave), he has been the coordinator of the University Grants Commission-Departmental Research Support Programme on ‘Democratic Governance: Comparative Perspectives’. He was also a post-doctoral fellow (2005) of the Social Science Research Council (South Asia Program). He specializes in and writes on ethnicity, security, migration, rights, justice and democracy and has lectured widely in premier academic institutions at home and in the USA, Finland, France, Italy, Sweden, Belgium and many other countries on various assignments.

• Introduction.- I: Production of Insurgent Subject.- II: Shifting Strategies of Peace.- III: Governing Cultures of Peace.

Professor Samir Kumar Das is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of North Bengal, India. A professor of political science at the University of Calcutta, Kolkata (on leave), he has been the coordinator of the University Grants Commission-Departmental Research Support Programme on ‘Democratic Governance: Comparative Perspectives’. He was also a post-doctoral fellow (2005) of the Social Science Research Council (South Asia Program). He specializes in and writes on ethnicity, security, migration, rights, justice and democracy and has lectured widely in premier academic institutions at home and in the USA, Finland, France, Italy, Sweden, Belgium and many other countries on various assignments.

• Introduction.- I: Production of Insurgent Subject.- II: Shifting Strategies of Peace.- III: Governing Cultures of Peace.

Professor Samir Kumar Das is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of North Bengal, India. A professor of political science at the University of Calcutta, Kolkata (on leave), he has been the coordinator of the University Grants Commission-Departmental Research Support Programme on ‘Democratic Governance: Comparative Perspectives’. He was also a post-doctoral fellow (2005) of the Social Science Research Council (South Asia Program). He specializes in and writes on ethnicity, security, migration, rights, justice and democracy and has lectured widely in premier academic institutions at home and in the USA, Finland, France, Italy, Sweden, Belgium and many other countries on various assignments.

• Introduction.- I: Production of Insurgent Subject.- II: Shifting Strategies of Peace.- III: Governing Cultures of Peace.